PPT-Jesus: A Better Priesthood After the Order of Melchizedek

Hebrews 71 85 Who Was Melchizedek King of Salem and Priest of God Peace Righteousness Heb 712 Met Abraham and blessed Him less is blessed of the better Gen 141819 Heb 77. Persevere in Jesus. LESSON . XIII. REVIEW. Let Us Persevere in Christ. Three main questions. Christ. Who is He?. Who is He not?. Us. What is our relation to Christ and God?. What should we do?. Persevere!. Orders. A Sacrament of Service of Communion. “The . priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus. When you see a priest, think of our Lord Jesus . Christ” . – St. Jean . Vianney. “Without . the priest, the passion and death of our Lord would be of no avail. It is the priest who continues the work of redemption here on earth...What use would be a house filled with gold, were there no one to open its door? The priest holds the key to the treasures of heaven: it is he who opens the door: he is the steward of the good Lord; the administrator of His goods...Leave a parish for twenty years without a priest and they will end by worshiping the beasts . OR DO WE NEED MORE?. JESUS, LIKE MELCHIZEDEK. HEBREWS 7. MELCHIZEDEK. GENESIS 14:18-20. MELCHIZEDEK = KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. KING OF SALEM = KING OF PEACE. PRIEST OF GOD MOST HIGH. NO PREDECESSOR, NO SUCCESSOR = UNIQUE, ONE OF A KIND. Lesson 8 for November 23, 2013. THE PRIESTHOOD OF JESUS. CALLED ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK. “. The Lord has sworn and will not relent, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”. Hebrews 7. Who Speaks to God?. Questions Behind the Text. Did following Christ mean giving up the priesthood?. Was it blasphemy to even talk about anyone being better than the Levitical priests?!. Answer from the Text: Jesus is the True & Better Priest, Because He Is Permanent.. Blessings in Obedience. Doctrine and Covenants 108. And the peace of God, which . passeth. all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.. Philip 4:7. When . the First Quorum of the Seventy was organized on 28 February 1835, many of its members were drawn from the group of men known as Zion’s Camp, the body that in 1834 had gone to help the afflicted Saints in Missouri. Lyman Sherman, whose loyalty and faith had been proven in the Zion’s Camp expedition, was called to be one of the Seven Presidents of the First Quorum of the . Genesis 14: 17 – 24. His identity is. . King of Salem and “a priest of the God Most High.. The meaning of his identity. . King of Righteousness. . King of Peace. His character. . Generous and kind to the warriors of Abram. Hebrews 7-10. Lesson 137. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, . saith. the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:. Hebrews 7:1- 8:5. Who Was Melchizedek?. King of Salem and Priest of God: . “Peace”, “Righteousness” . (Heb. 7:1-2). Met Abraham and blessed Him… less is blessed of the better . (Gen. 14:18-19, Heb. 7:7). History of the Church. , vol. 6, p. 408-409).. Session 4 - More on Mormonism. In this session we will look at more Mormon teachings. Priesthood authority is very important in . Mormon theology . since it is the means through which the Mormon Church supposedly has authority to administer the ordinances which bring salvation to humanity, to preach the Gospel, and govern the kingdom of God on this earth. Hebrews 7-10. Blessing One. We are members of the only true and living Church upon the face of the whole earth, and we have received the . fulness. of the everlasting gospel. . Blessing Two. We have received the gift of the Holy Ghost, and we are entitled to receive the gifts of the Spirit—those wondrous spiritual endowments which set us apart from the world and raise us above carnal things.. Hebrews 1-7. Hebrews. Under . the pressure of various afflictions, some Jewish converts (referred to as Hebrews) were withdrawing from Church meetings and returning to the relative safety of traditional Jewish worship, which did . blessed ideal. ,” the goal to which the Saints should aspire!. . . Alma 13:1. “. Ordained Priests. ”. . . In a general sense, anyone who holds the Melchizedek Priesthood can be called a priest.. to engross ourselves in the words of the Torah.. . Barukh attah Adonai Eloheinu melekh ha-olam, asher kiddeshanu be'mitzvotav, ve'tzivanu la'asok be'divrei Torah. . Emor | . אמור | . ". Say ". Torah: Leviticus 21:1-24:23   .