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Better Priest, Better Covenant
We have a Boston Terrier.
Her name is Esther.
She has a decorative bag that we keep her toys in.
It is like having kids again.
Because as you pick those toys up and put them back in the bag, you just know they will eventually be strung out again.
Sometimes we approach Jesus that way.
We believe that no matter how many times we pickup all our junk, it will just get strung out again.
That is the way the old priesthood dealt with sin, but not our Jesus!
He is greater.
Join us this weekend as we look at what it means to have a “Better Priest,Better Covenant”
I find it tremendously providential that Hebrews, which is a book that focuses on the greatness of Christ, Also has a underlying theme of not relying on works for your salvation.
Then it is followed by the book of James which focuses on Godly living and reminds us that faith cannot be absent of works.
Melchizedek
The Levite Priesthood was a part of the old covenant.
It involved a tribe of Israel being set aside for the priesthood by God in Duet.
10:8, Numbers 8:5-26 They would do the work of Offering sacrifices to the Lord and for the sins of the people.
This would be repeated over and over again.
Melchizedek is different
The Woman at the Well
John 4:1–26 (ESV)
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.
And he had to pass through Samaria.
So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well.
It was about the sixth hour.
A woman from Samaria came to draw water.
Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep.
Where do you get that living water?
Are you greater than our father Jacob?
He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.
The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
The woman answered him, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband.
What you have said is true.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ).
When he comes, he will tell us all things.”
Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
This a story of rich love, redemption and acceptance.
This is only available for those who come to Christ.
It is not available to those who were still relying on the old covenant, the old law, the old priest.
We need something greater
Thank the Lord that Jesus is Greater!
Jesus is greater than the well water
Jesus is greater than the manna/bread
Jesus is greater than the Levite Priest
Why?
Because what he gives lasts forever!
Because Christ is our Priest we have good news for the world.
What is the good news?
That we no longer depend on ourselves.
We can trust Jesus.
We trust His finished work.
We trust His intervention on our behalf.
We trust His working through us.
We trust His sovereign plan and purpose.
He is a high priest beyond the earthly men we too often turn.
Jews had the levites, we have celebrities and politicians that we too often focus on for our salvation.
Trust Jesus
Turn to Jesus And find forgiveness and reconciliation.
Stop turning to men and women to find salvation.
Stop relying on physical satisfaction for a spiritual problem.
Better Priest, Better Covenant
Jesus is Greater!
I pray you will surrender to His call on your life today.
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