Selected From Among Men
Hebrews 5:1-6
Key Verse 5:5
“So Christ also did not take upon himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him, ‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.’”
The priesthood of Christ is a subject of great important in the letter to the Hebrews. It is hard for us to understand this because Christians come into the faith and one of the first things they learn in the faith is that every confessing Christian is himself or herself a priest in the sight of God. We ourselves are priests of God serving in the holy presence of God. But we are so not because of ourselves but because of our Lord Jesus who by his sacrifice has made us into a priesthood to serve … Read the rest