Hebrews: Better - Better Priest - Hebrews 7:1-28 (Richard McConnell)

As the announcements came in on Friday that the government would finally lift most pandemic restrictions, one of the comments I heard on radio really struck me. Go live your lives – said one of the government ministers – urging people to enjoy their new freedoms. The old system of restrictions is gone, so go and live your lives. I was deep in Hebrews 7 at the time, thinking about the message from God’s word to us in Blackrock. What we’ll see today, is that the writer to the Hebrews is making a similar kind of instruction. He’s urging a group of Christians to allow the reality of their new situation sink in – and therefore to live out their lives in light of it. And yet there’s a huge difference between Friday’s announcements and Hebrews chapter 7. As we have heard all along the lifting of restrictions is no guarantee that there won’t be a need for further restrictions in the future. But Hebrews tells us that the arrival of Jesus Christ brought in for God’s people a better hope, an eternal, forever hope.