Simply Said August 8th, 2018

As I write this morning, I am thankful that God meets me each morning early most days, and I have an opportunity to fellowship with Him alone, before I face the day ahead. I am learning continually, that the admonition of the Lord is powerful in moments. A disciple, yes a disciple of Christ sits under the authority of the Savior who gives us those things we need in the Scriptures. We need to continue learning and understanding the things that belong to us that come by faith in Christ. The writer to the Hebrew believers writes powerfully of Christ in this portion of Scripture. In verse 7 of Hebrews 5 we read. “Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death; and was heard in that he feared;” Christ in the garden cried out to his Father, and remember, even his disciples because of the heaviness of the hour, could not stay awake to pray with him, and he was alone in that Garden while his adversary sought to oppress and weary Christ at this dark moment in time. (My thought: It was a glorious time for us who believe, seeing that Christ in his humanity was like unto us, in that he feared.) God in his call upon His Son, ordained these moments in time, where the high priesthood of Christ would be revealed. Verse 5 of Chapter 7 says: So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.” In Hebrews 6:17-20 we read these powerful words. “Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it with an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.” Back in Chapter 5:

                Little words in scripture hold so much value. Wuest writes about the difference between apo which means from the edge of, and ek which means from within. Wuest writes: The messiah prayed to saved out from within death. If he had used ek the Messiah’s prayer would have been to be saved from death. He also stated that Christ was to be made sin, and that the fellowship between Father and Son would be broken. Our Lord fully expected to be raised out from among the dead. Hence there was no need of such a petition. So we read in Chapter 5:6 “As he saith in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.” What a powerful portion of scripture this is! God put his Son in the place of flesh and blood, and we read in verse 8, “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.” The eternal plan from eternity past is being revealed in time by the Messiah who had come and who suffered in fulfilling the will of God, praying with tears ALONE, because the weight of the hour was so severe that the disciples could not stay awake.

                Here comes the best part: “And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Obedience is imperative for the believer to have assurance. I do not guess here that any can say who loses their salvation, for salvation is by grace and grace alone, and there is one lawgiver, and one Savior who paid for the sin of the world, Our High Priest, Christ Jesus, who in our worst moments does not stop being our Savior. Christ made a once for all sacrifice for sin, and as many as come unto him, he saves and loses nothing. Listen to these verses this morning and rejoice. In verse 9-14 we read, “And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation, unto all them that obey him; called of God, an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not strong meat. For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”


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