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There are wonderful insights to be found in scripture – insights which cause us to marvel and glorify God. For instance in Mark 14 Jesus is arrested and is brought before the high priest and religious leaders who aggressively question Him. It reads, beginning in verse 61: But He kept silent and did not offer any answer. Again the high priest was questioning Him, and said to Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?” And Jesus said, “I am; and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.” Tearing his clothes, the high priest said, “What further need do we have of witnesses? You have heard the blasphemy; how does it seem to you?” And they all condemned Him as deserving of death.”
Our new high priest, Jesus, standing face to face with the Old Covenant high priest. One is of the order of Aaron; the other of the order of Melchizedek. One a sinful man; the other, the sinless Son of God.
One of the requirements to be high priest is that you must never tear your clothes. If you do you disqualify yourself from the office of high priest. That obscure requirement is found in Leviticus 21:10. Caiaphas in tearing his clothes is now stepping aside (although he did not realize it) and God’s true High Priest was taking his place. What drama! The new replacing the old.
Paraphrasing Hebrews 8:13, the New Covenant with its better promises necessitates the abandonment of the inadequate Old Covenant!
Four ‘better promises’ in the New are found in Hebrews 8:10-12. Here they are:
1 Superior Power — the Promise of Regeneration and Inward Transformation
“For this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws into their minds,
And I will write them upon their hearts.” Hallelujah!
2 Superior Relationship — the Promise of a Secure Relationship with God with No More Apostasy
“And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.” Hallelujah!
3 Superior Knowledge — the Promise of Universal Revelation and Knowledge of God based on Personal Experience
“And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen, And everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ For all shall know Me, From the least to the greatest of them.” God does this for us hallelujah!
4 Superior Forgiveness — the Promise of Permanent Forgiveness of Sins Based on Finality of the Sacrifice of Christ Jesus
“For I will be merciful to their iniquities,
And I will remember their sins no more.” Hallelujah!
Today, consider these wonderful promises of Power, Relationship, Knowledge and Forgiveness. Then give a big shout out to Jesus, and — COME ALIVE!
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