Imagine a relay race where the baton keeps getting dropped. Runner after runner takes the handoff and collapses before passing it on. The team never finishes. Now imagine one runner who never tires and never stops, carrying the baton alone from the starting gun to the line. The Levitical priests were many, because death kept removing them, a chain of mortality broken at every grave. But Jesus holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. God installed him not by inheritance but by an oath: the Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. And so he is able to save completely, to the very end, since he always lives to intercede. Right now, he is praying for his people. Your standing doesn't rest on the strength of your prayers but on the constancy of his. He is close enough to understand and clean enough to save. Once for all, he offered himself. And he has never set the baton down.

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