Even Greater (Part 2): Priest

TO START: As Easter approaches, the Even Greater sermon series seeks to answer the question: "Why is Jesus worthy of our celebration & imitation?" This series explores how Jesus fulfilled and transformed the three key roles through which God worked in the Old Testament—prophet, priest, and king.

In our second week, we discussed how Jesus is a greater priest than anyone who came before Him. Those united with Jesus are invited to represent God to people and people to God. 

READ: Hebrews 7:26-8:2

DISCUSS:

(1.) Recount a time when you felt well-represented or misrepresented by someone? 

(2.) Who in your life has represented God well to you? What about them helped you to see and experience Jesus more closely?

(3.) Hebrews 7:26 describes Jesus as our High Priest—holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. What do you think was the greatest challenge for Jesus to uphold this in His humanity?

(4.) The writer of Hebrews says Jesus is our High Priest who sympathizes with our troubles and sufferings. In what area of your life is it difficult to believe that Jesus is handling you with compassion?=

(5.) Scripture calls those who follow the Great High Priest, a royal priesthood. Who comes to mind or what situation comes to mind where you feel prompted to carry the Spirit’s peace on God's behalf?

BLESSING PRAYER:

To close small group, we invite you to continue the practice of blessing prayer together. A pastor once said, “We love the reality that as a priesthood of all believers, every person has access to an intimate relationship with God but often we forget that another facet of this reality is that we are meant to be priests for each other, people whose stories, gifts, ways of hearing and seeing are portals of God’s presence.” This week, we invite you to practice blessing prayer by asking the Spirit to enable you to be portals of God’s presence to a person in the group who desires for God’s people to contend in prayer for them in light of a current situation where they feel mis-represented or under-represented.