We're told in scripture that Jesus is a sympathetic high priest.

What does that mean? What's it really mean?

Does he feel things with us?

Does he lament the things that we go through?

Does he weep with us? Does he see? Does he care?

John and I are going to have a conversation today about Jesus and his heart towards sinners.

We're going to try to have this conversation in the context of historical orthodoxy and all of the appropriate theological considerations.

And we're going to look to the scriptures to see that we have a compassionate, sympathetic,

gentle, lowly, and tender savior who understands us, who's with us, who's for us, and we can trust

it.

We hope you're encouraged.

Stay tuned.

If you're new to Theocast, you may not have heard of this word.

It's called pietism.

You ever felt like the Christian life

is a heavy burden versus rest and joy, that you wake up worrying about how well you're going to

perform instead of thinking about what Christ has done for you. It's dread versus joy, really.

That's pietism. Piatism causes Christians to look in on themselves and find their hope,

not in what Christ has done, but what they're doing. And we have a little book for you. It's free.

We want you to download it, and we're going to explain the difference between pietism and what we call

confessionalism. Reform theology, really, how it is that we walk by faith, seeing the joy of

Christ, and when Jesus says, come to me and I will give you rest, what does that look like?

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