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Question: What is the Order of Melchizedek?

Question: What is the Order of Melchizedek?. Biblical Covenants Series: The Mosaic Covenant. Exodus 20 – Deuteronomy 28 . Types of Covenants. Conditional – can come to an end Edenic (Garden of Eden) Mosaic (Moses, on behalf of Israel) Unconditional – can not come to an end Adamic (Adam)

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Question: What is the Order of Melchizedek?

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  1. Question:What is theOrder of Melchizedek?

  2. Biblical Covenants Series:The Mosaic Covenant Exodus 20 – Deuteronomy 28

  3. Types of Covenants • Conditional – can come to an end • Edenic (Garden of Eden) • Mosaic (Moses, on behalf of Israel) • Unconditional – can not come to an end • Adamic (Adam) • Noahic (Noah) • Abrahamic (Abraham) • Land (Palestinian land) • Davidic (David) • New (Replaces Mosaic, extends to Gentiles)

  4. Mosaic Covenant Overview • Documented in Exodus 20 – Deuteronomy 28 • Comprised of 613 commandments (laws), including the Big 10 • For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. Jas2:10 • Through these, God covenanted with Israel that their obedience would lead to blessings and their disobedience would lead to curses • This covenant was with Israel only, Ps147:19-20

  5. God’s Promises to Israel Ex19:5 – if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession…a kingdom of priests and a holy nation Deut11:26-28 – I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God…and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God

  6. God’s Promises to Israel Deut30:15-18 – See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. If you obey…then you shall live…But if your heart turns away…you shall surely perish.

  7. Israel’s Response to God Ex19:8 – All the people answered together and said, “All that the LORDhas spoken we will do.” Ex24:7 – Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

  8. Israel’s Response to God Deut26:17 – “You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.”

  9. Purposes of the Law • Reveals the holiness of God • Lev11:44 – For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy for I am holy. • Provides the rule of conduct • Lev20:8 – Keep my statutes and do them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you. • Sets the Jewish nation apart from all others • Ex19:5 – if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine

  10. Purposes of the Law • Serves as a “wall” between Jews and Gentiles • Eph2:11-15 – at one time you Gentiles…were… alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise…But now…Christ Jesus…has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances • Reveals the sinfulness of man • Rom3:20 – through the law comes knowledge of sin.

  11. Purposes of the Law • Shows that we can not please God on our own • Rom7:22-25 – I delight in the law of God…but I see in my members another law…making me captive to the law of sin…I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. • Drives us to saving faith in Jesus Christ • Gal3:24 – So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.

  12. Not a Purpose of the Law • Redemption (also called Salvation) • Gal2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ…because by works of the law no one will be justified. • Israel had already been promised redemption (Abrahamic covenant). The law could not have been put in place 430 years later to provide redemption. (See Gal3:15-18.)

  13. So, How Did Israel Do? Jud2:8-12 – And Joshua the son of Nun…died… And there arose another generation after them that did not know the LORD…And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORDand served the Baals…And they abandoned the LORD…They went after other gods.

  14. So, How Did Israel Do? Ez20:10-13 – I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live…But the house of Israel rebelled against me

  15. So, How Did Israel Do? Ez16:8-32 – I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you…and you became mine…Then I bathed you with water…I clothed you…with fine linen and…silk…You grew exceedingly beautiful…But you trusted in your beauty…you did all…the deeds of a brazen prostitute…Adulterous wife who receives strangers instead of her husband!

  16. Status of the Law Today • Its guardianship over God’s people has ended • Rom7:5-6 – For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

  17. Status of the Law Today • Its guardianship over God’s people has ended • Rom10:4 – For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

  18. Status of the Law Today • Its guardianship over God’s people has ended • The Levitical priesthood established by the Mosaic Law has been replaced • Heb7:11 – Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek?

  19. Status of the Law Today • Its guardianship over God’s people has ended • The Levitical priesthood established by the Mosaic Law has been replaced • Heb7:12,18 – For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well. For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

  20. God’s People • So, who are God’s people that are under the order of Melchizedek? • It is anyone whose priest is Jesus Christ, that is, who has placed their faith for salvation in Jesus alone • And, necessarily, these are the same ones who are Abraham’s children of the promise • Gal3:7 – Know then that it is those of faith [in Jesus] who are the sons of Abraham.

  21. So, What Do We Do With the Law? (this only applies to God’s people) • It depends! • Do you still think you need to obey it to be right with God? • Then disregard the law and focus on the grace God has given you to be saved • Are you convinced that your standing with God is based only on the work of Christ? • Reveals the holiness of God • Provides rules of conduct • Reveals sinfulness and inability to earn righteousness • Drives us to Jesus Christ (the fulfillment of the law)

  22. Side Note …Just kidding! What about people in Old Testament times, could they be saved? Come back next week Remember, they didn’t just have the law, they had the earlier promises Heb11:1 – Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen

  23. Side Note What about people in Old Testament times, could they be saved? Come back next week…Just kidding! Remember, they didn’t just have the law, they had the earlier promises Heb11:13 – These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar

  24. Side Note What about people in Old Testament times, could they be saved? Come back next week…Just kidding! Remember, they didn’t just have the law, they had the earlier promises Heb11:26 – [Moses] considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward

  25. A Final Note:Living Good Lives Titus2:11-12 – For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age.

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