New Testament · Letters

Hebrews chapter 5

Every is selected from among ordinary people and appointed to represent them before God—offering gifts and for their .He can with those who don’t know any better and who’ve , since he himself is wrapped in the same human .Because of this, he’s required to offer sacrifices for his own failures too—not just the people’s.Nobody grabs this honor for themselves. You only get it when God calls you to it—just like He called . didn’t promote Himself to become high priest either. It was God who said to Him, “You are My Son—today I’ve .”And in another passage God says, “You are a priest —in the pattern of .”During His , Jesus cried out to God with loud shouts and tears—pleading with the One who had the power to rescue Him from death. And He was heard because of His .Even though He was God’s Son, He what it really means to through the things He suffered.And once He had been , He became the source of an for everyone who follows Him.He was by God as high priest in the pattern of Melchizedek.There’s so much more we want to say about this, but it’s tough to explain because you’ve gotten .By this point, you should be the ones teaching other people. But instead, you need someone to go back and re-teach you the most . You’ve gone back to needing when you should be eating solid food.Anyone who’s still living on milk hasn’t learned how to think through what it means to —they’re still an .But solid food is for the —for people who have through regular practice to .