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It is true that we share the same Father with Jesus. And it is true that we share the same kind of flesh and blood because Jesus became a man like us. He died as we must die. Through His death He destroyed the power of the devil who has the power of death.

So Jesus had to become like His brothers in every way. He had to be one of us to be our Religious Leader to go between God and us. He had loving-pity on us and He was faithful. He gave Himself as a gift to die on a cross for our sins so that God would not hold these sins against us any longer.

The Holy Spirit says, "If you hear His voice today,

The Holy Writings say, "If you hear His voice today, do not let your hearts become hard as your early fathers did when they turned against Me."

Who did He say could never go into His rest? Was it not those who did not obey Him?

So we can see that they were not able to go into His rest because they did not put their trust in Him.

We who have put our trust in God go into His rest. God said this of our early fathers, "I was angry and said, ‘They will not go into My rest.'" And yet God's work was finished after He made the world.

Those who heard the Good News first did not go into His rest. It was because they had not obeyed Him. But the promise is still good and some are going into His rest.

God has again set a certain day for people to go into His rest. He says through David many years later as He had said before, "If you hear His voice today, do not let your hearts become hard."

The man who goes into God's rest, rests from his own work the same as God rested from His work.

No one can hide from God. His eyes see everything we do. We must give an answer to God for what we have done.

Let us go with complete trust to the throne of God. We will receive His loving-kindness and have His loving-favor to help us whenever we need it.

Because he is weak himself, he must give gifts to God for his own sins as well as for the sins of the people.

God says in another part of His Word, "You will be a Religious Leader forever. You will be like Melchizedek."

When God made a promise to Abraham, He made that promise in His own name because no one was greater.

And so God made a promise. He wanted to show Abraham that He would never change His mind. So He made the promise in His own name.

The Law was given during the time when Levi and his sons were the religious leaders. If the work of those religious leaders had been perfect in taking away the sins of the people, there would have been no need for another religious leader. But one like Melchizedek was needed and not one from the family group of Aaron.

God did not make such a promise when Levi's family group became religious leaders. But when Christ became a Religious Leader, this is the promise God made, "The Lord has made a promise. He will never change His mind. You will be a Religious Leader forever."

The Law makes religious leaders of men. These men are not perfect. After the Law was given, God spoke with a promise. He made His Son a perfect Religious Leader forever.

No one will need to teach his neighbor or his brother to know the Lord. All of them will already know Me from the least to the greatest.