Met Mr. Melchizedek
J. Gerald Harris
Hebrews 7:1-10
I was ordained to the Gospel ministry when I was a sophomore in college. Beulah Baptist church near Devereaux, Georgia had called to be their pastor and requested my ordination at my home church in Valdese, North Carolina. Several of my ministerial student friends from Mercer University traveled with me to my home that weekend to support me in the ordination service. On the way to my home the "friends" taunted me and asked questions like, "What if the ordination council asks to you describe the Trinity? What if they ask you to explain the doctrine of election? What if they ask you explain the difference in paradise and heaven? What are you going to do with the rest of your life I they do not recommend your ordination?" By the time we got to my house I was beginning to question whether I wanted to get ordained or not.
Their questions reminded me of the story about a rather ambitious seminary student had been called to his first church. An ordination council was assembled to determine the suitability of this ecclesiastical neophyte for the ministry. In an effort to test him on his theological expertise, one venerable pastor spoke first, "Describe the order of the priesthood after Melchizedek." The nervous preacher-boy sheepishly replied, "Sir, if it's just the same to you, I'd rather tell you the story of David and Goliath."
Melchizedek is such an enigma that he is seldom the subject for sermons in our day. For the most part he has been relegated to the realm of obscurity, yet no study of the priesthood would be complete without a careful consideration of the mysterious Melchizedek. Although there is only a limited amount of information available concerning him, there is a significance about him which demands attention.
Melchizedek is mentioned in only three books of the Bible, yet his name is so strategically placed in the Word of God that the rarity of its appearance makes it strangely conspicuous. M ...
J. Gerald Harris
Hebrews 7:1-10
I was ordained to the Gospel ministry when I was a sophomore in college. Beulah Baptist church near Devereaux, Georgia had called to be their pastor and requested my ordination at my home church in Valdese, North Carolina. Several of my ministerial student friends from Mercer University traveled with me to my home that weekend to support me in the ordination service. On the way to my home the "friends" taunted me and asked questions like, "What if the ordination council asks to you describe the Trinity? What if they ask you to explain the doctrine of election? What if they ask you explain the difference in paradise and heaven? What are you going to do with the rest of your life I they do not recommend your ordination?" By the time we got to my house I was beginning to question whether I wanted to get ordained or not.
Their questions reminded me of the story about a rather ambitious seminary student had been called to his first church. An ordination council was assembled to determine the suitability of this ecclesiastical neophyte for the ministry. In an effort to test him on his theological expertise, one venerable pastor spoke first, "Describe the order of the priesthood after Melchizedek." The nervous preacher-boy sheepishly replied, "Sir, if it's just the same to you, I'd rather tell you the story of David and Goliath."
Melchizedek is such an enigma that he is seldom the subject for sermons in our day. For the most part he has been relegated to the realm of obscurity, yet no study of the priesthood would be complete without a careful consideration of the mysterious Melchizedek. Although there is only a limited amount of information available concerning him, there is a significance about him which demands attention.
Melchizedek is mentioned in only three books of the Bible, yet his name is so strategically placed in the Word of God that the rarity of its appearance makes it strangely conspicuous. M ...
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