Being Saved to the Uttermost by Christ in His Kingly and Divine Priesthood

Christ is the King and the High Priest, and as the High Priest He is both kingly and divine. In Hebrews 7 we see that Christ is the kingly High Priest, the priest who was enthroned, and as such a One He is fighting against all of God’s enemies to subdue them and to bring in righteousness and peace (Melchizedek, the king of righteousness and peace).

In order for us to receive the dispensing of the Triune God into us for our supply daily, we need a condition of righteousness and peace. Christ in His kingly priesthood first subdues God’s enemies to bring in righteousness and peace, and then He ministers the processed Triune God into us as our daily supply and enjoyment (see Heb. 7:1-2; Gen. 14:18-20).

As the divine priest, Christ is able to save us to the uttermost, since He lives always to intercede for us before God (Heb. 7:25, 28). Christ is qualified and strengthened by His divinity to always live to intercede for us, and He is able to save us to the uttermost in God’s life all the way to glory!

Today we are in the process of being saved in His life from all the by-products of death, so that we will be fully grown in the divine life – saved to the uttermost!

Experiencing Christ in His Kingly Priesthood

Christ is a High Priest according to the order of Melchisedec, and if you look at Christ’s genealogy you will see that He didn’t come out of the tribe of priests but of the kings (Judah). Christ’s status is of a king, and His function is of a priest – He is a kingly priest.

As the King, Christ rules with authority to maintain righteousness and peace, to arrange the situations to be good (Rom. 8:29) for Him to minister the processed God into us as our supply.

Christ defeats His enemies and anything that stands in His way so that righteousness and peace may be brought in for His people to receive the “bread and wine”, God Himself processed to become our life supply. Many times these enemies are not outside of us but inside – our very self is God’s enemy!

We need to take in God’s living and operative word by means of all prayers and petitions (Heb. 4:12; Eph. 6:17) so that our soul would be separated from our spirit, our wondering mind would be slayed, our troublesome and wild emotions would be balanced, and our stubborn and rebellious will would be subdued.

When this happens, when God’s living word operates in us to slay the enemy in us, we can receive the reality of the processed Triune God into us as bread and wine for our supply.

We have a now-Christ, a today-Christ, who lives in the heavens and in our spirit, and who is our daily salvation and our moment-by-moment supply! The last part of footnote 4 in Heb. 1:3 in the Recovery Version says,

In this book is the present Christ, who is now in the heavens as our Minister (8:2) and our High Priest (4:14-15; 7:26), ministering to us the heavenly life, grace, authority, and power and sustaining us to live a heavenly life on earth. He is the Christ now, the Christ today, and the Christ on the throne in the heavens, who is our daily salvation and moment-by-moment supply.

Christ in His Divine Priesthood Saves Us to the Uttermost

In His status Christ is the King, but in His constitution and element He is divine (Heb. 7:28). Christ is the Son of God, and His divinity constitutes Him to be a divine High Priest who is living and full of life so that He may be able to continue His priesthood perpetually.

Christ as the divine High Priest has conquered, subdued, and swallowed death – where Christ is, there is no death but only life! Christ’s divine priesthood is the absence of death and the presence of life, the presence of resurrection life! Christ is constituted with the power of an indestructible life (Heb. 7:16), and so He is now saving us to the uttermost, to perfection, to be like Him (Heb. 7:25).

Christ has already been perfected through becoming a man, living a human life on earth, passing through death and entering into resurrection; now He is saving us to the uttermost!

Christ as the divine High Priest is saving us from any by-products of death like groaning, vanity, corruption, bondage, or decay. In Him there’s no death, and He perfects us by saving us much more in His life (Rom. 5:10).

In His resurrection Christ’s humanity was sanctified, transformed, and uplifted into the divine sonship (Rom. 1:3), and now He is the Firstborn Son of God possessing both divinity and perfected humanity. As the divine High Priest, Christ saves us in His life through regeneration, sanctification, renewing, transformation, conformation, and glorification!

He regenerates us by imparting His divine life into us. Christ sanctifies us by imparting His divine nature into our being. He renews us by dispensing His divine element into us. Christ transforms us by imparting the divine being into our being. We are being conformed as Christ is imparting and forming the divine image into our being. Eventually, Christ will glorify us by dispensing the divine glory into our being.

Christ is saving us right now to the uttermost – He saves us from the innermost to the uttermost!

Lord Jesus, thank You for being the Kingly High Priest to fight against God’s enemies to bring in righteousness and peace! We want to take in Your living word so that the enemy in us would be slayed and we would receive the processed Triune God as our daily supply and enjoyment. Thank You Lord for being the divine High Priest saving us to the uttermost! Save us more in Your divine life today from any by-products of death. Lord, save us from the innermost to the uttermost.

References and Further Reading

• This sharing is inspired from brother Ed Marks’ sharing in this message and portions in, Life-study of Hebrews (msgs. 33-34), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on Crystallization-Study of Daniel and Zechariah, week 12 (entitled, The Priesthood and the Kingship for the Building Up of the Church as the Temple of God).
• Hymns on this topic:
  # Saved to the uttermost, I am the Lord’s; / Jesus my Savior salvation affords; / Gives me His Spirit a witness within, / Whisp’ring of pardon, and saving from sin.
  # Sing praise to Christ Who lives in us, / The God of our salvation; / Who saves us by His life divine, / And not by regulation; / After we’ve worked—done all we can, / His life has power to change a man: / His life divine can change us.
  # O let us rejoice in the Lord evermore, / Though all things around us be trying, / Though floods of affliction like sea billows roar, / It’s better to sing than be sighing.
• Pictures credit: the first via Red Bubble here, the second via my twitter stream.