What Do Priests Do?

I mentioned last week that most of us are pretty rusty on the question of what exactly priests do. Well, the Hebrew writer was writing to an audience that probably used the services of priests regularly. But nonetheless, he takes a few verses to explain the duties and characteristics of priests here at the beginning of ch. 5. This is so that we can understand what he's talking about when he says that Jesus is our priest. What we'll see this morning is that a priest repairs and maintains the relationship between God and man, and that you need to take advantage of Jesus' priestly work in order to be connected to God.