The New High Priest Is Yours (Matthew 26:26-29).
length: 63:33 - taught on Feb, 11 2026
Class Outline:
Wednesday February 11, 2026
Christ is the new High Priest. He is forever. There will never be another.
Creed on hypostatic union:
Council of Chalcedon in AD 451.
“ … truly God and truly man, of a reasonable soul and body; consubstantial with the Father according to the Godhead, and consubstantial with us according to the manhood …”
“... to be acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation …”
Unique as a Man, the Lord Jesus, brought something new. He became the Prophet, High Priest, and King.
There were never any like Him and never will there be.
New Prophet:
OT prophets delivered God’s messages fully, called for repentance and covenant renewal, denounced sin and pronounced judgment, foretold future events, offered hope, comfort, and promises of restoration, and revealed God’s character. The Lord did all of this and in a new way.
'I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth …
In Mat 26; Jesus our Lord switched to His priesthood.
He is the new High Priest.
OT priests offered sacrifices, maintained the Tabernacle, blessed, interceded, taught, and ministered the old covenant of Moses.
Jesus Christ performed these functions in a new way and He manifested in all in the Lord’s Supper.
While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is My body." 27 And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you; 28 for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins. 29 "But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom."
The OT priest blessed the people:
“Took some bread, and after a blessing…”
The OT priest offered sacrifices:
“He broke it … this is My body.”
The uniqueness of our High Priest is that He offered Himself as the substitute.
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; 12 and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
The breaking of the bread points us to the tearing of the veil so that as He entered the perfect heavenly tabernacle as the only worthy one, through His blood, we would follow Him.
Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh
The OT priest’s sacrifice should have removed guilt.
For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?
"And their sins and their lawless deeds
I will remember no more."
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.
The OT priest maintained the Tabernacle / Temple.
Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister in the sanctuary, and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
The OT priest blessed and interceded for the people:
The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing, 24 but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently. 25 Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
He delivered us from death through our salvation and still is delivering us from our helplessness and weakness to know and do the good we desire.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. 16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
The OT priest taught the people:
The OT priests often neglected these roles and simply reveled in their positions and oppressed the people.
My shepherds did not search for My flock, but rather the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock.
Christ gave us His Word and gifts in the church to help communicate it.
"Shepherd My sheep." [to Peter]
And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
The OT priest ministered the covenant.
Christ is a King / Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
He is from the tribe of Judah, the kingly tribe.
Melchizedek: King of Salem, priest of God.
Then after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High. 19 He blessed him and said,
"Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;
20 And blessed be God Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your hand."
He gave him a tenth of all.
Beginning in Heb 7, the writer brings up this mysterious man.
Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated according to the order of Aaron? 12 For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also. 13 For the one concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. 14 For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests. 15 And this is clearer still, if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek, 16 who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is attested of Him,
"YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER
ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK."
so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
Then the writer records the New Covenant from JER 31:31-34 word for word.
The blessings of the New Covenant.
Melchizedek ministered to Abraham bread and wine..
Christ ministered to us bread (His body) and wine (His blood of the New Covenant). As we eat and drink, we gather under a new covenant, a new blessing, a new sacrifice, a new tabernacle, a new intercession.
We sit with our High Priest at the table, whose body is somehow the bread and whose blood is somehow the wine.
We sit as a unified body, now His body in another real but mysterious way.
So what about His kingship?
It is coming!
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