{"id":4480,"date":"2024-03-18T12:14:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2024-03-18T12:14:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:14:47","slug":"sermon-3-17-2024-eternal-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?p=4480","title":{"rendered":"Sermon 3\/17\/2024: “Eternal Priest”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Listen here: “Eternal Priest<\/a>“<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 5:5-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Melchizedek<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Only three books of the Bible mention Melchizedek<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The New Testament says more about Melchizedek than the Old Testament<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Melchizedek is a contemporary of Abraham<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Melchizedek has no recorded family<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Melchizedek was a priest of God Most High<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Melchizedek blessed Abraham, who tithed to Melchizedek<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Melchizedek is the king of Salem (Jeru\/salem means \u201ccity of peace.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Melchizedek\u2019s name means \u201cking of righteousness\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. The order of Melchizedek is royal and everlasting<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Melchizedek was greater than Abraham and Aaron<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Jesus was \u201cdesignated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek\u201d (Hebrews 5;10). Melchizedek is not a personal name, it is a title or office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Christological interpretation of this Old Testament character is a prefiguration or prototype of Christ, who is Himself, eternal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sunday morning messages are available on the website (www.stpaulsmarietta.org\/audio<\/a>). Tell your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Christological interpretation of this Old Testament character is a prefiguration or prototype of Christ, who is Himself, eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-this-week","tag-worship-this-week"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Paross","author_link":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4482,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/4482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpaulsmarietta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}