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Welcome to Day 2254 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom Hebrews-12 A Perfect and Permanent Priesthood \u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message \u2013 07/17/2023 \u201cA Perfect and Permanent PriestHood\u201d Hebrews 7:18-28 We continued our extended series three weeks ago through the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. Our focus compared Melchizedek and Messiah. We saw that the Messiah was a priest and king in the order of Melchizedek. In doing so, we noticed that the Levitical priesthood was replaced by our great High Priest Jesus Christ. This week, the comparison between the Levitical and Melchizedekian priesthood will continue. Jesus Christ established a perfect and permanent priesthood as our Great High Priest. Let\u2019s read Hebrews 7:18-28 on page 1869 of your Pew Bible. 18\xa0The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless\xa019\xa0(for the law made nothing perfect),\xa0and a better hope\xa0is introduced, by which we draw near to God. 20\xa0And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath,\xa021\xa0but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him: \u201cThe Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: \u2018You are a priest forever.\u2019\u201d[b] 22\xa0Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant. 23\xa0Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office;\xa024\xa0but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.\xa025\xa0Therefore he is able to save\xa0completely[c]\xa0those who come to God\xa0through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. 26\xa0Such a high priest\xa0truly meets our need\u2014one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners,\xa0exalted above the heavens.\xa027\xa0Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices\xa0day after day, first for his own sins,\xa0and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all\xa0when he offered himself.\xa028\xa0For the law appoints as high priests men in all their weakness;\xa0but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son,\xa0who has been made perfect\xa0forever. \xa0 Sometimes, you can\u2019t tell the actual quality of something without comparing it with something else. A cotton bed sheet with a thread count of 200 may feel like silk to the touch \u2026 until you hold a sheet with a thread count of 800 in your other hand. (hold up two pillowcases) A television screen with a medium resolution might seem crisp \u2026 until you place it beside a state-of-the-art high-definition screen. And one pair of corrective lenses might make the letters in front of you appear crystal clear \u2026 until the optometrist contrasts it with an even better match for your nearsightedness. In all these cases, only by comparing two...