Peter Roselle: The Power of an Indestructible, Resurrection Life (Hebrews 7:16)

Peter Roselle: The Power of an Indestructible, Resurrection Life (Hebrews 7:16)
Hebrews 7:16 says, “This King-Priest [Jesus] did not arise because of a [birthright] to be a priest, but by the power of an indestructible, resurrection life!” The word indestructible comes from a word that means, “tied together in unity,” that is, “a united life” (or “union with God”). Resurrection life is implied, for the priestly ministry of Jesus began after he was raised from the dead. The Aramaic can be translated “He has life-giving power that has no beginning.”

Be blessed.
Remember: you have been “blessed to be a blessing.” (Genesis 12:2)
Pay it forward!

1 Peter 2
9 But you are God’s chosen treasure — priests who are kings, a spiritual “nation” set apart as God’s devoted ones. He called you out of darkness to experience his marvelous light, and now he claims you as his very own. He did this so that you would broadcast his glorious wonders throughout the world.
10 For at one time you were not God’s people, but now you are. At one time you knew nothing of God’s mercy, because you hadn’t received it yet, but now you are drenched with it!
11 Since you are resident aliens and foreigners in this world, I appeal to you to divorce yourselves from the evil desires that wage war within you.

2 Corinthians 3 (NIV)
18 And we all… are being transformed into his image
with ever-increasing glory,
which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Hebrews 3
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Ephesians 4
17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord,
that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
18 having their understanding darkened,
being alienated from the life of God,
because of the ignorance that is in them,
because of the blindness of their heart;
19 who, being past feeling,
have given themselves over to lewdness,
to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But you have not so learned Christ,
21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been
taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 that you put off, concerning your former
conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24 and that you put on the new man
which was created according to God,
in true righteousness and holiness.

Hebrews 7 (TPT)
12 For God to send a new and different rank of priest, meant a new law would have had to be instituted even to allow it!
13 The One these things all point to, was from a different tribe and no one from that tribe ever officiated at God’s altar,
14 for we all know that our Lord didn’t descend from the tribe of Levi, but shined from the tribe of Judah. And Moses himself never said anything of a priest in connection with Judah’s tribe.
18 The old order of priesthood has been set aside as weak and powerless.
24 Jesus permanently holds his priestly office since he lives forever and will never have a successor!
25 So he is able to save fully from now throughout eternity, everyone who comes to God through him, because he lives to pray continually for them.
26 He is the High Priest who perfectly fits our need—holy, without a trace of evil, without the ability to deceive, incapable of sin, and exalted beyond the heavens!
27 The former high priests had to bring a sacrifice first for their own sins, then for the sins of the people. But he finished the sacrificial system, once and for all, when he offered himself.

Hebrews 10 (Voice)
10 By God’s will, we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus the Anointed once and for all time.
19 Jesus by His blood gives us courage to enter the most holy place.
20 He has created for us a new and living way through the curtain, that is, through His flesh.
21 Since we have a great High Priest who presides over the house of God,
22 let us draw near with true hearts full of faith, with hearts rinsed clean of any evil conscience, and with bodies cleansed with pure water.
23 Let us hold strong to the confession of our hope, never wavering, since the One who promised it to us is faithful.
24 Let us consider how to inspire each other to greater love and to righteous deeds,
25 not forgetting to gather as a community, as some have forgotten, but encouraging each other, especially as the day of His return approaches.