Gospel Light Society Podcasts

Gospel Light Society Podcasts

By Daniel Whyte IIIReligion & Spirituality
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Gospel Light Society Podcasts episodes

  • How to Hope: Lessons from the Israelites and Their Messianic Expectation, Part 41
    TEXT: Psalm 110
    Second, Jesus is our eternal priest. Psalm 110:4 reads, “The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.” The Bible tells us that God has sworn this statement and will not go back on it. Melchizedek appears in 3 verses in Genesis 14, to bless Abraham on God’s behalf after Abraham fought the tribes who took captive his brother’s people. Steven J. Cole wrote, “Melchizedek is mentioned only in Genesis 14:18-20, here in Psalm 110:4, and in Hebrews. His name in Hebrew means “king of righteousness.” He was the king of Salem. In Genesis, he seems to come out of nowhere, he refreshes Abraham with bread and wine after Abraham returns from battle, he blesses him, and receives a tithe of Abraham’s spoils. He is called a priest of God Most High. A priest acts as a mediator between God and man. Melchizedek stood between God and Abraham to confer God’s blessing on Abraham, and to receive the tithes from Abraham to present to God. Hebrews 7 explains that Melchizedek served as a type of Christ. The author to the Hebrews was writing to second-generation Jewish Christians who were facing persecution and were tempted to give up on Christianity and go back to Judaism. The author wants to convince them of the superiority of Jesus Christ over the Jewish system. To summarize Hebrews 7, he brings in Melchizedek to show that Christ, as a priest after the order of Melchizedek, is superior to the Levitical priesthood. He is superior in that, unlike Jewish kings who couldn’t act as priests and priests who couldn’t be king, Jesus is both priest and king. Jesus is superior because He is an eternal priest who offers a better covenant through which we may draw near to God. Jesus is superior in that He didn’t need to offer daily sacrifices for His own sin before He offered sacrifices for the people, as the Levitical priests did. The bottom line is, Jesus “is able to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them”. The author to the Hebrews and David are saying that Messiah Jesus is not just a human priest. He is God in human flesh, the only way that sinful people can draw near to God. To think correctly about Christ, you must understand that He is a divine, eternal priest between God and man after the order of Melchizedek.” Just as Melchizedek was a mediator between God and Abraham, just as the Hebrew priests were mediators between the Jews and God, Jesus is a mediator between us and God. He offers Himself as the sacrifice and blesses us on God’s behalf. Have you accepted the mediating work of Jesus so that you can be saved from hell?
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Gospel Light Society is a global ministry that seeks to present the Gospel to all people, in every language, around the world, over the internet. People all over the world need to hear about the love, peace, and joy that only comes through Jesus Christ. For many people, they are not free to practice their Christian beliefs in their country. For others, they do not feel comfortable in a public place of worship. Because of this, millions of people search for God on the internet. In many languages, GLS seeks to share the Gospel of Christ to those who contact us and then help them to grow in the saving knowledge of Jesus by connecting them with a church or a home Bible study group.