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Jesus the Great High Priest 14Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.15For 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 was without sin.16Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.Chapter 5 1Every high priest is selected from among men and is appointed to represent them in matters related to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.2He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness.3This is why he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.4No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was.5So Christ also did not take upon himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him,
“You are my Son;
today I have become your Father.” 6And he says in another place,
“You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek.” 7During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.8Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered9and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him10and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
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RickStilwell - (eBible Novice) about 1 year ago.
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Along with Psalm 25 - being in need, crying out to God, and realizing I need to repent
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GOD_IS_LOVE - (eBible Scholar) 9 months ago.
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<>+<>THE INTERCESSOR IS ONE<>+<>We embrace the Grace of ALMIGHTY the Holy Father<>Through our faith in the Blood of CHRIST JESUS the Holy Son<>+<>THE INTERCESSOR IS ONE<>+<>F<\+/>S<>+<>
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Di_Wolfe  - (eBible Novice) about 1 month ago.
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It is a great comfort to me in my humanness to know that my Lord was tempted in every single way that I, and all people, are tempted. We can with utmost confidence, talk with Jesus, totally human - yet totally God. His humanity allowed him to experience the temptations; and his humanity allowed him to resist; not his divinity. This is because, as it says in the second chapter of Philippians, that even though he was totally God, he did not regard that as something to be grasped, but rather emptied himself to become a slave, i.e. a human being. He was above all God, but humbled himself and became one in human likeness and appearance. He showed us how to resist temptation through the Garden to the Cross to the grave. Then he broke the pattern to give us the gift of new resurrection life, both here on earth and in the afterlife in glory with God and all the saints. So the first part of the Hebrews passage says he is our High Priest, and survived temptation, so we must hold fast to our own confession and relationship with God in Three Persons. Jesus did not leave behind his humanness when he passed back into the heavens. Even though while on earth he did not sin, he knew as well as we do, just what it was to face the temptation to sin. Meditating on the Garden experience can radically impress on us the incredible struggle he went through to come to the point of saying, not my will, but yours be done. Each of us must face our own Garden experience and then our death on the cross as we die to our sinful selves, and daily become more and more Christlike. Bonhoeffer, in "The Cost of Discipleship," states, that "when Christ calls 'one', he bids 'that one to' come and die." In doing that we are following in the steps of Jesus' example (I Pet. 2:21, and following), which is to empty ourselve and have become humble. That's the only path to the resurrection life. Our High Priest testifies for us and we are able to confidently approach the throne of God and receive mercy and find grace for timely help, so we are not left alone to struggle against temptation on our own, for that is impossible; but with God, all things are possible, including resisting temptation.
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