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Only let the Sun of Righteousness shine upon us, and our prospects for eternity must be brightened. This we call liberal piety. OBJECTIVES: To show that we are being blessed every moment in every opportunity by GOD, the Greater One. Thus, when He says to, His mother, "Woman, what have I to do with thee? Go on to mark that in these New Testament terms which are met there is another condition "without holiness no man shall see the Lord." And indisputably, the lesser is blessed by the greater. - Bible Hub For He will not speak His own message . Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, NT Letters: Hebrews 7:7 But without any dispute the lesser (Heb. Much of the language He addressed to men, "Ye are from beneath; I am from above." His incorruptible truthfulness, exquisite sensibilities, calm reverence, overflowing benevolence, unconquerable love of eternal right, invested Him with that Godlike air and bearing which made them feel that He stood at an unapproachable moral distance.II. 1. )Made higher than the heavens.The transcendent majesty of ChristHomilist.In what sense is Christ higher than the heavens?I. 15, xii. In Him the devotional virtues were perfect awed complete. But the power He had with the men of His time moved in exactly the opposite direction, being the impression He made of His remoteness and separateness from men, when He was, in fact, only a man, as they supposed, under all human conditions. 19 And he blessed him and said: "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; 20 And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him [a] a tithe of all. He suffered. THE OFFERING AND THE OFFERER. Christ loved His Church as the apostle exhorts husbands to love their wives; as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself for it, that He might wash it, and cleanse it, and present it to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing.3. . Ye are come to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant."--HEB. Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in thatwhilewewere stillsinners, Christ died for us. "Jesus was made Surety of a better covenant."--HEB. But their views of the Messiah to come had prepared them to look only for some great hero and deliverer, and a kind of political millennium under His kingdom. Melchisedec's order in the type hath no priest but one in it, without a suffragan or substituted priest. 1 Corinthians 12:31, 1 Corinthians 7:9, 1 Timothy 5:9, Hebrews 1:4, Hebrews 7:19, Hebrews 7:22, Hebrews 7:7, John 2:10, John 3:30, Philippians 1:23, Romans 9:12, Sermon Topics: He was not "separate from sinners" in respect of His personal experience at the hands of men, or even at the hands of God. "He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet." How calmly did He bear the abuse of man! Away with all conditions and terms only as they belong to Christ. His aims were high, His heart was earnest, and His hand was busy. Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS | More, Hebrews 7:1-10 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, meaning king of peace, without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually. Throughout the ages the Church has confessed that Christ took upon Himself real human nature from the virgin Mary, not as it was before the fall, but such as it had become, by and after the fall. He "went about doing good" (Acts 10:38).3. 24, 25 Sweet to trace His toiling footsteps Here amidst the desert sands; Bear in memory all His sorrow, Thorn-clad head and pierced hands! "Having obtained eternal redemption for us." "Eternal redemption." 5 Church Growth Essentials From The Apostle Paul. "Eternal." It is indeed a glorious character, the character of Christ fitter for a seraphic harp than for a human pea to celebrate. In each He was a conqueror, and the fruits of His conquest in each are made ours.3. He blessed Pharaoh because Jacob knew what being blessed really meant. Go and print the Father to His sufferings in Gethsemane and on Calvary. But the evangelical oath is since the law, and God's last and unchangeable will. Ages of offerings of the blood of animals never blotted out one sin they only pointed to Christ but the six hours of a precious Christ on the cross carried back a flood of atoning blood to Adam's day, and it rolled its tide forward to the end of time, that the whole election of grace might be for ever exonerated by that one offering. This offering never ceases, and its efficacy never fails.4. It may be said of him that he sat as a priest upon his throne. He came to open the prison-doors to them that are bound. Must we enter into eternity? From a compound of eu and logos; to speak well of, i.e. [60] Thus there are those who think its true line of descent is to be traced to James, Cephas, and John -- the three apostles who seemed to be pillars in the mother James DenneyThe Death of Christ, The Right Understanding of the LawThou shalt have no other Gods before me.' English Revised Version There is nothing then to put Him at one with us or us at one with Him, but just that incommunicable and separate character which fills us even here with dread. Let us seek for ourselves a share in this holiness of Christ. As A VAST FEELING IN THE MIND OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES. S. WHAT NOW IS THE SOLUTION OF THIS PROFOUND IMPRESSION OF SEPARATENESS MADE BY CHRIST ON THE WORLD? Melchizedek blesses Abram. 7 In acts of blessing, the lesser is blessed by the greater. The message and hope of immortality are nowhere more distinctly conveyed to our minds than in connection with that resurrection morn when Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene. How "meek and lowly in heart"! Truth or lies? iii. It was purely moral. It runs backward to the first transgressor, and it runs forward to the end of time, and then into eternity with its blessings. He appeared before Him who sent Him with the record of all that He had accomplished. too, the active virtues were gloriously displayed. To be made like unto Him comprehends m it all that is blissful and glorious. But our Lord's office as our great Redeemer was not to end with His life on earth, He was to go into the eternal heavens in the same character that He bore here, and to carry on there, though in a different manner, the same work. The last difference: The law instituting priests was not God's last will, but might suffer addition. Remember the less is blessed by the greater. In Him the devotional virtues were perfect awed complete. Now you and I may know it in the same manner. 7:7) Wayne Galloway 08/09/12 - N/A Series: Additional Studies Introduction: 1. therefore, of Christ from the sinners of mankind, and the impression He awakened in them of that separation, was made, not by scenes, nor by words of assertion, nor by anything designed for that purpose, but it grew out of His life and character His unworldliness, holiness, purity, truth, love; the dignity of His feeling, the transcendent wisdom and grace of His conduct. Its at this time that Melchizedek meets Abram and blesses him. God says where the tithe goes, we do not get to determine that. Context. Partaker of the same humanity as they, in Him, characteristically and exclusively, it was immaculate; and thus, even while He moved in the midst of sinners, and was come to "seek and to save that which was lost," His Spirit, in some sense, dwelt apart. Ages of offerings of the blood of animals never blotted out one sin they only pointed to Christ but the six hours of a precious Christ on the cross carried back a flood of atoning blood to Adam's day, and it rolled its tide forward to the end of time, that the whole election of grace might be for ever exonerated by that one offering. As an offering of life Christ's offering is everlasting. WE have here four titles given to our Lord Jesus in. Milligan, D. D.Our fundamental conception of the offering of Him who ascended the cross of Calvary to die must be, that it was an offering of life, not of death. He was manifestly one that stood apart from the world in His profoundest human sympathy with it. 7 It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior. Summary: To show that we are being blessed every moment in every opportunity by GOD, the Greater One. "Now, if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron? TEXT: Hebrews 7:7 (Amplified Bible) How great a thing now is it that such a Being has come into our world and lived in it a Being above mortality while in it a Being separate from sinners, bringing unto sinners by a fellow-nature what is transcendent and even deific in the Divine holiness and love. I come now to speak a little to the other part of sanctification, which concerneth the change of our nature and frame, and is called vivification, or quickening of the new man of grace; which is called the new man, as having all its several members and parts, as well as the old man; and called new, because posterior to the other; and after regeneration is upon the growing hand, this duty of growing in grace, as it is called, 2 Pet. The whole amount of Divine wrath poured out like a cataract upon His soul all the vengeance of stern justice waiting with its sword to smite Jehovah's fellow was felt when He bowed His head and died all the curse of the law, like barbed arrows, penetrated His very soul. Christ was morally perfect in all the parts of His constitution. That is an everlasting righteousness. Hebrews 7:7 in Other Translations. affection. Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular. It was a true, though immaculate, humanity which He assumed, and in which He tabernacled in the midst of men. My body, my mouth, my praise, my worship, my obedience, my time, my money, my family, my children..my best gifts? Christ's is absolute.III. Life of Abraham. The conquest of the heart is one of Jesu's triumphs. Outdo one another in showing honor. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. Salem meansfull, complete, safe, whole, peaceful.1The author of Hebrews calls attention to this when likening Melchizedek to JesusMelchizedek was the king of Peace, the ancient town of Salem later becomes known asJerusalem. This brings me to speak of what is now the great and desolating error of our times. And next the apostle proves the imperfection of the Levitical priesthood from this consideration, that there is another priest risen up, not of the order of Aaron, but of the order of Melchizedek, of which there would have been no need, if the Levitical priesthood had been perfect; nor would it have been changed, as it is, and which has also made a change of the law, by which it is established, necessary, Heb 7:11,12 that the priest that is risen up is not of the order of Aaron, is clear, because he is of another tribe, even of the tribe of Judah, to which the priesthood did not belong, Heb 7:13,14, and that he is of the order of Melchizedek, and so not according to the ceremonial law, but after the power of an endless life, is manifest from the testimony of the sacred Scripture, Heb 7:15-17 which lies in Ps 110:4 and that the ceremonial law, on which the Levitical priesthood stood, is changed and abrogated, is strongly asserted, and the reasons of it given, because it was weak and unprofitable, and made nothing perfect; and this was disannulled by Christ, the better hope brought in, who has made something perfect, and through whom we have access to God, Heb 7:18,19. I mean the general conformity of the followers of Christ to the manners and ways, and, consequently, in a great degree, to the spirit of the world. "Having obtained eternal redemption for us." There was nothing in their expectation that should separate Him specially from mankind as being a more than humanly superlative character.I. There the life won through death is surrendered into the Father's hands. And reverence my sanctuaryThe way to reverence the sanctuary, according to the definition of the Jewish canonists, was for an Israelite not to come into the sanctuary when legally defiled, not to ascend the mountain of the house of God with his staff in his hand, with his shoes on his feet, in his working clothes, with the dust on his feet, or carrying bags of money about his person, not to spit in the sacred precincts, or make them a thoroughfare. This offering never ceases, and its efficacy never fails.4. Hear what Jehovah, by His prophet Isaiah, says. He was not "separate from sinners" in respect of society. With a simplicity to which ostentation and art were strangers, His eyes were bedewed with tears for human wretchedness and sin, and anon lifted up in prayer to Heaven. They do not even offer their own property, much less offer themselves. The blessing bestowed is evidence of Melchizedek's greatness. And without doubt the lesser is blessed by the greater. There it burns in the never-ceasing devotion of love and praise. But, even if it were so, it must be understood only that He is speaking out of His spiritual consciousness, claiming thus affinity with God, and with those who shall embrace Him in the eternal brotherhood of faith; now, as boasting the height of His natural Sonship. Melchizedek has no recorded family. The whole amount of Divine wrath poured out like a cataract upon His soul all the vengeance of stern justice waiting with its sword to smite Jehovah's fellow was felt when He bowed His head and died all the curse of the law, like barbed arrows, penetrated His very soul. Therefore Christ, the true Melchisedec, is alone in His priesthood, without partner or deputy or suffragan. 1. The last difference: The law instituting priests was not God's last will, but might suffer addition. Happy is the man who has such a message as that in my text to deliver to his fellow-men; but burdened is the man who feels that the message is far too great for his lips, or, indeed, for any human tongue to convey. He was no ascetic, His separation no contrived and prescribed separation, but was only the more real and radical that it was the very instinct or freest impulse of His character. Holiness is not what we may do or become in mere self-activity or self-culture, but it is the sense of a separated qualify in one who lives on a footing of intimacy and oneness with God.4. It is going on still, and it will go on for ever, as the Divine and perfect sacrifice in which our great Representative and we in Him attain the end of all religion, whether natural or revealed, as that sacrifice in which we are made one with His Father and our Father, with His God and our God.(W. He was plainly not under the world, or any fashions of human opinion. He often spent His night, in solitary prayer, closeted with God in the recesses of the mountains. He was not "separate from sinners" in respect of residence. ALL growth in the spiritual life is connected with the clearer insight into what Jesus is to us. Hebrews 7:7 NIV;KJV - And without doubt the lesser is blessed - Bible 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease. In it we connect with a Power transcendent, the Son of Man in glory, whose image we aspire to, and. 1. That is an everlasting righteousness. Then begins your peace and happiness. Consider, again, as one of the points deducible from the truth we have been considering, how little reason is given us, in the mission of Christ, toe the hope that God, who has such love to man, will not allow us to fail of salvation by reason of any mere defect or neglect of application to Christ. Negotiation with the Father is not attainable by any human power, but in and by this offering. If we are to impress the world we must be separate from sinners, even as Christ our Master was, -r at least according to our human degree, as being in His Spirit. As an offering of life Christ's offering is complete, embracing in its efficacy the whole life of man. This is clearly stated in Heb. Why not? And in the passive virtues, how pre-eminently great was Jesus! Consider, again, as one of the points deducible from the truth we have been considering, how little reason is given us, in the mission of Christ, toe the hope that God, who has such love to man, will not allow us to fail of salvation by reason of any mere defect or neglect of application to Christ. Hebrews 7:7 ESV It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior. Genesis 14:1-24. It is indeed a glorious character, the character of Christ fitter for a seraphic harp than for a human pea to celebrate. But when, as our High Priest and Representative, Jesus offers His life to God, that life covers every stage or department of our life. It may be said of him that he sat as a priest upon his throne. When you honor others with your words, you honor God, the same is true. Needs must this Redeemer be a lovely one, if we consider the depth of misery from which he redeemed us, even "from the wrath to come," 1 Thess. 2:10 And said to him, Everyone else serves his best wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then he serves that which is not so good; but you have kept back the good wine until now! Plainly, that in respect of character He was altogether different from them. The less is blessed by the Greater One. We cannot look higher. 3. say you. Tuesday at 9:30 am. Greater are mentioned in the New Testament 18 times, while lesser is 4 times only. We need a new and greater priestso much greater that verse 11 says there was no perfection through the Levitical priesthood. Christ Jesus is a priest after the order of Melchizedek; and so far more excellent than the priests of Aaron's order. Hebrews 7:7 But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater. It is simply impossible to repeat it, for we cannot repeat what has not been first brought to an end; and since the offering on the part of the eternal Son is His life. I have Prayed for Thee;'. Therefore to add unto it and bring in as many priests now as did serve in the temple of old, is to provoke God to add as many plagues as are written in God's book upon themselves and their priests also.(D. Oh, that we could take our lesson here, and plan our life, order our pursuits, choose our relaxations, prepare our families, so as to be truly with Christ, and so, in fact, that we ourselves can say, each for himself, "The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me." American Standard Version But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better. Well, this He did officially, relatively, not as a common-place sufferer, but under appointment, and, consequently, under responsibility. Irons.I. Christ's is original His is the primal fount whence theirs flows; His the sun whence their radiance beams. "The work of Him that sent Him" was His regular, His uniform pursuit. II. Consider the numbers redeemed, and the means of their redemption. "Having obtained eternal redemption for us." The conception of Christ's priesthood as a heavenly priesthood, and of the life that He now leads in heaven as the consummation of His offering, alone gives us the accomplishment, and that too in their appropriate order, of everything that was involved in the separate offerings of the law. He was able to be singular, without apparently desiring it, and by the simple force of His superiority. In a POSITIONAL sense. vii. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem . What, then, does this peculiar separateness of Christ signify? 1. And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof. Almighty God will have himself worshipped, not only in a private manner by private persons and families, but also in a more public sort, of all the godly joined together in a visible church; that by this means he may be known not only to be the God and Lord of every Singular person, but also of the creatures of the whole universal world. It began with the cross, with the moment when He was lifted on high out of the earth; and then, separated from all that was material, local, or limited, He was able to enter upon a spiritual, universal, and everlasting priesthood. Who was it for? (2) The next difference he maketh this: The law admitteth men in the plural number, a plurality of priests; but the gospel admitteth no plurality of priests, but the Son only to be priest. The efficacy of the legal offerings lasted for a time. The fifth difference: The law maketh men priests which have infirmities over whom death had power, that they could not be censer, rated but for their sliest life time. If He was separate before, how inevitably, insupportably separate now.3. Yes, terms not made with man, though, nor left to man. 9 And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who received tithes, paid tithes, 10 for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him. Can be also ascribed to Barnabas, Luke, Apollos, E. Theme: Christ is superior to the prophets; Christ is superior to angelsJ. I cannot possibly look for merit in the creature without believing ,hat the merit of Christ is not sufficient without announcing, in that wry act, that I am not satisfied that Christ spoke the truth when He said, "It is finished." Salem Media Group. If they were, woe to the whole race of Adam. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. This He did as the covenant Head, in the name and on befall of His whole Church; and He did it openly in His life and death, before all worlds.II. therefore, of Christ from the sinners of mankind, and the impression He awakened in them of that separation, was made, not by scenes, nor by words of assertion, nor by anything designed for that purpose, but it grew out of His life and character His unworldliness, holiness, purity, truth, love; the dignity of His feeling, the transcendent wisdom and grace of His conduct. . To be allowed to announce to men that our Lord Jesus Christ "offered up himself" on their behalf is, indeed, an errand which angels might, WHAT TO PRAY.--For more Conversions "He is able to save completely, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession."--HEB. He rose from it on the third morning: Must we appear before the Judge of all? 25. But when, as our High Priest and Representative, Jesus offers His life to God, that life covers every stage or department of our life. He appeared before Him who sent Him with the record of all that He had accomplished. Must we suffer? God saved my physical life during a time of drug overdose, and I still did submit until another 2 years. i. His heart was the home, alike of the mild, and the majestic, forms of feeling. His conscience was true to the dictates of eternal rectitude quick to discern the right, and bold and strong to choose and follow it. THE OFFERING AND THE OFFERER. Hear what Jehovah, by His prophet Isaiah, says. Without - Outside. Soothe him not with the Lewis BaylyThe Practice of Piety, He is Lovely in his Relations. If we are to impress the world we must be separate from sinners, even as Christ our Master was, -r at least according to our human degree, as being in His Spirit. His miracles had undoubtedly something to do with the impression of His separateness from ordinary men, hut a great many others, who were strictly human, have wrought miracles without creating any such gulf between them and mankind as we discover here. "He offered up Himself." Thats not really the authors point. )Christ as separate from the worldH. The last difference: The law instituting priests was not God's last will, but might suffer addition. This is seen in . And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the greater. ] Wherefore in, Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. Christ Jesus is a priest after the order of Melchizedek; and so far more excellent than the priests of Aaron's order. Sermons Pulpit Commentary Homiletics Christ Superior To Melchizedek Hebrews 7:4-10 J.S. It was just that power that rendered His services as a Redeemer efficacious to man. He first declares what Melchizedek was, that he was both king and priest; he names the place he was king of, and tells whose priest he was, even the priest of the most high God; and goes on to observe what he did, that he met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, that he blessed him, and took tithes of him, Heb 7:1,2 and then interprets his name, and royal title, the one signifying king of righteousness, the other king of peace; that for anything that can be learned from the Scriptures, it is not known who was his father or his mother; what his lineage and descent; when he was born, or when he died; and that he is like to the Son of God, and continues a priest, Heb 7:2,3 upon which the apostle calls upon the Hebrews to consider the greatness of his person; and as it appears from that single instance of his receiving tithes from the patriarch Abraham, Heb 7:4 by which it is evident, that he is greater than the Levites; and which is demonstrated in the following particulars: the Levites received tithes of their brethren that came out of Abraham's loins, as they did, but Melchizedek, whose descent was not from them, received tithes from Abraham himself, and besides blessed him; and it is a clear case, that the lesser is blessed of the greater, Heb 7:5-7 the Levites were mortal men that received tithes, but a testimony is bore to Melchizedek, that he lives, Heb 6:8 yea, Levi himself paid tithes to Melchizedek, since he was in the loins of his father Abraham when Melchizedek met him, and took tithes of him; and therefore must be greater than Levi, Heb 7:9,10.