TSK · Hebrews 7:26

You ascend on high, you have taken many captives. You receive tribute from men, including even sinful rebels. Indeed the LORD God lives there!

On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the Sovereign LORD.

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

A third time he said to them,“Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.”

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he praised God and said,“Certainly this man was innocent!”

and said to them,“Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

“For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

As a result God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,

For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Jesus and the Priesthood of Melchizedek So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood– for on that basis the people received the law– what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron’s order?

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again– sacrifices that can never take away sins.

but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

To the Church in Philadelphia“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open: