Scripture Reading: Hebrews 5 | Sabbath: April 26, 2025
Memory Verse: Hebrews 5:6
Hebrews 5:6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Weekly Proverb: Proverbs 6:26
Hebrews 5:6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Introduction: The High Priest in the days of Moses was a mortal man. Because of his mortality, his sacrifices were for the forgiveness of sins for one year. How are sins eternally forgiven, leading to eternal life?

1. From the time of Aaron, God ordained priests to officiate in the temple. What is the duty of the high priest? What are his sacrifices offered for? Who are they offered for? Hebrews 5:1
Hebrews 5:1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
2. The high priest was taken from the nation of Israel. He was a man like all the other Israelites. Because he was a man, what did he understand about men? Hebrews 5:2
Hebrews 5:2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
3. Again, yes, he was taken of his brethren, sinners. Since he himself was a sinner, what did he have to do? What was necessary? Hebrews 5:3
Hebrews 5:3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4. The high priest is a priest of God. If a high priest is the priest of God, who must ordain him? Hebrews 5:4
Hebrews 5:4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
5. The sacrificial worship of the temple has been destroyed. Jesus Christ is our High Priest in this age. Who has ordained Jesus to be the High Priest in this age? Hebrews 3:1; Hebrews 5:5, 6
Hebrews 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Hebrews 5:5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
Hebrews 5:6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
6. Our Saviour is a resurrected High Priest. Should He be a priest after the order of Aaron, a mortal man? He has been ordained the High Priest after whose order? Hebrews 5:6
Hebrews 5:6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
7. Did Jesus sacrifice lambs, bullocks, and doves on earth? What type of sacrifices did He offer while on earth? Hebrews 5:7
Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
8. Other than prayers and supplications, what did He sacrifice? 1 Corinthians 5:7; Ephesians 5:2
1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
9. What is this perfection? Is it related to eternal salvation? Is the writer speaking of an immortal, perfect body? Hebrews 5:9
Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
10. This sacrifice, perfection, and eternal body is for who? Hebrews 5:9
Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
11. The high priest of Moses's law could relate to the people. He also had to share in the sacrifice because he also was a mortal man. How does Jesus relate to us? How do we share? Do we (symbolically) share in His sacrificial body? Matthew 26:26-28
Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
Matthew 26:27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
12. How can we share in immortality if Jesus is after the order of Aaron and the Levites? He is after whose order? Matthew 26:10
Matthew 26:10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
13. How can we share in immortality if Jesus is after the order of Melchizedek? Hebrews 7:1-3, 25
Hebrews 7:1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
Hebrews 7:2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
Hebrews 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Conclusion: Aaron needed sacrifices for his sins, Jesus was sinless. Aaron was buried in Mosera, he is still there today. Deuteronomy 10:6. Jesus was resurrected after three days. By his perfection and eternal life, our sins are forgiven eternally.