The ultimate, glorious purpose of Christ being our perpetual, perfect high priest is this: Christ offered a one-time, all sufficient sacrifice for our sins, when He offered up Himself!
That priesthood which God swore to Christ with an oath entailed the requirement that Jesus find a suitable offering for the saving of His people.
That suitable offering is the body and blood of Christ Himself!
Chapter 7 of Hebrews ends with this: the law makes men priests who have infirmities.
How could it be otherwise, for all men have sinned? Death has come to all men because of their sin.
The inferiority of Aaron's priesthood flows from Aaron being a sinner.
No wonder Aaron could never offer a perfect offering. No wonder he was really unsuited to be a high priest before a holy and righteous God. No wonder Aaron sometimes betrayed his people before God.
The best that any law could ever appoint as a priest would prove to be inadequate at best.
But the word of God's oath to Christ makes the Son our priest, consecrated forevermore!
He ever lives to make intercession for us! He is perfect, and righteous, and faithful as our high priest.
And Christ has offered up Himself as our sin offering, and intercedes to God for us forever.
Hebrews warns Jewish believers, that they dare not go back to the Old Covenant, the Mosaic law, for therein is no righteousness, no sacrifice that takes away sin, and only a defective, sinful, doomed priest.
But under God's oath to Christ, we have an everlasting priest with no flaws, who never fails to save His people! On top of all that, He is the Son of God, God incarnate in our humanity.
In all these glorious things, our God has given us great comfort!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
