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00:01Ten signs Jesus isn't enough for you, even though He is.
00:07You've stopped being amazed by Him.
00:10Your time with Jesus feels more like a check-in than a relationship.
00:15What used to move you spiritually doesn't anymore, and you aren't sure why.
00:22You trust Jesus with eternity, but not with today.
00:27Your spiritual life is getting busier, but not deeper.
00:33You're more focused on what Jesus hasn't done for you than what He already did.
00:40Your walk with Jesus feels like it's stuck on repeat.
00:45Minor stress feels like a full-blown crisis.
00:50You don't expect Jesus to do anything big in your life.
00:55You're no longer living like Jesus could return at any time.
01:01Stop living like He's not enough.
01:05He is.
01:07Jesus is enough.
01:12Coming up today on Turning Point.
01:14Because we have this new priest who never dies, who doesn't have to quit after 25 years, who's always there,
01:21who's never changed.
01:22He's there making intercession for them, and the Bible says he's able to save us to the uttermost.
01:31Deep roots, strong branches, abundant leaves.
01:35This is the flourishing life God designed for you.
01:38A life firmly planted, growing strong, and unshakable through any storm.
01:43In his new book, Five Psalms for a Flourishing Life, Dr. David Jeremiah invites you to step out of a
01:49faith that feels like just getting by,
01:51and into an active, growing faith rooted in the unchanging truth of God's Word.
01:56In this powerful study, Dr. Jeremiah explores five key psalms that have nourished God's people for generations.
02:03Psalms with the power to revive your soul and transform the places in your life that feel dry, barren, or
02:09stuck into meaningful growth in God.
02:12These aren't self-help strategies or positive thinking techniques.
02:15They are time-tested truths that have sustained God's people through millennia of both triumph and trial,
02:21teaching us how to sink our roots deep into eternal resources while bearing fruit that blesses the world around us.
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02:55We read in Genesis 14, verses 18 through 20, these words.
03:00Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine.
03:06He was the priest of the God Most High, and he blessed Abraham and said,
03:12Blessed be Abraham of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.
03:18And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.
03:23And Abraham gave him a tithe of all.
03:29Now, one of the greatest proofs that God wrote the Bible is found in the person Melchizedek.
03:35In Genesis, we have only three verses about him.
03:411,000 years later, David makes an even shorter reference to him in Psalm 110 and verse 4.
03:50And then, after another 1,000 years, the writer of Hebrews tells us that Melchizedek of Genesis 14,
03:58who was mentioned in one verse in Psalm 110, is a picture of Jesus Christ.
04:05And the writer of Hebrews devotes a whole chapter to telling us why.
04:11From Genesis to Psalms to Hebrews, over a span of 2,000 years,
04:18here is God preserving the integrity and the unity of his word.
04:23Here in chapter 7, the writer of Hebrews returns to this subject of this man, Melchizedek.
04:30And in the first 10 verses of the chapter, he presents the significant details of the priesthood
04:37of this strange person who appeared to Abraham when he was coming back from his victory over the enemy.
04:46We begin, first of all, then, with the priesthood of Melchizedek.
04:50Notice in verse 1 that it is an unprecedented priesthood.
04:56For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God,
05:00who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him.
05:07Here's Melchizedek, and the Bible tells us that Melchizedek was unprecedented
05:12in that he was both king and priest.
05:16We are told that his priesthood was not only unprecedented, it was unequaled.
05:22Verse 2 says,
05:23To whom Abraham gave a tenth part of all,
05:28first being translated king of righteousness,
05:31and then also king of Salem, meaning king of peace.
05:34Now, look up here and remember, Abraham has just come back
05:37from maybe the best moment of his whole life.
05:40He's at the top of his game.
05:42His power and influence have never been greater.
05:46He's just pulled off a great rescue.
05:49And he's on his way back.
05:52And on his way back, he meets a man who is so powerful and so great
06:00that Abraham gives him 10% of all the spoils he's taken in the war.
06:05And the Bible says that this Melchizedek blessed Abram.
06:13Whoa, Melchizedek, you are a powerful dude.
06:18His priesthood is unprecedented.
06:20It's unequaled.
06:21And notice in verse 3, we are told that this Melchizedek
06:25has an uninterrupted priesthood.
06:28Verse 3 is strange.
06:29It says, Melchizedek was without father, without mother,
06:34without genealogy, having neither beginning of days
06:38nor end of life.
06:39Now, watch this.
06:40Here's the key.
06:41But was made like the Son of God,
06:45remaining a priest continually.
06:48Here we have the first clue about what Melchizedek is all about.
06:52He was made like unto the Son of God.
06:55This is a reminder to us that Melchizedek is a picture of Jesus Christ.
07:00Now, notice how carefully this picture is painted.
07:03It says here, without father, without mother,
07:08without genealogy, having neither beginning of days
07:12nor end of life.
07:14His priesthood was unprecedented.
07:16He was a king and a priest.
07:18It was unequaled.
07:20He was bowed before by this great man, Abraham.
07:24And it is unchallenged.
07:26Notice verses 4 through 7.
07:28Now, consider how great this man Melchizedek was,
07:31to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.
07:35And indeed, those who are of the sons of Levi,
07:38who receive the priesthood,
07:40have a commandment to receive tithes from the people
07:43according to the law, that is, from their brethren,
07:46though they have come from the loins of Abraham.
07:48But he whose genealogy is not derived from them
07:52received tithes from Abraham
07:54and blessed him who had the promises.
07:58Now, beyond all contradiction,
08:00the lesser is blessed by the greater.
08:01Here's what that passage is saying.
08:03The Levites, if you know the Old Testament,
08:05the Levites were the priests of the Old Testament covenant.
08:09They were from Levi, one of the sons of Jacob.
08:14And that tribe was what we would call them today,
08:17all the preachers.
08:18If you wanted to be a preacher in that day,
08:21you couldn't sign up for it.
08:22You had to be born into it.
08:25Only the Levites could be the preachers.
08:27And how did the Levites get paid?
08:29The Bible says they received a tithe
08:31from the rest of the people.
08:33And they received these tithes,
08:35and that's how they were sustained.
08:38Now, the text says that that was the normal
08:42and natural thing to have happened.
08:45But here we have Abraham paying tithes to Melchizedek,
08:53who is a different kind of priest.
08:57And we're going to see that from this point on,
08:59the writer of the book of Hebrews
09:01is wanting to help us understand
09:02that the Old Testament priesthood,
09:05which was under Levi, is no longer in operation.
09:08There's a new priesthood that has been born.
09:11Actually, it was born back in Genesis,
09:13but it's come to fruition in Hebrews.
09:16And that's the priesthood
09:17that is after the order of Melchizedek.
09:20And his greatness is seen in the fact
09:23that when Abraham came back from the war
09:26and gave him 10% of everything he had taken,
09:30he didn't refuse it.
09:31He accepted it.
09:33And then, on top of accepting it,
09:35he blessed Abraham
09:37and called upon the Most High God to sustain him.
09:41And then notice number five,
09:44it is unending, verses 8 through 10.
09:47Here mortal man receives tithes,
09:49but there he receives them,
09:52of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
09:54Now, don't let that verse confuse you.
09:56It's wrapped around two words,
09:58here and there.
10:01Here is a reference to the Levites.
10:04The Levites are mortal men,
10:06and they receive tithes.
10:08But there, Melchizedek,
10:11he receives them,
10:12of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
10:16How many of you know that mortal priests mean they die?
10:21You know, the priest died,
10:22and we'll come to that in just a few moments.
10:24But the Bible says this man, Melchizedek,
10:27his resume is building.
10:29His picture is growing.
10:31He's a great man.
10:32He's a man who was so great
10:34that even the greatest man of Israel
10:36is paying him tithes and being blessed by him.
10:41The Bible says he doesn't die like other priests.
10:45He's a priest forever.
10:48Now, let's take the transition
10:50from the priesthood of Melchizedek
10:53in the first 10 verses,
10:54and let's figure out what it means today.
10:57Beginning in verse 11,
10:58we are introduced to the priesthood of Christ.
11:01Now, just remember again,
11:03let me just picture this for you.
11:04Genesis 14, Melchizedek is a picture
11:08of somebody who's coming.
11:10Who is that someone who is coming?
11:13Psalm 110 says it's the Lord Jesus.
11:16And Hebrews now tells us
11:19what we need to know about our new high priest,
11:23who is Jesus Christ.
11:25First of all, why do we need a new high priest?
11:28The purpose of it, verse 11,
11:30therefore, if perfection were through
11:33the Levitical priesthood,
11:34in other words, if you could get what you needed
11:36from the Old Testament law,
11:38what further need was there
11:40that another priest should arise
11:42according to the order of Melchizedek
11:44and not be called according to the order of Aaron.
11:46In other words, why do we need Jesus?
11:49Why do we need a new high priest?
11:51Well, the argument is,
11:52if we were getting everything we needed
11:54from the Old Priesthood,
11:55we wouldn't need Jesus,
11:56but we don't get everything we need
11:58from the Old Priesthood, do we?
12:01Since God's ultimate goal for all of us
12:04is that we might draw near to himself,
12:07and people could not do that
12:09through the Levitical priesthood,
12:11a new priest had to come into play,
12:14and that new priest is our blessed Savior,
12:18the Lord Jesus Christ.
12:20Amen.
12:21Only Jesus Christ could accomplish that goal
12:24and fulfill that role, the purpose of it.
12:27Now, notice the prerequisite of it,
12:29verses 12 through 14.
12:31It says now,
12:33for the priesthood being changed of necessity,
12:37there's also a change of the law.
12:39For he of whom these things are spoken
12:41belongs to another tribe
12:43from which no man has officiated at the altar.
12:47For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah,
12:50of which tribe Moses spoke nothing
12:52concerning the priesthood.
12:53If you're gonna have a new priesthood
12:55that's totally different than the old one,
12:57and the old one was based on the old law,
13:00you're gonna have a new priest,
13:02you gotta have some new rules.
13:05You see, why do you have to have new rules?
13:07Because Jesus is breaking the rules.
13:10Remember what I told you?
13:11You wanna be a priest in Israel?
13:12You gotta be born to the tribe of Levi.
13:16What tribe did Jesus come from, class?
13:18Judah.
13:20He's unqualified to be the priest
13:25under the law.
13:28So, something's gotta happen here.
13:30If Jesus is gonna be our priest,
13:33the Old Testament law's gotta be changed.
13:36Something's gotta happen here is the argument.
13:38The priesthood came through the law,
13:40and if the priesthood changes,
13:42the law's gotta change.
13:43And that is what the New Testament teaches.
13:46Is that not true?
13:47Especially in Romans and in Galatians,
13:49the New Testament, which reveals Christ
13:51as our new high priest,
13:53also reveals that as Christians,
13:56we are no longer under the Mosaic law.
14:02Under the Old Testament law,
14:04Jesus Christ could not have been
14:06a legitimate high priest,
14:07for priests had to come from the tribe of Levi,
14:10and Jesus was from the tribe of Judah.
14:13The tribe of Judah had nothing to do with the priesthood.
14:16Listen to me.
14:17No man from the tribe of Judah
14:19had ever been a priest,
14:20nor could they ever be.
14:22For God to make someone other than a Levite a priest,
14:29the law had to be changed.
14:33Now the perfection of it,
14:35verses 15 through 17.
14:37And yet it is far more evident
14:39in the likeness of Melchizedek,
14:40there arises another priest
14:42who has not come according to the law
14:44of a fleshly commandment,
14:46but according to the power of an endless life.
14:48For he testifies,
14:50you are a priest forever,
14:51according to the order of Melchizedek,
14:53Psalm 110.
14:55The Lord Jesus Christ is the new high priest,
14:58and his ministry is of a totally different kind.
15:03He's from a different tribe.
15:04His priesthood is not according
15:06to a fleshly commandment,
15:08but notice,
15:08but according to the power of an endless life.
15:13And notice the priority of it
15:15in verses 18 and 19.
15:17For on the one hand,
15:19there is an annulling of the former commandment
15:22because of its weakness and unprofitableness.
15:25For the law made nothing perfect.
15:27On the other hand,
15:28there is the bringing in of a better hope
15:30through which we draw near to God.
15:33All of us know that the law is perfect,
15:35but we are not.
15:36Only one person in the history of the law
15:39has ever kept all the law.
15:40You know who that was?
15:41It was Jesus Christ.
15:42He's the only one.
15:43The reason the law can't get us to God
15:45is because we can't keep the law,
15:48and therefore the law is imperfect.
15:50All the law can do is tell us
15:53what's right and what's wrong.
15:54It can't help us do what's right.
15:57Isn't that true?
15:59And so, the problem with the Old Testament priesthood
16:01was every time the law was broken,
16:03they'd have to go to the priest and get forgiven.
16:05But guess what?
16:07They're going to sin again,
16:08so they have to go again and another sacrifice.
16:11And so, over and over again,
16:12and year after year on the Day of Atonement,
16:14all the sins of the people,
16:15because nothing could ever deal with the problem of sin
16:19on a continuing, ongoing basis.
16:22That's why the Old Testament law
16:24and the Old Testament priesthood
16:25could not accomplish the ultimate goal
16:28of bringing us near to God.
16:32Here's what it says in Romans 8.
16:35For what the law could not do
16:37in that it was weak through the flesh,
16:40God did by sending his own Son
16:44in the likeness of sinful flesh,
16:46and on account of sin,
16:48he condemned sin in the flesh.
16:51What the Old Testament law couldn't do, God did.
16:54How many of you are glad you live
16:56on this side of the cross?
16:57Amen.
16:58I mean, if we weren't on this side of the cross,
17:00this building would look a lot different
17:02than it does this morning.
17:05But our sin sacrifice has been made
17:08by the Holy Lamb of God,
17:10and that sacrifice is sufficient
17:13for all of the sin we have ever committed,
17:17will ever commit.
17:19Did you know that when God forgives you of your sin,
17:22he forgives you of all your past sin,
17:24all your present sin, and all your future sin?
17:28You say, Pastor Jeremiah,
17:30how can God forgive me of sin I haven't committed?
17:33And the answer is,
17:34how many of your sins were future when he forgave you?
17:39All of them.
17:40You see, God doesn't work on the same time schedule we do.
17:42He sees everything in the present.
17:44And I want to tell you this good news, my friend.
17:46If you have asked Christ to come into your life,
17:48Almighty God has forgiven all of your sins,
17:51past, present, and future,
17:53and you will never face judgment for those sins again.
17:57That's the beauty of the new priest, the new covenant.
18:02Now, notice as we come to the conclusion of this,
18:05the power of this priesthood of Jesus.
18:10First of all, the confirmation of it in verses 20 and 21.
18:13And inasmuch as Jesus was not made priest without an oath,
18:18for they who have become priest without an oath,
18:21but he with an oath, by him who said,
18:23the Lord has sworn he will not relent.
18:25You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.
18:27By so much more, Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.
18:31Wow, that's a long and wordy statement,
18:33but let me just put it in language we can all get our hands on.
18:36In the Old Testament, when you became a priest,
18:39you didn't raise your hand and take an oath.
18:40All you had to do to be a priest in the Old Testament
18:43was get born in the right family.
18:45That's it.
18:46You couldn't sign up to be a priest.
18:48You couldn't say, I'd like to be a priest.
18:49I'm going to go to priest school and learn how to be a priest.
18:52You couldn't do that.
18:53You had to be born into the priesthood.
18:56And you didn't have to take an oath.
18:57There was no oath about it.
18:58You just were a priest.
19:00How'd you get to be a priest?
19:01I was born one.
19:04But Jesus said in this new priesthood,
19:06after the order of Melchizedek,
19:08not only is it something that is sworn,
19:10he's going to take an oath that he will be the priest
19:13after the order of Melchizedek.
19:15This is the oath that enters us into the new covenant,
19:18the covenant of the New Testament.
19:22Notice the continuity of it in verses 23 and 24.
19:25Also, it says,
19:26there were many priests
19:27because they were prevented by death from continuing.
19:31But he, because he continues forever,
19:34has an unchangeable priesthood.
19:37The Old Testament law says that if you're a priest,
19:39you can only serve from the time you're 25
19:42to the time you're 50.
19:45You can be a priest when you're 25,
19:47but when you turn 50, it's done.
19:49Your life is finished.
19:50Ministry is over.
19:50Someone's going to take your place.
19:53Now, don't get any ideas.
19:54I'm already past 50.
20:00So, let me ask you this.
20:02Have you ever gone to a doctor your whole life,
20:05and then the doctor retires,
20:07and now you've got to get used to some new guy
20:09who just got out of school?
20:10He's got all these fancy ideas of preventative medicine.
20:13He wants to put you in a nutritional program.
20:15You know what I'm talking about?
20:16Everybody's laughing, you know?
20:19Can you imagine?
20:20Here's a guy who's gone to the same priest all of his life,
20:22and all of a sudden, the guy turns 50,
20:24and whoops, he's got to start over with a 25-year-old.
20:27The first reason why the Old Testament priesthood
20:30had no continuity to it is because they had term limits.
20:40The second reason was, it says right here in the text,
20:43what was there about priests that made it impossible
20:46for you to have the same one forever?
20:48They died.
20:49I mean, priests weren't, they weren't eternal.
20:52They had normal human life, and they would die.
20:55But Jesus, our new priest, is an unchangeable priest
21:01because he lives forever.
21:03He's our high priest forever, and listen to me.
21:07He's never going to be replaced.
21:09He has no term limits.
21:11He is there for us every time.
21:13You never have to get used to somebody else.
21:17He's our priest forever under the order of Melchizedek.
21:23And here's the consolation of it.
21:25Here's the key verse in the whole chapter.
21:27Therefore, therefore what?
21:29Therefore, because we have a new priest
21:31after the order of Melchizedek,
21:34not like the old Levitical priesthood,
21:36not like the law.
21:37Therefore, because we have this new priest,
21:39watch what happens.
21:40Therefore, he is able to save to the uttermost
21:45those who come to God through him
21:47since he always lives to make intercession for them.
21:50Now, it's worth going through everything
21:52we've gone through this morning just to get right here
21:56because we have this new priest who never dies,
21:59who doesn't have to quit after 25 years,
22:01who's always there, who's never changed.
22:04He's there making intercession for them,
22:06and the Bible says he's able to save us to the uttermost.
22:11Have you ever noticed how many times in the Bible
22:13the Bible tells us that he, Jesus, is able?
22:18He's able.
22:19He's able.
22:19Say that with me.
22:20He is able.
22:22Let me give you a list.
22:24He is able to make you stand, Romans 14, 4.
22:28He's able to establish you, Romans 16, 25.
22:32He's able to keep you from falling
22:34and present you faultless before his glory, Jude 24.
22:37He's able to make all grace abound towards you,
22:402 Corinthians 9, 8.
22:42He's able to keep that which you've committed
22:44unto him against that day, 2 Timothy 1, 12.
22:48He's able to build you up, Acts 20, 32.
22:51He's able to subdue all things, Philippians 3, 21.
22:54He's able to do exceedingly, abundantly,
22:57above all that we ask or think, Ephesians 3, 20.
23:01And he is able to save you to the uttermost, Hebrews 7, 25.
23:07Say it again.
23:08He is able.
23:10We have an able high priest.
23:13There's not anything he can't do.
23:15Nothing is too hard for him.
23:18He is the son of the most high God, the living God himself.
23:23You see, that's why we have Melchizedek in the book of Genesis
23:26and in the book of Psalms and in the book of Hebrews,
23:29so that this whole story, how many of you know
23:31that the whole Bible's about Jesus, not just the New Testament?
23:34Even the Old Testament's just pointing us toward him.
23:38This one who is able.
23:41You come to the end of the chapter.
23:43I'm just going to read these last three verses.
23:44For such a high priest was fitting for us.
23:47That means he was just the high priest we needed.
23:50We just needed this high priest.
23:52Holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.
23:55He's become higher than the heavens.
23:57Does not need daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifices,
24:01first for his own sins and then for the people's.
24:03For this he did once for all when he offered up himself.
24:08For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness,
24:11but the word of the oath which came safer,
24:14and the law appoints the son who has been perfected forever.
24:18He was the high priest we needed, isn't he?
24:20We don't need a priest with weakness.
24:21We don't need a priest who's not holy.
24:23We need a high priest just like the one we have.
24:26He's perfect.
24:26He's fitting for us.
24:28He's what we need.
24:29He's what I need.
24:30He's what you need.
24:32He's our high priest forever.
24:35We have this new priest, the Lord Jesus Christ.
24:39We have access to the Father.
24:42Do you have this high priest as your Savior?
24:45Is this Jesus somebody you know?
24:47No, not just about, somebody you know personally.
24:50Has there ever been a time when you've invited him
24:52to come and live within your heart and to take away your sin
24:55because that's what he came to do?
24:57He has no desire for you to be walking around
24:59with a burden of sin on your head.
25:01He wants to take it all away, and he will do it.
25:03All you have to do is ask him to forgive you.
25:06He will do it.
25:07He's promised.
25:09Nobody has ever come to him to seek forgiveness
25:11that he has not forgiven, and nobody ever will.
25:16I hope you know him.
25:18I recommend him to you.
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26:59and the culmination of Dr. Jeremiah's decades of teaching,
27:02helping you to answer,
27:03what does the Bible say?
27:05What does it mean?
27:06And what does it mean for me?
27:08Available in multiple translations and formats,
27:11there is a Jeremiah Study Bible for everyone.
27:13Also available for children,
27:15Dr. Jeremiah's Airship Genesis Kids Study Bible.
27:19Order yours today.
27:22Next time on Turning Point.
27:25And Jesus has done what no one else could do.
27:28He took hold of God in heaven,
27:29took hold of sinful man down here.
27:31Now watch this.
27:32And he brought us together on the cross.
27:35And there he mediated our differences,
27:40paying the penalty for all of our sin
27:42so that Almighty God can open his arms and welcome us.
27:47Thank you for being with us today.
27:49Join Dr. Jeremiah next time for his message,
27:52The Mediator,
27:55here on Turning Point.
28:00Enjoy a Bible conference on the water
28:02when you set sail with David and Donna Jeremiah to Alaska.
28:06Come face to face with some of the most impressive wonders of God's creation.
28:09More than just a getaway,
28:11it's a time to refresh, renew, and reconnect with God and loved ones.
28:15Uplifting Bible teaching from Dr. Jeremiah
28:17and worship with Michael Sanchez and Yuriel Vega.
28:20Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
28:23Call or go online for more information.
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