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† He hath shed his own blood for my soul
Letter to the Hebrews: Chapter 4
(Grace through Faith)
[Jesus] doesn’t have a sin nature; we do. He was able to resist the temptation that we can’t resist. Because our sin nature will always cause us to fail. We can build up a little string of successes, but sooner or later it will cause us to fail. And let me tell you this: the longer the string of successes, the more spectacular will be the failure. Because eventually, it has to be proven. But our High Priest is not somebody in some far-off place that can’t relate to us, that doesn’t know what we go through, that doesn’t know what our problems are—no, He’s been here. He has assumed our lives. He’s lived among us and He’s been subjected to the very same things that we’re subjected to; He knows what we are going through. He understands us. He has empathy for us. And I believe the reason He was saying this is to convince us not to be afraid to confess.
You know, when I was a little kid, I made a bunch of mistakes and I’d go and admit them to my dad and, at first, he was pretty forgiving. But sooner or later, he’d start saying, “Look, how many times am I going to have to forgive you for this? Isn’t it time you shaped up a little bit here and started doing this?” And then he got a little more upset with me and a little more frustrated and pretty soon, I stopped going and confessing to him because I didn’t want him to be mean to me. Now, he’d been a little kid like me, but apparently, he’d forgotten all that.
But the Lord is not like that; He understands. You don’t have to be afraid to confess. And what happens when we do confess? Look at 1 John 1:9. I know you know this one by heart.
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(Grace through Faith)
[Jesus] doesn’t have a sin nature; we do. He was able to resist the temptation that we can’t resist. Because our sin nature will always cause us to fail. We can build up a little string of successes, but sooner or later it will cause us to fail. And let me tell you this: the longer the string of successes, the more spectacular will be the failure. Because eventually, it has to be proven. But our High Priest is not somebody in some far-off place that can’t relate to us, that doesn’t know what we go through, that doesn’t know what our problems are—no, He’s been here. He has assumed our lives. He’s lived among us and He’s been subjected to the very same things that we’re subjected to; He knows what we are going through. He understands us. He has empathy for us. And I believe the reason He was saying this is to convince us not to be afraid to confess.
You know, when I was a little kid, I made a bunch of mistakes and I’d go and admit them to my dad and, at first, he was pretty forgiving. But sooner or later, he’d start saying, “Look, how many times am I going to have to forgive you for this? Isn’t it time you shaped up a little bit here and started doing this?” And then he got a little more upset with me and a little more frustrated and pretty soon, I stopped going and confessing to him because I didn’t want him to be mean to me. Now, he’d been a little kid like me, but apparently, he’d forgotten all that.
But the Lord is not like that; He understands. You don’t have to be afraid to confess. And what happens when we do confess? Look at 1 John 1:9. I know you know this one by heart.
The Letter to the Hebrews: Chapter 4 – Grace thru faith
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