Lindsey Blair and Bobby Gilles recap and discuss this past Sunday's sermon by Jonah Sage from Hebrews 7:15-28.
Lindsey Blair and Bobby Gilles recap and discuss this past Sunday's sermon by Jonah Sage from Hebrews 7:15-28.
Bobby: Welcome to the Midweek Checkup. My name Bobby Gilles and I’m here with Lindsey Blair. This past Sunday, Pastor Jonah Sage preached Hebrews seven, verses fifteen through twenty-eight in our series called Divine Desire.
Lindsey: Pastor Jonah said that we must become a people that lay down our way of doing things and learn to trust our great High Priest. If you missed the sermon or need help remembering, it’s time for a Midweek Checkup.
Bobby: Jonah began by reminding us that The old priesthood could not do what we needed done…so it was cast aside. The tribe of Levi was replaced by the Order of Melchizedek, that great king of righteousness and peace who was a shadow of the one to come, Jesus. We also must remember that blessing preceded the law, both at creation and following God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt.
Lindsey: And then the rules were meant to expose our hearts so that we might come to God for grace, mercy, and healing. What if the persistent problems in our lives and our repeated failures at solving them are meant to do the same? What if they were meant to bring us to a moment, maybe even today, of being able to say, “it’s time for something new.”
Bobby: The Laws and Priests were meant to show us fundamentally 2 things. Our hearts need healing/renovation. We need someone to intercede for us. The Old System was meant to prepare us…and maybe all your old failures and frustrations were meant to prepare you for something new now, too.
Lindsey: We must become a people that lay down our way of doing things and learn to trust our great High Priest. He has fulfilled the law and the priesthood by offering a better sacrifice and a better covenant. So we have two options. Option 1 is to follow the way of ancient Israel. Give yourself more rules. Rules on rules on rules.
Bobby: Option two is to leave the tribe of Levi and follow the Order of Melchizedek. Turn to the great high priest, Jesus Christ, the son of God, that eternal priest who intercedes for us from the very throne room of God.
Lindsey: This coming Sunday, we’ll continue our series called Divine Desire. And in Sunday Bible Fellowship, we’ll discuss our first Lenten reading, from Psalm 32. Join us and bring a friend.