Heb.8:1-2

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I have been given the opportunity to teach 5th and 6th grade boys and girls at Summit Baptist Church, in Clarks Summit, PA. I have been doing this for about 8 months, and will continue till Dec. of 2006. I have started to post the lessons along with my other blogs for the use of readers on this site.

Let me invite you to turn in your bibles to…Hebrews 8:1-2
Background: Heb.5:11-14, we must want to think

Prepositional Statement (#, Noun, Application, action)
I have three points that you should know about Christ being your High Priest

I. Instructional Points-my first point is Christ is to be your High Priest
Such an high priest – As the one described in chapters 4:16-7:28
A. Illustration-Lord of the Rings
Like in the Lord of the Rings, the purpose of the ring was to rule them all. We have many different fights, scenes, characters, story lines, and everything leads up to the ring. When your watching the movie you don’t lose focus of the ring, but it sticks in the back of your mind constantly through all three movies. This is the same mind set we must have in reading the book of Hebrews here. The main point and mind set of the writer of the book of Hebrews, is that Jesus Christ is our Great High Priest.
B. Application-what does this mean?
We can call on the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ at anytime. Jesus Christ is the one mediator that intercedes to God the Father for us on our behalf. One of thee main things we have in Christ is that he is our High priest, but this one is different then all the others, no other age nor world has had one like our Jesus. No one has ever been in order like this one. The ones you’ve read or heard (Levi) of before are only shadows of this one. This one is Jesus who suffered, bled, died and resurrected the third day so that he may have victory over death, sin, and most of all his sheep’s souls.
C. Interaction-what would that look like?
We don’t have to see any catholic priests, we don’t need to buy some piece of paper to get rid of our sins. We have a Savior that we can go to at all times, in your bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and car. Jesus is always waiting to hear your plea! He wants your prayers, and he loves your praises. So what we need to have a mindset to constantly think of Christ is waiting for your prayers, and constantly live a life that is constantly praying in all we do.

II. Instructional Points-another point is where Christ sits in the heavens
Heb.1:3
A. Illustration-Lord of the rings
In the lord of the rings, first movie, the hobbits had just meet Galadriel, which was one of the wood elves. They were in awe of her, “just to have one golden lock of your hair“, was Gimle’s last words to her as he left. The woods, the realm in which they were in was a cite they had never saw, never been, and may never get to live out once again. Like the site we see the day we face God and Jesus setting there waiting for his family. I can not even comprehend or begin to image the cite, and let alone the awe of seeing the stuffing servant that made it able for me to stand in His fathers presence.
B. Application-what does this mean?
God in all his glory and majesty setting in Heaven and beside him on the right hand sets a Man that does the interceding for you and me(his chosen). That mediator is placed at the right hand of God possessing all authority and power in Heaven and on earth. This set which he has been given is because of the humiliation and suffering he had to endure for you and mines soul (Luke 24:44-47). This authority that he has is for only but His fathers name, for his fathers honor, and his fathers glory. Setting there in heavens bringing every single one of his sheep before him at the throne of God in heaven, that is where we one day will be as well.
C. Interaction-what would that look like?
Can you even image what it is going to be like before God the father and Jesus in front of you? I think we must start seeing that it is about him, and his name and who God is, and what Jesus has allowed for you and me, and stop merely thinking about our own minds, our own thinking, our own problems, sins, temptations that we dwell upon, but we must look heavenly bound! Lets read…Col.3:1, we need to have the mind set of that tends to look at Christ and in a eternal perspective and not now. If we look at now, we start to think about ourselves, our problems, and what we are facing but when looking at Christ we see the past, the cross what it has done for us, then the future of His kingdom to come, in which he is doing for us as we speak, we can not miss the mark with that kind of joy, and hope found in Christ.

III. Instructional Points-last point is Christ does not dwell in man made tent
A. Illustration-
B. Application-what does this mean?
Now the old tabernacle was made by man. In the outer part of the tabernacle was the alter where the sacrifices had to be taken, in which was a symbol of Christ’s payment one day later. In the inter part of it was the veil in which was also a symbol which like the priest that Christ was an interceder. This tabernacle in heaven is the true one due to Christ paying the due to his father, so might he become a Minster of that sanctuary in heaven. There Jesus takes care of our needs, and our sin problems we might have with his father and because of his burden on the cross in which the Lord finds satisfactory in. People listen not only is Jesus Christ setting next to God in heaven, but he is your high priest, the high priest of today’s church. And for you that are in it remember all that are, are place by his hand, and there for his will.
C. Interaction-what would that look like?
Heb. 5:8-10
It looks at the factors and brings the cross to a even fuller enjoyment of our lives. That fact that the cross which Christ suffered upon, paved the way for his high priestly ministry in the heavens, this makes us enjoy our salvation that much more. That act of the cross of Jesus Christ has allowed him to take throne with his father and constantly intercede for his people. And if we our those people, then take heed to the sin of our everyday lives, and remember what Christ had to do, in order to be our forgiver and interceder.