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2008-05-11pm Lord’s Day 12 Heb.
10.11-14; Gal.
5.16-26 God the Son—The Anointed
Since submitting the order of worship to the bulletin editor, I’ve made some changes.
In writing the sermon, I didn’t venture beyond the first question and answer.
So, in three weeks we’ll continue with the second question and answer.
In a way, it is a shame, it would be great to get to the practical application of these truths tonight, but in light of the length of this morning’s service, I wouldn’t want to tax you too much.
Tonight we’re looking at Jesus, called the Christ.
The word Christ, Christos in Greek, means anointed.
The Hebrew word for anointed is Messiah.
Jesus is the anointed one.
Jesus was not anointed as the priests of the Old Testament were anointed.
He did not have oil poured over his head.
He did not have another priest perform the duties.
As we saw this morning, Jesus was anointed by God with the Holy Spirit.
But so what.
He’s anointed.
Big deal.
Well, it is a very big deal.
And we see why when we realise what Jesus does for us.
Jesus is our prophet, priest and king.
Let’s look at those three offices individually.
Jesus is our prophet.
Now, what comes to mind when you hear the word prophet?
Most of us, growing up in the church, think about the Old Testament.
But what about people who haven’t grown up in church?
Suppose you went to your neighbour and said, listen, you gotta believe in Jesus, he’s our prophet.
What are they going to think?
They might well conjure up in their minds an image of a guy holding sign that says, “The End is Near!”
Or maybe they’ll think of one of those guys who form a cult.
You know, like David Koresh, or Jim Jones.
You never know, if they eventually come to church, they might steer clear of the Kool-Aid.
So we’ll have to provide them with a little instruction to teach them what a prophet is.
Even those of us who grew up in the church, we might have a mistaken idea of a prophet.
We might think of them always predicting the future.
But that is only one aspect of a prophet’s work.
In the Old Testament, what did the prophets do?
The prophets brought the word of God to the people.
They gave instructions.
Moses was one of the earliest prophets.
He brought all sorts of instructions from the Lord.
He brought the Ten Commandments, he brought the book of the covenant.
He set up the Levitical laws.
He called the people to repentance.
He even spoke, prophesied about Christ, saying about him, that he would be a prophet greater than he was.
The prophet’s main task was to reveal God.
They taught people what was right and what was wrong.
The prophet Nathan convicted King David of his sin with Bathsheba.
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the minor prophets taught the Israelites about God.
They called the people to repentance.
They told them to turn away from the false gods they were serving and to turn to the one true God.
Though they were in the Old covenant, they looked forward to the new covenant in Christ.
They turned their eyes to Jesus.
They foretold his coming, where he’d be born, how he would minister, what he would do.
Jesus came to turn people back to God. Jesus came to preach the kingdom of God.
Jesus came to open hearts and minds to the reality of God, of Emmanuel, God with us!
Though knowledge of God is vital, there’s more.
Even though we might know God, if our sin is not forgiven, if it is not atoned for, then we’ll remain separated from God.
Jesus isn’t just the perfect prophet of God; he’s also the high priest.
Now, again, you mention the title priest to someone, and he’ll probably think of unmarried men, serving in the Roman Catholic Church, whom you can recognise by their special shirts.
But then again, we have to correct them of this image, and give them a crash course in Israelite worship practises.
Make no mistake here, these two offices are tied together, from the prophets we get conviction of sin.
From the priests, we get atonement of sin.
The priests were specially appointed, anointed by God to serve as sacrifice bearers.
They were given stricter rules; they were taught the proper process for sacrifices.
They were the only ones who were allowed to sacrifice, to maintain the purity of the ritual.
But, as it says in our Hebrews passage, the atonement they offered wasn’t sufficient.
It didn’t pay for sins.
It was a shadow of the things to come.
All those sacrifices, all the activities of the priests were but a foretelling of the future.
They all pointed to Jesus Christ.
Day after day, the priests followed the law.
They performed the sacrifices, morning and evening, for themselves, for the people.
Contrast that with Jesus.
Hebrews 10 does that for us.
It says, Jesus offered one sacrifice, sufficient to pay for all the sins of the world, once and for all.
Jesus acted like all those other priests, but with a major difference.
He wasn’t the shadow, he was the real thing.
It was his shadow that was cast the long way back to the Old Testament.
All the work of the Old Testament priests pointed to Jesus.
We mustn’t think that their sacrifices, though insufficient in of themselves, that is, because the blood of the animals were not enough to cover the sins of humanity, that those sacrifices were useless.
Jesus Christ’s blood fulfilled even those sacrifices.
Jesus Christ, as high priest isn’t just the supreme priest.
He isn’t just the shadow caster.
He’s also the sacrifice.
He’s the priest and the sacrifice.
No other priest did that, no other priest could do that!
If they did, they’d have to replace their priests twice a day!
Not too many people would sign up for that job!
The Old priests, after offering a sacrifice, had to get up again and offer another sacrifice, and another and another!
But Jesus Christ is the final and perfect sacrifice.
He paid for all the sins once and for all.
After he paid for all the world’s sins, he sat down.
He didn’t just rest on earth; he sat down at God’s right hand! Can you imagine that?
Jesus sacrifice was perfect!
It was God glorifying.
It was Christ glorifying!
But that’s not all.
His priestly functions continue, for he remains the great High priest.
Now, instead of offering sacrifices again and again, he stands before God the Father, the just judge, and he pleads our case for us.
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