Hebrews: Go On to Perfection (Chapters 5-6)

In Hebrews 7:14, the scripture says, "It is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood." Hebrews teaches us very clearly that Jesus is the ultimate priest because He is of the order of Melchizedek. Welcome to our study of the book of Hebrews, in which Hebrews exalts the majesty and the power of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. As always, we want to encourage you to locate your Bible, have it ready as we're going to be looking to the word of God today in our study of the book of Hebrews. In this lesson, we're thinking about Hebrews chapter five and Hebrews chapter seven. In our last lesson on Hebrews six, we noticed the writer encouraging these Christians, some who'd been members of the Lord's church for many years to not grow stagnant but rather to go on to perfection and keep progressing in their Christian faith. Now the argument for the greatness of Christ over the Levitical priesthood began in Hebrews chapter five, where he begins to talk about Christ and the lineage of the Levites and how He's so much greater than that priesthood because He's of the order of Melchizedek. He realized as part of the way through that, that these Christians aren't ready for that. They've grown stagnant and they're not ready to go into the meat of the word. And so, he stops to challenge them right in the midst of that argument. (The full transcript is available in the "Download Document" button above.)