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Jesus: The Ultimate High Priest
In this episode, we explore the role of Jesus as our High Priest, highlighting the shif… (visit YouTube for more)
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You could come to the temple, and you could worship God, but you couldn’t have a relationship with Him. You could only communicate with Him through the priests, through the High Priest.
So Jesus is so much better than that temple. The sacrifice that he made in his person is once and for all. That previous system, the imperfect system that couldn’t make us permanently clean, is dispensed with.
And also, Jesus is our High Priest, and he is God. And we can communicate directly with Him, we can speak to Him, we can speak to God, and know that we will be answered without having, first, to go through the mediation of some other priest. And I know that for some watching, this will be a shocking claim, but this is one of the basic claims of Christianity that Jesus is our High Priest and we need no other.
So when Jesus said this claim, knowing that it was going to rub some of his listeners up the wrong way, he was telling the complete truth. Sometimes the truth is difficult to accept.
