#501 – Advent: A Great High Priest (Hebrews 4:14–16)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 23 December 2018
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Because of Christ fulfilling all righteousness and dying in our place at the cross, we can boldly approach the throne of grace in our time of need.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Hebrew chapter 4 verses 14 through 16 |
| 0:10.0 | since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens Jesus the son of God, let us hold fast our confession. |
| 0:21.0 | For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every |
| 0:27.7 | respect has been tempted as we are yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace |
| 0:37.1 | that we may receive mercy and find grace |
| 0:40.4 | to help in time of need. |
| 0:43.0 | What an incredible exhortation the author papers gives us here. |
| 0:49.0 | Think about it, all throughout the Old Testament. |
| 0:52.0 | It's like only Moses could go meet on the mountain with God. |
| 0:55.4 | Everybody else had to stay away and you think about it all throughout. |
| 1:00.4 | Scripture you got the high priest who goes into the Holy of Holies there in the temple once a year. |
| 1:07.3 | Everybody else is way far away. |
| 1:10.0 | Now the author of Hebrews is saying, let's,'s with confidence go to the throne of grace. |
| 1:16.3 | And not just like select people, but all of us. |
| 1:19.1 | How is that possible? |
| 1:20.6 | Because we have a great high priest who is passed through the heavens for us, Jesus the son of God, |
| 1:26.5 | he's paid the price for our sin because he was totally without sin. |
| 1:32.3 | As a result, we can go to him with he was totally without sin. |
| 1:32.5 | As a result, we can go to him with confidence |
| 1:36.3 | and find mercy and grace to help us in our time of need. |
| 1:41.2 | I just want to encourage you with that as we are coming close to the end of |
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