Okay, this is Beth. Listen, what we live for at Living Proof is to serve people the Word

of God. We base our ministry on Hebrews 4.12 that tells us that the Word is alive and

active. We pray this message is going to serve you in some way today and that God is

going to speak through it. Thank you so much for giving us this privilege.

It says in Hebrews 4 and we are in verse 15. It says, for we do not have a high priest

who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every

way just as we are yet without sin. Now this is almost more than we can gather into our

simple minds, but let's talk through it a moment. I've got the Greek word down for you.

You can say the word sympathy in the Greek word. This one is not a reach. Some of them

we can't see any parallel whatsoever. You can certainly see it all over this one.

S-Y-M-P-A-T-H-E-I-N and it's formed from two roots. The first one that's S-Y-M comes

from S. Let's go to the other one first. That's second half. Let's look at it. P-A-T-H.

If we were to put an O-S on a pathos, you would recognize it. That feeling, that emotion,

that means to feel something, to feel something, form from roots meaning, to feel P-A-N, something,

and then the S-Y-M is S-Y-N in the Greek transliteration and it means with someone. So to

feel something with someone, to feel something with them, to feel it, I know I keep repeating

the concept, but I want you to understand it. Not just to watch them feel it, not just

to feel sorry that they are feeling it, to feel it with them. Because I got in so late

last night and got up so early this morning, I was just a little bit, I felt a little bit

sick to my stomach. And you know, I have staff members. I could have called any one of them

and I could have said, please pray for me this morning, but I wanted one person. I wanted

my husband. My husband knows how to pray for his wife. I wanted my man. He was on the

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