Amen our second song be song oh holy night the printout that was given to you oh holy
night will be seen now off of the printout that was hopefully given to everybody holy
night.
Let's sing it together on the first oh first verse, the second oh sweet see.
The first of the week is Romans 15 verse 5, Romans 15 verse 5.
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like-minded one towards another
according to Christ Jesus.
Romans 15 verse 5.
Service times were at 10.30 this morning, 3.30 this afternoon and 6.30 on Wednesday.
So many times yesterday was 10.30, today was 1.
I believe just double checking, we just sold warning today.
That brings our total numbers for 6th of November, 1 for December, 91 for the year
so far.
Attendance down below.
Upcoming events, please remember the ladies Christmas party is next Saturday.
Please RSV with Miss Kylie if you are going to attend, I'm sure it will be a fun thing
and that is at the Thompsons.
December 20th we'll be here in the church building at 4pm, that's the Christmas party
for everyone.
So just planned to be here and probably once again let the Thompsons know so they know
how much food.
December 21st will be the Christmas Sunday and this is going to be with Christmas messages,
bring family and friends, we know some people there are Christmas and Easter only, might
as well get 50% of it here.
So go ahead and just invite them, have them come, that will be a potluck so start having
some ideas or maybe there will be even a sign up.
So just plan to help make that a good weekend for all here.
Alright kids, please remember Psalms 34 verse 13 is your memories verse right now and if
you memorize it, tell Ms. Kylie you will receive a piece of candy.
Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking.
The links are down below, birthdays have been covered, if you have any future prayer requests
please let the topsies know and they will get it into the bulletin.
Let's turn to the Lord in prayer, Heavenly Father, thank you so much for, alright if
you want to take your Bibles and turn to Psalm 126, Psalm 126, Psalm 126, when the Lord turned
again that captivity of Zion, it's going to be a rough one if I can't pronounce one
of the first words.
Alright, Psalm 126, we'll sing it out on the first.
Sing everybody, would you please pray for the offering.
Sure Foundation Baptist Church, if you could take your Bibles and turn to Hebrews chapter
7.
Hebrews chapter 7, and as always here at our church, we read the entire chapter before
the preaching.
Hebrews chapter 7, the Bible reads, "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,
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, without
father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life,
but had made like unto the Son of God, abideth, a priest, continually.
Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth
of the spoils; and verily, they that are of the sons of Levi, who received the office
of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law,
that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham.
But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him
that had the promises; and without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
And here men that die receive tithes, but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed
that he liveth.
And as I may so say, Levi also, who received tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.
For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.
If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for under it the people received
the law.
What further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek,
and not be called after the order of Aaron?
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of a necessity a change also of the law.
For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance
at the altar.
For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spake nothing
concerning priesthood.
And it is yet far more evident, for that after the similitude of Melchizedek there ariseth
another priest, who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the
power of an endless life.
For he testified, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness
and unprofitableness thereof, for the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in
of a better hope did, by the which we draw nigh unto God.
And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made a priest, for those priests were made
without an oath, this with an oath, by him that said unto him, The Lord swear and will
not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament, and they truly were many priests,
because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death.
But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood; 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.
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from
sinners, and made higher than the heavens; who needeth not daily as those high priests
to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's.
For this he did once, when he offered up himself.
For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath,
which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated forevermore.
Brother Paul, please pray for the preaching.
Amen.
All right.
So we're here in Hebrews chapter number seven, and what I wanted to preach tonight about
is about the subject of Melchizedek, and that's going to be kind of the main thing that I'm
going to be preaching about.
I may or may not hit a couple other subjects kind of while we're in this chapter, but
if you want to go ahead and flip over to Genesis chapter number 14, Genesis chapter number
14, we're going to go to the first time that Melchizedek is mentioned in the Bible.
And you know Melchizedek isn't mentioned a whole lot of times in the Bible, he's only
mentioned a few times.
And we're going to go to the first time that he's mentioned here in the Bible.
And one thing that I kind of want to prove tonight is I want to prove tonight why I believe
that Melchizedek is an Old Testament incarnation of Jesus Christ.
That's kind of what I want to prove tonight.
Now, I know that there's differing opinions on that.
You know, there are certain people that believe that he was just a guy after the order of
Melchizedek and that he wasn't necessarily, you know, Christ, you know, manifest, you
know, an Old Testament manifestation of Christ.
And so, you know, it's not necessary to believe that.
I don't believe that's like rank heresy or anything.
It's just kind of a different interpretation because you can still apply all the things
in Hebrews chapter seven in that situation.
I personally, I just don't think that that matches the scripture and I don't think that
makes as much sense.
And I'm, you know, I personally, I believe that everything just flows way easier when
it's Melchizedek is just an Old Testament incarnation of Jesus Christ, right?
That's what I believe and that's kind of what I want to prove tonight.
But if you're in Genesis chapter number 14, let's begin in verse number 17 where it talks
about Melchizedek here.
It says, "And the King of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter
of Chetolomer, and the kings that were with him at the valley of Shevin, which is the
Kingsdale.
And Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, and he was the priest of the
Most High God.
And he blessed him and said, 'Blessed be Abraham of the Most High God, possessor of heaven
and earth, and blessed be the Most High God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy
hand, and he gave him tithes of all.'"
So what do we see here?
Well, we see that Melchizedek, what is he?
He's the king of Salem, okay?
Now that word Salem there, that's kind of basically, it's like short for Jerusalem,
because before the city of Jerusalem became Jerusalem, it was called Salem before that.
And so Melchizedek, he's the king of Salem here, right?
And it also says that he was the priest of the Most High God, right?
And we saw that mentioned many times in Hebrews chapter number seven, the priesthood of Melchizedek.
And Melchizedek here in Genesis 14, he is the priest of the Most High God.
And it's like, okay, if you're reading through the book of Genesis, there isn't really talk
of the priesthood going on, right?
It's just kind of all of a sudden Melchizedek shows up and he's like, "Hey, what's up?
I'm the priest of the Most High God."
It's like, whoa, you know, where'd this guy come from?
And then, you know, basically he just disappears.
Like after Genesis 14 here, you know, you don't read about him again until Psalm 110.
And we're going to look at that later in the sermon.
But basically, you know, this guy Melchizedek just pops in, you know, right after Abraham
with his 318 guys just whipped some butt, you know, and saved Lot, you know.
And you know, I always remember that because the first truck I had had a 318 cubic inch
engine, so not too relevant, but you know, I figured you guys needed to know that.
But you know, Abraham, he just got done with the slaughter of the kings, right?
And you know, he got a bunch of spoil or whatever.
And then this guy Melchizedek shows up and he's the priest of the Most High God, he's
the king of Salem, and then Abraham is tithing to Melchizedek.
And so, you know, nothing, you know, that doesn't ultimately prove that this is an Old
Testament incarnation of Jesus Christ, but I think it definitely points towards it.
I think it definitely lends towards that.
You know, it doesn't come out and just tell you that it's Jesus Christ.
You know, nothing in the Old Testament does, right?
You know, in Genesis chapter number 18, it doesn't tell you that it's Jesus Christ,
and you know, two angels that came to Abraham.
But as you read the story, you know that it is God, and we deduct that it has to be Jesus
Christ because, you know, God the Father is not coming down to earth as a man.
That is something that Jesus Christ does.
And so we know, we know that in Genesis 18 that that is Jesus Christ for sure.
But you know, it's the idea that Melchizedek here is Jesus Christ.
I think it just it fits and flows a lot easier than it just being a guy, you know, that happens
to be, you know, the priest of the Most High God, because it's like, well, where did this
priest of the Most High God come from and where did it go?
Like if it just pops up here in Genesis 14, you know, if it's a guy, to me, it's like,
well, how did he become the priest of the Most High God?
Like, you know, it's not explained, but if it is Jesus, to me, it just makes sense.
It's like, yeah, Jesus, He's the priest of the Most High God, He can just show up whenever
He wants.
He can show up anywhere He wants in the timeline and be the priest of the Most High God.
He can just show up and leave because He can do what He wants, right?
So to me, that makes a lot more sense, you know, that it is Jesus Christ.
But let's go ahead and turn to Hebrews chapter number 6, Hebrews chapter number 6, and we're
going to flow right into Hebrews chapter 7.
This is another place that Melchizedek has mentioned, and it kind of gives a little bit
of context as we're going into Hebrews chapter number 7.
And it says in Hebrews 6, look at verse number 18, it says, "By two immutable things in which
it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation who have fled for
a refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us, which hope we have as an anchor of the
soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entered into that within the veil, whether the forerunner
is for us entered, even Jesus made an high priest after the God has promised us."
He tells us it's impossible for him to lie.
You know, what is the anchor of our souls?
Well, it's this priest after the order of Melchizedek, Jesus Christ, right?
So that's kind of the context that we get going into Hebrews chapter number seven.
So the Bible just told us that the priest after the order of Melchizedek is Jesus Christ,
right?
He's made a priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews chapter seven, verse number one says, "For this, Melchizedek, king of Salem," you
know, once again, going back to that Genesis chapter 14 where it says he's the king of
Salem, "Priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham, returning from the slaughter of the
kings, and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being by interpretation
king of righteousness."
Now, you know, who's the king of righteousness?
Jesus Christ, right?
And after that also, king of Salem, which is king of peace, 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.
And so, you know, to me, does just the plain reading of these verses say, "Hey, this has
to be Jesus."
Why?
Because, you know, without father and without mother, without descent, having neither beginning
of days nor end of life.
Now, you know, without father and without mother, when Melchizedek showed up to Abraham,
you know, had he been born of the Virgin Mary at that point?
No.
And so could you say, at that point, I mean, because like today, you know, you could technically
say, "Well, he has a mother, it's Mary," you know, and the Catholics would like freak
out, "Ah, his mother Mary, Mary the mother of God," or whatever.
But you know, Melchizedek showing up before that happened, right?
Obviously he is without father, without mother, right?
And so to me, but if it was just a guy, you know, has there been anybody else that had
no father and no mother?
I mean, maybe you could say Adam had no mother, but you know, and you know, I guess you could
say Eve had no mother as well, but are we talking about those people though?
Really not, so nobody else, it would not fit literally with anybody else except for Jesus
Christ, right?
And so in order to say that Melchizedek is not Jesus Christ, you would, would be required
to say that this is not literal, that this is like an allegory, right?
This is just, it's just saying, hey, you know, the, the order itself or whatever is without
father or mother or something like that.
Basically you would not be able to take it literally.
Okay.
But if we, if we look at these verses and just take it literally, you do have to come
away saying, Hey, this can not be any other, anything else.
But Jesus Christ, it has to be Jesus Christ because, you know, he's the only one that
you would be able to say, Hey, without father, without mother, you know, also, you know,
without dissent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life.
And you know, without dissent there, you know, obviously, when we're looking at these verses,
you know, we're talking about like a physical father and mother and physical dissent, right?
Now, did Jesus Christ have any physical children?
No, he did not.
This fits, once again, it fits Jesus Christ.
But if it was just, you know, some guy, you know, the way that the Levitical priesthood
was set up is that you had to be part of a tribe, the tribe of Levi, right?
So there had to be some physical descendants happening there for the priesthood to continue,
right?
And so, you know, if the Order of Melchizedek was not Jesus Christ, but it was a guy named
Melchizedek, then how it doesn't make sense that that priest could continue if he didn't
have any physical descendants, if it was just a mortal man, right?
I hope I'm making sense right now, but to me, the fact that, you know, he says without
descendants, that makes sense to me that it has to be Jesus Christ, right?
And again, you would have to say that, well, this is not a literal descendants we're talking
about.
We're just talking about kind of the order or whatever.
But the thing about it is, is that, you know, again, in the Old Testament, you know, we
get basically two mentions of Melchizedek.
We get Genesis chapter number 14, and then we get Psalms 110.
And so it seems like unless it's talking about Jesus Christ, where is this continuation
of the order of Melchizedek, right?
And the Bible is clear that the order of Melchizedek is a continual priesthood, like it's an everlasting
priesthood.
It never ends, right?
And so, you know, to me, if it's a guy named Melchizedek, to me, it doesn't make sense
because then it seems like it would have to end when he died and then there's no descendants.
I don't know if, again, I hope I'm making sense tonight.
I'm hoping I'm making these verses make sense.
It says, and then again here it says, "Nor end of life."
Right?
And of course we know that Jesus Christ ever liveth and maketh intercession for us.
Amen?
So Jesus Christ, you know, again, this makes a lot of sense if we're talking about Jesus
Christ because, look, Jesus Christ, He did die, but guess what?
He rose again and He ever liveth and He's never going to die again.
He has purchased everlasting life for us and, you know, we are saved by His life.
Amen?
We don't have to worry about Jesus Christ dying.
Why?
Because He ever liveth and He has no end of days, you know, no end of life.
It says, "But made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually."
So this is a continual priesthood.
This is not a priesthood that ever ends, right?
And so, again, it just makes sense that, you know, these are kind of like the main verses
that people that believe in my position will use, right, is verse number three.
That's kind of like the main, I guess, hammer for that position is like, look, you know,
it's without father, it's without mother, it's without end of days, he abided the priest
continually.
And so, you know, these verses, they just lend themselves to that.
Now somebody will say, well, but he was made like under the Son of God, right?
And so, you know, how could that be Jesus if he's made like under the Son of God?
Well, you know, in Hebrews chapter number one, the Bible says that he was made a little
lower than the angels, right?
So that's kind of, I believe how he was made like under the Son of God, right?
But let's continue on there in verse number four, it says, "Now consider how great this
man was unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of spoils."
And so, you know, the Bible's telling us that this guy, Mount Hesedek, basically it's saying
that he's greater than Abraham.
Now here's the thing about Abraham, Abraham, he's like the father of faith, right?
Like he's a pretty great guy.
I mean, if you think about people in the Old Testament, you know, Abraham's, you know,
he's like top five or something like that, you know?
I mean, you've got like Abraham, you've got, you know, you've got Moses, you've got David,
you know, those, you know, you've got those three guys are kind of like the top three
guys, kind of in my opinion, of people in the Old Testament, you know?
And Abraham, he came before those other guys, and so it's like, you know, Abraham's a pretty
great guy, right?
But the Bible here is saying that, hey, you know, this guy Melchizedek, he's greater than
Jesus Christ.
Or, excuse me, I completely misspoke, I had a, that was a major Biden moment, you know.
How's my focus?
Oh, it's focused, I can't tell you how many years.
It's saying that Melchizedek is greater than Abraham, right?
Because you know, there's nobody that's greater than Jesus Christ, obviously.
So the Bible here is saying that Melchizedek is greater than Abraham, right?
Because Abraham, you know, Melchizedek isn't showing up and giving ties to Abraham, even
though he's the father of faith.
No, he shows up, you know, and Abraham's given him, given him ties, right?
You know, and it's like, it makes a lot of sense if it's Jesus Christ.
You know, otherwise, it's just like, you know, is he just like the most interesting man in
the world?
You know, he shows up and Abraham gives him ties.
It's like, what are we dealing with here?
And so, you know, that's another big point is that Abraham is tithing to him, right?
Instead of the, you know, set the other way around or they're not being tithed at all.
And so, you know, in my opinion, it just kind of lends itself towards the idea that Melchizedek
is Jesus.
Look at, let's continue on verse number five.
It says, "And verily, they that are of the sons of Levi, who received the office of
the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law
that is of their brethren, though they came out of the loins of Abraham."
And so, you know, the Levites are, you know, descendant from Abraham.
That's why, you know, they're getting the tithe collected to the Levites because they're,
you know, they're part of Abraham, right?
But then Melchizedek, he's not part of Abraham, but he gets the tithes from Abraham, right?
So he's like a level above, he's like supersedes Abraham.
It says, "But he whose descendants is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham
and blessed him that had the promises."
Now, to me, verse number six here is very significant, right?
Let's just read it again here real quick.
It says, "But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham," notice
this, "and blessed him that had the promises."
So who is blessing who at the end of the verse there?
Melchizedek is blessing Abraham, right?
Now go ahead and turn to Genesis chapter number 12.
And I believe that this is very significant because it says, "And blessed Abraham," right?
Melchizedek is blessing Abraham.
And Abraham is very famous for receiving a blessing, is he not?
Let's read about the blessing of Abraham.
It says here in Genesis chapter number 12, it says, "And now the Lord has said unto Abram,
Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that
I will show thee, and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and
make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing, and I will bless them that bless thee and
curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Right?
So God is telling Abraham, look, I'm going to, I'm going to bless thee, right?
So God is the one that is blessing Abraham, amen?
And again, in Hebrews 6 here, who is blessing Abraham?
Melchizedek is blessing Abraham, right?
And I think that's very significant, that Melchizedek is blessing Abraham, and then
in Genesis 12, God is blessing Abraham.
So I believe that Melchizedek is Jesus, you know, blessed, is the one who's blessing Abraham,
right?
So, you know, I think that the reason why Abraham is, he's blessed Abraham is because
Melchizedek, Jesus Christ, is giving him that blessing, amen?
Why?
Because, I mean, we see he's receiving the blessing here in Hebrews chapter number seven,
and what is the big famous blessing that Abraham is known for, right here in Genesis chapter
number 12?
So to me, it just makes sense, right?
That Melchizedek is God, and he's going to show up and he's going to bless Abraham and
give him that blessing.
And you know, guess what?
In Genesis chapter number 12, you know, it's just two chapters later, Melchizedek is showing
up and blessing him, right?
So it, again, it just lends itself towards the idea that Melchizedek is Jesus.
Verse number back in Hebrews chapter number seven, it says, "And without all contradiction,
the less is blessed of the better," right?
Again here, the less, that's Abraham, is blessed of the better, right?
Now, you know, there are times in the Bible where God will just come out and say that
one person is better than another person, you know, kind of like when God said, "Hey,
I'm going to take the kingdom away from you, Saul, and give it to somebody who is thy neighbor
who is better than you, David," right?
So there are situations where this happens in the Bible, you know, but again, you know,
we're not talking about Saul here.
We're talking about Abraham.
Now look, Abraham had his mistakes, he had his problems, you know, he did a couple of
dumb things, you know, he's going over to Egypt and he's telling people that he married
his sister and that he's from Alabama and whatnot, but, you know, he had his issues,
but Abraham was a great guy, he was a great godly guy, you know what?
And so David was, David also had his issues and God said that he's, you know, better than
Saul, you know, and Abraham, he, you know, if you just kind of look at Abraham's life,
I think he was kind of better than David, I mean, he had a lot fewer mistakes, right?
I mean, his mistakes weren't as catastrophic as David's mistakes were.
So I kind of think that Abraham's even better than David, but then you got somebody who's
even better than Abraham, right?
And so, you know, but, you know, either this guy was just awesome, either this guy was
like Job on steroids, you know, or it's Jesus Christ.
And to me, again, it just flows and it fits a lot easier if it is Jesus Christ.
For some reason, it says, "And here men that die receives tithes, but there he received
them of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
And as I may so say, Levi also, who received tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.
For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him, if therefore perfection
were by the Levitical priesthood, for under it the people received the law, what further
need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek and not
be called after the order of Aaron?
And you know, another major theme in this chapter, you know, we're talking about, we're
talking a lot about Melchizedek, but a large theme of this chapter, you know, is basically
contrasting the Levitical priesthood with the priesthood of Melchizedek.
And the thing about that is, is that what the Bible says here is absolutely true, is
that if there were something, if the Levitical priesthood was actually good, like if it was
actually doing its job and there wasn't a problem with it, then we wouldn't have needed
the priesthood of Melchizedek.
And you know, the thing about that is, is that the Levitical priesthood, the point of
it was to point towards Jesus Christ, right?
And so I would say that the point of the Levitical priesthood was the point to the priesthood
of Melchizedek, right?
Because that's the priesthood of Jesus Christ, right?
And so, you know, of course, that's a large theme of the book of Hebrews is to say, "Hey,
look, this Old Testament that we had, you know, it was there for a reason.
But guess what?
The reason came, and that's Jesus Christ.
You know, we had all of these animal sacrifices in the Old Testament for a reason, but those
Old Testament sacrifices were supposed to be a picture of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
You know, we had all these burnt offerings in the Old Testament, but what those burnt
offerings were supposed to represent was the burnt offering of Jesus Christ dying and paying
for our sins in hell.
All right, so this is kind of a major theme of the book of Hebrews, illustrated here in
verse number 11.
And it's like, look, you know, the priesthood of Melchizedek, you know, it existed before
the Levitical priesthood and exists after the Levitical priesthood because that's the
priesthood that actually gets us saved.
Again, the Levitical priesthood was biblical and it was supposed to be there, but the Levitical
priesthood didn't actually save anybody in and of itself.
What it did was point to what does save people and what does save people is the death, burial
and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
What does save people is the priesthood of Melchizedek because, you know, we have not
in high priesthood, which cannot be felt with the feeling of our infirmity, but was in all
tempted at all points like as we are, yet without sin.
You know what the problem with the levitical priesthood was?
Is that they had sinners operating it.
But our high priest, he was without sin.
After the priesthood of Melchizedek, he was without sin.
And so, you know, that's the priesthood that's actually saving is our high priest Jesus Christ.
And so, you know, again, we're making a divide.
We're making a difference here between the Levitical priesthood, which perished and has
gone away, and the Melchizedek priesthood, which is operated by Jesus Christ.
And He ever liveth and maketh intercession for us in heaven right now.
And so, you know, again, we don't have to worry about, you know, some old priest croaking
and dying.
Oh, I got to get a new one or whatever like the Catholics do.
You know, maybe they need to come in and read the book of, you know, read the book of the
book of Hebrews here because they can learn a lot.
You know, they got other priests over there and it's like, you know, your whole, your
whole thing is just completely unbiblical.
You know, there's one high priest, you know, there's one mediator between God and man,
the man Christ Jesus, you know, you need to stop worshipping Mary and you need to get
off of this, this, this weird doctrine of, well, you know, the authority of the Catholic
church.
You know, me and Jake, we ran into this militant Catholic today and he's like, well, who's
the authority?
And we're like, the Bible.
He's like, the Bible?
You know, I was like, oh, you're Catholic.
He's like, of course I'm Catholic.
I was like, yeah, you know, I could tell.
I could tell you're Catholic, you know, but yeah, it was a good thing that conversation
ended when it did because, yeah, I don't know, I just straight up, I was like, if I could
prove to you that the Bible says that salvation is by grace your faith, would you believe
it?
And he was like, you can't prove it.
I was like, all right, then we're leaving.
You can't leave?
I was like, what?
This is ridiculous.
It was, I don't know, that was crazy, but you know, they need to get rid of their,
the Catholic church, they need to get rid of all their pedophile priests.
And they need to get on the priesthood of Melchizedek, right?
And you know what?
All their priests that they have, they're all fake anyway, because they're not actual
priests.
Because guess what?
Who's priests?
People that are saved, people that have put their faith in Jesus Christ, those are actual
priests.
Because that's what the, you know, you know where, you know where I get the authority
to say that?
Because that's what the Bible said.
The Bible's my authority.
Why is the Bible my authority, you ask?
Because I believe in the authority of Jesus Christ.
That's why.
Because what?
Jesus is the Word, right?
And so the Bible is Jesus Christ.
That's my authority, my friend.
And who's in charge of the church?
Who's the head of the church?
Jesus Christ.
That's why I believe in sola scriptura, because I believe that Christ is the head of the church.
I don't know what the Catholics believe about that.
Apparently, they got their pope as the head of the church.
And so they're basically running around like a chicken with their head cut off with all
their weird doctrine.
Why?
Because they don't have a good head.
It's like they miss with the axe and the chickens run around and I'm going to get too graphic
there.
But anyways, they don't have the right head, right?
They don't have the right authority.
The biblical authority is such an important doctrine because if you screw that up, you
know what's funny?
I was showing everybody, I was showing people a little screenshot that I took of like a
diagram of like, you know, what kind of a Christian are you, right?
And the first question is, does the Bible have more authority than the church?
And based on that one question, you know, it'll either send you into like normal questions
that normal people would ask, or into just weird, it's like the purgatory of weird questions
that nobody's ever even thought of before, except for weird, you know, weird Catholic
monks, where they're coming up with all these weird things, like, how can we differentiate
ourselves from the Orthodox, you know, and basically, if you answered the church has
more authority than the Bible, you're like, all right, where does the Spirit of God proceed
from?
Does it proceed from the Father or both the Father and the Son?
Better not get this wrong, otherwise you're a hair tick.
It's like, what?
Nobody's ever thought of that before.
But if you answer the question right, and you say the Bible has more authority than
the church because Christ is the head of the church, then you get normal questions like
baptismal, does baptism save you?
Isn't that kind of a normal question?
Isn't that a question you find yourself answering at the door?
You know, does baptism save you?
That's a normal question, right?
I mean, has anybody ever had the question, you know, of where does the Holy Spirit come
from?
Does it come from the Father?
Does it come from Jesus Christ?
Or both?
Like, has anybody ever had that question out soul winning?
No, because that's the purgatory of questions.
That's like, what in the world?
Who even came up with that?
What?
Nobody's ever thought of that.
And you know, there's probably not even a real answer to that question.
You know, the Catholics are over there asking themselves questions with no answers, whereas
we're asking questions that have definite answers because you could find them in the
Bible.
Amen.
All right.
But anyways, I just, I had to get that off my chest.
I mean, that guy was so crazy, like he was trying to keep us from leaving and then when
we finally left, he was like, "We'll have a good life."
And Jake is like, "Yeah, it's eternal."
Gonna be great.
Oh, all right.
Well anyways, where was I?
I don't even know where I was.
What verse am I in?
Does anyone know what verse I'm in?
Yeah, I was farther than that.
I think I'm in verse 11.
We're gonna go to verse number 12.
It says, "For the priesthood being changed," meaning we don't have priests that run around
listening to all of your disgusting sins, "For the priesthood being changed," and by
the way, that didn't exist in the Old Testament, just to clarify what I said there, "The priesthood
being changed," meaning we don't have the Levitical priesthood anymore and having priests
in your church that are listening to people's sins is completely unbiblical.
But anyway, "For the priesthood being changed, there is made of a necessity a change also
of the law."
Now this is, I just kind of wanted to park it here for a second, because this is a very
interesting verse to me.
And this verse, I would say probably played a pretty big role in me even getting saved
in the first place and becoming a fundamental Baptist in the first place, because I have
an uncle that got into something called the Hebrew Roots movement.
And basically they say that you got to keep avoiding shellfish and you got to keep avoiding
pig, you know, don't hang out with Rosie O'Donnell too much, and observing the Sabbath and keeping
all the Old Testament feasts, right?
So basically they want to have the Old Testament in the New Testament, right?
Because they're just like, "Well, we keep the Sabbath and we just keep all the Old Testament
laws except for the sacrifices," which was kind of a major part of the Old Testament
laws.
But anyway, they're like selectively keeping all these Old Testament laws that are clearly
done away within Christ, you know, such as the Sabbath and the meats and divers washings.
But they want to keep all of that, right?
And they're like, "Well, the laws don't change.
There's no change, nothing has changed in the New Testament."
But the thing is about it is, though, is that there is made of necessity a change also of
the law, right?
And the Bible is very clear here.
And so, you know, my uncle getting into that, that played a major part in me becoming a
fundamental Baptist because, you know, we, you know, me and my dad, we listened to the
sermon by Pastor Anderson called the Hebrews Move and Exposed, part one and two.
And this was one of the verses that was brought up in that.
And it's like, hello, you know, clearly there's a, there is the change that has been made
to the law, right?
Why?
Well, you know, the Old Testament law, first of all, it wasn't even always there.
You know, when it was, when Abraham, you know, was there, they didn't have the Levitical
priesthood, did they?
Why?
Well, I mean, by the name, you know, that it came from the tribe of Levi, which came
much later, right?
And so, you know, the Levitical law wasn't always there.
So it came into existence at one point, and then it's done away with in Christ, right?
And we see here that it's done away in the priesthood of Melchizedek.
When the priesthood of Melchizedek takes over, guess what?
There's made of necessity a change also of the law.
So God's law has changed, right?
Now we know that God himself, he doesn't change, but guess what?
He told us there's been a change made to the law.
And so the law, God's law has not always been just this monolithic thing that has never
changed ever, because it clearly has.
And you know what, the Hebrew Ruth movements, they're wrong, but guess what?
The Seventh-day Adventists are wrong, okay?
They believe in all this, you know, keeping the Old Testament stuff, but they don't realize
that there's been a change made to the law.
They're wrong about the Sabbath.
They're still trying to keep the Sabbath, and guess what?
By trying to keep the Sabbath to earn their salvation, they've actually rejected what
the Sabbath actually is.
And because, you know, and I've preached on that many times, so I'm just, I'm going to,
I'm going to get off my hobby horse there and we're going to move on.
But you know, when the hobby horse pops up, you just got to get on it for a second, okay?
You know, that's just, that's just how it is.
All right.
So verse number 13, it says, "For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another
tribe of which no man gave attendance at the altar."
You know, so when they're at the altar, you know, these were all Levites that were, that
were heading up to the altar, but you know, this other tribe, nobody ever, you know, they
weren't, they weren't making sacrifices at the altar from that tribe.
Why?
Because it wasn't even one of the tribes, you know, Melchizedek originally wasn't from
one of those tribes, you know, eventually, hey, he came from the line of Judah, we know,
but he wasn't, the big deal that's made in this verse is that he's not from the line
of Levi, right?
And in the Old Testament, and we'll get to this later in the chapter, but in the Old
Testament, that was, you know, the Levitical tribe, or that was the priesthood tribe.
You know, if you were not part of the tribe of Levi, you were not supposed to be a high
priest.
You were not supposed to be one of the priests.
You had to be of the tribe of Levi in the Old Testament.
But guess what?
Old male Chisatec, he wasn't part of that tribe.
He was out of a different tribe, right?
And so, you know, he's kind of above that Levitical priesthood.
Again, let's see here.
And I forgot what verse I'm in.
I need to do a better job of keeping track.
When it's like a large section of scripture is hard.
What was it?
- Thirteen.
- Thirteen, okay.
Let's see here.
Verse number fourteen, it says,
"For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah,
which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning the priesthood."
Again, that's kind of what I just reiterated there.
It says, "It is yet far more evident
for that after the similitude of Melchizedek,
there ariseth another priest,
who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment,
but after the power of an endless life.
For he testified that thou art a priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek.
For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment
going before the weakness of, excuse me,
and unprofitableness thereof.
For the law made nothing perfect,
but the bringing in of a better hope did,
by the which we draw an eye unto God.
Inasmuch as not without an oath,
he was made a priest.
For those priests were made without an oath,
but this with an oath by him that said unto him,
the Lord swear and will not repent,
thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
And so we see here that Jesus,
he's, you know, basically it's making it clear
that, you know, Jesus, he was already a priest
out of the order of Melchizedek, right?
It's not like when he came,
then he became a priest after the order of Melchizedek.
And we'll see that,
believe that's also mentioned in Psalm 110,
which we'll be going to here shortly.
But it says, verse number 23, it says,
and they truly were made priests
because they were not suffered
to continue by reason of death.
But this man, because he continueth ever,
hath an unchangeable priesthood,
wherefore he is able also to save them to the outermost
that come unto God by him,
seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
So, again, in verse number 24,
it says that this is an unchangeable priesthood.
And to me, it makes sense that if Jesus is Melchizedek,
then it would be an unchangeable priesthood
because he's the only one that's ever that priest.
Now, if it was like the Levigal priesthood
where we have this priesthood of Melchizedek,
but then the guy dies every so often
and we gotta replace him with another priest,
then to me, that's like the priesthood changing hands.
So it's like a changeable priesthood.
But if it's Jesus Christ, makes sense.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
So it's not a changing priesthood.
It just stays the same.
It stays the same the whole time.
There's no change going on.
Ah, let's see here for verse number 26.
For such and a high priest became us,
who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners,
and made higher than the heavens.
And verse number 26 here,
I think this is a significant verse also,
'cause it says, "For such and a high priest became us."
So, you know, what is that?
What does it mean by such and a high priest became us?
Well, I believe that's talking about the fact
that the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.
I mean, God took on human form.
That's the miracle of Christmas, right?
That God became a man,
and that He's, you know, He's 100% man
and 100% God at the same time.
And what's the fancy word for that?
The hyperstatic union.
Yeah, I'm an intellectual now, you guys watch out.
But yeah, you know, it's the hyperstatic union.
Is that what the hyperstatic union is, or 100% God?
Okay, yeah, that's the hyperstatic union.
I know what I'm, I know my Catholic doctrine.
But anyways, I mean, so that's the miracle of Christmas
is that Jesus Christ became a human being, right?
And so it says, verse number 26,
"For such an high priest became us."
So he was that high priest before he became us, right?
So it's not like Jesus Christ became a priest
of the order of Melchizedek when he was born
or when he was crucified.
No, because he, for such a high priest became us.
So, and to me, this, I don't know,
to me, verse number 26 is even stronger
than the verse number three, in my opinion.
To me, this kind of puts the nail in the coffin,
because, I mean, we're still talking
about Melchizedek, right?
We're talking about the priest
after the order of Melchizedek.
And Melchizedek only shows up one time.
He's never talked about it anywhere else,
you know, in the Old Testament,
except for Genesis 14 and Psalm 110.
And we're about to see that here in a minute.
And so it's like, okay, well, you know,
is there like multiple Melchizedek's running around?
You know, I don't think so.
You know, I think this is Jesus Christ,
who is Melchizedek,
because he's a priest before he became us,
because for such a priest became us,
who is holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens.
Verse number 27, it says,
"Who needeth not daily as those high priests
"offered up sacrifice first for his own sins
"and then for the people's,
"for this he did once when he offered up himself."
And again, you know, to me,
this is another nail in the coffin.
You know, I think there's only supposed to be
one nail in the coffin in any, you know,
but I've got multiple, okay?
Is that he was sinless, this high priest of Melchizedek
was sinless, right?
And so was there anybody else that was sinless
besides Jesus Christ?
I mean, was even Job sinless?
Absolutely not.
Why?
The Bible says for all have sinned and come short
of the glory of who?
Of God.
And so again, this high priest,
this priesthood of Melchizedek,
this has gotta be Jesus Christ.
Why?
'Cause he's sinless, according to the Bible here.
You know, I mean, and honestly, I don't know
how you necessarily get around these verses.
To me, these are, you know,
these are pretty clear verses that are saying,
hey, you know, this priest after the order of Melchizedek,
you know, this guy's sinless,
that means it has to be Jesus, right?
So again, I believe that Jesus is Melchizedek.
It says, I don't know if I read this already,
it says, "For the law maketh men high priests
"which have infirmities," right?
So, you know, for somebody to be a high priest,
you know, a human being,
the law has to make them a high priest, right?
And the law makes them a high priest,
"which have infirmities, but the word of the oath,
"which was since the law, makeeth the Son
"who is consecrated for evermore."
So, you know, in my opinion,
that in order for somebody to be a high priest
after the order of Melchizedek, they have to be sinless.
Why? Because if you have infirmities,
that means, and you're a high priest, right,
because we do believe in the priesthood of the believer,
but for you to be a high priest,
you know, you have to be made that after the law,
which is after infirmities.
And, you know, here, it's making it clear that, hey,
you know, the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek,
you know, it's because he doesn't have infirmities, right?
So it's contrasting these two high priests, right?
You got the high priest of Melchizedek,
and you got the Levitical high priest.
Now, the Levitical high priest is a human being,
and he has sin.
He's sinful, right?
That's why they have to continually go in
and make sacrifice, and they have to make,
the high priest had to make a sacrifice for himself
before he could make a sacrifice for the nation of Israel,
right, why?
'Cause he has infirmities, he has sin.
Contrasting that with the priesthood of Melchizedek,
where, look, the priesthood of Melchizedek,
you know, he doesn't have sin.
He has no sin.
That's why he didn't come from Levi.
That's why it's not after the order of Aaron.
It's why it's from the tribe of Judah, right?
That's why Jesus came from Judah,
because it's a different priesthood, and he has no sin.
And so it doesn't make sense to me
that Melchizedek was just a guy in the Old Testament
that showed up to Abraham and collected tithes,
because it's telling us, hey, this order of Melchizedek,
it's a sinless high priesthood,
not one with people that have sin, okay?
Go ahead and turn to Psalm chapter number 110,
Psalm chapter number 110.
And we're probably gonna end it after this,
but it said, Psalm number 110,
it says, "The Lord said unto my Lord,
sit thou at my right hand
until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion.
Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power
in the beauties of holiness.
From the womb of the mourning,
thou hast the dew of thy youth.
The Lord has sworn and will not repent
that thou art a priest after the order of Melchizedek."
So who is a priest after the order of Melchizedek?
It's pretty clear to me here
that this is talking about Jesus Christ, why?
'Cause verse number one says,
"And the Lord said unto my Lord,
sit thou at my right hand."
So this has gotta be Jesus Christ.
And by the way,
this has gotta be a Trinitarian Jesus Christ.
Not a oneness, you know,
not what the Mormons believe and the bazillions of gods,
not what the, what's-the-faces believe,
the Michael the Archangel people.
Jehovah's Witness, it's not what the Jehovah's Witnesses say.
No, it's what the Baptists say,
'cause the Baptists are the ones
that have the Trinity correct, my friend, okay?
You know what, the saved people are the people
that have always had the Trinity correct, okay?
And so it's gotta be the Trinity.
It's the Lord said unto my Lord,
sit thou at my right hand, right?
I mean, to me, that's a done deal.
- That's right.
- You know, modalism is out the door,
and whatever Mormonism is also out the door.
You know, and any of these, you know,
these weird religions that are pulling Jesus down,
by the way, Islam is out the door.
And you know what?
Islam is a false, wicked religion.
And you know what?
They use America to do it.
And then with all of these refugee crisis,
they send them all into Europe
to destroy the Christian capital of the world.
And then they're gonna send them into America
to try to destroy America.
Why?
'Cause guess what?
Jews hate America and they hate Europe.
You know what?
And they say that antisemitism is in European DNA.
And why?
Why do they say that?
Well, because Europe has been the center of Christianity
ever since Jesus rose again from the dead
and went into the heavens.
Europe has basically become the center of Christianity, right?
And obviously we know that there's been a lot of it,
a lot of Catholicism and a lot of Protestantism,
but guess what?
There's been a lot of saved people in Europe as well,
over the centuries, right?
And America has been a Christian nation from its beginning.
And this is why the Jews hate America, my friend,
is because they hate Christianity.
You know, there was a spy that stole secrets from America,
sold it to Israel, which they sold it to the Soviet Union.
He went to jail for 30 years.
He gets out of jail, flies to Israel,
and gives a speech about how,
if America doesn't do what the Jews want them to do,
that Israel should nuke the United States.
And then our wonderful ambassador, Mike Huckabee,
goes and meets with the spy.
It's like, does anybody see what's going on here?
No?
I don't know, anyway.
I don't know how I got off on that tangent,
but I don't know, I just had to get,
I got a lot of stuff,
and I gotta get off my chest every once in a while.
Anyways, all right.
There may be an anti-Jew and anti-Muslim sermon
coming to you, to a town near you.
All right, let's see here.
So anyway, so the priesthood of Melchizedek,
by the way, the Jews need to get
on the priesthood of Melchizedek, right?
They need to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
in order for them to be saved.
And guess what?
You know, Christians, we want the Jews to get saved.
You know, we don't just hate the Jews,
we hate the Jews, we don't want them all to go to hell.
No, we actually want them to get saved.
But you know, when they call everything anti-Semitism,
it's like, it's hard not to embrace it, you know?
It's like, I wanna say, I'm looking forward
to the children's choir coming up at Christmas
where they're gonna sing a super anti-Semitic song
called "Joy to the World."
(laughs)
You know, that's the most anti-Semitic song
I can possibly think of.
You know, "Joy to the World," the Lord has come, okay?
Let us receive our King, all right?
Christ is King.
You know, and it's like, oh, that's anti-Semitic.
Well, you know what, if you think it's anti-Semitic,
then yes, it is.
You know, just let it be anti-Semitic then.
And I love it, okay?
But you know what, the thing is that we don't hate Jews.
Okay, we also don't hate Muslims.
But you know what, we're not gonna just let 'em roll up
on our churches and pray right in front of the church.
Kick 'em out for that.
Go pray, you know what, go pray in a dumpster somewhere.
I like that.
Go pray in a dumpster.
Get outta here.
You can't be praying to your false Satan God.
I mean, what if Satanists came to our church
and they're like drawing a star right in front
of our church, will we put up with that?
No, get off our property.
You know, if you wanna get saved, let us know.
But if you're gonna come here and worship Satan,
get out, leave.
You're not allowed to do that here.
You know, come back when you have a soft heart
and you're ready to receive the gospel.
You know what, that's what all these false religions
need to hear.
You know, you don't get to practice your false religion
on our church.
You know, you don't get to practice your false religion
on our church.
Go somewhere else and do that.
Go to find some dumpster somewhere and do that.
But you know what, when you're ready to hear the gospel,
come and see us.
We'd love to show you.
We'd love to show you about the priesthood of Melchizedek,
the everlasting priesthood,
where he was sinless and he paid for all of our sins.
And all you have to do is trust him, Jesus Christ,
and then you're saved forever.
You know?
But anyways, I think we're just gonna end it there.
Hopefully I made sense.
Hopefully I made my case for why Melchizedek is Jesus Christ.
And if you don't agree, you know, that's okay.
It's not like it's, again,
it's not something like rank heresy or anything like that.
People can disagree on this,
but that's just what kind of my thoughts about that.
But let's go ahead and bow our heads
and have a word of prayer.
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for this day, Lord.
I thank you for everything you've done for us, Lord.
I pray that you would bless us as we go.
And we pray that you would please help us
to have soft hearts towards the lost,
but help us to never compromise with false religion, Lord.
Dear Jesus' name, amen.
If you want to turn to page number 424,
oh come, all ye faithful.
Page number 424.
I think this is another anti-Semitic song.
Tsk, tsk.
- All Christmas songs are anti-Semitic.
(laughing)
- Yes.
- I saw a Christian Christmas song.
- Yes.
All the hymns, all the good ones.
Oh come, all ye faithful.
We'll sing it out on the verse.
♪ Oh come ♪
- Sing everybody for the rhyme.
Would you please close us in word of prayer?