Abram built three altars to the Lord

 Genesis 13:1-18 

Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.

For their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.

So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”

Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.  I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.

So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.

 Why?

Abram honored the name of the Lord, so when he came to a new place he built an altar in memory of the Lord.

One who remembers the grace of the Lord will be blessed by the Lord!

How?

What can I do, I can do nothing except the Lord guiding me, leading me. Give thanks to the Lord what can I do is worship his Holy name and obey God's word and command.

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him

Genesis 12:1-20

The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem.

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.

He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels. But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai. So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife? Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!” Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.

Why?

Even though Abram cheated Pharaoh, the Lord saved Abram, not only his wife was safe, and got many gifts from Pharaoh.

Because Abram obeyed the commands of the Lord and went to Canaan the promised land.

Listening and obeying the word of the Lord is better than doing anything.

How many years old is not the reason, Abram heard the word of the Lord and went out to the promised land is 75 years old.

How?

Listening and obeying the word of the Lord is my blessing.

Real faith does have the words of the Lord, if it doesn't it is our self-faith, it is not the faith described in the Bible.

真實的信心，必須是神先向你說了話；倘若神沒有向你說話，你的信心是「自信」，不是聖經裏的信心。

          (六)信心的憑據不是「看見」或「認識」，而是在於得著「神的話

When they came to Harran, they settled there

 Genesis 11:10-32 

This is the account of Shem’s family line. Arphaxad, Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, and Terah he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.

Why?

Here describes the tribe of Abram from Shen's family.

How?
Everyone who came to this world has God's mission and arrangement. Great is the Lord!

Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world

 Genesis 11:1-9 

“Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Why?

That is, Babylon; Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused.

Babylon always makes against the Lord!

People always have many sins to do something like the Lord. But it is impossible to human beings.

How?

God is my father, You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” Psalm16:2

This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons

 Genesis 10:1-32

This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood. are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

Why?

Here recorded all the descending of their claim of Noah.

This is the beginning of human beings after the flooding. A new generation is started.

How?

 How short is our life in this world. I am a chosen one to be a son of the Lord, may my life can honor the holy name of the Lord.

But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it

 Genesis 9:1-29

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.”

Why?

The Lord doesn't need to make a sign of the covenant between God and the earth, for the Lord can do everything in His mind and ways. But the Lord respects his creation, human beings.

Don't say any worse word to any one for we are sons of the Lord, our curse will be like the order of the Lord.

How?

Say encouraging words to people around us and don't curse others, for we have the right of the son of God.

Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil

 Genesis 8:1-22

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 150 days is the same as the waters flooding the earth for 150 days.

After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

Why?

The flooding and waiting until the surface is dry is about one year, 150+150+40+15+15=370 days.

The Lord knew even after flooding the human heart is evil from childhood. But for the mercy of the Lord, God won't destroy all the living creatures.

God gives us many chances to return to the Lord, for God is love.

How?

Even if there is not flooding, at the end of the world, there is a judgment all of us have to face it.

because I have found you righteous in this generation

Genesis 7:1-24

The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

Why?

Because in the generation of Noah, there were evil men and evil minds in human beings, so the Lord erased all living animals and life in the world.

Only the family of Noah and their chosen animals are saved after this flooding.

Under the wrath of the Lord who can stand firm or living? No one can.

How?

Honor the Holy Name of the Lord and fear the Lord for God is righteousness.

When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them.

 Genesis 5:1-32 

When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created. 

When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

........When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.” After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Why?

There were many sons and grandsons of Adam, and the Lord called them Mankind. 

Finally, Noah was born, he is God's love man in that generation.

How?

Don't care about what most mankind cares about. but only Noah is the chosen one by the Lord in that generation.

Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord

 Genesis 6:1-22

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created.

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. 

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

Why?

Why the Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled? Ans. God KNOWS how things are going to “pan out” and God ALLOWS things to happen the way they do. This is not a failure in God. When God gave mankind “free will” He knew that man would choose to go his own way and do his own thing. If He had stopped the evil men in pre-diluvian times; if he had stopped Saul making his mistakes; then He would be a controlling God and we would be automatons. It’s pretty nigh-on impossible to understand but God ALLOWED mistakes to be made while KNOWING all the mistakes that would be made. Let’s not blame God for the evil in man – that’s our fault!

But Noah was chosen by the Lord to continue God's work on God's creations.

How?

God is good, all of the evil minds and faults come from our sins. God allows us have fault, but for the love of the Lord, we may confess our sins and return to the Lord through Jesus Christ.

God has granted me another child in place of Abel, he named him Enosh

 Genesis 4:1-26

Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.” Seth also had a son, and , he named him Enosh.

Why?

The Lord takes care of Cain and gives another son Enosh to Adam to replace Abel. God's love endure forever and full of abundence.

We don't know too many things and which is beyond our mind and imagination. What we can do is obey the word of the Lord and the love of the Lord are abundance and God is faithfulness Lord.

How?

Give thanks to the Lord, even I do not understand the background or any reason or God's plan, but God arranges the best for us.

Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:8-24

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”  To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Why?

Adam and his wife Eve ate the fruit that the Lord forbade, so they were banished from the Garden of Eden to work the ground and for dust, Adam came, and to dust, Adam will return. They could not have eternal life.

These are the laws that every man needs to work hard to get food for a living. And the women have to bear the labor to give birth to children. These are the penalties of sin to all human beings.

How?

Thanks the Lord gives us a new way to get eternal life, which is through Jesus Christ. Through one man all are die, but in the same manner through one man Jesus Christ, we can get eternal life.

You will not certainly die

 Genesis 3:1-7 

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Why?

This word lets us know that the word of the Lord can not be modified or suspected.

God's word is the truth and love and righteousness.

No certainly dying is not about the physical life but the spiritual life. The relationship between us and the Lord.

Knowing good and evil, but losing the trust in the Lord.

How?

God's word is worthy and is the way and life for us!

you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die

Genesis 2:4-25

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones  and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

Why?

There is a rule to follow: to obey the word of the Lord and to respect the honor of the Lord. Love others and I have no right to judge others.

There was not one animal suitable to Adam as his helper, so the Lord made a woman from Adam's bone, so my wife is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

How?

Love and take care my wife for she is the bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

The seventh day he rested from all his work.

 Genesis 1:26-2:3

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

Why?

The Lord created the earth and human and all universal, then rested from all his work on the seventh day.

The first Human being is created in the image of God. and let man manage all other creatures.

We should let seven day rest to serve and meditate the job of the Lord.

How?

We have the image of the Lord so we should work with the Lord and manage this environment better and beautifully keep the state when the Lord created.

Hebrew 11:17-22 By faith

 Hebrew 11:17-22

By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”[ Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.

By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.

默想：

我的信仰是建立在肉眼可見的神蹟奇事上，或是上帝話語的信實與祂的應許上呢？

你曾被神試驗嗎？相信每個人都會被神試驗，只是有些人像腓力，從頭到尾都不知道神正在試驗自己。當你受試驗時，神其實在問：第一，你信得過神嗎？第二，神信得過你嗎？首先，無論在你生命中有任何事發生，請問你還能繼續信靠神嗎？在事奉中，你會受到傷害，遇到挫折，甚至在孤獨沮喪中；在這種光景中，你仍然能信得過神嗎？其次，也是更深的問題，神能信得過你嗎？在每天生活中，神交托給你的事，祂能信得過你嗎？你能在神面前說，神所託付的事，你會終身順服來完成嗎？

祈禱：

親愛的天父，因著祢話語的信實，在我的生命中顯明祢的恩典，使我有信心盼望終末，相信祢必逆轉世界結局的應許。奉主耶穌的名祈禱，阿們。

I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds

Hebrew 10:1-39

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.’

Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.

Then he adds “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Why?

Jesus brought a new law to us, this salvation is eternal erased our sins because Jesus has shed his blood for our sins. So if we still fall in the sins how much more severely to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot.

How?

Keep this love and let the word and spirit of the Lord living in our heart and mind.

Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many

For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. ²⁵ Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. ²⁶ Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

He gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper.

 Hebrew 9:1-10

Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place, which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.

When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry. But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper. They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

Why?

In the Old Testament, there was the Holy place,  tabernacle, and priest service there once a year in the Most Holy Place, but it has not gotten rid of our sins in history.

Right now an external regulation applies until the time of the new order, which is Jesus Christ devoted himself as sacrifice to get rid of our sins. So we can come close to the Lord with a closer relationship. Built a son and father relationship.

How?

Let me live as with Jesus Christ and honor His Holy name in every daily life.

He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear

Hebrew 8:1-13

Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being.

This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.

“The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.

By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.

 Hebrew 7:1-28

Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness”; then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.” Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever. 

In the one case, the tenth is collected by people who die; but in the other case, by him who is declared to be living. One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham, because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body of his ancestor.

why was there still need for another priest to come, one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron? For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed also. He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar. For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. 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 a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.

You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek. 

The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’ Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

Why?

Paul explained from the Old Testament and the identity of Jesus Christ, that Jesus is a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek, And he is not from man or human beings but came from heaven, like Melchizedek.

Because is the Son of the Lord so he came to the earth without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of day or end of life.

Because he is the Lord, the son of the Lord so Jesus came is out of human minds or imagination. And Jesus Christ is full of love and righteousness.

How?

Praise the Lord gave us Jesus Christ and let us get the eternal life through Jesus Christ.