Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Vs. 14-16 – Christ our Great High Priest who can both

sympathize and succor.

The word “mega” distinguishes Christ from all other

high priests. He is greater than angels, Moses, & Aaron

Christ can sympathize in virtue of His own human

experience. Compare ch. 2:18

“Himself took our infirmities and bare our

sicknesses” – Matt. 8:17

Christ, in His human nature, partook of all the

original affections and temptations of humanity,

“apart from sin”.

Hope, fear, desire, joy, grief, indignation,

shrinking from suffering, etc – He not only

was Omniscient but he experienced all our

temptations – a complete curriculum of trial,

and graduated unto its glory through sufferings.

“touched with the feeling of our infirmities”

v. 16 – “Let us ….. come boldly” – daily, even

hourly using liberty of speech in asking

for pardoning mercy and helping grace

for the future.

Ch. 5

vs. 1-4

The high priest’s office was to mediate between man

and God – he should be of the same nature and

sympathetic with those in whose behalf he mediates –

his credentials should be Divine – God, Himself, having

appointed him.

“that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins” –

both unbloody and bloody offerings of the Law –

Atonement – “without the shedding of blood there is

no remission”

“Who can have compassion on the ignorant and erring”

How sadly opposite in character to this have the world’s

priests almost always been.

Christian ministers are not called of God to be priests,

yet they should “bear gently with the ignorant and

erring.

By consciousness of own moral infirmity having to

contend with sinful inclinations and Satanic temptations.

He has himself required and received forbearance at the

hands of both God and men and will probably need more

in time to come – how then can he be harsh and

intolerant of others - sternness and severity will repel

and discourage and might aggravate moral infirmity

into moral perversity. Be it ours not to condemn the

ignorant and erring but to instruct and restore them.

v. 3 – Their sin offering for themselves was a prominent

part of the Day of Atonement.

v. 4 – Divine appointment, essential for assurance of

the efficacy of his mediation.

vs. 5-6 – Christ, our “perfected” High Priest, ever lives

to make intercession for us - this is after His

exaltation from His work on earth.

vs. 7-8 – Very close to the gospel history – as man, He

experienced a shrinking from death and craved

deliverance though with entire submission

unto the will of God!

The right of Christ could not be less than to pass from

this world as Enoch did by translation into glory.

but there was more to be done for God’s glory and

the world’s good through death than mere continuance

of life – A DYING JESUS IS INFINITELY MORE

THAN A TRANSLATED ENOCH!

Death may get mixed up with the process, may for a

time even conceal or dim the reality; but in due course

death is left behind, and eternal salvation shines

forth in all its Divine glory!

HIS HUMAN WILL DID NOT OPPOSE ITSELF TO

THE DIVINE WILL!

Mark 14:33-34

Luke 22:44 – “being in an agony, He prayed the more

earnestly”

The bloody sweat and the cry of “My God, my God,

why hast thou forsaken me?” convey the impression

of a mysterious ordeal beyond what we can fathom.

The perfectly Guiltless One – how frightful the force of

evil in the universe of God which could render the

need for such an Infinite Sacrifice.

Malice, ingratitude, hypocrisy, rage, wrath, corruption….!

Heb. 12:2-4

Of all sufferers, Christ is the Sufferer!

v. 9 – “And being made perfect…..the Author of

ETERNAL SALVATION” -potentially to

All Mankind.

A PERFECT ATONEMENT FOR SIN!

Forgiveness of sin, freedom from condemnation,

deliverance from the dominion of sin, holiness,

peace, joy and an entrance into heaven!

The redemption from guilt, the restraint of sin,

the indwelling of the Spirit, freedom from the

penal stroke of death and the blessedness of

eternal life!

“I DELIGHT TO DO THY WILL O MY GOD!”

And that ETERNAL SALVATION!

THE RECIPIENTS OF SO GREAT A SALVATION -

“unto all them that obey Him”

His one oblation of Himself upon the cross at once

effected the Atonement – HE thus “offered one

sacrifice for sins for ever” – ch. 10:12

It was not till after the Resurrection that He

entered on His eternal office of mediation in virtue of

that one accomplished sacrifice.