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Welcome back to our study of the book of Hebrews, today we’ll give our attention to Hebrews 5:2, 7-8. Last week, we talked about Jesus’ ordination being superior to that of the levite priests in that He ( Jesus) has been established by God as a Great High Priest in the order of Melchizedek. Jesus doesn’t minister in an earthly tabernacle but HE has passed through the heavens and is seated at the right hand of God. We also saw that His ministry was endless because of His endless life. Unlike the levites, Jesus can’t be succeeded because He lives forever. Today we’ll also see that Jesus reveals a superior sympathy in comparison to the levites. We’ll zero in on verse 2 and see how the writer connects them to verse 7 and 8 to show us the superiority of Jesus’s compassion
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hello good morning this is uh.com and uh today we're gonna continue our
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study of the book of hebrews and we're gonna focus in on verse two and verses seven and eight and the title
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that i chose is jesus christ reveals a superior sympathy now i'm gonna get into the intro and then we're gonna go
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uh one verse at a time in this chapter so basically um last week when we talked uh we talked
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about jesus ordination being superior to that of the levite priest in that jesus has
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been established by god himself as a great high priest in the order of melchizedek and then we we went and
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looked at melchizedek quickly and melchizedek as we saw has a
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meaning the meaning of melchizedek is that he is the king of salem as also the king of righteousness and we talked
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about how jesus ministries from heaven and that jesus is both king and also a
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high priest at the same time and we talked about the fact that jesus couldn't be a levite priest because he was a tribe
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it was of the tribe of judah and we also talked about the fact that jesus ministry uh is not an earthly
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ministry he doesn't minister in an earthly earthly tabernacle but he has passed through the heavens and is seated
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at the right hand of god and we also saw that his ministry was endless because he could not die
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anymore he died once for sins and after that he sat at the right hand of god to
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die no more but now he leaves to end the seat for us and unlike the levites the levites died aaron died and his son
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succeeded him and then they each died because they were interrupted by a weakness so we saw how weak their
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ministry was compared to jesus in that way they ministered in the earthly tabernacle and they weren't even allowed
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into the holy of holies but only but once a year we talked about all that so if you want to look at it you can go
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back to see my previous video now today i want to zero in on our verse two
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and verses seven and eight and in these verses we're gonna see that jesus has a superior sympathy incorpora in
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comparison to the levites so we're just going to zero in on those verses and then we're going to see that again and
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we're going to draw our conclusions so what i'm going to do is i'm going to read hebrews chapter 2 verses hebrews
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chapter 5 verses 1 through 8 and then we're going to go back and zero in verse 2 and
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verses 7 and 8. this is again a very very difficult book to look at so i've
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been using some resources here one of the best resources that i found is the the bible
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exposition commentary this is a good book if you need a good book to study this is one that i would highly
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recommend and this is volume 2 and from the new testament i was given this by my former pastor pastor jim nelson and this
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has been a great great great blessing because sometimes it is hard for us to
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try to put things together you know that's one of the things that i struggle with is hard work with my ideas together
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as i study the scripture i get the sense of it by the holy spirit of course but then
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writing down the information is like wow i don't know how to put this together so this book has been a great resource and
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i highly recommend it so now without further ado uh let's read hebrews chapter 5 verses 1 through 8
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so the scripture says you can look on my screen and follow with me
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for every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in
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relation to god to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins
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he can deal gently with ignorant and wayward since he himself is beset with
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weakness because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins just as he
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does for those of the people and no one takes this honor for himself only when
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called by god just as aaron was so also christ did not exalt himself to
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be made a high priest but was appointed by him who said to him you are my son
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today i have begotten you as he also says in another place you are a priest
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forever after the order of melchizedek in the days of his flesh jesus offered
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our prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to him who was able to
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save him from death and he was heard because of his reference although he was a son he learned obedience through what
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he suffered and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation
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to all who obey him being designated by god a high priest after the order of
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melchizedek and then we're going to stop here and now look at the scriptures uh verses
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2 and verses 7 and 8. so let's go back and see
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verse 2. so verse 2 tells us he can deal gently with the ignorant and
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wayward since he himself is beset with witness again we are looking at the function of the high priest now in those
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days in the old testament the high priest again was chosen from the one man
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and we talked about that last week because he could relate to them because he himself was beset with witness so
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because of it he could show some kind of compassion for those that are ignorant
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and wayward and we're going to look into those words and we're going to try to understand what all this means
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so again i said there's a reason why the high priest had to be chosen from among men and it is later for us in verse 2.
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since the high priest was also fallible because he could fall because of sin because of his human nature
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now he could have sympathy for those among the people of israel that were also ignorant and wayward now i want to
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define the words ignorant and way word because if we don't understand what this
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means this passage will not make that much sense now ignorant in this case means to earth to
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sin through mistake and the word is spoken mightily of those who are not
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high handed or willful transgressors now wayward means to be led aside from the
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path of virtue to go astray and to sin now why am i making the point to define
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ignorant and wayward again if you see in in that sentence they are saved
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uh seen through mistake and the word is spoken mildly of those who are not high
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handed or willful transgressors see god never made provisions for willful sins okay when you sinned
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with a high hand there was no provision for that you were going to be judged for
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that sin and we're going to see some example when people did it and they they kind of died as a result so in the old
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testament like i said on words on the one word god never made provisions for high-handed
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rebellion when people chose to defy god willfully they were ultimately destroyed
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and there were two instances that i want to bring up for us to understand this passage we're going to look at first samuel 2 verse 12 to 25 and numbers 15
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verse 27 through 31 so the first time you're two we're going to look at the life of eli's uh warfare
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sons now eli sons were priest in training basically they were supposed to lead people and that's not what they did
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because they were totally corrupted and let's let's look at the scripture and so we'll understand why what a high handed
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scene looks like now the scripture says now the songs of eli were worthless men
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now that's not a good qualifier to describe somebody to be worthless in the sight of god that's not good and look at
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the next scripture the scripture says they did not know the lord you see the reason why the scripture said they were
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worthless is because they did not know the lord and you show in the way they acted now the custom of the high priest
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the priest through the people was that when any man offered sacrifice
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the priest servant would come and while the meat was boiling with three granger fork in his hand and he would thrust it
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into the pan or carrot or cauldron or pot all that the fork brought up the priest
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would take for himself this is what they did a shiloh to all the israelites who came there now they were not supposed to
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do that they were not supposed to eat raw meat okay they were supposed to wait till the
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meat was boiled completely because they were not supposed to be the fat because the fat was what was burning up and was
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going up to the lord because that's the it talks about how the smell of the fat was a sweet aroma
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pleasing to god now these guys were basically desecrating the offering of the lord they looked at your contempt
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okay the scripture says moreover before the fact was burned the priest servant would
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come and say to the men who were sacrificing give meat for the priest to roast for he would not accept boiled
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meat from you but only raw because the fat is where the taste is so they wanted
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that tasty meat so that's what the priests were doing and they were not supposed to do that that was unlawful
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if the man said to him let them burn the fat first and then take as much as you wish he would say no
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you must give it now and if not i will take it by force
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thus the sin of the young man was very great in the side of the lord for the man treated the offering of the world
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with contempt now you can see what they were doing there they were treating the offering of the
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lord with contempt this was supposed to be the priest that was supposed to lead people but didn't do that they actually
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did the opposite they were leading people into sin now this is not sinning
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in ignorance and being wayward this is actually defying god and being completely
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uh at this point they show so much contempt they don't even care they are supposed to be the
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one leading people but look at what are doing and i listen to what the scripture says in verse 22 to 25. now eli was very
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old and eli was the high priest at the time and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all israel and how
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they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance of the ten of meeting now do you see how vile these people
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were these two priests hophni and phineas they had their wives but they still committed adultery and they didn't
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care these were the high priest sons and eli say to them why do you do such
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things for i hear of your your evil dealings from all these people now my sons it is not good report that i hear
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the people of the people of the lord spreading abroad if someone sins against the man
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god will mediate for him but if someone sins against the lord who can intercede
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for him but they will not listen to the voice of their father for it was the will of the lord to put them to death
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this is dangerous this is a verse that sends chills down my spine because
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the scripture says but they will not listen to the voice of their father for it was the will of the lord to put them
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to death they were done god was not going to
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basically forgive their sins they were done for and they were going to die and they
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eventually died because they treated god with contempt they knew
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what they what that did what they were doing was wrong their dad told him about it and eli i said hi you should have
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disciplined his son he didn't and he allowed him to continue to do this and eventually they died and eli also died
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they all died on the same pretty much day they all died because god was not
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going to have it now you see this is a high-handed sin because they defied god they told they
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basically were saying to god i don't care what the scripture says i don't
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care what the word of the lord said i'm gonna do what i want to do and i'm gonna do it my way it doesn't matter i don't
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they don't even have they didn't even find any room to repent they didn't care now this is a high-handed thing okay
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then we're also going to look at numbers 15 verse 27 to 31. now scripture says if one person's sins
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unintentionally he shall offer a female goat a year or for a sin offering and
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the priest shall make atonement before the lord for the person who makes a mistake when he sins on him
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unintentionally to make atonement for him and he shall be forgiven we shall have one love for him who does anything
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unintentionally for him who's native among the people of israel and for the stranger with sojourns among them for
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the person who does anything with a high hand whether he is a native or
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sojourner meaning um the foreigner revives the lord and that person shall be cut off from among these
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people because he has despised the word of the lord and has broken his
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commandment that person shall be utterly cut off his iniquity shall be on him now
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you can see that god never made provisions for high handed sin now
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this is a tough one because ultimately everything is a high handed scene when you think
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about it right when you think about it every scene is not high-handed i'll say but everything that we commit is is
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intentional because we knew we know that we're not supposed to do that and we do it anyway right so i just wanted to make
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a point here because uh when we do something we did we do it
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because we wanted to do it it's not like somebody's like putting a gun to your head and say well do this and then you
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do it now mostly because of our sinful nature we are prone to sin
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okay so david for example when he uh violated bathsheba and then orders the
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the murder of her husband he knew exactly that that was against the lord's word but he did it anyway because he
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coveted another man's wife and then he got the man killed okay he was forgiven
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by god but still received chastisement for his sins so what's the difference between the two
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you see in the case of david even though he violated the command of god new england like he did it like
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knowingly he wasn't like i don't know i'm being ignorant no he did it knowingly but when he was confronted by
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nathan he didn't insist on defying god he humbled himself and acknowledged his sin
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see that's the difference when david was confronted with his sin he didn't say well i don't care what god says that
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doesn't matter to me no he humbled himself and if you don't if you think i'm playing read psalm 51 and you see
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how david repented repented of his sin against bathsheba now he still suffered
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they are still chastisement the child that was born as a result died and david's family
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suffered division there was a lot of thing that happened as a result of it and god told him that because of what
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you've done the sword will never leave your your house so there was ultimately uh consequences on earth but god took
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away the punishment because he didn't suffer ultimate death meaning he wasn't separated from god and god never removed
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his love from him as he did with saul king saul
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but i'm saying all this to show you that everything that we commit is basically
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intentional but there is a there is a time when like if you look at roman 7 okay
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paul talks about it like he talks about i know that the things that i do i shouldn't do what i do anyway because
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that's a sinful nature in him that is doing that okay and you say oh wretched man that i am you can deliver me from
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this body of death thanks be to god in jesus christ and he talks about romans 8 and all of this now no condemnation so
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the person that he know that that is sinning and he's like struggling fighting against that sin but again the
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sinful nature sometimes can be powerful because jesus even says to a disciple there the spirit is willing but the
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flesh is weak our flesh is weak so that's why the the high people supposed to understand that
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the human nature is weak because of sin so and he was supposed to intercede for people that seemed uh
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in ignorance or we're going wayward so that's the kind of that was the role of the high priest he
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was supposed to be merciful to those people i understand that listen i understand your human condition
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because i'm also i'm also a human and i know what it feels like to hate something but then you continue to do it
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because that sinful nature sometimes can have a grip on you so the high priest was supposed to understand that now there was no
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provision again for a high ended sin saying to god i don't care what god says i'm gonna do what i want that wasn't the
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case it was for uh those that were basically weak in the flesh
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and and and they sinned as a result of the human nature that's just how we are we sin and
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we struggle against sin we fight against it and we try to fight against it but that weakness and then i don't think a
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lot of us understand how weak we are as humans i mean peter saw it when he said to jesus i will
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never deny you and jesus told him three times tonight before the rooster crows you will deny
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me and what happened he did because of the weakness of humans flesh now
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peter knew that he was sinning against god but because of that weakness that weakness of humans okay and so
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that's the that's what the scripture is saying here so the high priest because he's himself he himself is beset with
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weakness he was supposed to act gently with those that are ignorant and going
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wayward starts to so that was one of the function of the high priest so without
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saying now let us unpack on this verse like i said to you just now since the
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high priest was also fallible because of his human nature he was to sympathize
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and show compassion to his fellow humans but that wasn't always the case with the
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high priest of israel now aaron on many occasions was weak in his ministry and
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failed because he gave into temptations when moses was getting the law from god and went away for 40 days
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aaron led the people into sin by making a golden calf now he was supposed to
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resist the temptation as a high priest but he didn't resist it and he gave him
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to fear he gave him to peer pressure now he was supposed to be the one to say to the high priest to the people listen
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moses is coming back in 40 days you guys need to stop and he was supposed to understand that okay these are weak
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humans they don't understand what they're doing and then tell them listen guys the word of the lord says
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he forbids this idolatry but he didn't he gave in to the people and he failed them and a lot of people
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died as a result now eli the high priest he showed no mercy
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to hannah as she was crying before the lord okay he was sitting there and he took her to be a drunken woman
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now as a high priest he was supposed to understand that this woman was really going through a heartache because she
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didn't have any children and at that moment in israel not being able to have a children was seen as a disgrace so she
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was crying before the lord and pouring out her heart but eli because his son was so corrupted and because the women
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that were serving at the intent of meeting were also sleeping with his sons he probably thought uh hannah was just
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one of those two so he didn't have any regard and he treated her with contempt he said to her how long are you going to
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keep drinking because she was praying and her lips were moving her words was not were not her but she was praying
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before the lord and then eli because he was so blinded by his own just
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indifference he didn't care to end the seat for this woman now his role was to say to the woman god be with you i
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understand that you're going through a hard time i understand that you're struggling i understand that you can't
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have any children and i'm going to intercede for you but eli didn't do that
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and i'm going to go even further and talk about today us like us christians
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now we are called a high priest of god we are a group of priests okay god has
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called us to be his people and sometimes the way we treat each other is not correct we don't have compassion
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for one another sometimes we have more judgmental and sometimes we do the opposite so there's like two extremes
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sometimes we show not even grace that's not even grace we just love the sinner and we continue to
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tell them god loves you anyway and then we let them go into sin and more sin and more sin or sometimes we harden our
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heart like eli did where we are so quick to point the finger and show no compassion like david when david
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was confronted by nathan before he was confronted david was told the story a story and he said god should punish that
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man but he himself was the man that he was talking about so he had no compassion but yet he showed
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uh anger and sometimes that's what we do as people like we don't know how to show compassion when somebody is is going
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through a hard time somebody's sinning now i'm not saying that you you condone the same but what i'm saying is when
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someone a genuine believer is coming to you and say i am struggling with a certain sin don't make fun of them
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don't judge them in your heart show compassion now compassion doesn't mean you condone the same pray with them
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because paul tells us if you think you are standing think again because we are as
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good as the holy spirit allows us to because sometimes we think we were able to defeat a certain sin because of our
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own strength no no no it's only because of the holy spirit of god because jesus
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himself said apart from me you can do absolutely nothing so this is why we
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need to remain humble unless we fall on our face so what we need to learn is show compassion
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but at the same time correct the behavior correct the same and pray for the people that the spirit
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of god himself will enable them to resist whatever they are going through okay now sympathy and compassion and
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mercy were supposed to be abundantly present within the high priest dna because he could identify with mankind
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weaknesses and we saw in hebrews 4 15 that jesus unlike the other high priest
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isn't unable to sympathize with our witnesses okay we saw that in verse on fourth and verse
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15 of chapter four the scripture tells us that he is not unable to sympathize with our weaknesses
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but he was tempted in every way yet without sinning so eli um so we can go to jesus and jesus
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is never going to treat us like the other high priest treated the other people at some point because jesus
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understands the human experience he was a human he took upon the human nature so
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he could identify with our weaknesses now jesus hungered he was tired in his human
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nature he was tired he was tempted we saw the temptations when tempted him several times yet he
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resisted the temptations okay he fully relied on god he told satan man does not leave by bread alone
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but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god so he resisted the enemy by
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using the word of god and the word of god allowed him to resist it so you know it's funny because us as
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people with a human nature we don't resist sin as much as jesus
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resists the same because us because of that sinful dna that we have it's easy for us to
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fall into sin and just we get so acclimated we're just so used to that it does not affect us as much as
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he affected jesus so for him he was even more hard because he is a sinless
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being so for a sin lesbian to to to see the effects of sin he was really affected so he truly had compassion for
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people she unlike me like here when i hear that somebody died somewhere and i'm told hey such a sir
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died as i go man that's sad but i'm not as affected as jesus was
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affected by evil when he saw the things there not i'm not saying he's affected negatively
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negatively in the sense that that's going to do something to him now that i mean he pained him he truly had
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compassion when he saw weaknesses when he saw those things us is like oh whatever because we are just humans so
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we think oh it's just like this but jesus was a sinless human and he understood the pain that people
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were going through so he is a high priest with ministers at the throne of grace okay and israel he's able to save
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those who come to him by faith when we come to him by faith and have reference he is able to save us because he he
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understands the human experience and can relate to mankind in every respect for
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he became like us in order to be a merciful high priest in the service of god
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see he's going to show us in action how jesus showed his compassion in verses 7
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and 8 the author is going to show us exactly what jesus did and i want us to go to the next slide there
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if you see verses 7 and 8 scripture says in the days of his flesh jesus
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offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to him who was able
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to save him from death and he was heard because of his reference although he was
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a son he learned obedience through what he suffered what is all this means
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to drive his point about jesus superior sympathy to the levitical priest
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the writer brings up jesus agony in the garden of gethsemane so in the garden of gethsemane we read
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about the agony of jesus before his trial and crucifixion okay he pleads with the father with loud christ and
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tears three times with the same request that if it is possible
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that the cup of the wrath of god might pass from him so i don't think like we truly
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understand what that must have been like for jesus to bear the sins of the whole world on his shoulders okay so he wasn't
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sorrowful because of the physical pain but for the first time in his human
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nature his intimacy with his loving father the one that told him
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this is my beloved son with him i'm well pleased that intimacy was going to be interrupted
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this is why jesus prayed to his father if there's any
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other way let this cup pass from me yet not my will but that will be done
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see he wasn't praying to be saved from pain no he was praying he said lord for the
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first time in my life he's going to be separated because of our sins that were put on him so he was praying if there's any other
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way to this is there any other way in his human nature he's like lord father is there any other way beside
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this do i have to go through this or is there any other way he's not saying i don't want to go through it but he's
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looking saying is there any other way if not your will be done that's the proper way
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to pray okay see on the cross what happened is the father turned his back on his son
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because of the sins of the whole world that were laid upon him okay he was fitting
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the scripture tells us he was feeling that he from whom and by whom all things exist should make the pioneer of their
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salvation perfect through suffering see jesus suffering was necessary
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there was no other way let me repeat that again there was no
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other way because it was necessary so scripture tells us that he remained obedient even obedient to death on the
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cross and we are told that his prayers were heard because of his reference see he
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exuded the kind of reference that pleased god in all his prayers and these
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prayers were heard you see in his humanity we need to understand this in his humanity he was
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human in every aspect so his prayers were heard due to his reference not because he was
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the son of god okay he's the son of god and god himself gives him the privilege
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okay he was the son of god there's no denying that but the scripture tells us that though he was the son of god he did not
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uh let me go to hebrews philippians 2 because i think i want to read the scripture here listen to what scripture says
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have this mind among yourselves which is yours in christ jesus who though he was
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in the form of god did not count equality with god a thing to be grasped
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but emptied himself by taking the form of his servant being born in the likeness of man and being found in human
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form he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death even death on the
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cross now you see see his prayers were heard because of his
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reference he was the son of god he could have any time jesus said father won this god
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would give it to him but the scripture tells us that he became obedient he concealed his glory and took upon himself a human nature and
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his prayers were heard because of his reverence he had reverence for his father and his
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prayers were heard i pray that i have that kind of reverence when i'm praying
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the kind of reference that says yet not my will but y'all will be done completely submitting to the father's
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word saying no matter what i am going to be committed to the work of god because jesus said my food is to
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do the will of him who sent me this is the kind of prayers that he prayed with loud cries and tears
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and his prayers were heard because of his reference you see he had every privilege but he didn't
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hold on to that the scripture tells that he emptied himself doesn't mean that he lost his attributes because we know that
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jesus is both god and is also both god the man human we are the human nature and the divine nature okay
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so the writer also tells us that he learned obedience through what he suffered even though he was a
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son and i want us to go to hebrews 12 verse 1 to 4 to read something there and then we're going to go back to
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understanding this now listen to the scripture here in hebrews 12. we're going to get it at some point but i just want to bring this up
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therefore since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of weaknesses let us also lay aside every weight and
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sin which clings so closely and let us run with endurance the race that is set
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before us looking to jesus the founder and perfecter of our faith who for the
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joy that was set before him endure the cross despising the shame and
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is seated at the right hand of the throne of god consider him when drawed from sin as
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such hostility against himself so that you may not grow weary or faint-hearted
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in your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your own blood jesus shared his
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blood as he resisted sin he died as a
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result because of our sins they were laid upon it you see this is the kind of
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savior that we have so jesus didn't learn obedience because he needed it he didn't need it
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he did it for our sake to identify with our weakness so that he could be a merciful high priest jesus
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is the son of god so obedience is his dna well as he took
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upon a human nature he wanted to identify with us so he could see how he could help us this is why he learned
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obedience to what he suffered the experiences of life the trials that he went through is
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for our sake he didn't need it it's for us that he did it so you see why the writer is saying that jesus christ
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reveals a superior sympathy he as the eternal son of god he lived in
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a loving relationship with the father but as god demanded he grew up like all of us and had to learn the human
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experience through his sufferings trials and all that not for his own sake but
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for us that he might give merciful high priest in the service of god you see it's like
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he didn't have to learn any of this he did all this for our sake so that he
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could be a merciful high priest in service to god so that's the kind of savior that we
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have and that's the kind of great high priest that we have a high priest was passed through the heavens who
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understands the human experience who also sympathizes with us because he went
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through what we went through he was tempted in every respect yet without sinning
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so he truly understands the human experience and that's the kind of high priest that we have that's the kind of
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savior that we have he didn't have to do any of it he didn't have to learn how to be obedient to god he didn't have to he did
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it for our sake because he is the eternal son of god he loved his father and he said somewhere my food is to do
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the will of him who sent me so why did he have to go through the all those trials for our sake
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that's the kind of sympathy that he shows that's the kind of compassion that he has for mankind
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so again as i was doing this as i'm going through this study i don't just want this to be
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like something that's just intellectual for my knowledge and just store my my mind with just all this data and
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information i want it to be to begin to transform me as i look at scriptures and as i go to
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prayer i know that when i'm praying to god i'm not just praying because i'm going
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through the motion because i understand that he truly hears my prayer that i offered in reverence
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so first you go before god uh in reference don't approach the tone of grace
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uh being in reference yes you you come there from boldly but boldness doesn't mean a
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reference come boldly because of what jesus has done and come because he understands
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the human experience and he truly can identify with our weak and nature and
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he's able to save us he's able to assist us when we are going through a hard time i don't know what you're going through
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you don't know what i'm going through but one thing we know is that jesus understands
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me and jesus understands you better than you understand yourself okay so when i'm going through a period
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of time when i don't feel like doing anything i just want to sit and do nothing he understands that and he can help me
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when i'm struggling with anger when i'm struggling with pride when i'm struggling with my ego and and
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i feel like i'm gonna i got hurt and i want to hurt somebody back and i'm trying to you know he understands that
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so he can also identify with me in that moment and gives me strength to to to have victory over that
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okay victory over your your your sinful passions lust
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anger whatever you know sometimes you have these things that are called respect respectable sins where we we
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we tend to think like gossiping for example you know what i'm just talking about i'm not really doing anything wrong i'm just
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saying the fact because i saw someone she's doing this and he's doing this no it's still sinful in god's sight because
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you are slandering your brother or your sister in christ so those things too go to god with it and say what i'm
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struggling with keeping the tight ring on my tongue i can't do so how can i get help for it go to jesus
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because he understands okay so sin shall not have dominion over
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us we should be sinning less less because as we grow closer to jesus he
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begins to reveal so much in our nature and and it brings us to our knees and so lord we need help
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we truly need help okay his grace is sufficient for his power is made perfect in our weaknesses
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so when we are weak that's when we are strong just as we are weak it leads us to the throne of grace
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this is why i love uh my savior because he truly understands
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my experiences he is not obliged to what i'm going through and i don't have to pretend when i'm in
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his presence all right so this is all i wanted to say today we're gonna continue with the rest
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of it this chapter next week have a wonderful day and see you next time thank you