Hebrews 5:7-10
7 “In the days of His humanity, He offered up both prayers and pleas with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His devout behavior. 8 Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey Him, 10 being designated by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.”
Learned obedience: Jesus learned obedience even though He was the son of God. Jesus is the perfect example of how to be new and yet be in process. Though He never sinned, He did learn to know God as a human and grew in wisdom. This as an accepted son of God. Likewise, believers are accepted fully and yet we are growing and maturing in our faith.
He became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey Him: God saves all who obey the Gospel of grace through belief in the finished work of Jesus. The author of Hebrews was urging the Israelites to not disobey God through rejecting the Gospel. Just as those who disobeyed God in the desert wandered for 40 years and never received the promised land, so too all who reject Christ will be punished. This is the warning the author of Hebrews gives multiple times. The sin of unbelief is the only sin referenced in Hebrews.
According to the order of Melchizedek: Jesus is the authoritative and final High Priest but is such outside of the Old Covenant law. This is to signify a change in covenant for where there is a change in priesthood, there is also a change in covenant. Jesus is a High Priest outside of the Levitical priesthood by virtue of divine appointment. This is why He is compared to Melchizedek, an Old Testament figure who was also a High Priest outside of the law.
