{"id":397,"date":"2017-01-08T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2026-08-03T08:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:57:28","slug":"daily-devotional-in-hebrews-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/hebrews\/daily-devotional-in-hebrews-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Devotion in Hebrews 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Hebrews2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Hebrews2-300x98.jpg\" alt=\"Hebrews 2\" class=\"wp-image-2288\" style=\"width:475px;height:155px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Hebrews2-300x98.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Hebrews2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Artwork from a 1611 KJV<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Heb8.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>HEAR the devotion and KJV chapter.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Daily Nugget:<\/strong><br>In Hebrews 8, Paul gives the Hebrew believers five more reasons Christ is the better High Priest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Christ, our High Priest, is sitting.\u00a0No Levitical priest ever sat because their work was never done.\u00a0There were no chairs in the tabernacle or temple.\u00a0Here, our Priest\u2019s one-time sacrifice is complete, and Jesus is seated (Hebrews 8:1). Jesus\u2019 earthly ministry is finished!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christ, our High Priest, is at the right hand of the Father (Hebrews 8:1). No Old Testament priest ever saw God, let alone sat next to Him, as does Jesus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christ is the minister of the \u201csanctuary and the true tabernacle\u201d (Hebrews 8:2-4).\u00a0The tabernacle was not perfect, although created as God relayed its design to Moses. All the Levitical priests ministered in a God-ordered but man-made tabernacle and later a man-made temple.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All the earlier Levitical priests presented a \u201cshadow,\u201d or picture, of heavenly things to come (Hebrews 8:5). Christ\u2019s ministry is not a picture of anything to come.\u00a0It is the real thing!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christ\u2019s ministry is a \u201cmore excellent ministry\u201d than any earthly priest ever had.\u00a0The Old Testament priests represented all people.\u00a0They mediated with God for all the people, however, few had a direct audience with the priest.\u00a0We, as Christians, have an audience with the perfect High Priest, no matter who we are.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christ\u2019s ministry is \u201cmore excellent\u201d because it comes with a \u201cbetter covenant,\u201d a better agreement between God and man.&nbsp;Although Paul sites the old covenant as faulted (Hebrews 8:7), it does not imply that God made a mistake with the old agreement.&nbsp;That agreement was good for that time and met its purpose \u2014 to show man could not make a worthy sacrifice himself.&nbsp;The sacrifice had to be made by His perfect Son, Jesus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This explanation of the past priests and our current Priest can help today\u2019s believers better understand what Jesus did for them and who He is.&nbsp;He is the most \u201cexcellent\u201d priest (Hebrews 8:6), with a ministry many throughout past ages have awaited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Today\u2019s Thought:&nbsp;<\/strong><br>\u201cThere are only two choices for salvation: do or done. The Bible says, \u2018It is finished!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Words to Understand:<\/strong><br>Covenant: an agreement<br>Waxeth: to increase; to grow; to change states or conditions one is in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Today\u2019s Reading:<\/strong><br><em>Hebrews 8<br>1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;<br>2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.<br>3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.<br>4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:<br>5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.<br>6 \u00b6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.<br>7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.<br>8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:<br>9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.<br>10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:<br>11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.<br>12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.<br>13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. 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