Christ obeyed

We continue today with the words of Paul to the Hebrews as we study the life of Christ. The first part of Hebrews 3 talks about the authority to preach the gospel. Paul tells the Hebrews that one cannot decide to be a preacher or a high priest on their own; they must be called and set apart for the work. Christ had that authority and was ordained a priest after the order of Melchisedic. He did not take this honor unto himself Paul tells us. So even Christ the only begotten of the Father, the literal Son of the Father had to obey the rules to accomplish his work here on earth. He had to work within God’s plan, the organization which had been established in the beginning, with Aaron, and Moses and Abraham and so on. Certainly things had gone astray from the original organization, but there wasn’t anything wrong with the organization its self. The problem was/is with man and his nature.            

It wasn’t like, “Okay that didn’t work. Let’s try something different.” God is in charge here and always has been. He has always knew what he was doing and he knew the nature of man and so he prepared a Savior to show us the way back to our heavenly home. It always was our choice to come here and to partake of the fruit of good and evil. We made that choice when we sang with the morning stars and shouted for joy.  (Job 38:7) It’s hard. Father knew it would be hard but he gave unto us weakness that through him we might be made fit for the kingdom. But we don’t have to do it alone. That is the test of our love for the Father – to see if we love him enough that we can find him in all the turmoil.

Sometimes I get so depressed with all the terrible things going on in the world – especially the abuse.  All the terrible things we do to each other, especially to little children who cannot defend themselves.  It causes God and all the Angels to weep. Occasionally it gets so bad that he comes down and levels the playing field. Helge I know you aren’t reading this, but that was why he wiped out Jericho and did the thing at the tower of Babble and Noah and the flood. Anyway back to the solution to the problem. 

So Christ had to be a high priest through proper authority. Hebrews 5:8,9 “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things he suffered.” That’s an entire sermon in its self. So think about it what have you learned through suffering? “And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all those who obey him.” Time is up, I have to run I will probably start here next time. Have a good weekend.