The LORD's priesthood

 Psalm 110:4

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4 The Lord hath sworn, 

and will not repent, 

Thou art a priest for ever 

after the order of Melchizedek.

What is the nature of the LORD JESUS' priesthood?

What made Him a priest, apart from all priests?

Scripture reveals it, through these verses:

Hebrews 7:13

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13 For he of whom these things are spoken 

pertaineth to another tribe, 

of which no man gave attendance at the altar.

Hebrews 7:14

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14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; 

of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

Hebrews 7:16

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16 Who is made, 

not after the law of a carnal commandment, 

but after the power of an endless life.

Hebrews 7:17

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17 For he testifieth, 

Thou art a priest for ever 

after the order of Melchisedec.

Hebrews 7:20

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20 And inasmuch as not without an oath 

he was made priest:

Hebrews 7:21

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21 (For those priests were made without an oath; 

but this with an oath by him that said unto him, 

The Lord sware and will not repent, 

Thou art a priest for ever 

after the order of Melchisedec:)

Hebrews 7:22

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22 By so much was Jesus made 

a surety of a better testament.

Hebrews 7:24

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24 But this man, 

because he continueth ever, 

hath an unchangeable priesthood.

Hebrews 7:25

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25 Wherefore he is able also to save them 

to the uttermost that come unto God by him, 

seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Hebrews 7:26

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26 For such an high priest became us, 

who is holy, 

harmless, 

undefiled, 

separate from sinners, 

and made higher than the heavens;

Hebrews 7:27

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27 Who needeth not daily, 

as those high priests, 

to offer up sacrifice, 

first for his own sins, 

and then for the people's: 

for this he did once, 

when he offered up himself.

Hebrews 7:28

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28 For the law maketh men high priests 

which have infirmity; 

but the word of the oath, 

which was since the law, 

maketh the Son, 

who is consecrated for evermore.

Now, we know that JESUS came from the tribe of Juda.

And from the order of Melchisedec.

Making His a powerful kind of priesthood.

But who is Melchisedec?

That's for another post.

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 Colossians 2:9

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9 For in him dwelleth 

all the fulness of the Godhead 

bodily.

Who was JESUS?

What was He called to do?

What did His ministry consist of?

Who called Him to do this sacred work?

Who better to tell us than JESUS Himself:

Luke 5:32

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32 I came not to call the righteous, 

but sinners to repentance.

The Messiah's ministry as prophesied in the Old Testament:

Deuteronomy 18:15

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15 The Lord thy God 

will raise up unto thee a Prophet 

from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, 

like unto me; 

unto him ye shall hearken;

Isaiah 61:1-3

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61 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; 

because the Lord hath anointed me 

to preach good tidings unto the meek; 

he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, 

to proclaim liberty to the captives, 

and the opening of the prison 

to them that are bound;

2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, 

and the day of vengeance of our God; 

to comfort all that mourn;

3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, 

to give unto them beauty for ashes, 

the oil of joy for mourning, 

the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; 

that they might be called trees of righteousness, 

the planting of the Lord, 

that he might be glorified.

And as JESUS communed with GOD, the Father:

John 17:2-3

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2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, 

that he should give eternal life 

to as many as thou hast given him.

3 And this is life eternal, 

that they might know thee the only true God, 

and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

John 17:4

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4 I have glorified thee on the earth: 

I have finished the work 

which thou gavest me to do.

John 17:6-8

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6 I have manifested thy name unto the men 

which thou gavest me out of the world: 

thine they were, and thou gavest them me; 

and they have kept thy word.

7 Now they have known 

that all things whatsoever thou hast given me 

are of thee.

8 For I have given unto them the words 

which thou gavest me; 

and they have received them, 

and have known surely that I came out from thee, 

and they have believed that thou didst send me.

John 17:12

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12 While I was with them in the world, 

I kept them in thy name: 

those that thou gavest me I have kept, 

and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; 

that the scripture might be fulfilled.

John 17:14

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14 I have given them thy word; 

and the world hath hated them, 

because they are not of the world, 

even as I am not of the world.

John 17:17-19

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17 Sanctify them through thy truth: 

thy word is truth.

18 As thou hast sent me into the world, 

even so have I also sent them into the world.

19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, 

that they also might be sanctified 

through the truth.

John 17:20-23

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20 Neither pray I for these alone, 

but for them also which shall believe on me 

through their word;

21 That they all may be one; 

as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, 

that they also may be one in us: 

that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

22 And the glory which thou gavest me 

I have given them; 

that they may be one, even as we are one:

23 I in them, and thou in me, 

that they may be made perfect in one; 

and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, 

and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

John 17:24

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24 Father, I will that they also, 

whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; 

that they may behold my glory, 

which thou hast given me: 

for thou lovedst me 

before the foundation of the world.

John 17:26

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26 And I have declared unto them thy name, 

and will declare it: 

that the love wherewith thou hast loved me 

may be in them, and I in them.

In a revealing verse, apostle John tells us more:

John 21:25

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25 And there are also many other things 

which Jesus did, 

the which, if they should be written every one, 

I suppose that even the world itself could not contain 

the books that should be written. 

Amen.

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