Hebrews 9 Christ is Our High Priest

Christmas is a time we set aside to give gifts to those we love, but the perfect gift is given to us by Christ Himself. What can you offer the perfect High Priest? What gift is so precious that nothing can replace it? Only Christ is the perfect High Priest. 

While the earthly Levitical priests offered blood in the Most Holy Place year after year until they passed this onto the next man to take his place, Christ did this once for all. He is the perfect High Priest for He offered not the blood of bulls and lambs but His own blood that he shed for us on that cruel cross. Why was this needed?   According to the Law that God gave, all things must be purified by blood and this Christ did for us. Thus, we who now accept Him as our perfect High Priest, are cleansed by His blood. Further, now Christ, the perfect High Priest stands before the Father to cleanse us from our imperfectness and our sin filled lives. 

This is a price that cannot be paid in full by us who are sinners but only by the perfect blood of the Lamb who was slain. He is our perfect High Priest and our forever Christmas gift from the Father to us by His Son.