Melchizedek Unveiled (Part 4): Jesus, Priest Forever in Hebrews

I think we're on like lesson 17 and we're in Genesis chapter 14 and we're on really what's turned out to be part four of Melchizedek. So this is taking a little bit longer for us to go through than I had anticipated because there are so many facets to this particular topic and it's so important because the New Testament makes a big deal out of Melchizedek, at least in one particular place, and uses the figure of Melchizedek to point the way forward to the New Covenant, the New Testament. It's a linchpin in the author of Hebrew's argument about the relationship between God's Old Covenant with Israel and God's New Covenant. Okay so we've been spending a little bit more time. We took I think the first, our first lesson on Genesis 14. We took the time to just go through that chapter apart really from Melchizedek. And then the last three sessions have been dealing with Melchizedek in the book of Genesis, Melchizedek in

the in the book of Psalm chapter 110, and then that ended up being split off into Melchizedek in the Dead Sea Scrolls. And now this week I want to turn our attention to the figure of Melchizedek in the book of Hebrews. Okay so just to kind of catch up, catch us up to where we are, I want to read from Genesis chapter 14 again and read the passage of scripture, read the passage of scripture that pertain to Melchizedek in the Old Testament. If you've been here for each of these sessions you've heard this Bible text read over and over again and one more time. Okay Genesis chapter 14 verses 17 through 20 read, after Abraham's return or Abram's return from the defeat of Qadar, Leomar, and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shabai, that is the king's valley, and Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was

a priest of God Most High, and he blessed him and said, blessed be Abram by God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand, and Abram gave him a tenth of everything. Okay so that's Genesis 14 what it has to say about Melchizedek. I'm not going to read what the Dead Sea Scrolls says about Melchizedek, but I do want to read at least what David wrote concerning Melchizedek a thousand years or so after Melchizedek. David wrote in Psalm 110, the Lord says to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. Okay so we're going back a couple of weeks, but before I keep on reading let me just ask a question or two, be ready if you have the answer, throw it out there if don't worry about if you make a little mistake or whatever. I'm just appealing to your memory. The Lord

says to my Lord is a reference to a conversation or a reference to who. Lord says to my Lord. First of all who is the Lord who is speaking or Yahweh, the covenant God of Israel. Yahweh says to my Lord who is my Lord a reference to. The Hebrew is Adonai my Lord, but this came to be interpreted especially by Christians but Second Temple Jews as the Messiah. Yahweh says to the Messiah, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. Okay it came to be understood as the Messiah because if it was a reference to David or to David's sons, they don't qualify for this. They don't qualify for this as prophecy. Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter, rule in the midst of your enemies. Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power and holy garments from the womb of

the morning. The dew of your youth will be yours. The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. What Jewish king qualifies for that job description? You're a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. First of all the Jewish kings were not allowed to be priests. They were kings only whenever they tried to cross over and act like priests. They were smitten, stricken by God. Okay you're a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. Well none of the sons of David qualified. They each in their turn died. Many of them were wicked. All of them were fallen in some way shape or form. They weren't priests. So they weren't qualified. Who could this be a reference to? A Messiah, they said, a Messiah. Not just a mere descendant of David, a mere king who sits on the throne of Jerusalem, but a someone who lives forever, who reigns forever and is doubles

not only as a king but as a priest. Okay after the order of Melchizedek. So again the Second Temple, many Second Temple Jews came to understand this not as a reference to a political Davidic descendant but to the Messiah. The Lord said to my Lord, this is David speaking, the Lord said to my Lord. Who's my Lord there a reference to? David's Lord. Who would David's Lord be? Not one of his descent, not one of his, not Solomon, not Rehoboam, the Messiah. Okay all right and so we get this reference to you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. The Lord is at your right hand. He will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses. He will shatter chiefs over the wide earth. He, that is my Lord, the Messiah, will drink from the brook by the way, therefore will he lift up his head. Okay so that's what

Psalm 110 has to say. Right in the New Testament there is a concerted effort on the evangelist part and Paul's part, the apostles part to show how Jesus was prophesied in the Old Testament and so for instance the Gospel according to Matthew starts out with this happened that it might be fulfilled which is spoken by the prophets in reference to several stages of Jesus's life. So there's connecting the Old Testament prophets to Jesus and showing he's the Messiah who was prophesied. Okay none of them however seem to have connected at least in Scripture in their text the figure of Melchizedek to Jesus until the author of Hebrews came along. All right and as you'll see this reference to Melchizedek and connecting Melchizedek as a foreshadowing of Jesus you'll see how rich the potential is for the foreshadowed figure of Jesus in the story of Melchizedek. Look at what David said the Messiah is going to be a priest after the order of Melchizedek.

Okay he's got to be a priest forever. Okay and that brings several questions to the fore. Listen to the think of these questions what questions does that bring to mind when you're reading this Psalm 110 this prophecy what questions does this bring to mind for the ancient Jewish or the early Christian reader the order of Melchizedek a priest forever first of all I've already mentioned it how does a king become also a priest okay second he's a priest forever so he's immortal third huh is the order of Melchizedek a higher order than the order of the Levites because David seems to be suggesting that there's a priesthood that's a higher priesthood than the Levitical priesthood remember the Levites are the priests of Israel they're the ones who offer sacrifices they sprinkle the blood on the day of atonement they offer the they serve at the altar of incense they wear the the high priestly robe they wear Urim and Thumam they are the

mediators between God and Israel is there a priesthood that's greater than that priesthood and the author or David says there is it's a priesthood forever after the order of Melchizedek and this Messiah is going to have a priesthood is going to be on the level of priesthood that's higher than the Levitical priesthood it's a priesthood after the very first priest that's mentioned in the bible Melchizedek okay so let's go then to Psalm or rather the book of Hebrews chapter six and we'll begin reading with verse 19 he writes we have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul a hope that enters into the peace or to the inner place behind the curtain rather where Jesus has gone on as a forerunner on our behalf having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek all right i'll pause there for just a moment we have this as a steadfast and sure anchor of the soul we have a hope

that enters into the inner place behind the curtain what's the inner place behind the curtain a reference to the temple right this is the holy of holies all right i want you to visualize this we have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek so far what the author is saying right here is is our hope is unbreakable our hope is certain and it's anchored in the holy of holies think of a ship's anchor that anchor keeps the ship from going outside of its jurisdiction it during a storm an anchor keeps the ship right there it keeps it from drifting off and what the author is saying right here is when you go through storms when Jesus is your hope there's an anchor in the holy of holies it's

anchored in the presence of god your soul is anchored there you're unmovable no matter what happens to you you have you have a hope that has gone beyond the inner curtain it's in the holy of holies in the very presence of god you're anchored there that's what happened when Jesus passed into heaven he was passing into the true holy of holies of which the holy holy of holies in the temple was just a symbol of okay and then he says he's gone on as our as a forerunner on our behalf having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek so in other words Jesus the author here is saying Jesus is entered into the heavens like the priest the Levitical priest but the Levitical priest is mortal and he dies and he's flawed he's sinful himself this priest is after a different order a higher order and he's gone into the heavens and he is there mediating on our behalf then

chapter seven verse one continues this for this Melchizedek king of Salem priest of the most high god met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth of everything he is first by translation who's he Melchizedek by translation of his name king of righteousness and then he is also king of Salem that is king of peace all right so there he's kind of play or kind of discussing or mentioning the meaning of these words okay Melchizedek as I've mentioned before is made up of two words Melch in Hebrew means king Melch and then Zedek Zedek in Hebrew is the word for righteousness or justice so this is what the author of Hebrews is saying his name Melchizedek means king of righteousness all right so already he has foreshadowing of Jesus potential and then he's also called the king of Salem in Genesis 14 and the word Salem in Hebrew means peace shalom okay so

he's king of righteousness and he's king of peace all right again he foreshadows Jesus and then watch this verse three this is the part that gets everybody all twisted up this is one of the big enigmas in the in the New Testament he that is Melchizedek is without father or mother or genealogy having neither beginning of days nor end of life now I follow you we followed okay we see how his name means king of righteousness we see how king of Salem means king of peace but where does the author of Hebrews get this idea that Melchizedek was with without father or mother or genealogy having no beginning nor ending if you look at Genesis 14 you can't find any reference to him being immortal you can't find any reference to him having no father or no mother of course you don't get a reference to him having a father or mother and you get no reference to him beginning nor of his

death but that's quite a leap to go from well the bible doesn't mention his death to saying the bible says he never died you see it's an argument from silence it seems like so what in the world is going on here with what the early church thought about Melchizedek well this is where we did last time we talked about the dead Melchizedek in the Dead Sea Scrolls see he came to be understood as some kind of angelic presence in fact some thought that he was Michael the Archangel there's a little bit of similarity between the name Michael and Melchizedek but he's a warrior of God he's going to fight against the sons of darkness the children of darkness on the side of the children of light he came to be understood as angelic maybe even messianic and he was going to come and he was going to institute the year of jubilee that is all the slaves are going to be set free

all the people who were sick were going to be healed and then you have Jesus in his first sermon in Nazareth sitting down and saying in reading from Isaiah chapter 61 the spirit of Lord is upon me he has come to set at liberty the captives I've come to set at liberty the captives and so there's a reference to the year of jubilee and so right there there's this kind of tying together of Melchizedek in Jesus in some way shape or form the author of Hebrews doesn't seem to think that Melchizedek is Jesus but he and I'll say why here in just a minute but here he does make reference to him having no father or mother or genealogy no beginning nor end of life okay so there are varied opinions on this what does this mean there's a there's a thought in biblical scholarship that here's what this means this the author of Hebrews isn't saying that Melchizedek didn't have a father

didn't have a mother and didn't have a beginning and didn't have an end it's merely saying the author of Hebrews is merely saying that for some reason when Melchizedek shows up on the scene in the writing of the book of Genesis chapter 14 for whatever reason Moses didn't include his genealogy also didn't say where he was born or who he was born of and it didn't say how he died it just all the sudden throws Melchizedek into the middle of a story with no introduction and gives him these great big grand titles he's the king of peace he's the king of righteousness and for whatever reason the most important person in the world Abraham at the time pays ties to him who made him priest why does Abraham pay ties to this man so so the thought is in this you know a biblical scholarship some portion of you know the biblical scholar folks say well doesn't mean that he didn't have a

father mother he doesn't mean that he didn't have a beginning or an end all it means is is the author of Hebrews is taking advantage of the fact that none of these things were mentioned in Genesis 14 I can't I can't make it any better than that I that's that's just what they say it's just he's taking advantage of the fact that it's silent on that subject and here's why that's strange it is strange that a priest is not given a genealogy like who his father was that is strange because whenever you go through the rest of the Bible you'll always find out whenever there's a high priest you find out who his father was he's introduced by his father's credibility so you become a high priest by virtue of being descended from Aaron and from Levi okay and then Zachariah in the New Testament John the Baptist's father he's a priest who's mentioned his genealogy is mentioned he's of the descendants of

Abbiah who was descended from Aaron okay so we know who Zachariah was descended from whenever if you're going to qualify to be a priest you're only qualified if you're descended from the right line and that line is mentioned but here we have a priest who has no line mentioned again where did he get his priesthood what made him a legitimate anointed priest of God all right and so the this again this part of scholarship says well it does it since it doesn't mention any genealogy the author of Hebrews just took advantage of it and is kind of using it as a textual reality not as a historical reality Melchizedek didn't really descend from no father or mother it's it's not mentioned in the text okay it's just not very satisfying I think if we were to talk to the author of Hebrews and say you were kind of just playing fast and loose with the text there and getting an argument from silence

and you're saying he had no genealogy merely because the text doesn't say a genealogy but you don't really think he had no father and mother do you and the author of Hebrews would more than likely surprise you and us modern critical thinkers and say absolutely I meant that and again David a thousand years later speaks of someone after the order of a messiah after the order of Melchizedek and a priesthood forever a priest forever okay my my my understanding is this is the way I interpret this on its face what the text says what does the text say he's without father or mother or genealogy he had no beginning he had no end we are dealing either with an angelic presence like the second temple jews thought or we're dealing with a theophany god in human form in the old in the Old Testament and this is why Abraham pays ties to him and by the way what does Melchizedek do for Abraham

gives him bread and wine what's bread and wine significant of in the New Testament the body in the blood of Christ okay the body the blood of Christ all right I don't think we're dealing with any other human being we're dealing with somebody who was for whatever reason he showed up on the scene one day after Abraham's great test in great battle and he nourished Abraham and then he blessed him and he called him blessed be you of the be blessed be God most high and blessed be you Abraham and blessed be the nations all right which is again resembles very much the role of Christ in our lives he blesses us he gives us his body his blood he cleanses us by these things he nourishes us by these things and he blesses us all right but let's continue with the author of Hebrews argument verse 3 I'm going to repeat that one he's without father mother or genealogy not having neither

beginning nor end of life but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever resembling the Son of God okay so it's not the Son of God but resembles the Son of God continues a priest forever all right see how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take ties from the people that is from their brothers though these are also descended from Abraham hey in other words I want you to consider how great the order of Melchizedek the priest was let's look David saying at our own situation we know a priesthood it's after the order of Levi okay and it the priesthood the Levitical priesthood receives ties from all the people of Israel okay it's a commandment now they're receiving from the Israelites the ties but the people

of the tribe of Judah they're paying ties to the tribe of Levi but their brothers they're equals they're paying ties to them though but this man Melchizedek who does not have his descent from them received ties from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises okay now here's how this works here here are the mechanics verse 7 it's beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior okay so if you get a blessing it's from somebody who's superior to you in the in in the one case ties are received by mortal men but in the other case by whom one of whom it is testified that he lives one might even say that Levi himself who received ties paid ties through Abraham for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him what what's going on it's a strange way of thinking but he's saying here's Abraham paying ties to this superior who blesses him and Abraham his

descendants one of his descendants is going to be Levi who receives the ties from Israel but so this is the author of Hebrew's way of thinking is this is Levi through Abraham paying ties to Melchizedek so you have a priesthood the Levitical priesthood it receives ties from Israel but it in turn through Abraham gave ties to Melchizedek which means by paying ties Levi to Melchizedek through Abraham which means that the order of Melchizedek the Melchizedekian priesthood is a higher order than the Levitical priesthood okay now here's why this is important you might okay gotcha I understand what you're saying but why why is this important at all here's why it's important because it's part of the argument that the author of Hebrews is making which is namely the law of Moses and the covenant God made with Israel was never meant to be the eternal covenant the lasting eternal covenant there was a better covenant coming in other words the children of Israel

or people of God were never supposed to stay locked in the law of Moses as a covenant with God there was a greater covenant Paul made a similar argument earlier he said that the law of Moses was a school master leading the children of Israel to Christ okay the author here of Hebrews is saying something very similar he's saying the the law of Moses wasn't meant to be forever it was a placeholder temporary it was supposed to achieve a certain purpose and then become obsolete when a greater covenant came along just like a candle becomes obsolete when the sun comes up it's a candle in the darkness until the until the dawn and then it becomes obsolete you leave the candle behind but what was happening to the people that the author of Hebrews is writing to is they're starting to they're in the broad light of day in the new covenant under Jesus Christ but their spirits are flagging they're starting to

neglect their salvation they're starting to become weary their hands are hanging down their knees are getting weak spiritually speaking and they're starting to go back and look over their shoulder and wonder about that candle I want to go back to the certainties of the law of Moses I want to go back to the rituals I want to go back to the I want to go back to the I want to go back to the feasts I want to go back to the sacrifices there's some kind of nostalgia that's building up in them they want to go back into their former way of life and the author of Hebrews is saying don't go back there you don't go back to the candle in the middle of the day what you're doing is you're trying to pick up something that's been made obsolete you you're you're you're to put it you know introduce just a little bit of triviality but it's the only way I

know how to do this it's sort of like it's sort of like going back to the cassette tape when you've got hd uhd it's like going back it's like going back to the old vhs when you've got the digital library it's like it's like going to the back to the broken down model t when you've got the Ferrari those those are trivial examples it's it's it's a minuscule compared to the reality of the of the of the of the reality of the reality that we're in right now we're in this reality where the law of moses was just temporary it was meant to be a placeholder to keep and super intend to the children of israel and bring about one day a messiah but that law was never meant to be temporary it was meant or never meant to be eternal it was meant to be temporary until we arrived at the messiah the goal of the law the end of law so

don't go back to it and then these Hebrews that the author of Hebrews is writing to they are getting influenced no doubt by some of the unbelieving members of the synagogue saying hey come on back come on back to the synagogue come on back to the to the way to the old ways it's so much it's so much simpler and and and come back to that nostalgia and and then they start to do bible studies with them and misinterpret all the scriptures and forget everything they've been taught and and and and here's what the author of Hebrews is trying to do don't go back don't go back let me show you if you're going back you're going back to be served by a lesser priesthood than christ do you want to have your mediator between you and god to be a Levitical priest when you have the Melchizedekian priest okay watch watch watch watch what he says look at verse 10 verse 11

rather now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood for under it the people received the law what further need would there have been for another priest who arise after the order Melchizedek rather than the one named after the order of Aaron who there's a big question here it is the synagogue is saying this covenant with Moses and the children of Israel was meant to be forever and the author of Hebrews is saying oh really really why is it let's do our our timeline here Moses or rather Abraham he's in about the year 2000 before christ and he has this he has this uh Melchizedek encounter and and and and and then 500 years later you have Moses and then the covenant with Israel and that gave rise to the Levitical priesthood the Levitical priesthood is servicing the tabernacle and mediating for the people and then 500 years after the Levitical priesthood started you have David and David says that this Messiah

is going to be after the order of Melchizedek not after the order of of Levi in other words why is David speaking of another higher order that the Messiah is going to be after if the Levitical priesthood was all we ever needed if it's perfect if it does everything everything we ever need if it fully satisfies everything if it brings us into right relationship with God why did we why did David 500 years later say there's another priesthood attire it must mean that the Levitical priesthood is not perfect it's not meant to be forever that's why David is speaking of another priesthood that's the argument that the author of Hebrews makes in verse 11 one more time now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek rather than one named after the order of Aaron so in other words it's the Old Testament itself that

contains a prophecy and an understanding that the Levitical priesthood would one day be obsolete it was never meant to be forever it was never meant to be perfect it wasn't perfect okay so again the Levitical priesthood is not going to help you it's not going to bring you back it's not going to it's not going to make you right with God it's been made obsolete and in fact it's not just us Christians that are saying that it's your Bible that's saying that in the Old Testament it's David himself critiquing the Levitical priesthood that existed in his day by pointing to a higher priesthood okay but then watch this first 12 and put it up there I just I could just about shout this one right here I'll calm down say it in a normal voice for when there is a change in the priesthood there is necessarily a change in the law as well in other words when you give a covenant there's

a priesthood that's meant to attend that covenant and make sure that the covenant stays on track a priesthood is made for the covenant but why is in the middle of the covenant if it's meant to be in a forever covenant why is David saying there's another priesthood a higher priesthood it must mean it has to mean it can only mean one thing if there's a new priesthood there must be a new covenant because a new priesthood is needed for a new covenant again so if you're saying that the covenant with that moses made with israel was forever and fully sufficient why is in the middle of that covenant king david himself under the inspiration of the holy spirit saying that there's a higher priesthood and a new priesthood a new priesthood it must mean that there's a new covenant all right and you might you might think well this is all kind of complicated there's a lot of moving parts here I know

but the bible challenges us didn't didn't didn't the apostle peter say of the apostle paul many of his his writings are hard to understand does that mean we skip over them does that mean we pull them out of the bible they're hard to understand it's hard to follow sometimes the course of the argument but scripture is disciplining our minds think with it understand with it pray about this it's okay to sometimes get into something a little bit more complicated and and this is very very complex it's the relationship between the old covenant and the new covenant and it really gave people fits 2000 years ago especially and still does today let me let me say a word or two about that there are still people today they've been raised in an apostolic church they've been taught the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation they have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost they've been baptized in the name of Jesus they placed all their

trust in Jesus they're looking for his second coming and along comes somebody maybe on the internet internet probably on the internet who says Judaism hmm it's good stuff back there Sabbath isn't that supposed to be obligatory kosher foods and it makes life real nice and simple and i get to be different from everybody else with with what i eat so i feel a little bit virtuous about that and and then and and then we can start we can start saying our our scriptures in Hebrew and we can start wearing these we can start wearing these these garments with blue and white threads and phylacteries and we can start rolling up the shema and putting on our forehead and on our wrists and and we can we can we can just go all the way back it still happens today still people completely befuddled by the relationship between the old and the new covenant so you gotta dig into these things you have to

see that it's not Christian interpretation of the Old Testament that says that the old old covenant is obsolete when the new covenant comes it's not just Christian interpretation it's not just evangelism it's not just believe me it's look at your own bible you have david himself saying it's not meant to be forever he's pointing to another priesthood and Jeremiah what in the world was Jeremiah doing when he said the day's going to come when i'm going to put a new law in your heart a new covenant i'm going to write it on the on the on the tables of your heart instead of on tables of stone i'm this is the Old Testament itself saying this is just for a while until the perfection comes and the perfection that's going to come is Christ the messiah all right it's why it's worth it to go carefully through these kinds of things even if they make a scratch our head a little bit because

because if we don't do this kind of thing 10 15 years down the road there's going to be somebody come along who doesn't understand the relationship between the old covenant new covenant and they get deceived and they start going back to things that have been made obsolete okay and that's the whole message of the book of Hebrews do not go back we have better things better things before us okay verse 13 for the for the one of whom these things are spoken belong to another tribe from which no one has ever served at the altar for the one of whom these things are spoken who's that speak who's that reference to it's Jesus the one of whom these things are spoken of that is Melchizedek and the the new covenant the one of whom these things are spoken belong to another tribe from which no one has ever served at the altar what does that mean well only the the people of Levi

the descendants of Levi served at the altar as priests but here the one who were speaking of Jesus didn't come from Levi thank goodness thank goodness because why god in his superintendents in his wisdom in history made sure Jesus didn't descend from the Levites made sure that he descended from Judah a tribe that had no connection to the Levites so that he wouldn't be said to be after the order of Levi okay it is evident that our lord verse 14 was descended from whom Judah and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests this becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek who has become a priest not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent in other words he didn't become a priest merely because he had a father who was a priest but by the power of an indestructible life when was Jesus made priest at his resurrection that's when he's made

priest and what's he doing he has the blood from Calvary and he's ascending into heaven okay before he even ascends into heaven there's a descent into the earth he takes the keys of death hell and the grave all right he brings his sacrifice with him his blood and he sets the prisoners free and then he he rises again into the world and then number of days later he ascends into heaven into the great and true temple in heaven and there he sits down in heaven and there he also is said by the author of Hebrews to make propitiation for us that is he's mediating for us in the true tabernacle okay so by virtue of his resurrected life he became priest okay so he's nothing like the Levitical priest when they die they die but when this one died he was resurrected he rose again not to die again to die never again and he ascends into heaven verse 17 it is witnessed

of him you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek for on the one hand a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness for the law made nothing perfect the law of moses won't make you perfect but on the other hand a better hope is introduced through which we draw near to God and it is not without an oath for those who formerly became priests were made such without an oath but this one in other words God didn't swear he didn't make an oath every time he made a priest but you notice in Psalm 110 God made an oath okay do you remember that the Lord has sworn and will not change his mind that's what Psalm 110 says in other words when he made this priest after this one a priest after the order Melchizedek he made an oath all right so that's completely different from any other priest he ever made you're a priest forever all

right and this is how he meant he ends this whole discussion this makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant amen then the guarantor the guarantor what how can i guarantee that you know you when you go out and buy something expensive you want to guarantee how do i know it's not going to break down on me and then they show you this piece of paper and they show you their policy well this policy says well well that that policy has to back up that claim and and and and it's it's the guarantor it's what you can depend on Jesus is essentially that that receipt that he's the guarantor and because he rose again he can never be touched he could he could he could never be he can never be subject to the to the the trials and tribulations and the he can never be subject again to the powers here on earth he's the guarantor of a better covenant he's completely

untouchable now that guarantee that you have is as good as his resurrection a better covenant one that allows you to draw closer to god you have this hope anchored in the heaven lease amen