Follow along with this sermon video teaching from Pastor Ben.
Resolved: Priest
Romans 8:31-39 (ESV)
‘What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.’
Heidelberg Catechism
Question and Answer 31 (Lord’s Day 12)
Q: Why is he called Christ, that is, Anointed?
A: Because he has been ordained by God the Father, and anointed with the Holy Spirit,
to be our chief Prophet and Teacher, who has fully revealed to us the secret counsel and will of God concerning our redemption; our only High Priest, who by the one sacrifice of his body
has redeemed us, and who continually intercedes for us before the Father; and our eternal King,
who governs us by his Word and Spirit, and who defends and preserves us in the redemption obtained for us.
