Hebrews 5:1-10
Christ was appointed by God, learned obedience through suffering, and became the eternal High Priest who secures salvation for those who respond in obedient faith.
1 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
2 The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
3 Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.
4 Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
5 So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”
6 As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
10 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Christ was appointed by God, learned obedience through suffering, and became the eternal High Priest who secures salvation for those who respond in obedient faith.
To show that Jesus fulfills and surpasses the qualifications of a true High Priest through divine appointment and obedient suffering.
The Son Appointed High Priest and the Danger of Spiritual Immaturity
Jesus is the God-appointed high priest whose suffering obedience makes him the source of eternal salvation, but only mature hearers can receive the full weight of this priestly truth.