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Hebrews 7:26

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

This was the High Priest that we needed--holy, innocent, spotless, withdrawn from sinners, exalted above the highest Heaven,

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For he knew that it was out of jealousy that they had given Jesus up to him.

So the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into Heaven, and sat at the right hand of God.

"The Holy Spirit shall descend upon you," answered the angel, "and the Power of the Most High shall overshadow you; and therefore the child will be called 'holy,' and 'Son of God.'

"Why, what harm has this man done?" Pilate said to them for the third time. "I have found nothing in him for which he could be condemned to death. So I will have him scourged, and then release him."

And we justly so, for we are only reaping our deserts, but this man has not done anything wrong.

The Roman Captain, on seeing what had happened, praised God, exclaiming: "This must have been a good man!"

Was not the Christ bound to undergo this suffering before entering upon his Glory?"

"Scripture says that the Christ should suffer, and that he should rise again from the dead on the third day,

I shall not talk with you much more, for the Spirit that is ruling the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me;

Moreover, he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

You, I say, disowned the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for the release of a murderer!

There have indeed gathered together in this city against your holy Servant Jesus, whom you has consecrated the Christ, not Herod and Pontius Pilate only, but the nations and the people of Israel besides--

Him who never knew sin God made to be Sin, on our behalf; so that we, through union with him, might become the Righteousness of God.

For he is the radiance of the Glory of God and the very expression of his Being, upholding all creation by the power of his word; and, when he had made an expiation for the sins of men, he 'took his seat at the right hand' of God's Majesty on high,

our eyes fixed upon Jesus, the Leader and perfect Example of our faith, who, for the joy that lay before him, endured the cross, heedless of its shame, and now 'has taken his seat at the right hand' of the throne of God.

It was, indeed, fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, should, when leading many sons to glory, make the author of their Salvation perfect through suffering.

And consequently it was necessary that he should in all points be made like 'his Brothers,' in order that he might prove a merciful as well as a faithful High Priest in man's relations with God, for the purpose of expiating the sins of his People.

Therefore, Christian Brothers, you who, all alike, have received the Call from Heaven, fix your attention on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our Religion.

If, then, Perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood--and it was under this priesthood that the people received the Law--why was it still necessary that a priest of a different order should appear, a priest of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?

To sum up what I have been saying:--Such is the High Priest that we have, one who 'has taken his seat at the right hand' of the throne of God's Majesty in Heaven,

how much more will the blood of the Christ, who, through his eternal Spirit, offered himself up to God, as a victim without blemish, purify our consciences from a lifeless formality, and fit us for the service of the Living God!

but by precious blood, as it were of a lamb, unblemished and spotless, the Blood of Christ.

He 'never sinned, nor was anything deceitful ever heard from his lips.'

who has gone into Heaven, and is at God's right hand, where Angels and Archangels and the Powers of Heaven now yield submission to him.

and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but for those of the whole world besides.

And you know that Christ appeared to take away our sins; and in him Sin has no place.

To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write:-- "These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds 'the Key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one opens':--




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