Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest...." (Hebrews 8:1a)
The phrase, "this is," is not in Greek manuscripts. It is just, "Now the main point...." All Scripture, yea, life itself will daily bring us back to, "Now the main point....-------------------- We have such a High Priest."
The word which is translated here, "main point," is from a root word which means "head." Vine says that it is used in the verb form in Ephesians 1:10, "[He planned] for the climax of the ages to unify all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, [both] things in heaven and things on the earth" (Amplified). Jesus Christ is, "the main point," the summing up of not only the message of Hebrews, but the totality of the Bible, of the universe. The only recorded words of Father which we have in the New Covenant Writings affirm the Man and the Name. Why? All which is Father and the Holy Spirit is in Jesus Christ, as the Scripture says, "bodily." No one has ever seen Our Father and the Holy Spirit. This is why God gave us Himself in Jesus Christ, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father." The hymn says, "God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity," not three gods, not three personalities, but Three Persons. No, I don't fully grasp it either. John Wesley once said, "Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man who can comprehend the Trinity."
But for now, it should suffice to know that, "we have such a High Priest," the One described in a previous portion of the Epistle as, "a Great High Priest." And indeed He Is. And so I encourage you today, my friend, with the words of Hebrews 7:25, "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"-- our, "Great High Priest," at work for us.
Father, in Jesus' Name, I cannot thank You enough for such a Great High Priest." Amen.
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"Looking Unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
"Looking Unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
