Jesus: The Perfect Priest-King
Good morning. So we are in Hebrews chapter 7 today and depending upon I'm feeling physically. I'm a Sit. I'm a stand I'm a walk I finally got a diagnosis my wife cheers and I grow my Van Dyke basically diagnosed with arthritis of the lower spine and pelvis. And so I know what that means is a 43 year old man, but it sounds like it's going to be it's going to be a little rough go for the next 60 years or so, right? So we are in Hebrews chapter 7.
I have been. Thoroughly enjoying digging in the Hebrews. There is some neat at an end. Just exciting and theologically rich rich things happening here in Hebrews and Hebrews chapter 7 is no exception to that rule as we dive into the scripture here today that we're going to see some real I don't have to just meet I feel like I'm back in the third grade and their names just need oh and cool, but that's kind of how I felt about it as I was prepping and studying the sermon and getting ready for it this week. So let's go ahead and just dive into the word of God is Hebrews chapter 7 verse 1 What is Melchizedek the king of Salem Priests of the most high God met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the Kings and blessed him and him Abraham of portion a tenth part of everything is first by translation of his name king of righteousness. And then he is also king of Salem that is king of Peace. He is without father or mother or genealogy having neither beginning of days north end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he continues a priest forever. See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils. And those descendants of Levi who received the Priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people that is from their brothers. These are also descended from Abraham. But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. Is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior? In the one case ties are received by mortal men, but in the other Case by one of whom it is testified that he lives. One might even say that Levi himself. Who received tithes paid tithes for Abraham or he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him? That's Perfection had been at a noble through the levitical priesthood or under it people received the law. What further need would there have been for another priest to arise in the order of Melchizedek? Rather than one named after the order of Aaron. There is a change in the priesthood. There is necessarily A change in the law as well. One of whom these things are spoken belong to another tribe. Which no one has ever serve at the altar. What is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests?
This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of milk is a deck who's become a priest not on the basis of legal requirement concerning bodily to send. But by the power of the indestructible life has witnessed of him. You are a priest Forever After the order of Melchizedek.
One hand of former commandant is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness. The law made nothing perfect, but on the other hand a better hope is introduced through which we draw near to God. And it was not without an oath. Those who formerly became priests were made such without her nose. This one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him. The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever. This makes Jesus the guarantor. of a better Covenant
the former priests were minion number because they were prevented by Death from continuing an office. But he holds his priesthood permanently because he continues forever consequently. He is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him since he always lives to make intercession for them. It was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest. Holy innocent, unstained separated from Sinners and exalted above the heavens. He has no need like those high priest offer sacrifices daily.
For his own sins. And then for those of the people since he did this once for all when he offered himself up, Will all points men and their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath which came later than the law appoints a son who has been made perfect forever about me, please. Father in Heaven, I thank you so much for the day. We have I thank you for allowing us this time to be in Hebrew 7. I thank you that there is some odd and difficult and challenging parts of the scripture father pray. That is we we go into that we handle it correctly. I pray the Lord that that you put me aside and that you speak and that you were words be heard. And nothing of mine, but but it all be of you father. I pray that is we we go through this you would you would speak to our hearts would convict us. He would challenge us. You would teach us what we need to know. This in Jesus name I pray amen. I don't know how many of you guys are Bible markers. I'm a Bible marker person. Like there is stuff written all over the margins of all of the different Bibles I've ever had that that's just the guy I am to scribbles there's notes there's arrows there's all sorts of things like that. If you're one of those people giving you some permission to write in your Bible. All right, so everybody turn real quickly to Genesis chapter 14
in Genesis chapter 14 specifically I've got enough bookmarks here, so I don't lose my place Verse 18.
17 we see Melchizedek show up for the first time in Scripture. In your margin, you might want to write Hebrews 5 6 7 you might also want to write Psalm 110.
That's where we're going to go next. By the way is jump over to Psalm 110.
If you got that marks there.
And then was love when you get to the song because their poems and so the margins a little wider have more space to write my stuff Psalm 110. If you look specifically at verse for milk is the deck is mentioned here again, so you might want to Mark Genesis 14 and Hebrews 5 6 and 7 there these are all connected and we talked about the book of Hebrews. We said that it was almost as if
And summerguard this was like a commentary teaching us as Christian Believers how to read through the Old Testament how to understand the Old Testament. It's almost a sermon on why all the things that the Old Testament aren't bad. But Jesus is better than all of them and enso Genesis 14 and Psalm 110 Shore prominently is is Old Testament quotations in in Hebrews chapter 7 and Hebrews chapter 7 is is this continuation of what the preacher is teaching us Hebrews chapter 5 in Hebrews chapter 6 The very beginning of this book has been showing us that Christ is greater than all the things that the Jews would Place their hope in. Right at the time of his writing there was this is odd open Angels amongst the Jews. He's like no but Jesus is greater than the angels and then there was this hope in in Moses because Moses was the great patriarch who brought them out of Egypt the leader of the Exodus the people who brought him to the promised land, but Jesus is greater than Moses. Remember Moses didn't get to enter the promised land and Moses had a whole generation with him that also didn't go into the promised land. It took the Next Generation be able to go to that. Jesus is better than the law. And this was kind of interesting cuz is we looked at specifically in chapter 6. He says put away the elementary teachings.
Like that's the law all those those things that we would have to do to get to have no put away that Jesus is greater than the law. He's the Fulfillment of it.
Even mentions Joshua in some of these earlier chapters in in Joshua's the the bringer to the promised land in the end and that rest. I think we talked about in Genesis are in in Hebrews 4 and in the author hear the pastor hear the preacher here is saying Jesus is greater than even the promised land. The rest you have in Christ is greater than that.
And now he's kind of getting into some of the big things. Jesus is greater than the priesthood and Jesus is greater than the Patriarchs now.
in Jewish culture Patriarchs, you know, I think about it, how is how is god mentioned? He's the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. the three major Patriarchs not the god of the people that God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob is how they say it, right? My trucks are lifted way high are there the greatest Abraham the greatest of the Patriarchs the one through which the Covenant of the nation of Israel. Providing a place to be are a group of people to be his chosen people. thumbs through the greatest of all the Patriarchs and in the future here to the Hebrew people and saying Jesus is greater than Abraham. And then the priests I just think about when I think about reading through the gospels and how great the people fought the priests were like the priests of the Jewish people this time. I kind of got themselves elevated to a point. They didn't need to be elevated to I mean, let's just if you read through any of the gospels, you can see this. I mean Jesus says he I just need to go back to your own daddy the devil like just don't get it, but they had elevated themselves in the people had allowed them to be elevated to a point that they were seen as Flawless and send and sinless and summerguard. And hear you saying Jesus is better than the priesthood. It's all right here in the last half of chapter 5 and then all chapter 6 the preacher of Hebrews is calling us to become mature in our faith. And as we mature our faith, we can easily see Jesus is greater than all these days. These folks weren't there yet. They were still walking through that.
I used phrases that I don't you just make me cringe a little bit when I'm in a staff meeting at school that differentiated instruction and rigor and any sort of I don't know buzzwords amongst Educators. Now differentiated instruction means I don't want Paul says because I'm going to be all things to all people making sure the people are learning at the right place at the right rate and giving them the teaching they need to come, come through. He's tried to help do this in Hebrews is giving them little bits of things that they need a trigger is making it tough an example we talked about in small group. This morning was the story of Noah Wright. We were I remember love in the story of Noah's little four-year-old kid and mrs. Mrs. Wells of Sunday school class man. It was the best they put all the animals on the big old boat and everybody is a good old time and it was cool and ask somebody I don't know I thought was funny today. Somebody said, you know that Noah couldn't of been baptized because all the chickens made it out. And I thought well, okay. I don't know what it was but that story but we don't talk about it later on when they finally get off the boat and Noah Rosa Grapevine. What's a good little Maura monkey in that wine flask? And he drinks a lot of it and his sons uncover him in a state of nakedness as the scripture says. You don't talk about that when were four years old in Sunday school class. We don't get the whole picture of Noah necessarily. That's at maturing and growing deeper in our faith digging into the word. That's the river part of it getting harder and harder and harder for her sake but deeper and deeper because we're learning more and we need to be challenged by the word of God more more daily. We need that conviction. We need that challenge. It's going from a this is what you should know about the Bible to this is what the Bible teaches you to do in this is how you should live there that concept comes in and that's what the the pastor here in Hebrews is trying to do. And so he's he's talking about maturing in our faith here. And in Jesus is greater than anything we could ever put our faith in. Is the only thing where they put in her face in and then in chapter 7 he comes across this guy named milk is a deck and he focuses a lot on milk is a deck and milk is like only shows up in scripture three times. I've already had to make some notes. He shows up in Genesis chapter 14. He shows up in Psalm 110 and it shows up in Hebrews 5 6 and 7. And it's just kind of odd that he would do that. Engine size 14. What happens with milk is a deck is Abram is just gone off into battle. I think the town's name is Channel maor and he just come back from Battle there. He'd actually been in battle with the king of Sodom and some other kings and they defeated a group of seven Kings. And is he's coming back from Battle. He encounters milk his attack, but I just kind of assumed magically shows up, but just kind of pops up out of the scene and unannounced. She was Melchizedek and Melchizedek is describing just as 14 as a priest of God most high and the king of Salem. Is a priest and a king. interesting
Melchizedek then offers to Abram is his name had not yet been changed to Abraham offers to Abram Bread and Wine. So very interesting. Right, then that gives Abram a blessing saying Blessed Be Abram by God most high possessor of Heaven and Earth and blessed be God. Most high who is delivered your enemies into your hand. Then after receiving that blessing Abram gives Melchizedek a tenth of everything. He had a full tithe. Melchizedek is not mentioned again until we get to Psalm 110. That's kind of the end of the milk is the next story in Genesis 14. And I'm sure man I can't even imagine the early Jewish people reading the story of the book of Moses gone. Well, I'm not scratching heads. I'm going to lie. I scratch my head off and on all week looking at this. I can't imagine not having Sing everything else that comes up. If we get to Melchizedek in Psalm 110 and Psalm 110, this is a Messianic psalm. Of David in which Christ is described as a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek. David is talking about the fact that he already knows that God has promised that the Messiah of the people the Christ the savior of the world is going to come through his lineage and and David through the holy spirit is inspired to say that Jesus will be in Priest in the order of Melchizedek like this man that the shows up in Genesis 14
And then we see Melchizedek mentioned again in Hebrews 5 through 7, which kind of leads us to where we are today. So in verses 1 through 3 of Hebrews 7 the preacher of the book of Hebrews here wants us there a little Theology of Melchizedek his name translates to King of righteousness from the Hebrew into into what we would say it into our Modern English the city named Salem. There's some there's some question on whether or not that's a shortened form of Jerusalem.
or not Or could just be Salem. It really kind of enormous it doesn't matter. But that's one of those fun thing to sit around her having coffee with your with your believing friends and I'll drink a cup of coffee have that discussion and move on because the root word in that is Salem, which means peace Jerusalem translated is peace of our God. It is the PC is a king of Peace a king of righteousness a king of Peace in the king of righteousness.
That's going to be rough on the recording.
So he serves as this King priest in the king of righteousness in a king of peace.
And the other thing is he has no genealogy list. That's huge in Jerusalem Jewish custom.
So important being a Jewish priest. Jewish priests must be descended from Moses's brother Aaron in the Levites there. There's no other way around being a priest Melchizedek is a priest prior to both Moses and Aaron and the tribe of Levi. He's a priest of God. Most high to think about. Verses 4 through 10, but we're kind of seeing there is in summerguard a
Turn my defense of Jesus's right to declare himself a priest in the claimed to be part of the priesthood. Right? Jesus was a part of the tribe of Judah not Levi Jesus genealogy tells us that he's a descendant of David. That would make him by the law of Moses ineligible to serve as a priest.
You see that it's an ineligible under the law of Moses under the Old Testament law to be a priest even though he's the son of God. Write the Jews were rigid about this because it was in the law on the loss of that only descendants of Aaron can be priests and only priests could accept tithes and offerings from the people on behalf of God to hear. The preacher of Hebrews is showing us that there is a precedent already said it's almost like he's establishing a legal precedent in some regard it in scripture. There is a non Aaron descendant a non Levi descendant. Who was Priest and Melchizedek was not descended from Aaron or Levi? Because both of them had descended from Abraham who was here giving tithes. Melchizedek
in the first 10 chapters are 10 verses of this chapter what we see is it milk? Is it as a great king and he's a great priest right? He's greater than Abram. I love that. He talks about that beat the inferior received the blessing from the superior that gives the blessing Abraham making Abram Abraham less. Great and even Melchizedek, we've already established that Jesus is greater than all of these other things now he's saying if if Jesus is a priest in the order of Melchizedek, Jesus is greater than Abraham.
He's going there, right? And in Abraham was again, like the greatest of all the Jewish Patriarchs. And that makes him. Make smoked his attack even greater than the priests that are from Levi and from Aaron because he was greater than Abraham and those men are all descended from Abraham. So now we start in 2 verse 11 and verse 11. They're they're starting to compare the Jesus to Melchizedek verse 11 itself focus on the fact that the law did not create Perfection and God's people I think we forget that like growing up. I remember thinking that the way the Jewish people got saved was through being obedient to the law. I don't know where that idea came from if it came from Sunday school for came from just me being a child who didn't understand if I was a like these Hebrew folks and I needed to move away from that Elementary belief that Elementary teaching but I did I thought they wash their hands a certain way. They don't eat shellfish and pork. I don't know what they're missing. That's a bummer man. They live this long. What gets them saved? All three Hebrews here saying that the law didn't bring any Perfection anybody. That's not why I brought them salvation at all. Right, is it that he's he's reminding us of that that we need to be cautious of that. And in the whole reason that we can see that we look at the wall did not bring Perfection is why we need a greater high priest than the errand or the levitical priesthood could ever bring us. We need a greater high priest and a high priestess. Jesus. Jesus is the need that we we we have to have he fulfills our need versus 11 and 12 is what kind of continue reading for that put that priesthood in context and shows that need for that grade or higher priest has 15 and 16 support the idea of that even more
He's not a priest Jesus Christ is not a priest because he meets some sort of legal requirement that showed up in the Old Testament. He is a priest because of the power of God and being the Son of God. I mean the Messiah that's what makes him the priest that we need.
And I love what verses 18 and 19. From one hand of former commandant is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness. For the law made nothing perfect, but on the other hand a better hope is introduced through which we draw near to God. When I look at is 18 and 19. I see here that the Old Testament law of priesthood was week. It just was weak. It didn't feel the need that we had. It was weak in them.
A New Hope was needed and that hope is Jesus Christ and through Jesus Christ. We draw closer to God to he received the permanents. Of a perfect priest in the inability of the law right leave the other priests are going to die out. They just die out you'd grow old and he can't do it anymore. You know, I think of you use your brother refill a man who served in Ministry 50 plus years of diligently and faithfully and they're just got to be a point when your body said slow down that's going to happen to us all we're all going to hit the spot where our bodies say slow down. You can't go the way you need to go. It's time to to turn it over to other people. And that's what happened with the priests of Jesus never has a retirement age and he never gets about reason. I have to slow down. He's he's permanent and not just permanent eternal. I I I said I think about the Eternal mess of Jesus Christ, and I'm like I can't get it. I'm a math guy. I'm a math teacher kind of by trade and I understand infinity and then I even understand the fact that you can actually add 1 to Infinity making Infinity greater than and then it already is and then there's just some weirdness. It happened. When you do some of that kind of bizarreness in in in number Theory and and stuff like that. And then Jesus is bigger than all of that.
Numbers numbers have a starting point. We start learning to count in kindergarten at zero. Jesus was before 0.
Eternal is bigger than what we can even imagine never ages out of serving as our high priest never gets too old never gets too tired.
You just cease permanent there. So that is a better hope for us to have in a perfect freeze beyond what we see here in Scripture that the hope is Jesus Christ. Let me take a look at versus 20 and 22.
And that goes back again to Psalm 110 reminding us that Jesus is that Eternal priest is term of service and never ends. The best part is that Jesus secures the hope
and in the better Covenant of our salvation
And I looked at this and as we talked about Hebrew 6 this morning and in small group in the Bible study talks about the oath and it says in verse 20 and it was not without an oath for those who formerly became priests were made such without a note of this idea of this oath is important when God made us promise to Abram that I will make you a great nation. I will make you a blessing among nations as well when you mix that promised him in Genesis chapters, 12 13 14 and 15 is he's making those promises to Abram. God doesn't unilaterally. Right. It's not like Abram says I swear to God to you that I will do this. Just comes to Abrams says I've chosen you. I promise you on my name is God of creation. This will happen. That was the oldest God made and
Abram Play Mavado. There's nothing today from did do we see the same thing this priesthood that Jesus has made on the promise of God. This is my son. With whom I am pleased. He became a sacrifice he became the priests because of the oath in God's name that God made on our behalf. Nothing we did. heard any of it all on him. And it says those who were formerly priests were made such without an oath. All those other presidents served in an in Jerusalem and in in in Israel where priests just because her daddy was a priest and her daddy's are priests because their daddies were priests. We're on the way back. all the way back to Erin the time of The Exodus
no other reason those guys were priests.
This priest was promised to us from God and faith is Jesus Christ? He is promised us that way.
Jesus is the perfect sufficient priest king who is made this final effect of atonement first people. We've talked about to leave use that word propitiation. You know, I was at $4 the illogical word that do they throw in here, but but it's so much more. We know that when Jesus died on the cross. He paid the atonement. He paid the price that sacrifice payday these priests up to this point. We're sacrificing daily people bringing stuff to the temple in Jerusalem everyday literally from dawn to dusk making sacrifices all the time on all these altars. the streets of Jerusalem ran with blood all the time It was a blood sacrifice Jesus did it once? And it didn't have to be done again. And not only did it pay for your your son of mice and cuz that's what those sacrifices on that. Also. We're doing in Jerusalem. They're paying for the sins of the people bring the animal to to the to the priest I have sinned and these are my sins and and sacrifice animal to pay for my sins and he would do that.
They have to come back the next day. I have to come back a week later. Our our our our little agenda books at the kids write all their assignments and stuff in and it's cool had Yom Kippur show up on on the on the calendar in there. And I don't know 6 grade kids don't understand a whole lot outside of 6th grade world. And if you grew up in Martin, so you don't know what y'all I'm too poor is I'm going to be honest with you. They don't know what it what is Yom Kippur. Mr. Pratt this a Jewish holiday. Oh, what's a Jewish holiday Mister Pratt? Jewish holidays are different than our Christian and American holidays and explain acid Yom Kippur it is just kind of It's the start of their New Year's the time that they start fresh but it's Old Testament wise. It's this day of atonement or they would make all these sacrifices. The priests were going to make sacrifices on behalf of all the people washing all their sins away for the year. And then you have to come back the next year Yom Kippur and do it again. As well as every day in between it was never ending cycle of sacrifice to pay for the sins of the people. And explain that to the kids. I just looked at Migos. That's a lot.
That's about all I got out of that kind of ended our conversation on Yom, Kippur.
This microphone hates me.
And what joke. And and so that just ended it, but that's that's what was happening all the time. Jesus went to Calvary sacrificed himself on our behalf. No more sacrifices of that nature had to be made of propitiation that's even bigger because that means it is not just paid for the sin. It's satisfied God's requirement to have any more sacrifices. The wrath of God was satisfied As we sing in the him? Wow.
It's not like the sacrifices didn't pay for the sins of the people what it didn't do as it didn't satisfy. God was still angry at the Sun. Jesus died anger was satiated. No more.
Verses 23 through 25 is weak as we continue on. Are returns to this Jesus being an in Eternal priests always interceding on our behalf.
He's just right there, and he's allowing us to draw near through that verse 26 brings us to Jesus's perfection. It was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest. Holy innocent unstained separated from Sinners and exalted above the heavens.
verses 23 through kind of the end here chapter 7 are those like sitting on and wonder Anna verses in scripture where you read through that you just like Jesus really was all these thing fully innocent unstained exalted above the heavens course is exalted above the heavens created the heavens there is why wouldn't I be exalted above them separated from centers? Yes, because he is Holy and good and just innocent. Text me back to let me read it that he's tempted by every means that you and I are be at sinless. He doesn't it doesn't fall into it. I just it's a it's a moment when it when I Ponder these things of Jesus and who he is.
Verse verse 27 alludes to price once and for all sacrifice that atone for sins and and satisfies the wrath of God again for the preacher. Here's reiterating these things. He's he's saying it over and over again if I repeated enough. Maybe it'll sink in kind of moment. Reverse 28, he tells us that God's promise gives his son a service high priest forever appointment in their weaknesses high priest, but the word of the oath which came later than the law of points a son has been made perfect for ever understand this church in this is important.
The Old Testament law was not plan A. And Jesus was not plan B. It wasn't that after so many thousands of years. God saw that the people were going to follow the law. And I got to send Jesus to clean up my own mess. That's not how our God works. Don't let anybody tell you that our God work. The law was always there to do the job the law did.
The Old Testament law was never really designed to provide salvation. The Old Testament law was there to show man's need of a savior. And the law does that perfectly? You read through that while you read through the Old Testament. You should glaringly see the need of the people for a savior. And if you start applying the Old Testament to your life, you should glaringly see your need for a savior Jesus Christ.
Can't keep those six hundred and some odd laws. Accounting wash my hands right half the time and that's just by what the nurses say. I'm supposed to wash my hands and sing Happy Birthday twice their I don't have time to sing Happy Birthday twice do when I'm washing my hands. I grew up a griffin a Morgan County Indiana Farm kid his dad log. My hands were wash. Where's my sandwich? I have time for this. I'm hungry. We've been cutting 18 to 20 Rick's of wood today. I got to get this thing done. I don't have time. We got more to go.
The Old Testament law shows us our need for a savior and that should be encouraging to us. It really showed it. You should never read through the Old Testament and be discouraged because you can't keep up with it. You should read through the Old Testament and be encouraged is Jesus has already done it for you. Have to keep up with it cuz it has been fulfilled in Jesus Christ our Lord and savior.
Remember the Old Testament is not a failed plan.
And it did what it was supposed to do and point us to the need of a savior the Old Testament priests offered sacrifices daily knowing that it was going to have to be done. again, and again and again and again
And I think about Jesus on the cross and he says it is finished.
Perfection had been made at that point it was done. The law was fulfilled we can enter into the grace of God through Jesus has done at that moment when he said it is finished. It wasn't just we're done with this. It wasn't just my time here on Earth is over.
I've completed my task which was to fulfill the law in to bring Salvation to the people. It is finish.
Jesus the perfect sacrifice is also our perfect priest. He made the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf. Just like a priest who do he is fulfill the Old Testament law and the Covenant and brings us great. Hope and he brings us a better Covenant in his name in his blood. I don't know where you stand today with Christ.
If you're a believer. And and you're still walking to some of the elementary things at that the preacher here talks about in chapter 6. Know that Jesus is better than all of that. If you're a believer in Christ, and you're still still taking in some of those things are still trying to figure out what what do I need to do? It took to be better at my salvation. You missed it. You missed it. I was a high outside pitch and you swing anyway.
You missed it. Jesus is already completed what you need for your salvation. You need to just surrender to him and maybe you've never surrender to Jesus. I don't know where anybody's at with that place today. They said I think setting in chapter 6 don't don't make sure they don't waste time right now. Don't hurry it up. If you're hearing this call now don't make haste make haste to get the sun. Don't waste any time. If you feel the Holy Spirit talking to you today saying I need to surrender it over to Jesus surrender it over to Jesus.
Never will forget the time that that I was I was leaving and just really not even trying to lead her to the Lord. I wouldn't do anything. She had questions about scripture this this little lady in her eighties. I'm just playing with you and she said to me I I I can't be clean enough. I took her to the story of The Prodigal Son it. Look at what this guy did. I said in the story The Sun represents and summerguard Isis is centers in Belen in in while we do the father represents. God the Father. My son comes back in just says I'm dirty. I'm gross. I'm nasty. Make me like one of your servants and and God says my son. This lady sitting there. It's kitchen table just two hands up and she just calls out Jesus clean me up. I can't clean myself. No truer words have ever been spoken by anybody receive in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus clean me up. I can't clean myself. I thought your call today cry that out to him. Play with me. by the way, we look and we see you're in Hebrews chapter 7 that ug