Psalm 110:4 The LORD has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. I. DIVINE AUTHORIZATION TO PRIESTHOOD. 1. The Divine oath has a reference to Christ, for it is the Divine authorization of His priestly office. What spiritual power resides in this mandate of God! It not only creates this office, with all its heavy duties and responsibilities, but it gives it full and free scope for the play of its functions. 2. The oath has also a reference to the sinner, the warrant for his approach to God. What stronger assurance of God's willingness to pardon, nay, rather, heart yearning anxiety to bring us into a justified state? II. THE OFFICE TO WHICH THE SON WAS CALLED — PRIESTHOOD. Christ, in His struggle with the powers of hell and darkness, was not an overborne subject, He was not a conquered victim, but He was in very truth an active, official, priestly agent), working out and bringing in, amidst sweat and agony and blood, that righteousness which is "unto all and upon all them that believe." III. THE DURATION OF CHRIST'S PRIESTHOOD. 1. Christ was Priest on earth. His whole life, from the manger to the cross, was an offering — a sacrificial oblation of sweet-smelling savour to God. 2. He is now a Priest in heaven. (S. McComb.) Parallel Verses KJV: The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. |
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