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Hebrew chapter 4 verses 14 through 16

therefore since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted

in every way as we are, yet without sin.

Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need

Oh these verses are so good. They contain such glorious and comforting truth.

There's so much we could talk about in them.

But I want to point out just one thing,

right in the middle of this passage I just read

verse 14 talks about we don't have a high priest who is unable to sympathize

with our weaknesses but one who has been tempted in every way as we are yet without sin.

This verse is emphasizing the humanity of Jesus,

how he is like us, how he has experienced, temptation, and trial like we experience.

I would say even to fuller extent than we experience, in a sense we give into temptation, far sooner we don't experience the full brunt of it.

Jesus experienced the full brunt of it because he never gave into it.

And so the picture we have in Hebrew chapter 4 verse 15 is right now

Jesus is at the right hand of God and he is able to sympathize with us. He knows

what it's like when we face temptation and trial. We have a high

priest before God who is able to identify with us, who knows what we are walking through. There's a great musical term called

sympathetic resonance and when I first heard about this I thought what an amazing picture of

who Jesus is as our great high priest. So basically sympathetic residence, if you have two pianos in the same room and you strike a note on one. So say you hit middle C on one piano.

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