Hebrews 7

Verses 1, 2. Christ has not yet come out as King of Righteousness; He is King of Peace already.
Verse 3. That is all they knew about him; no one knew what he was.
Verses 4-26. We look after this One gone into the heavens, and we find Him there a Priest after a new order; Christ is now the fulfillment of the Aaronic course in a new way. When He comes out it will be to bless Israel as Melchisedec did Abram. Many Christians have not got hold of the priesthood of Christ at all. If we do not take heavenly ground we cannot know it. When there was an effort made a little time ago to damage the priesthood of Christ, the question was put, What did the Melchisedec priest do? I do not know what he did inside, but I know very well what he does when he comes out; he blesses the people.
I have got in heaven a High Priest who is " holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners." I am not separate from sinners, but He is. My ship may move about a little, but it cannot part from its anchor, and that is safe within the veil. It is a wonderful thing, that, as the apostle says, I may have a " supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ "-a stream that comes down to me from heaven. I am here in the midst of all that is against me, and He says, This is what I send down to you. I am like a man in a diving bell, with everything most adverse to me: how am I sustained in it all? By a life that is in connection with Him in the holiest, in the full supply of His Spirit; a life that will not coalesce with the surrounding element. It is what we need for our destitute condition-what you call " journeying mercies," if you like. If you are not anchored within the veil, you have no anchor. He knows the circumstances I am in, and He sends down from God the suited grace. If I may say it with all deference, He knows them better than any one; so he is either thinking of you to give you suited grace, or He is thinking of you to no purpose at all. If you have real sympathy with me, and are thinking of me in the circumstances I am in, you cannot but minister to me if you have the ability. So I believe we never get near Christ individually about any transaction that He does not leave the impress of what His own grace would have been in the circumstance. When the Lord was in the ship He was asleep. The disciples naturally thought he was indifferent about them; if they could have been persuaded He was not forgetful of them, though asleep, they would have been as quiet as He was; but they were not; so they awoke Him. And what did He do? He put them all to sleep: "there was a great calm; " and that is what there ought to have been at the first. Otherwise, it comes to this, that He is thinking about me, but that He has not the suited grace to meet me. But He says, I have all that is suited to you; I am " holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens." That is the High Priest that becomes us.
There is not a word about sin properly in Hebrews: it is " infirmity." I am on the heavenly road; but I feel how weak I am, and how unable to get on. No sooner am I clear from judgment and death than Amalek comes against me. Now, the two things to help me in this are Hebrews and Peter. The Lord says, I pray for you. That is Hebrews. But when Peter was tempted, he ought to have said, I will take the sword and fight him. When he was asked to go in, he ought to have said, No; I will not go into your house; I will not go to your fire. So this is what Peter is strong about. The moment I take my place as a heavenly man, Satan says, I am against you in everything. We never fail that we find we did not resist. Peter's great point is " whom resist;" he does not take you out of the wilderness, but he says, resist the devil in it. There are two classes of ministry: one to save you from a snare, the other to save you out of a snare. In the one case you have got in, and you are rescued; in the other you are kept out of it. Happier to be kept out of it; but we get the two.
Bad temper is not infirmity: it is perverseness. The Lord never takes away my weakness; He does my perverseness. You say I am convinced that Christ is worthy of all my love. And how long will you keep to it? Not half an hour! " No infant's changing pleasure Is like my wandering mind." He says I will take away your thieving; I will not take away your timidity, but I will give you my strength in it. Christ keeps me on the road in spite of my infirmity.
Verses 27, 28. The apostle draws the distinction between the high priest's own sins and the sins of the people. Aaron offered for his own house; Christ for His-for His family, as we saw in chapter iii. It is not the house as a building; it cannot ever become " the great house." In Ephesians the house is looked at as not interfered with by man, but it could be, as we find it is in 1 Cor. But here it cannot be; it is the house of Christ. He offered the bullock for His own house; the two goats are not offered yet; He is gone in within the veil with His own blood, and the two goats are yet to come for Israel.
Verse 19. " Perfect " through the whole epistle is that he has got to the top of the thing: " they without us should not be made perfect," as we get it further on. They have not got to that yet; but it is the top, where no further improvement can be. So the law made nothing perfect nothing complete.