The relevance of Jesus’ humanity is both a future hope and a present hope to us! Jesus, by his experience knows what we are going through, and can help us, not just feel bad for us!
Sermon Title: JESUS, OUR PERFECT SYMPATHIZER
Sermon Text: HEBREWS 4:14-18
Sermon Series: WHO IS JESUS?
By: PTR. NIC SY
Sermon Notes:
HEBREWS 4:14-16 NIV
14 Therefore, 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.
15 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 was without sin.
16 Let 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.
DOCETISM
“to seem”
1 JOHN 4:2-3 NIV
2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
LUKE 2:52 NIV
52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
ROMANS 5:15 NIV
15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
The relevance of Jesus’ humanity is both a future hope and a present hope to us!
HEBREWS 2:17-18 NIV
17 For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.
18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
HEBREWS 4:14-16 NIV
14 Therefore, 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.
15 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 was without sin.
16 Let 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.
Jesus, by his experience knows what we are going through, and can help us, not just feel bad for us!
JESUS UNDERSTANDS RELATIONSHIPS
MARK 6:3 NIV
3 Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
MARK 3:31-35 NIV
31 Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him.
32 A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”
33 “Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.
34 Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!
35 Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”
MARK 3:20-21 NIV
20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat.
21 When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
JESUS UNDERSTANDS WORK
MARK 6:3 NIV
3 Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
carpenter | Greek: tekton
craftsman, contractor, builder
JESUS UNDERSTANDS PAIN
ISAIAH 53:3 NIV
3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
ISAIAH 53:5 NIV
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
We never go beyond his pain. Any darkness we go through is never more intense than his.
The greatest grief we bring to the heart of Jesus is our lack of dependence on him in all areas of life.
HEBREWS 4:16 NIV
16 Let 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.