Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - Kansas City, Missouri, United States - "Christ, Our Holy High Priest" Saturday, 17 January 2015 - Scripture: Hebrews 7:20-28

Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - Kansas City, Missouri, United States - "Christ, Our Holy High Priest" Saturday, 17 January 2015 - Scripture: Hebrews 7:20-21 God himself made a promise when this priest was appointed. But he did not make a promise like this when the other priests were appointed. The promise he made is,
“I, the Lord, promise that you
    will be a priest forever!
And I will never
    change my mind!”
22 This means that Jesus guarantees us a better agreement with God. 23 There have been a lot of other priests, and all of them have died. 24 But Jesus will never die, and so he will be a priest forever! 25 He is forever able to save[a] the people he leads to God, because he always lives to speak to God for them.
26 Jesus is the high priest we need. He is holy and innocent and faultless, and not at all like us sinners. Jesus is honored above all beings in heaven, 27 and he is better than any other high priest. Jesus doesn’t need to offer sacrifices each day for his own sins and then for the sins of the people. He offered a sacrifice once for all, when he gave himself. 28 The Law appoints priests who have weaknesses. But God’s promise, which came later than the Law, appoints his Son. And he is the perfect high priest forever.[Footnotes:
7.25 forever able to save: Or “able to save forever.”]
"Christ, Our Holy High Priest" by Paul Martin
Lettie Cowman, wife of Charles Cowman, gave to the world the devotional treasures, Streams in the Desert, Springs in the Valley, and Mountain Trailways. She penned her experience of her deep soul need met in a holy encounter: “One morning, as I arose at four o’clock to pray and to do some searching (of the Word), just as I knelt, I felt an Unseen Presence so near me that I looked up to see who was there. I could not utter one word, but just felt hushed in that glorious Presence. A sweet rest filled my very being, and I knew that the Holy Spirit had come in to fill and abide with me forever. Nothing has ever been able to shake the experience of that hour alone with God.”
Writing twenty-one years later, she concluded, “As I pen this testimony, the witness still is in my heart that ‘the blood of Jesus cleanseth me from all sin.’ His will is the sweetest thing on earth.”*
Through grace our holy, high priest “meets our need” and keeps supplying us for the journey.[*Benjamin Harold Pearson, The Vision Lives; A Profile of Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Los Angeles: Cowman Publications, 1961, 18.]
Hymn for Today: "Streams in the Desert"
1. There were times, I know it, my feet were nigh slipping. And only by grace did I stand. And the load I carried, I knelt down below it. But I did not let go of His hand.
{Chorus} He made streams in the desert, a way in the wilderness. The waters He parted and there was dry land. He made streams in the desert, a way in the wilderness. Because I held to His hand.
2. And the tempter untiring, drew grand conclusions of what a poor fool I am. And through waves of worry and clouds of confusion, still I did not let go of His hand.
{Chorus} He made streams in the desert, a way in the wilderness. The waters He parted and there was dry land. He made streams in the desert, a way in the wilderness. Because I held to His hand.
3. And so my brethren, commit to His keeping, your lives for Him to plan. For though trials be grievous there’s no shame in weeping. Just don’t let go of His hand.
{Chorus} He made streams in the desert, a way in the wilderness. The waters He parted and there was dry land. He made streams in the desert, a way in the wilderness. Because I held to His hand.
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