A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY
🌷🌷September 30🌷🌷
“… he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them ” (Hebrews 7:25).
As our heavenly High Priest the Lord Jesus has fourfold ministry. Firstly, He intercedes on our behalf. Secondly He has offered one perfect sacrifice on our behalf. Thirdly, He helps us to find God’s will. Fourthly, as our great High Priest, the Lord Jesus gives us heavenly food.
Melchizedek appeared to Abraham as the High Priest in Gen. 14:18. “And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God”. No one knows from where he came. He was without father and without mother. He was without beginning and without ending. He was made like unto the Son of God. That proves that God Himself took the form of Melchizedek and brought heavenly food for Abraham. This was the prophecy concerning the Lord Jesus Christ how He would offer His body and shed His blood. By eating that heavenly food Abraham got extra strength to overcome the temptation brought by the king of Sodom. We need heavenly food by which we get spiritual strength. The Lord has made provision for victory over every temptation which we have to face during childhood, youth and old age. “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (1 Cor. 10:13). That victory is made possible by receiving the heavenly food from the hand of Melchizedek. Our Bible knowledge and will power cannot help us at the time of temptations. The Lord Jesus Christ is our merciful and faithful High Priest. If we go to Him by faith according to Heb. 2:17,18 and derive strength through His ministry as the great High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, He will give us victory over all the devices of the enemy. Those who depend upon themselves or upon their Bible knowledge, fasting and long prayers will remain spiritually defeated and barren. But those who know how to be benefitted by the High Priestly ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ become spiritually strong day by day. We first know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour. Then we know Him as our Lord and King. Then we know Him as our great High Priest. May the Lord teach us how to appropriate His High Priestly ministry in our day to day life.
