589 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 1 Book 50 - Our High Priest

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 50 Our High Priest Hebrews 6:11 – 7:19 We’re going to jump right in at Hebrews chapter 6 verse 11. Then we saw in verse 10 where we left off, that God is not unrighteous. He’s never unfair. And God will never forget the work of the believer in love. (love) Up here in verse 10, we have "He will never forget your work and labor of (what?) love." hope." "Faith, hope and love." Alright, let’s jump in in verse 11 where Paul writes to these Jewish people: Hebrews 6:11 Well, he’s talking about the "beloved" up in verse 9. "Unto the end." Philippians 1:6 Now here’s a promise) will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:" Even with these Jewish believers who had stepped right on into this same concept of Paul’s Gospel now, that they were full of the assurance of hope. Now verse 12: Hebrews 6:12 the promises." Oh, the promises of God! Most of us are aware of the Old Testament promises given to Israel which, of course, were all earthly promises, and they’re still waiting for a good portion of it. Hebrews 6:13a "For when God made promise to Abraham,…" That’s why we call that period of time, in between Abraham and the giving of the Law, a time of promises. Because over and over, God promised the patriarchs. In the next chapter God promised that He would give them a geographical area of land. All promises of God! Promises. And so, it’s just to show us that when God makes promises, even though His wheels grind slowly, they grind surely. Okay, so reading on in verse 13: Hebrews 6:13 "For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself," Now you see, only God could do that! My, how long did Abraham have to wait before he even got the first fulfillment of the promise of a son, Isaac? So with that as a backdrop, that God will never go back on His promises, this is what God told him in verse 14. Hebrews 6:14 What are we talking about? We’re talking about one man who is already 75 years old. Alright, That’s how I feel when God deals with me a lot of times? Then ‘fsssst’- there’s the answer! The miracle of God, she had the promised son Isaac! And so this is what we have to constantly remember, that God will never go back on His promises. Now verse 15. Hebrews 6:15 patiently endured, and he obtained (what?) the promise." A hundred years old - his wife 90, and here came the promise. Verse 16. Hebrews 6:16a Why go to anything less than the God of Creation, because He is the greatest that can give a word of promise. Hebrews 6:16b Well, that’s what God has done. Verse 17. Hebrews 6:17-18a "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, (and He) confirmed it by an oath: 18. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie (God cannot lie) we might have a strong consolation,…:" In other words, we can rest on these promises. When I saw that word refuge, as I was preparing this, I thought of the Cities of Refuge in Israel’s history. Let’s go back to Joshua chapter 20. Joshua 20:1-3a "The Lord also spake unto Joshua, saying, 2. Never even entered his mind. Joshua 20:6 "And he shall dwell in that city, (the city of refuge) until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come into his own city, unto his own house, and unto the city from whence he fled." Now, that was refuge in a time of distinct need. So here we have that blessed hope that we, too, have been able to "flee to the refuge" that the Lord Jesus Christ has made available, and we have entered into that refuge with our faith. Alright, and then again, reading verse 18, so as we flee to that place of refuge: Hebrews 6:18b "…to lay hold upon the hope (there’s that word again, faith, hope and love. The promises of God! Alright, and this hope then becomes: Hebrews 6:19a So Paul is telling us that we are now able to enter in within, behind that veil, into the very Holy of Holies, the presence of God. Hebrews 6:20 I want you to underline that word "Forerunner," because in the next chapter, in the next verse we’re going to come back and pick up Melchisedec the high priest of all, who Jesus personified when He went in behind the veil. You remember, in an earlier chapter in Hebrews, Paul called Christ the ‘captain of our salvation.’? And I pointed out that again, in the Greek, that word captain was really better translated "a file leader." Let’s look at Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 16, and these aren’t empty words. Hebrews 4:16 Now, when the high priest of Israel went in behind the veil it was nothing like that. The forerunner has gone ahead and now we have complete access to God. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible