The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Ibolfeet of ail 247
LV.
JESUS, THE SURETY OF A BETTER COVENANT.
VII. 20. And Inasmuch as it is not without the taking of an oath
21. (For they indeed had become priests without an oath ;
but he with an
oath by Vilm that saith of Mm,
The Lord sware and will not repent himself,
Thou art priest for ever) ;
22. By so much also has Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
IN chap. vi. the deep meaning of God s oath was set before us.
On His side it is a proof of His unchangeable purpose concern
ing something which He binds Himself faithfully to perform. On
our side it
points to something in which there is special need of
faith, and calls us to the exercise of full and unhesitating confi
dence as to the certainty of God s fulfilment of the promise. In
the words of the appointment of Christ as High Priest we have
already found three significant expressions there is a fourth
one we are now to notice. The Lord sware and will not repent
Himself : this oath of God is a new proof of the glory of Christ s
priesthood and its superiority to the old. God confirmed His
blessing to Abraham with an oath ;
that blessing
is eternal and
unchangeable. Aaron was made a priest without an oath : his
priesthood was only temporary, a shadow of what was to come.
At the first announcement of a priest after the new order, God
again interposed with an oath : inasmuch as it was not
without the taking of an oath, by so much hath Jesus become
the surety of a better covenant. The oath points us to