#418 – Sympathetic Resonance (Hebrews 4:14–16)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 2 October 2018

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When we walk through temptations and trials, we have a Great High Priest who echoes our hurts and trials. We can approach His throne boldly and there find grace and mercy in our time of need.Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:05.7	Hebrews chapter 4, verses 14 through 16.
0:10.0	Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens,
0:16.1	Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.
0:21.3	For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one
0:25.6	who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin.
0:30.5	Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness so that we may receive mercy
0:35.3	and find grace to help us in time of need.
0:39.4	Oh, these verses are so good.
0:41.5	They contain such glorious and comforting truth.
0:46.4	There's so much we could talk about in them.
0:49.1	But I want to point out just one thing, right in the middle of this passage I just read,
0:53.8	verse 14, talks about
0:55.2	we don't have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been
1:01.8	tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. This verse is emphasizing the humanity of Jesus,
1:09.2	how he is like us, how he has experienced temptation and trial
1:14.8	like we experience. I would say even to fuller extent than we experience, in a sense we give
1:22.0	into temptation far sooner. We don't experience the full brunt of it. Jesus experienced the full brunt
1:27.3	of it because he never gave into it.
1:30.5	And so the picture we have in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 15 is right now,
1:35.5	Jesus is at the right hand of God and he is able to sympathize with us.
1:41.2	He knows what it's like when we face temptation and trial. We have a high priest before God
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