The Complete Sufficiency of Christ to Save Your Soul

The main point of the Book of Hebrews is that Jesus Christ completely fulfilled all that is necessary for our salvation. He is the only sacrifice for our sins that God accepts. He is the Great High Priest of whom the Old Testament was only a foreshadow.

“We have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God.” [1]

The Bible urges us to come to His throne for help, “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” [2]

Humankind did not appoint Jesus Christ to the priesthood. God did!

“Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten You.” [3]

Jesus Christ is the only One we should honor as high priest.

“[You] have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, [you] have tasted the good Word of God and the powers of the age to come.” [4]

Jesus Christ alone gives us what we need for salvation, namely God’s Spirit and God’s Word.

God’s Word compares departing from Christ to crucifying Him again. For you and me to depart from faith in Christ is comparable to the earth drinking in rain and only producing thorns and briers. He says that such a person will be “rejected” and in the “end be burned.” [5]

God’s Word proclaims, “Jesus High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” [6]

Melchizedek means King of Righteousness. Melchizedek appeared to Abraham. God’s Word says that He is without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.” [7]

Melchizedek was in fact an Old Testament appearance of Christ to Abraham.

The Levitical priesthood that God set up via Moses was not perfect. It was a foreshadow of the new order that God would institute in the last days via His Son Jesus Christ.

“If perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek... ?” [8]

The endless life of Jesus Christ makes Him a better high priest than those who proceeded Him.

Jesus Christ “has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.” “He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.” [9]

Yes, Jesus is able to save us to the uttermost. He prays for us. He, unlike earthly priests, is not a sinner. He is perfect.

“Such a High Priest was fitting for us. He is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens. He does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.” [10]

Jesus is the High Priest who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens. He is the Minister of the Sanctuary... which the Lord erected, and not man.” [11]

Jesus “obtained a more excellent ministry” than Moses. “He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.” [12]

Jesus Christ replaced the covenant that Moses made with the people of Israel with a new and better covenant. Jesus didn’t give us laws written on stones as Moses did. Jesus writes the Word of God in human hearts to help us each know God in a personal way, and to receive God’s help to live according to God’s Word with His help.

“If that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.” “I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” “All shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.” “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” [13]

God’s Word dwells in us richly now because Jesus Christ made a perfect sacrifice for our sins in the holiest place, even before God Himself.

“Christ... not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.” “The blood of Christ... cleanses your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.” [14]

The perfect sinless blood of Christ needed to be shed to atone for our sin. For “without shedding of blood there is no remission.” [15]

“Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.” “He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.” He “was offered once to bear the sins of many.” [16]

“We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” [17]

“By one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.” [18]

Now, with ‘boldness we enter the Holiest [even before God Himself] by the blood of Jesus.” God urges us to “hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.” [19]

The judgment of God on those who reject Jesus is greater than the judgment on those who rejected Moses.

“Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?” [20]

God declares righteous the ones who believe in Jesus. He saves the souls of those who believe in His Son Jesus.

“Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.” [21]

So... “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.” [22]

“Jesus [is] the author and finisher of our faith...” [23]

It is via faith in Jesus that we “come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect.” [24]

God urges us not to “turn away from Him [Jesus] who speaks from heaven.” [25]

No matter what popes, church denominations, other religions or miracle workers say, Jesus remains forever the only Savior from sin. He saves us by His grace as we trust in HIM and profess HIM.

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.” [26]

The proper response to our Savior’s grace is to praise and thank Him, to do good and share about Him with others.

“Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His Name. But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. ” [27]

[1] Hebrews 4:14
[2] Hebrews 4:16
[3] Hebrews 5:5
[4] Hebrews 6:5
[5] Hebrews 6:5-8
[6] Hebrews 6:20
[7] Hebrews 7:1-3
[8] Hebrews 7:11
[9] Hebrews 7:16, 24-25
[10] Hebrews 7:26-27
[11] Hebrews 8:1-2
[12] Hebrews 8:3-6
[13] Hebrews 8:7-12
[14] Hebrews 9:11-12, 14
[15] Hebrews 9:22
[16] Hebrews 9:24, 26
[17] Hebrews 10:10
[18] Hebrews 10:14
[19] Hebrews 10:19, 23
[20] Hebrews 10:28-29
[21] Hebrews 10:38-39
[22] Hebrews 11:1-2
[23] Hebrews 12:2
[24] Hebrews 12:22-23
[25] Hebrews 12:26
[26] Hebrews 13:8-9
[27] Hebrews 13:15-16