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SAA Notes
Jesus is able to sympathise with your weaknesses! He is someone who has faced every temptation you have! Confidence in Jesus is the wisest thing we can give Him. It lies behind all prayer in hard and rending situations.
SJA Notes
* Faithful God, thank You for Your love and for giving us Your word. Please teach us today.
“So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you’;”
Jesus is able to intercede for us as our high priest _because_ He was appointed by God (after the order of Melchizedek, who had no chronology, beginning or end), and being the one who suffered as we suffer but remained obedient.
We see from this passage the folly of putting our weight of belief and trust in priests who are sinful man.
In our King, who spent thirty-three years here on earth in the flesh – Our belief and trust in Him are worthwhile!
Jesus did not fail, and will not fail.
Jesus did not fail in His purpose, His ever little action, thought and word.
Jesus did not fail in being the suffering servant, the king who carried a crown of thorns, God in the Person of the Son nailed to a tree.
And Jesus will not fail because He has ascended and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
Jesus reigns in glory, and He intercedes for us – Because He can, and He wills, He loves His sheep.
Hallelujah, what a Shepherd we have!
* Father God,
Thank You for Jesus, our Great High Priest.
Thank You that we can trust in His intercession for us – That through Him we can be saved, eternally.
Please help us to approach Your throne of grace with confidence. Not in ourselves, but in Jesus.
That we might receive mercy and find grace.
Amen.