“We have people.”
You’ve heard and maybe used that expression. If you’re a Verizon
customer, you have people, “the network,” a group of people who can
very effectively help you carry out your business, do your stuff.
It means a great deal to have connections.
With the Christian. . .”we have Person,” as in Jesus Christ and that is connection to the nth degree.
That’s what it comes down to. In the most holy of places, in the
place where the authority and direction of the universe dwell, we have
a direct connection to everything that is God through Jesus Christ.
And that is just how it hit me this morning as I read the phrase.
“We have such a high priest.”
Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have
such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne
of the Majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy places, in the true
tent that the Lord set up, not man (Hebrews 8:1-2 ESV).
There is nothing past or beyond this “tent.” Authority of
authorities, power of powers, name of names, King of kings, Lord of
lords.
Holy. The most holy place. Where God sits on his throne.
Where Jesus our High Priest takes cares of business for you and me.
And if it can get even more amazing, he perfectly identifies with our struggle on Earth because he lived here for over thirty years. He has felt the road, experienced the pain and the joy of living in a fallen world.
The Holy Place: Where Jesus our High Priest takes cares of business for you and me.
We have a great high priest, who has gone into heaven, and
he is Jesus the Son of God. That is why we must hold on to what we have
said about him. Jesus understands every weakness of ours, because he
was tempted in every way that we are. But he did not sin! So whenever
we are in need, we should come bravely before the throne of our
merciful God. There we will be treated with undeserved kindness, and we
will find help(Hebrews 4:14-16 CEV).
Let’s follow a time line: Christ lived in perfection, loved us so moved to our fallen planet so we would have a way out (salvation), then back to heaven preparing a place for and waiting for all those who have believed in him for eternal life.
What a story, what a Savior.
And we have such a high priest.
