As our High Priest, Christ is Able to Save us to the Uttermost, the Fullest Extent

Heb. 7:25-26 Hence also He is able to save to the uttermost those who come forward to God through Him, since He lives always to intercede for them. For such a High Priest was also fitting to us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners and having become higher than the heavens.

In His ascension, Christ is the kingly and divine High Priest interceding for us; He has been constituted our High Priest according to the power of an indestructible life, and He is able to save us to the uttermost. Hallelujah for our Christ who … [Continue reading]

Christ’s Care for us is Always Positive, for He cares for God’s Need and Interests

...God will listen to our prayer when our prayer to God is toward Christ, the kingdom of God, and the house of God as the goal in God’s eternal economy. This means that no matter for whom we are praying, our prayers should be aimed at the interests of God, that is, at Christ and the church as God’s interests on earth, for the fulfilling of God’s economy. 1 Kings 8:48, footnote 1, RcV Bible

It is very encouraging and comforting to know that Christ is our great High Priest caring for us today; however, even though Christ's care for us may not be what we expect, His heart and care for us are always positive. Our Christ is a great High … [Continue reading]

Coming to the Throne of Grace in our Spirit to enjoy Christ as our great High Priest

Heb. 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all respects like us, yet without sin.

How thankful we are to God that we have such a great High Priest, Jesus Christ, who is now in ascension in the heavenlies and also in our spirit! Having therefore a great High Priest - Jesus Christ, the Son of God - who has passed through the … [Continue reading]

Morning by Morning – Morning Watch and Morning Revival

Lam. 3:22-23 It is Jehovah's lovingkindness that we are not consumed, For His compassions do not fail; they are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

This is the first part of the sharing by brother A. P. in the series of "Morning by Morning - Morning Watch and Morning Revival". Every morning the married couple I stayed with would get up and leave. About 45 minutes later they returned. As their … [Continue reading]

Christ is Fully Qualified and Able to be our Merciful and Faithful High Priest

Heb. 2:18 For being tempted in that which He Himself has suffered, He is able to help those who are being tempted.

Our Christ is a merciful and faithful High Priest (Heb. 2:17); He is fully qualified to be such a High Priest because He is both the Son of God with divinity and the Son of Man with humanity. Many believers know Christ only as their Lord and … [Continue reading]

Christ in His Heavenly Ministry is the Divine High Priest Saving us to His Perfection

Heb. 7:24-25 But He, because He abides forever, has His priesthood unalterable. Hence also He is able to save to the uttermost those who come forward to God through Him, since He lives always to intercede for them.

Christ is the High Priest according to the order of Aaron to remove sin, a kingly High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek to minister God into us, and a divine High Priest to save us to the uttermost. God's original intention is that He … [Continue reading]

Our Aaronic High Priest Removed Sin and our Kingly High Priest Ministers God into us

...His purifying of sins is typified by the work of Aaron, while His sitting down on the right hand of the Majesty on high (1:3) is according to the order of Melchizedek (Psa. 110:1, 4). His work on the cross on earth, typified by the work of Aaron, affords us forgiveness of sins. His ministry on the throne in heaven ministers to us the overcoming of sin. His cross delivered us out of Egypt; His throne brings us into Canaan. The Hebrew believers participated in His work on the cross. Now they had to press on to enter into the enjoyment of His ministry on the throne. Heb. 7:1, footnote 1, RcV Bible

The book of Hebrews is on the priesthood in its three aspects: the Aaronic priesthood (Christ offered Himself to God as the unique sacrifice for our sins), the kingly priesthood (Christ as our kingly High Priest ministers God into us), and the divine … [Continue reading]