Summary: <p><strong> Hi, this is Ricky and our Daily Devotional today is found in Hebrews 7. </strong><strong>Feel free to read along in the show notes below.</strong><br> <strong>Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this scripture so comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/hebrews-7/%20">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/hebrews-7/ </a>.</strong></p> <p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Heb-7-1"><span class="chapternum">1 </span>For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,</span> <span id="en-ESV-30050" class="text Heb-7-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30051" class="text Heb-7-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.</span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-30052" class="text Heb-7-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!</span> <span id="en-ESV-30053" class="text Heb-7-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, though these also are descended from Abraham.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30054" class="text Heb-7-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30055" class="text Heb-7-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30056" class="text Heb-7-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>In the one case tithes are received by mortal men, but in the other case, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30057" class="text Heb-7-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,</span> <span id="en-ESV-30058" class="text Heb-7-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.</span></p> <p><span class="text Heb-7-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?</span> <span id="en-ESV-30060" class="text Heb-7-12"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30061" class="text Heb-7-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.</span><span id="en-ESV-30062" class="text Heb-7-14"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.</span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-30063" class="text Heb-7-15"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,</span> <span id="en-ESV-30064" class="text Heb-7-16"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30065" class="text Heb-7-17"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>For it is witnessed of him,</span></p> <div class="poetry top-1"> <p class="line"><span class="text Heb-7-17">“You are a priest fo</span></p> </div>
