Holy, Harmless, Undefiled and Separate Hebrews 7:26

The writer of Hebrews shared how Jesus is “able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him” because “he ever lives to make intercession for them”. In chapter seven and verse twenty-six of Hebrews the writer declared how Jesus is “holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners” where we read:

For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless,

undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

The verse begins, “For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless,...”. The writer began with the word, “For” which means “even as, indeed, no doubt seeing then, verily and therefore”, “such an high priest” or “one like unto this chief priest” “became us” which means “stood out, was conspicuous and eminent to we who believe in Him” “who is holy” which means “undefiled by sin, free from wickedness, religiously observing moral obligation, pure and pious”, “harmless” or “without guile or fraud and free from guilt”. Jesus, came unto us as our “great high priest”, who is “pure, pious and without fraud or guilt”.

The verse goes on to say, “...undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;”. The writer continued with the word, “undefiled” or “unsoiled, free from that by which the nature of a thing is deformed and debased or it's force and vigor is impaired”, “separate” which means “departed and put asunder”, “from sinners” which refers to “those who are wicked, sinful and stained with certain definite vices or crimes” “and made” which means “became, began to be and happened” “higher than” or “lofty, exalted on high, uplifted and eminent in influence and honor” “the heavens” which refers to “the vaulted expanse of the sky with all things visible in it, the region where the clouds and the tempest gather or the sidereal heavens where the seat of order of things eternal and consummately perfect where God dwells and other heavenly beings”.

When we meditate upon these words in Hebrews, we realize how Jesus, “our great high priest”, was “holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens”. This makes Him superior to all the other “priests” who were before Him because none of them had these characteristics. This is why Jesus is the only way to have access to a relationship with God. He is our intercessor, and because He is “perfect” in every way, He is able to provide the means by which we shall enter into heaven for all eternity.

Next time the writer shares how Jesus “doesn't need daily...to offer up sacrifice”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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