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Merciful and Faithful High Priest
Dec. 14, 2018
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The author of Hebrews says, therefore he had to be made like his brethren in all things so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest. You might also say in another version, a compassionate high priest. And really, unless Jesus Christ were 100% God and man, that would never be possible. He had to be 100% man in order to sympathize with us, in order to empathize with us as humans. If he wasn't 100% man, then we just say, well that's his God talking, and he can never sympathize with us.

So The author of Hebrews makes it very clear that he had to be made like his brethren so that he can empathize with us, so that he can sympathize with us. Thank you.

How is Christ our merciful and faithful High Priest?

Cary Green notes in this video that the author of Hebrews explains how Christ was made like us in all things. He is our compassionate High Priest. Unless Christ was 100% God and 100% man, He could not truly sympathize with us as humans. 

Hebrews 4:15 (NKJV) - "For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin."

Speaker

Cary Green grew up in a loose Catholic home near Lake Tapps, Washington. While attending Western Washington University, he got saved, by the grace of God! Even as a new believer he knew God was calling him to the ministry, so after college he attended The Master’s Seminary in Sun Valley, California. While there, he met his wife, Lois, and a year after graduating, he and his family left for nearly ten years of ministry in East Berlin. During those years they helped to plant a church (Bible Church of Berlin) and establish a Bible school (European Bible Training Center), both of which are still going strong today. The LORD moved the Green family back to the USA in 2009, where Cary again became involved in planting a church–originally called Everett Bible Church, now Cornerstone Bible Church. It is his joy and privilege to pastor this congregation. Cary and Lois have fourteen children.

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