Why Jesus always forgives!

 

Intro

 

How do I know that Im really forgiven or how many times can I sin? Before Jesus says; okay I’ve had enough dispersal. But bottom line is the forgiveness of Jesus.. It never runs out. And it doesn’t run out just because you’re so good. The reason why He is always forgiving, the main reason really is, because of His role now as high priest.

 

We know that Jesus is a king. The ultimate King, but he is also, according to the scripture, the ultimate priest. And when you study the way of the high priest and how they function..

 

They live to forgive. That’s why in Psalms 110:4, it talks about how the coming Messiah will not only just be a king, but he would also be a priest, a high priest.

 

So the Messiah is a hight priest. And the reason why that’s important is, because everything in the Old Testament about high priests, all the rituals they had to do all the things that are written down the name, it wasn’t just written because it was good cool story.. it wasn’t written in the way it was in the Book of Leviticus, because it sounded neat. All of the things in the Bible that where said about the hight priest, and how they function, was all written exactly and precisely the way it was to foreshadow and parallel prophetically what the ultimate high priest “Jesus” would do for us…

 

So that’s why we are about to get beat right here in scripture. You can see why Jesus is so forgiving and we’re gonna  go just through the role of the high priest. So just a little background. Where did the whole role of the High Priest come from…?

 

The role of the High Priest

 

Back in the old testament when God freed the Israelites from Egypt, they wandered in the wilderness. And God didn’t just want to free them from the Egyptians. He wanted to have a relationship with them, but in order for the Israelites to have a relationship with God, they would have to be holy, because God is holy. And you can only have a relationship with him and into his presence, if you too are holy… well there’s a problem. It’s impossible for humans in this life to ever be holy enough to stand before God in a good relationship. So therefore in the book of Leviticus, we see that God created sacrifices, tabernacles and the role of the high priest.

 

And these where all designed so that the people the Israelites could be free from sin so they could have a relationship with God.

 

First role of the High Priest

 

The high priest was the only one who could enter into the sacred room called the Holy of holies. So what is that. ?

 

So in the Old Testament God had Moses build the tabernacle. The tabernacle is basically a huge tent that would sometimes have the presence of God in it. Gods presence would come into the tabernacle. And in the tabernacle was a special room, a sacred and holy room called the Holy of Holies. And in this room, this is where the High priest would come and bring animal sacrifices into the room and he would bring it once a year on the day of atonement. This would represent the sins of the people. Once the High priest brought animal sacrifices into the room, basically for the whole year, then the people will be free from sin and then they could have a relationship with God. They would be pure before god. So how does that relate to Jesus?

 

Well according to the Bible, everything that was written about the high priest entering a sacred holy room with blood and the sacrifices to make people free from sin all that was written to point to Jesus..

 

And it makes sense. The Bible says that Jesus, instead of going to the Holy of Holies with the blood of goats and animals, He used his own body his own blood, and he didn’t enter into a holy of Holies that was build in tent. No he went to the to the ultimate Holy of Holies. The throne room of God, he went to the throne room of God and took his own body, is own blood on behalf of us. And he didn’t just do it once a year, like the Old Testament high priests did. He did it for eternity. He did it one time, and that’s the only time he ever has to do it.

 

This means that just as the high priest allows the people to be free from sin for a year… you are free from sin forever.. Basically his death was the ultimate day of atonement. Look at Hebrews 9:7. The book of Hebrews really breaks down the parallel between the high priest and Jesus as the ultimate high priest.

 

Verse 7:

 

“But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, with he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.”

 

Verse 11:

 

But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went trough the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, not a part of this creation. He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he enters the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.

 

That's amazing!

 

Second role of the High Priest

 

Now the second role of the high priest in the Old Testament, they would offer a sin offering and a peace offering. The sin offering represented the removal of sin and the peace offering represented that people have any new relationship a relationship of peace with God.

 

Here is something amazing. The peace offering, before it could be offered, the people would have to eat if it. It was the only offering that the people could eat of and the reason why they would eat of this peace offering first, is because it represented of how they where taking part of this new life of purification.

 

Before the offering would be made the people would eat of it, and they ate of it. Because it represented them taking part of a new life. And then the high priest would offer the offering. 

 

Notice how Jesus said it before he was to offer his body on the cross he told his people, he said: you must eat of this offering.. What was the offering? He said you must eat of my body. This is why we have the Holy communion. Because symbolically represents us eating and taking a part of the offering of Jesus’s blood and taking part in a new life in Christ. And the awesome thing is when they, in the Old Testament, ate of the peace offering before the high priest offered it. They ate of an offering that represented their purification that will only last for a year, but when we take part in the holy communion we do it celebrating a purification of holiness that will last forever.

 

Let's check out Hebrews 9:28:

 

“So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.”

 

The third role of the High Priest

 

The Third role of the High priest is that he was the mediator between God and the people. So basically he would speak to God on behalf of the people, and then God would give the people grace. Now you see why the Bible says that Jesus is the mediator between God and the people. Because the role of a High Priest is to be mediator. This is why when we pray to God, we do it in the name of the ultimate mediator, Jesus. Just like the High priest in the Old Testament was a mediator and God would show grace because of the high priests role saying here the Bible, that when we pray no matter how many times we sin, Jesus speaks to the Father. Our Father died on behalf in a way so we can approach him

 

So if you have sinned or whatever you did, you confess your sins to Jesus and preach. And then you can approach your father God with such confidence because there is no shame, because the mediator has made it so there is nothing interfering with your communication. All we have to do is admit that we did wrong and try to do better and our relationship with God is as strong as it has ever been. Hebrews 9:15

 

“For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance. Now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.”

 

The fourth role of the High Priest

 

The fourth role of the High Priest is to teach the people God’s word. The High Priest would teach the people about God, they would instruct the people about the law. And that was one of the major roles, they were a teacher.

 

So how does that profit your grace. Well notice how Jesus said that he was our teacher. You see as the High Priest, his role is to teach. Jesus did all of the things a High Priest had to do. Before He offered his body as a sacrifice He led his disciples to know that before I go, I am also going to teach you. How am I going to teach you? Im going to leave you my Holy Spirit, wich will teach you everything you need to know.

 

This is why, when you receive the Holy Spirit. You receive so much inside revelation.

The Bible opens up and you see thing that you never saw before.

 

Why? Because Jesus the great king and High Priest is teaching you. He’s doing it all. That's why in John 14:26 It reads:

 

“But the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”

 

 Jesus was letting his people know. When I go and deal with this sin thing about offering  my body and ressurected the third day to sit in the presence of the Father, in the great Holy of Holies. I will still fulfill my role of teaching you by giving you my spirit. He is doing it all prophetically and fulfilling his role as the High Priest. And we can keep going. thats not all.

 

The fifth role of the High Priest

 

It keeps going. So you see the High priest, they had to have high standard that would reinsure that they were the holiest among the people. You see, since the High priest represented God and they where the mediator between God and the people when they enter the Holy of Holies with sacrifices. They had to have incredible high standards placed on them. You can read all about this in the book of Leviticus. So basically when you read it, you will clearly see that the high priest basically had to be the holiest people in the area, because they were the ones representing the people before God. they had to be extremely holy.

 

You see if Jesus had to be the ultimate high priest. He would have had to be more than just hoping. He would have to be holiest person ever. Like sin free. Like never sinned. And as we know, He Was… He never sinned. The holiest person ever, because he is the ultimate High priest.

 

Fun fact

 

It's amazing… and here is a fun fact. I'm just going to throw it out there. This is a deep one right here. In the Old Testament. You had to be thirty years old before you could become the High Priest. You had to be thirty years old before you can become a High Priest and be serving for God in that way.

 

Let me ask you a question.. how old was Jesus when he began his ministry? That’s right.. he was thirty years old. He died when he was 33. But he was thirty years old.

 

You see all the numbers in the Bible, all of the things that happend, it wasn’t just written for good story telling. It was all precisely recorded with a purpose. Even the numbers. Jesus didn’t just decide to go into ministry when he was thirty years old, thinking it was a good idea. He knew!

 

Jesus led the tour. He knew he was the high priest. And He knew that the high priest function in ministry is at thirty years old. And that’s why even He began ministry at 30 years old.

 

I bet you never heard that before! It all relates, it all connects and that's just how powerful God's word is. You see there are a lot of things I want to talk about and you see all the stories will connect so deep it will blow your mind. You will literally have to get up and take a break and tell other people to check this stuff out!

 

So the truth is, I'm going tell you. The King that I preach, His return is so near. Now I'm not just saying that because there have been wars and rumors of wars, I am not just saying that because the gospel of the kingdom has almost been preached to the whole world. But that will happen very soon, because of the media today you better believe every nation is going to hear the gospel of the kingdom. But there are things, mathematical prophetic parallels in the scripture, that show God’s timeline. That shows how close we are to the end. No one will know the day when He returns. But the season, it is time that you better start looking up. The time that you better start getting serious. That season is upon us!

 

Just to summarize everything, we see that Jesus is the ultimate high priest. He lives to forgive and everything the high priest did, was all done to illustrate the role of Jesus, as the forgiver, who made it so that we can always have an awesome relationship with God.

 

So never feel that you’ve done anything to keep you from approaching God. Because when God sees you.. he sees you with eyes of love and favor, because when God sees you, he doesn’t see sin.. he doesn’t see something unworthy. When he sees you, he sees holiness. He sees righteousness, he sees goodness, because you are covered by the blood of Jesus the king AND High priest. Who lives to forgive..