The LORD has sworn

and will not change his mind,

 

“You are a priest forever

after the order of Melchizedek.”

Psalm 110: 4

 

 

BIBLICAL EVIDENCE FOR

THE SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST

&

THE NEW COVENANT

 

FOR ADVENT IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ANNO DOMINI 2003

 

from the pulpit at Pilgrim's Rest

 Christ Covenant Reformed

(Presbyterian Church in America)

14787 Palmer Road - Reynoldsburg, Ohio  43068-3315

 

 

“There is salvation in no one else,

 for there is no other name under heaven

 given among men by which we must be saved.” 

Acts 4: 12

 

“There is one God,

and there is one mediator between God and men,

 the man Christ Jesus,

who gave himself as a ransom for all.”

1 Timothy 2: 5-6a

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.”

John 6: 44

 

 

 

 

THE FIRST ARGUMENT

Hebrews 7: 1-10

 

The Historic Melchizedek

The Importance of Melchizedek

 

THE SECOND ARGUMENT

Hebrews 7: 11-19

 

A New Covenant in Christ

The New Economy of Christ

 

THE THIRD ARGUMENT

Hebrews 7: 20-22

 

A Better Covenant

 

THE FOURTH ARGUMENT

Hebrews 7: 23-25

 

A Permanent Mediator

 

THE FIFTH ARGUMENT

Hebrews 7: 26-28

 

A Sufficient Sacrifice

 

December in the year of our Lord 2003

 

Welcome fellow Pilgrims,

 

You have joined a long series already in progress wherein we are scrutinizing the wonderful letter to the Hebrews week by week to discern the saving covenantal doctrines realized in Christ alone.

 

We are not ashamed to announce boldly before all men that with the coming of Jesus Christ and the announcement of the New Covenant – that thereby the Old Covenant Church is now superceeded and is by necessity - now only a relic of an earlier dispensation of promised grace foreshadowed in the ordinances of the law given through Moses.

 

Certainly, all of those ancient brethren who looked forward to the coming of their and our Messiah are saved in and through Him alone.  However, with the coming of Christ and the beginning of His eternal reign the old order is thereby pushed aside as our great Prophet – Priest – King reigns supreme over all those citizens of His Kingdom whom He has called and elected as a people for His own in this world and the next.

 

Pastor Max A Forsythe