The Believers High Priest
“For such an High Priest became us, Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.” -HEBREWS 7:26 [KJV]
What
a sweet thought! Surely, as a poor sinner, I need an High Priest to
act for me. I cannot, I dare not, approach in myself, and with my
poor polluted offerings, without one. But He that intercedes for me
must be Himself holy, free from sin; His sacrifice holy, His
obedience holy, and in all points suited to His office and my
necessities.
Cherish,
then, the thought, my soul - He that is thine High Priest is all
this, and infinitely more. So holy in Himself, that not the shadow of
sin was in Him. So harmless, that in His mouth was found no guile. So
undefiled, that though He took all the sins of His people upon Him,
yet in Himself He was free from all sin. So separate from sinners,
that though He took the nature of man, yet wholly underived from man.
And
so much higher than the heavens, that His own personal holiness
infinitely transcended the holiness of angels; for, while they are
said to be charged with folly, Jesus is the Holy One in whom the
Father declared Himself well pleased. Meditate, my soul, on these
precious features in thy Jesus, at all times, and upon all occasions;
and more especially when thou drawest nigh the throne of grace, in
and through this glorious Mediator.
And
moreover, for thy further comfort and encouragement to come boldly to
the mercy-seat, forget not to recollect the still further blessed
thought, that this holiness of Jesus is the righteousness of all
His people; for He was made sin, when He knew no sin, that
they might be made the righteousness of God in Him. And as if
this was not enough, Christ glorified not Himself to be made thy High
Priest, but was called to it, as was Aaron.
Go
then, my soul, go to the precious, the holy, the harmless, the
undefiled High Priest, Christ Jesus, in Whom, and in Whose
righteousness and atoning blood thou mayest always have boldness to
draw nigh, to find grace and mercy to help in all time of need.
-Gospel report by preacher Robert Hawker (1753 – 1827 A.D.)
-Gospel report by preacher Robert Hawker (1753 – 1827 A.D.)
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