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Classic Christianity – Book of Hebrews P66 (02-13-24)

Jesus is Our Priest of the Order of Melchizedek

~ Jesus is without beginning and without end. He is King of Righteousness. He is King of Peace. Jesus is High Priest Forever. Jesus ushered in a new law. Jesus is above ALL. Jesus is greater than ALL.

Don’t let anyone put you under a guilt trip of thinking you need to tithe in order to be blessed by God. That is a lie of Satan. There is no tithing today. The tithe was to support the Levitical priesthood. It’s time to understand the truth of the word of God. There is NO Levitical priesthood today. The religionists want you to keep yourself dependent on the teaching of Man instead of the TRUTH of the word of God and the Holy Spirit who lives in you. Stop giving to your jailers and go free in Christ Jesus.

~ This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and Abraham apportioned to him a tenth of everything. First, his name means “king of righteousness.” Then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.” Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time. Consider how great Melchizedek was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder. Now the law commands the sons of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their brothers—though they too are descended from Abraham. But Melchizedek, who did not trace his descent from Levi, collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. And indisputably, the lesser is blessed by the greater. In the case of the Levites, mortal men collect the tenth; but in the case of Melchizedek, it is affirmed that he lives on. And so to speak, Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham. For when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the loin of his ancestor.^{Hebrews 7:1-10}

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~ “Now, here’s some of the stipulations of being a priest. In other words, you are to serve over all of the house of Israel in regard to the matters of God, a priest is a representative of the people to God. And Levites, you’re the one to do that. You’re the one named appointed by God to do that. But there’s some criteria here, first of all, the Lord said to Aaron, you will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them. I am your share and your inheritance among the Israelites. In other words, you will inherit nothing I give to the Levites all tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work that they’re doing while serving in the tent meeting. Down in verse 23, you’ll see again, it is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent meeting and bear the responsibility for the offenses against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, they will receive no inheritance among the Israelites. They will have no inheritance among the Israelites talked about again So to a Levite, a priest, he could have no inheritance. He could own nothing. He could possess nothing. He had no rights to do anything except be a priest. Now in order if you can’t go work and earn money, and you can’t own your own house, you can’t own your own air conditioned dog house. You can’t own any of those things. No Mercedes Benz wouldn’t have any of those things. No Rolls Royces. No million dollar homes, none of that you couldn’t own anything. If you’re going to be a Levitical. Priest, you own nothing. Then you say, well, then how am I going to live? Well, I’ll tell you how you’re going to live. There’s 12 tribes of Israel. And I’m going to take every one of those tribes, and I will instruct them to give 10% of their foodstuffs and their resources. And every one of them will bring that foodstuff into the storehouse, that was not a church building. It was a barn. It was a silo that you will bring to the storehouse, that’s not a church building. And you will bring that foodstuff. And if you’ve got 12 tribes, and one of them’s a Levite, that leaves 11 tribes, and each one of them given 10% gives the fact that you then as a Levite, can will live off of the 10% of the 10 tribes and of the 11 tribes that will be an overflow that you feed the poor with. So the way that the Levites lived was through the tithe of the other 11 tribes of Israel. So I say to people today, if you’re going to teach people that you are demanded by God to give like an Israelite, why don’t you live like a Levite. And unless you’re willing to live like I Levite, I don’t tell people to be giving like an Israelite.” ~ Bob George

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Now, he said this, Melchizedek had no father and mother. In other words, he just shows up in Scripture, and we’ll show you that nobody knows where it came from, or where he who he was or where he was going. He just showed up. So from our understanding, we don’t know where he came from. He didn’t have a father and mother he was without genealogy. He was without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

Now let’s turn back to the book of Genesis. In chapter 14, we’re not going to go through all of this. I’ll try to bring it together for you. You’re going to see in there that there was a battle that took place between kings. You had one set of kings over here and another set of kings over here that got together. And they had a a battle. In this battle, down in verse 12 of 14, you’re going to see they also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot, and his possession since he was living in Sodam. So at this particular time, these kings were involved in this battle. And they came in to Sodam, and they took a Lot which was Abraham’s nephew. Now, it says, one who had escaped, came and reported this Abraham, who was a Hebrew, in other words, Abraham was involved in this stuff. But they said they came in and took your nephew and his possessions. So Abraham, a Hebrew, said, no one’s gonna get away with that. Sounds familiar? I gotta get away with that. They’re not gonna take my nephew, and they’re not gonna take his possessions. So it says that now, Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshkol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram. Now, when Abram heard that his relatives have been taken captive, he called out of the 318 trained men born in his household, and they went into pursuit as far as what’s it called Dan. During the night, Abraham, Abram divided his men to attack them, and he rounded them pursuing them. As far as Hoba, north of Damascus, he recovered all the goods, man, he got it all back. And he brought back his relative Lot, and all of his possessions, together with the women and the other people. So he went in and got it all back, plus some, brought back the women too, smart Hebrew. Now after that, Abram returned from, from defeating, and this was the name of a king Kedorlaomer, and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet them in the valley, in the Kings Valley. Now, all of a sudden here, cuz then Melchizedek, king of Salem brought out bread and wine. So it said, Where’d he come from? Nobody knows. What he said, didn’t have any ancestry. Just all of a sudden, there he was, king Melchizedek. And he was a priest of God Most High. And he blessed Abraham. And he said, bless it be Abraham, by God, Most High creator of heaven and earth. Folks, this was merely an appearance of Christ, before his coming. The blessings and Blessed be God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand. And then Abraham gave him a 10th of everything. Now, folks, this was not a tither. This wasn’t a church service. This was a battle that had taken place, and was custom always for the victor, that he always gave a 10th of his plunder back to the king. The only difference was is where this king came from, it wasn’t unusual to give a 10th of your plunder back to the king. But it was where this would come from? Again, it’s not a church service. This isn’t the first Baptist Church or First Methodist church or someplace like that. A battle had been fought. And they had gone back and taken back what had been stolen from them, and brought it back and then did what was the custom of that day, and was to give a 10th of the plunder back to the state, so to speak. It was like a taxation only it was a voluntary taxation had nothing to do with religion. It didn’t have anything to do with church, there wasn’t any, didn’t even have anything to do with the Levitical priesthood, there wasn’t any. It just had to do with custom of the day, a battle had been fought, and the victor collected all of the goods, services and everything from whoever they conquered, and took a 10th of that and gave it to the king. It’d be like today, come out and make some money. 10% goes to the government, pay the government. Wish it was only 10 Then king of Sodom and said Abraham, give me the people and keep the good yourself. This king said, Look, just give me the people. But Abraham said to the king of Sodom, I’ve raised my hand is the Lord God Most High, creator of heaven and earth and I have taken an oath that I will accept nothing belonging to you not even a thread nor a throng of a sandal so that you will never be able to say that I made Abram rich, I will accept nothing, but what my man have eaten, and the share that belongs to the men who went with me. That’s it, let them have their share.

Now following this is where God made the covenant with Abram, regarding the fact that he was going to have children that would populate would be greater than the stars in the sand on the sea. Now, let’s go back then to Chapter Seven of Hebrews. So that’s what happened there. Without father and mother. Now, that’s the only account of this whole deal folks in the Bible, this this Melchizedek, it was mentioned in one verse and one deal, and you don’t hear about him anymore. Now, it comes back to the fact that Abraham, and Abraham who was the father of the, of the Hebrew nation, and quite often the father of the Arabs, he was the father of everybody. that Abraham was the person that was worshipped and followed in Hebrewism. Moses gave the law but Abraham, he was the father Abraham was the father of at all. And what the writer is saying, there’s someone here greater than Abraham, Abraham, even bowed his knee to this Melchizedek. So there was someone greater than Abraham there. That’s bounced back to people saying, Man, Abraham was the ultimate. And you’re saying there’s someone greater than him? Yeah, there was a king Melchizedek. Remember that? He came back and gave a 10th of the plunder to him. That shows there was someone greater than Abraham, otherwise Melchizedek would have given to him. And when someone tried to give to him, he said no, I’ve already given to someone greater than myself. Now, just think how great he was. It goes ahead, even the patriarch Abraham gave him a 10th of the plunder. Now, the law requires that the descendants of Levi, who become priests to collect a 10th from the people that is their brothers, and even though their brothers are descended from Abraham, so under the priesthood of the Levitical priesthood, the Levi’s were to collect they were priests. And they were collect a 10th, from the people that was a taxation and there’s a reason for that. That is their brothers, even though their brothers were descended from Abraham. So even though we all came from Abraham, he was saying, even though the Levites came from Abraham, they still were paying the Levites a 10th, even though they’re brothers. Now let’s go back to the book of Numbers, for a minute. It seems chapter. Now again, I don’t have time to go through and read all of this. But it’s talking an 18 chapter about the duties of priests and Levites. You had in Israel, the 12 tribes of Israel, and the Levites, were then designated by God to be the priests over those tribes. Now in verse seven, only you is talking now, he’s talking now to to the Father. He says, only you, Aaron. And your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar, and inside of the curtain, turned over to verse 20.

Now, here’s some of the stipulations of being a priest. In other words, you are to serve over all of the house of Israel in regard to the matters of God, a priest is a representative of the people to God. And Levites, you’re the one to do that. You’re the one named appointed by God to do that. But there’s some criteria here, first of all, the Lord said to Aaron, you will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them. I am your share and your inheritance among the Israelites. In other words, you will inherit nothing I give to the Levites all tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work that they’re doing while serving in the tent meeting. Down in verse 23, you’ll see again, it is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent meeting and bear the responsibility for the offenses against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, they will receive no inheritance among the Israelites. They will have no inheritance among the Israelites talked about again So to a Levite, a priest, he could have no inheritance. He could own nothing. He could possess nothing. He had no rights to do anything except be a priest. Now in order if you can’t go work and earn money, and you can’t own your own house, you can’t own your own air conditioned dog house. You can’t own any of those things. No Mercedes Benz wouldn’t have any of those things. No Rolls Royces. No million dollar homes, none of that you couldn’t own anything. If you’re going to be a Levitical. Priest, you own nothing. Then you say, well, then how am I going to live? Well, I’ll tell you how you’re going to live. There’s 12 tribes of Israel. And I’m going to take every one of those tribes, and I will instruct them to give 10% of their foodstuffs and their resources. And every one of them will bring that foodstuff into the storehouse, that was not a church building. It was a barn. It was a silo that you will bring to the storehouse, that’s not a church building. And you will bring that foodstuff. And if you’ve got 12 tribes, and one of them’s a Levite, that leaves 11 tribes, and each one of them given 10% gives the fact that you then as a Levite, can will live off of the 10% of the 10 tribes and of the 11 tribes that will be an overflow that you feed the poor with. So the way that the Levites lived was through the tithe of the other 11 tribes of Israel. So I say to people today, if you’re going to teach people that you are demanded by God to give like an Israelite, why don’t you live like a Levite. And unless you’re willing to live like I Levite, I don’t tell people to be giving like an Israelite.

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Tithing is not New Testament giving. Never has been, never will be. It was a means to support a priesthood whose job was to devote themselves totally 100% to taking care of the tent meetings, taking care of the priestly activities, and they could not support themselves by being in the business, owning homes, owning cars and everything else. Oh folks, that’s a far cry from what we see today, isn’t it? And people going out and teaching it you give God’s gonna make you rich, the only one getting rich out that’s the one is getting the givens. And it’s another form of total deception that has swept and taking over. In so called Christian teaching, which is no Christian teaching at all, it’s a, it is a commingling of what’s beneficial. I’ll teach a little grace if it can help me and I’ll teach a little law if it can help me. And I’ve got a building program coming on. I’m going to teach little tithing. In fact, I’ll teach a lot tithing during a building program, and then I’ll kind of ease off a little grace after it’s paid for, until we get the next building, then we’ll have another tithing. And it is used as a manipulation from the pulpits across this country, to manipulate people to get my desires filled. And again, it comes from a collection, attitude of denial of the sufficiency of Christ who said, I, Jesus will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. And if Jesus is going to build the church, what am I trying to build it for? What do I need to go out and try to build it if he said, I’ll build it? What do I need to go out with 10,000 visitation programs in order to drag you out of your houses and put you on 10,000 committees so that you can be busy and be a big dog in the church? What I need to do that for if Jesus said, I’ll build my church, and all Jesus said, a pastor to do, he said, If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto myself, our role is one thing and one thing only it’s to lift up Jesus. And whoever comes are the whosoever wills. And when you come, you come to learn, you don’t come to be manipulated. You don’t come to be coerced. You don’t need to come to be committeeized. You don’t need to come in order to find out who’s got the money and put them up and pray on Sunday. Do you want to know who’s got the money in churches? Listen, radio broadcasts and whoever’s praying they’re the ones have the money. I’m sorry to say that, but that is a true thing that many times is going on.

Tithing is, Jesus said a speck of levan will spoil the whole thing. You cannot teach the grace of God out of one side of your mouth and go over and teach tithing out of the other. Jesus said it very clearly you cannot put new wine into old wineskins. When you put wine into a wine skin, and the wine ferments, it stretches the skin to its ultimate capacity. You pour that wine out and you put new wine into those already expanded wine skins. And the wine ferments and it expands the already expanded wine skins and adverts the skins and you lose the skins and the wine, you’re either have to get on one side or the other. You either gonna have to get on the side of grace or get on the side of law, but quit trying to commingle them because it’s like mixing oil and water, they don’t mix. You have pure milk, and you have pure chocolate and you mix them and you got a hybrid breed of something called chocolate milk. It is neither chocolate, nor is it milk. It’s a breed of the two. And that, quite frankly, is what modern day Christianity has become a chocolate milk religion. It’s watered down. It’s neither hot nor cold. And it’s like Jesus said to the church, not to the people, but to the leadership in revelation. And I’d like to spew you out of my mouth. You’re neither hot nor cold. You’re neither for me nor against you. You’re a bunch of chocolate milkers. I said either get on one side or the other. If you’re going to be a legless go be a good one. Till it eats your lunch. If you want to be a grazer. Be a grace, all the way. Not halfway all the way. But don’t try to commingle the two.

Now he goes ahead to say then that when he’s talking about this that just think how it was even the patriarch Abraham gave him a 10th of the plunder. Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a 10th for the people that is their brothers, even though their brothers are a descendant of Abraham. Verse six. This man, however, did not trace his descendant from Levi. Yet he collected a 10th from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. He wasn’t even the Levitical the priesthood what even existed yet And yet he did this. And without a doubt, the lesser person as great as blessed by the Greater. In one case, the 10th is collected by men who die. That’s Levites. In the other case, by him who had declared to be living as Melchizedek. One might even say that Levi who collects a 10th paid a 10th to Abraham, they were all the same descendants. And when Melchizedek met Abraham Levi was still in the body of his ancestor. In other words, if your inheritance if you had put it in this way, if what I have, let’s say that the law required or that’s what I required that everything I have when I die would go to my son. And I took part of what I have and paid it to the Levites. In essence that if I paid 10% of the Levites, that means 10% That young Bob isn’t gonna get. So in essence, he paid the tithe through me. And that’s all it’s talking about.

Now, it says, If perfection now could be attained through the Levitical priesthood, in other words, through this priesthood that God ordained, called the Levitical priesthood, if perfection could be gained through that, and it says, For on the basis of the law was given to the people, why was there still a need for another priest to come? In other words, if perfection could be gained through this priesthood that God initiated? Why would there need for another priest to come? Why was there a need for a Melchizedek? Back then why is there a need for Christ today? One in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron. Now, folks, here’s what this whole deal is pushing toward, for when there is a change of priesthood, there must also be a change in the law. And that’s what he’s trying to get them to see, folks, you’ve been under the law, it was God given. But there’s something new that’s taken place. It’s called the New Covenant. And it was brought back not by Levitical priesthood, who was designed by God to handle the affairs of man, but by a priest on the order of Melchizedek. Without genealogy, not out of the normal realm of things, not out of Hebrewism, but direct by God. And when you have a new priest, there’s a change in the law, there’s a change in your custom. There’s a change, it’s not the same anymore. And why he saying that is because people come to Christ, and then they keep wanting to go back to their old traditions. And they keep wanting to go back because it’s familiar to them. And we love that familiarity. And, and, and that’s not hard to understand, we become engrossed in tradition, we, we become comfortable in doing things the way we do it. And that’s what was taking place. But he’s saying, Guys, we’ve got to flee from this, we have fled, we said, to take hold of this new hope. And this hope is in Christ, it isn’t in my tradition. It’s in Christ.

Now he of whom these things are said belong to a different tribe, it says, For no one from this tribe has ever served at the altar. For it’s clear that our Lord descended from Judah, he didn’t come from Levites came from Judah. And in regard to that Dr. Moses said nothing about priests, there wasn’t anything Moses talked about priest in the line of Judah. And what we have said, is even more clear, if another priest like Melchizedek appears, one who has become a priest not on the basis of regulation as to his ancestry, but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. Where it is declared you are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek. So he says the former regulation was set aside, because it was weak, and it was useless. What regulation what among it? Tithe the 10% to the Levites. Do we have Levitical priests anymore, folks? Do we do we have Levite priests anymore? And as a matter of fact, didn’t it say in the Scripture Don’t call anyone a priest except Christ. We don’t have Levitical priesthood anymore. So that systems gone. But we carry it over so that we can manipulate as I said, there’s a better hope that’s introduced. The former regulation was set aside because it was weak and it was useless. For the law made nothing perfect. You Oh, you could obey it. That didn’t make you perfect. You can go down and give your time I’ll give it for I don’t God’s gonna zap me. I’ll give them a tide. Your hearts cold. See, folks, religion can get you involved in all kinds of exterior activity. But God said we don’t have mercy. We don’t have anything. The issue is not what I’m doing out there. The issue is what’s going on in their hearts? Are we finding ourselves to be more loving? Are we finding ourselves to have an attitude of mercy toward people? Or do we still have that judgmental spirit? I wouldn’t do that. How could anyone ever do such a thing? Just hang around, you’ll see. Or is their attitude getting softened? You see, folks as we talked about before it says the law is a shadow. And if I want to sit and look at the law, I’m going to have to look at a shadow. And the only way that I can see a shadow is if the sun is at my back. And if the sun’s at my back, then I can see the shadow because I’ve got my back turned to the sun, from the sun. And when we want to be under the law, it’s because our back is turned from God and God is way out there someplace. Way out there. When we turn the shadows behind us and I’m looking at the sun and being warmed by the sun. And I’m drawing nearer to the Son. The closer that you and I come to Christ Jesus, not religion, to the presence of God, understanding Christ Jesus, understanding and knowing he’s our best friend. Christ Jesus is closer than our own breath. He’s our best friend. I’ve been in Christ 22 years and I love him more today than I ever did. He’s become my best friend. What do you think about? Well you think about being who you are. Christ is living in you. He’s living in you. He’s living in me. He’s our life. It’s no longer I who lives as Paul said, It’s Christ. I understand that.

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