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"In the days of His flesh..."

Text: Hebrews 5:7

LESSONS THAT MUST BE LEARNED

There were many lessons that Jesus had to learn before He could fulfil all that God had required of Him. The following text reveals significant truths.

“As He also says in another place:
‘You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek’;
who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers
and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him
who was able to save Him from death,
and was heard because of His godly fear, though He was a Son,
yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
And having been perfected, He became the author of
eternal salvation to all who obey Him.”
Hebrews 5:6-9

1. The Melchizedek High Priesthood

a) The name “Melchizedek” is drawn from Genesis 14:18-20.

b) The original Melchizedek was a Priest-King (Genesis 14:18).

c) Jesus was the fulfilment of the Melchizedek priesthood.

2. There were lessons that Jesus had to learn before He could fulfil this role

a) He had to learn how to offer up prayers.

b) He had to know how to offer supplications.

c) Those prayers must be genuine and deep-seated.

d) They were offered up “with vehement cries and tears”.

e) He had to learn how to cry out to God to save Him from death.

i) Was there the danger of death in the 40 Days and 40 Nights of fasting?

The short answer is “Yes!”

ii) How was Jesus then spared from death?

He cried out to the Lord in godly fear!

f) He had to learn obedience.

i) Even if he was the Son of God.

ii) This lesson of full obedience was not easy to learn.

iii) Only when He was perfected could He become the author of eternal salvation.

iv) Those who are truly saved must learn how to live in obedience to the Lord.