Christ in His Heavenly Ministry is the Divine High Priest Saving us to His Perfection

Christ is the High Priest according to the order of Aaron to remove sin, a kingly High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek to minister God into us, and a divine High Priest to save us to the uttermost.

God’s original intention is that He would dispense Himself as life and everything into the man He created in His image and according to His likeness, so that man would become His corporate expression on earth.

God’s dispensing for the fulfillment of His purpose is accomplished by Christ being the kingly High Priest, a High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek; as such a One, He ministers the processed Triune God to meet our need, fill us with God, and make us His corporate expression.

But because man fell, that is, because Satan injected his sinful nature into man after he deceived man, we now need to be redeemed and saved from sin; we are sin-producing factories, and our very nature is sin.

Therefore, God became a man – He put on human nature, lived a perfect human life, expressed God in His living, and then He went to the cross as the unique sacrifice for sin.

The priests in the Old Testament had to offer sacrifices for sin again and again, for the blood of the sacrifices could at best cover the sins; but Jesus Christ came as the Aaronic High Priest and offered Himself as the unique sacrifice for sin to remove sin. He offered not the blood of goats and calves but His own blood – God’s own blood – to remove sin once and for all.

Praise the Lord, Christ put away sin by offering Himself to God as the One Sacrifice for Sin! Now all those who believe into Jesus experience the cleansing of their sins, and they can come forward with boldness to enjoy God as their life supply for their enjoyment and experience.

Christ, the High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek, is a kingly High Priest who brings in righteousness and peace through His reign, to create the right environment for us to receive God as our life supply.

When the King is here, there’s no fight or injustice – there is only righteousness and peace, and under His rule we enjoy Him in a peaceful situation.

Praise the Lord for our Christ, the kingly High Priest, who was born of the tribe of Judah but also is from the tribe of Levi to bear the priesthood and be both King and Priest! Now He ministers the processed God to us as our bread and wine in an environment that is full of righteousness and peace.

Christ’s Divinity Constitutes Him a Divine High Priest who is Living and Full of Life

The third aspect of Christ’s priesthood as seen in the book of Hebrews is the aspect of the divine priesthood, which is for saving us to the uttermost (Heb. 7:25).

Christ has been appointed by God to be a different Priest, a divine High Priest, not according to the law of a fleshy commandment but according to the power of an indestructible life.

For Him to be a kingly High Priest is a matter of His status – He is the King; but for Him to be a divine High Priest is a matter of His constitution, His nature – He is divine in His nature. Christ is a Kingly High Priest because He is a King, and He is a divine High Priest because He is the Son of God.

His divinity constitutes Christ as a High Priest who is living and full of life, so that He may be able to continue His priesthood perpetually. With this One, Christ, there’s no death, because He Himself is life. He is the eternal life, the divine life, and the resurrection life; He conquered death, subdued death, and swallowed death, overcoming it in resurrection.

Divinity is His very essence, nature, element, and makeup; therefore, wherever He is, there is no death – there is only life. Christ’s priesthood is constituted and composed with His divinity.

He always lives to intercede, and where He is and where He ministers, there’s no death but only life. The priesthood of Christ – His divine priesthood – is the absence of death and the presence of life.

On the one hand Christ is the kingly High Priest to minister the processed God to us, and on the other, He is the divine High Priest to minister the processed God to us.

Christ’s divinity constitutes Him a High Priest who is living, full of life, and able to continue His priesthood perpetually (Heb. 7:17, 24). This means that He is forever a divine High Priest to save us to the uttermost.

How long will He be such a High Priest to save us to perfection? Forever! Forever Christ will be still supplying God to us, even in the New Jerusalem, because He abides forever, and His priesthood is unalterable.

We have such a divine High Priest who lives forever and is full of life to bring the divine life to us and save us organically in His life to the uttermost. He is not only the King who brings in peace and righteousness to minister God to us but He also knows our need, is full of life, and comes to us to impart life into our being until we are saved to the uttermost!

Thank You Lord for being a divine High Priest to save us to the uttermost! Hallelujah, we have a High Priest who is living, full of life, and able to continue His priesthood perpetually! Praise You, Lord, for being constituted a High Priest according to the eternal, indestructible divine life so that You may always live to intercede for us and save us in the divine life! Hallelujah, Your priesthood is unalterable, Your life is indestructible, and You are full of life and living, able to save us to the uttermost!

Christ in His Heavenly Ministry is the Divine High Priest Saving us to His Perfection

Christ is our divine High Priest constituted of an indestructible life; His divine priesthood is the presence of life and the absence of death, and He is able to save us to the uttermost!

The Greek word for “uttermost” in Heb. 7:25 has the same root as the Greek word for perfection. Christ was perfected and brought into perfection, and now He as the divine High Priest is saving us to the uttermost, that is, He is bringing us into His perfection. Hallelujah!

Christ as the divine Son of God was incarnated, lived on earth, passed through death, was resurrected, and has been fully perfected forever.

Now in Him there’s no death and no by-products of death; in Him there’s no vanity, no groaning, no bondage, and no corruption. With us, however, there are many such by-products of death that operate both in our being and in our environment.

Christ, the perfected One, is able to save us to the uttermost – He is able to save us from all the death and its by-products, so that He may bring us into His perfection! The saving of the divine priesthood of Christ saves us from vanity, groaning, decay, bondage, and corruption.

He always lives to intercede and to save us to the uttermost, to perfection. We are so full of weakness, sufferings, vanity, bondage, and many problems; our divine High Priest, however, always lives to save us into His perfection, and He simply wants us to turn to Him and let Him save us much more in His life.

The divine priesthood brings in life and expels any death with its by-products. To be saved to the uttermost is to be saved from death and all its by-products, that is, to be saved fully in His life (Rom. 5:10, 17).

Hallelujah, we are being much more saved in His life, and He saves us by ministering God into us until the day comes that our whole being is filled with life and all death is removed from our being!

Our whole being – spirit, soul, and body – is being saturated with the divine life slowly, daily, little by little, until we are full of life and all death is removed.

This is what the heavenly High Priest is doing today to fulfill and carry out His organic salvation.

As believers in Christ, we have the divine life in our spirit; this life is slowly spreading throughout our whole being, and this life is indestructible – nothing on earth, in heaven, or in hell can deal with it or put it down.

This is life constitutes the divine priesthood, this life is saving us to the uttermost, in this life we are being organically saved daily as we call on the name of the Lord, and this life is in our spirit!

Whenever we call on the name of the Lord, He as the divine High Priest is dispensing more divine life into us (on the positive side) and He is saving us from any death with its by-products (on the negative side).

Our divine High Priest, Christ, is daily saving us in His life until we are saved to the uttermost – saved into Christ’s complete perfection!

Lord Jesus, we want to exercise our spirit to enjoy You and experience You as our divine High Priest, the One constituted with the indestructible, eternal, divine life who is able to save us to the uttermost! Amen, Lord, save us much more in Your life today! Save us from any death with its by-products. We come to You as we are, Lord, to be saved from any vanity, groaning, decay, bondage, and corruption. We want to experience Your saving divine priesthood so that we may saved into the perfection of Christ, saved to the uttermost!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by Minoru C. for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Hebrews, msgs. 33-34, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Cooperating with the Heavenly Ministry of the Ascended Christ (2017 Spring ITERO), msg. 5 (week 5), The Revelation, Experience, and Enjoyment of the Ascended Christ as a Merciful, Faithful, and Great High Priest.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # His life is fully qualified / To bring us through to glory; / Were it not for His tested life, / ’Twould be another story / His life was fully tried on earth, / To crucifixion from His birth: / He passed through death and Hades. (Hymns #1130, stanza 4)
  # He’s pledged to save us to the full, / His life is operating; / He’s doing everything for us / ’Tis all for our perfecting; / Our life’s a failure at its best, / Only His life can stand the test: / His life brings full salvation! (Hymns #1130, stanza 5)
  # So great the extent of salvation to us— / We’re partners of Christ in His plan glorious. / He’ll bring us to glory and we’ll rule with Him, / To the uttermost saved by His working within. (Hymns #1129)