Hebrews 5
During His earthly life, He offered prayers with loud cries and tears. Though He was a Son, He learned obedience through suffering. The author rebukes readers for spiritual immaturity, still needing milk instead of solid food.
HebrewsChapter 5 of 1314 versesBerean Standard Bible
If God speaks to you through Hebrews 5, record what He said in Doxa and come back to it.
Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is subject to weakness.
That is why he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.
No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was.
So also Christ did not take upon Himself the glory of becoming a high priest, but He was called by the One who said to Him: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.”
Christ did not glorify himself but was appointed Son
“I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.”
Read Psalms 2:7›And in another passage God says: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek
“The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.””
Read Psalms 110:4›You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek — Hebrews
“The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.””
Read Psalms 110:4›During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.
And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
and was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!
For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.
But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
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“And He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, where He knelt down and prayed,”
“And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.”
“Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,”
“Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.”
Hebrews 5:141 Corinthians 2:14
“The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
Cross-references from OpenBible.info, licensed CC BY.
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