This means that he had to become like his people in every way, in order to be their faithful and merciful High Priest in his service to God, so that the people's sins would be forgiven.

My Christian friends, who also have been called by God! Think of Jesus, whom God sent to be the High Priest of the faith we profess.

Moses was faithful in God's house as a servant, and he spoke of the things that God would say in the future.

But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.

He reflects the brightness of God's glory and is the exact likeness of God's own being, sustaining the universe with his powerful word. After achieving forgiveness for the sins of all human beings, he sat down in heaven at the right side of God, the Supreme Power.

On our behalf Jesus has gone in there before us and has become a high priest forever, in the priestly order of Melchizedek.

And so he is able, now and always, to save those who come to God through him, because he lives forever to plead with God for them.

Jesus, then, is the High Priest that meets our needs. He is holy; he has no fault or sin in him; he has been set apart from sinners and raised above the heavens.

The whole point of what we are saying is that we have such a High Priest, who sits at the right of the throne of the Divine Majesty in heaven.

When Christ went through the tent and entered once and for all into the Most Holy Place, he did not take the blood of goats and bulls to offer as a sacrifice; rather, he took his own blood and obtained eternal salvation for us.

For Christ did not go into a Holy Place made by human hands, which was a copy of the real one. He went into heaven itself, where he now appears on our behalf in the presence of God.

Christ, however, offered one sacrifice for sins, an offering that is effective forever, and then he sat down at the right side of God.

Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. He did not give up because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he is now seated at the right side of God's throne.

After the Lord Jesus had talked with them, he was taken up to heaven and sat at the right side of God.

As he was blessing them, he departed from them and was taken up into heaven.

and said, "Galileans, why are you standing there looking up at the sky? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way that you saw him go to heaven."

He must remain in heaven until the time comes for all things to be made new, as God announced through his holy prophets of long ago.

Who, then, will condemn them? Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised to life and is at the right side of God, pleading with him for us!

but in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son. He is the one through whom God created the universe, the one whom God has chosen to possess all things at the end.

About the Son, however, God said: "Your kingdom, O God, will last forever and ever! You rule over your people with justice.

This is the Good News about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

That is why we must hold on all the more firmly to the truths we have heard, so that we will not be carried away.

But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.

For we are all partners with Christ if we hold firmly to the end the confidence we had at the beginning.

Let us hold on firmly to the hope we profess, because we can trust God to keep his promise.