Please explain what Hebrews 5 means?

Question

please read this chapter and explain in detail what God is speaking to us. thank you and be blessed

Answer 1

It explains the high priesthood of Jesus, which is according to the order of Melchizedec in contrast to the order of Aaron and his sons, who held the high priesthood according to the Law of Moses.
The whole drift of the Letter to the Hebrews is to set forth the superiority of Jesus and His ministry to anything that had preceded Him.
Time would not allow to discuss this in detail.

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Answer 2

There are 2 points to this chapter:

1. Jesus is a High Priest in the order of Melchizedek (elaborated in chapter 7)

2. Those whom the writer has written two are not spiritually mature as they should be (enhanced in chapter 6)

Answer 3

Ok, first things first, the writer of this book is unknown possibilities include Paul, Luke, Barnabas, Apollos,Silas,Priscilla. Either way it seems that the Hebrews were backsliding to their old ways of worship, including how they chose their priests. The jewish church was not growing spiritually and it was frustrating the early leaders. They laid down the rules so to speak with regards to their priests and what it means to be one. Particularly the high priest is to be the one that represents them to God in sin and sacrifice.

They spoke of Jesus as "the eternal High priest in the order of Melchizadek." This was to remind the hebrews that if they are being persecuted ( most likely by the ruling jewish elite as well as the Romans) Jesus had endured more. The whole book was reminding them that Jesus is the messiah.

Answer 4

Hebrews 5:

verses 1-3: High priests are human, so they can have compassion on other human beings, since they are also frail.

4-11: Just as no one becomes a high priest on his own, so Jesus was chosen by God as high priest. He was high priest, not of the Aaronic priesthood, but of the Melchizedek priesthood.

12-14: I have more to say about this, but you are not spiritually mature enough to take it in.

Answer 5

As High Priest, Jesus can not be God, or equal to God.

Heb 1:9, Shows that Jesus' God anointed him to his position.
Heb 3:1, Shows that Jesus is God's apostle sent to do His will.

Heb 5:5, Shows that Jesus was glorifed by His God and Father (Eph 1:3, 17; Rev 1:1, 6)

Heb 5:7, Shows that Jesus couldn't save himself but trusted and had faith in his God and Father to resurrect him from death. (God can not die, thus Jesus can not be God)

Heb 5:8 Jesus learned obedience, If Jesus is God, who does God have to be obedient to?

Heb 5:10, again points out that God appointed him High Priest. When did a Priest become equal to the God he worships?

Heb 5:11-14; Shows the responsibilty of All Christians to advance in bible knowledge and maturity.

(I hope this helps)

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Answer 6

High priests represented men in matters relatedto God , Offer gifts, sacrifice for sins. THey dealt gently with the ignorant and those gone astray because they they were subject to weakness too. They offer sacrificices for themselves and their people too. They must be called by God.
Jesus didnt choose this, God called Him and made Him his Son. He became our High Priest. He offered up cries, prayers,tears to God and was heard because of reverent submission. He learned obiedience from suffering and once made perfect became eternal salvation for all who obey him. He is designated by God to be our High Priest. Also the immature in Christ have milk The mature have solid food which is that they have trained themselves to know good from evil

Answer 7

I hope you won't mind if I just quote this 5th chapter of Hebrews from Eugene Peterson's contemporary translation of the Bible, better known as, "The Message." I think you'll find his language self-exclamatory. Here goes.

Hebrews, Chapter 5

"Every high priest selected to represent men and women before God and offer sacrifices for their sins should be able to deal gently with their failings, since he knows what it's like from his own experience. But that also means that he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins as well as the people's.

"No one elects himself to this honored position. He's called to it by God, as Aaron was. Neither did Christ presume to set himself up as high priest, but was set apart by the One who said to him, "You're a priest forever in the royal order of Melchizedek."

"While he lived on earth, anticipating death, Jesus cried out in pain and wept in sorrow as he offered up priestly prayers to God. Because he honored God, God answered him. Though he was God's Son, he learned trusting-obedience by what he suffered, just as we do. Then, having arrived at the full stature of his maturity and having been announced by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who believingly obey him."

Also, here's what the Britannica Online Encyclopedia says in regards to who Melchizedek is: "in the Old Testament, a figure of importance in biblical tradition because he was both king and priest, was connected with Jerusalem, and was revered by Abraham, who paid a tithe to him."

Answer 8

Men and women who serve God must be called or ordained.

The verse seems to indicated Jesus was ordained in very much the same way...but in the order of Melchizedek..Which would indicate a very high level of calling. or at least in my thinking..
The very highest order...

Answer 9

friend, this is not the place for a detailed explanation of this chapter - or any chapter - of the bible. If you need a commentary, go to one of the many bible study websites available online and read!

But better yet - read read read the bible yourself. compare scripture to other scripture.

god bless

Answer 10

heb. 5 1-10 is saying God chose's those who will sacrifice for sin offerings as it is said that Jesus was chose by God for sacrifice for all sin.

We all start out as babes in Christ (Matthew18:1-6). We are not to remain children, but are to mature spiritually (Hebrews 5:12-14). A baby's diet initially consists of milk from its mother. The first fluid that a nursing baby receives from its mother is called colostrum. This fluid is rich in protein and prepares the baby's body to receive milk, by coating the stomach. It also helps to prevent susceptibility to certain diseases.

When God initially calls us to understand His way of life, the Spirit of God prepares our minds to receive spiritual food. God's Spirit also helps us to fight off spiritually wrong thoughts and ideas. God doesn't want us to stay on milk forever. He wants to us grow up and to go on to perfection (Ephesians 4:13-15; Hebrews 6:1).

Food in the body is converted into energy and strength. It repairs the cells, fuels the body, and imparts the nutrients needed to sustain life. This also compares to the working of God's Spirit. Galatians 5:22 shows that God's Spirit imparts fruit. One of the fruits that it imparts to us is faith.

What is the power that motivates the true servants of God to obey, to overcome, to grow in grace and knowledge? It is faith! Hebrews 11 demonstrates that faith is what motivated the men and women of old to obey God. Obedience is faith transformed into action—transformed into another form. James 2:14-20 explains that faith must be used—that "faith without work is dead." The Spirit is depleted, or used up, through service,works and spiritual overcoming. Hard physical labor innervates us physically. After extensive athletic exertion we become tired. We eat to renew our strength. The spiritual power that God gives us is His Spirit (Acts 1:8).

Jesus Christ through good works used up the power of God. As Luke 6:19 says: "For power went out from Him and healed them all." On another occasion Jesus healed a woman who had a flow of blood for 12 years (Mark 5:25-30). Verse 30 states that power had gone out of Jesus to perform this miracle. When we obey God or serve others we use us a certain amount of the spiritual power that God gives us. It has to be renewed. There is nothing constant about a spiritual mind in a physical body.

the Spirit of God is like water that flows out of a Christian in good works. We must be constantly connected to the source of that water, or God's Spirit.