For every High Priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;
All the High Priests in the Old Testament were appointed to be High Priests, and only if they had been born into the priestly family line of Aaron. No one decided for himself if he would be a priest or a high priest.
And they were appointed to be the go-between for the people who were giving gifts to God or offering sacrifices to cover their sins.
He can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weaknesses;
These priests can sympathize with the people because they also are sinners living in their flesh bodies.
And because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices for sins, as for the people, so also for himself.
Because they are also sinners, they were required to offer sacrifices for themselves first, then offer the sacrifices for the people. But only the priests were authorized to bring the sacrifices to God, no one else.
And no one takes the honor to himself, but receives it when he is called by God, even as Aaron was.
And none of these priests decided for themselves that they would be priests at all, they were born into this position, and it was God who appointed the High Priest from among them. Just like God told Moses that Aaron would be the priest, Aaron didn't ask for it.
So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a High Priest, but He who said to Him, "You are My Son, Today I have begotten You" (Psalm 2:7);
When Jesus came to be our Christ, He did not decide for Himself that He would also be our High Priest, this was determined by His Father.
Just as He says in another passage, "You are a Priest forever according to the Order of Melchizedek " (Psalm 110:4).God also had the Psalmist make this declaration, that it was the Father appointing the Son as High Priest, not in the Order of Aaron, but the Order of Melchizedek, the Old Testament Priest of Salem who has no genealogy recorded anywhere, no birth or death records at all (Genesis 14:18-20). So this Order of Priesthood technically has no beginning or end, it is eternal.
In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.
While Jesus was living in His flesh body, in the Garden of Gethsemane, He prayed earnestly to His Father, who alone could have delivered Him (Matthew 26:39-44; Mark 14:35-39). But He knew that this was the only way we would be able to live with Him forever, so He submitted to the Father's plan.
Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.
Even though Jesus was God's only-begotten Son, and the Lord God Almighty, He still needed to learn as a Man to be obedient to His Father. This is incredible. If even Jesus had to learn to obey, how much more do we need to learn!
And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal Salvation,
Jesus was never deficient in anything at any time, but as a human being like us, He had to grow up and mature from infancy through childhood to adulthood, learning everything we all need to learn along the way, as we mature. So His being made "perfect" means that He matured properly, learning all the lessons He needed to learn as a human.
Now He is equipped to be the Source of our Redemption, to buy us out of the slave-market of sin and give us freedom.
Being designated by God as a High Priest according to the Order of Melchizedek.
Because His priesthood is according to the Eternal Order, called the Order of Melchizedek, He will never outlive His authority to save us.
O my Father, You have thought of and planned out every detail of how You would work out everything, and it all fits together so perfectly. And You have been doing everything You wanted to do, and You have even told us the whole progress!
Father, I love you! You have Loved me so much, to choose me, to rescue me, to teach me, to lead me, to work Your miracles in me so often! O Father You are the Best!
And every knee will bow to You! And every tongue will proclaim in every language, earthly and heavenly and from below, that Jesus of Nazareth is our High Priest and Christ and Redeemer, the Lord God of the Universe and our Sovereign King, to the glory of God the Father.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
