The High Priesthood of Jesus

The High
Priesthood of Jesus

For consideration; in an attempt to satisfy Scripture’s
declaration and undercurrents regarding the perseverance of the believer in
Jesus (under God’s grace alone, despite our freedoms in our will), the warnings
of damnation for apostates, and while under the viewpoint of Jesus’ Priesthood,
see this:

Our Mediator

Christ our Salvation, as the Mediator between God and these
of the fallen flesh, taking possession of us in our representation before the
Throne;

Our Lifeline

as we are surely here in this violent kingdom under Satan’s
temporary dominion, while yet too we do cling to the unbreakable Lifeline of
our Saviour, Who sustains us and makes us useful in service to Him while we
remain here;

Our High Priest, of
which the Moses’ faithful work was modeled

that this Life Line was presented, no, lashed to us at our
Regeneration, and now remains as our sure Hope because of His office of Most
High Priest in the Most Holy Sanctuary at God’s right hand.  This Priesthood demands our understanding and
recognition if we are to have any hope of successfully navigating our walk, or
have any measure of the holiness we are commanded to embody.  This Priesthood is the perfect truth upon
which Moses was to fashion Israel’s foundations as servants of God – the
earthly Sanctuary; the Aaronic priesthood; the sacrifices; the Law – these have
not been put away, but instead have been fully established and now realized in
the Work and Person of Jesus, the Son of God, made manifest as one of us.  The Priesthood continues yet today through
Jesus alone, and we must realize this and live accordingly if we are to stand
as holy before God.

Our continual need
for a Priest

Thus, we shall not fall away, yet we also must not
ignorantly rest in our sin (rendering ineffective our walk and good service)
but instead cling to our High Priest and seek continual restoration through
active recognition, confession, and repentance of our sin, made possible
through the perpetually sufficient Sacrifice of Jesus’ Blood.

To stand before God
effectively, we must be purified again and again of our continuing sin

It is true that God Almighty cannot look upon sin – ‘His
eyes are too pure’ – and so it is yet today in this Age of Redemption.  Is it dangerous to believe that once we have
received Christ that all sin is now forgiven, and thus we can stand in
assurance of our righteousness before our Holy God?  No, I don’t believe so.  True, we have forgiveness through Christ’s
forgiveness, but remember that we are yet sinful in this flesh, and tomorrow,
yes, even today, we will likely commit sin.

Confession and belief
is the beginning, but utilizing our Priest is the rest of the issue

However, we are still burdened with our sin until we turn
back to Jesus every time, to recognize, confess, repent from our sin, and thus
have the righteousness through our faith in His response.  Thus, we must renew our righteousness over
and over again in order to be seen as so before God, not just resting in our
simple confession in Christ!  Unless we
continually shed our sin through His forgiveness, through the Office and
Function of His High Priesthood, we cannot expect to stand before God and be
blessed and be heard in our prayer.  We
must first, again, be made right to God through His High Priest, our Salvation,
Jesus.

The works we were
Saved for require our good preparation to approach God, in the name of our
Priest’s Salvation

To say that we are made righteous to stand before God for
now and forever through our confession in Christ is only a half-truth, and does
not agree with the Mighty Declaration of the Scriptures.  Instead, we need to see Jesus the Priest, as
did the Jews to whom He came as their Answer. 
And in seeing Him so, we must continually utilize the gift of the
reconciliation through the Work of our Priest, Who today and forever stands as
our Bridge to God.  We must be slaves in
service to the God Who loved us first. 
To do so, we must be flush in His Spirit’s edification and power, also
utilizing the means He has granted us, His children, as we may now stand before
His Throne in appeal.  And in order to do
this, we must be clean.  This is the
reason for Jesus, and the reason we worship Him.  He is the Means we have received to carry out
our central purpose – our joyful, useful bond slavery to the benevolent God of
all Creation, not just the revel of our escape from Hell, and His love for
us.  Our view of Salvation and its
purpose must be God-centered, not stopping on the benefits it conveys to us.