Hebrews chapter 4. Let's read
verses 14 through verse 16. Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 14 is the verse we
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is the verse we covered last week. Hebrews But we have not a high priest which
cannot be touched with the fillings of our infirmities, but was in
all points tempted, like as we are, yet without sin. Let us
therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need." Last
week we looked in verse 14 and we saw four things there that
we looked at just for a few minutes. The first one was where he said,
we have a great high priest. And how encouraging this had
to be to these Jewish believers that the apostle was writing
to, to tell them that even though you've been excommunicated, some
of them had no doubt been put out of the synagogue, they'd
had their goods confiscated, the Jewish rabbis and those chief
priests, they hated these believers. And now he comes to them and
tells them that you have a high priest. And he's not of the order
of Aaron, he's not the son of Aaron, but he's the son of God.
You have a high priest. And how much better their high
priest was than the high priests that were still offering sacrifices
in the temple that could never take away sin. We looked at this
last week and one of the things that was said about our high
priest is that when he offered one sacrifice for sins forever,
he sat down, something they never did do. So Paul is saying here
you have a high priest. You don't need the temple. You
don't need the Aaronic priesthood. You don't need these holy days.
You have an high priest and he's enough, he's sufficient. I encourage
you, and this must have been to them. And then he goes on
to tell them here that he's passed unto the heavens. He's passed
unto the heavens. He's in heaven in the very presence
of God, something those other priests never did do. They went
into the holy place made with hands. But where is our high
priest? Well, he's passed through the
heavens. He's in the very presence of God. And then He tells them
here, as I mentioned there a minute ago, that He is not a descendant
of Aaron. He is not a son of Aaron. He
was a completely different tribe. He was of the tribe of Judah.
But He is not a high priest after the order of Melchizedek, and
He is the Son of God. Our high priest is passed into
the heavens, even Jesus, the Son of God. And God had already
said to Him, I will be a father to Him. And you know what, when
a tender father looks upon his son and loves him, and his son
has a request, what does he do? Well, he gives it to him, doesn't
he? This is his son in the presence
of the Father. And he said, I'll be a father
to him. I'll be a father to him. And then, of course, fourthly,
he goes on and says, Let us hold fast, therefore, the profession
of our faith. Let us hold fast. the profession
of our faith in Jesus Christ. Don't be discouraged. Don't be
doubtful. Don't be despondent. Trust in
the Lord. That's what this epistle teaches
us, to live by faith, isn't it? He tells us over there in chapter
6, Be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and
patience inherit the promises. Sin we have such a high priest
that is on the right hand of God. Let us have faith. Let us trust Him. Don't let us
be doubtful and fearful and cowards. Hold fast. Hold fast. Be like
those who have already obtained the promises. There's a heaven
to gain, isn't there? There's promises to be won. There's
a hell to shun. We know that. There's sins to
be laid aside. There's a race to run. And thank
God we can run it. We can run it. we can make heaven
our home, can't we? But there's only one way to do
it. There's only one way to be saved at last, to get through
this world of sin and devils, and that's through Jesus Christ,
this faithful and merciful high priest. And how encouraging this
epistle must have been to them, and it's encouraging to us, isn't
it? So he tells them, here you have
a faithful and merciful high priest, He lives at the right
hand of God to plead and maintain our cause. And he tells us here
now in verse 15 that not only is he full of merit and grace
to save us, but even though he is so high and holy and at the
right hand of God, he can still sympathize with us. That is what
he tells us in verse 15. For we have not a high priest
which cannot be touched with the fillings of our infirmities. And he implies something here,
doesn't he? If we waver, if we get discouraged, if we don't
hold fast, there's probably a reason for it. And the reason probably
is our infirmities. We feel our infirmities. Hold fast. Why? You have these
infirmities. We face things in this world
that makes us feel how utterly weak and frail we are. Look here what he tells us in
chapter 5 in verse 2. The Holy Spirit just makes little
phrases like this, but when we take time to read them, we realize,
hey, that's me. I feel myself. I see myself in
that. He's talking about the qualifications for a high priest
in chapter 5 verse 2, who can have compassion on the ignorant
and on them that are out of the way. The ignorant and those who
are out of the way. Don't we spend much time in our
Christian life Just feeling our way through the situations we
find ourselves in. And we don't know how to get
through them, do we? I think my motto over the last few years
has been this, I don't know. I just rely on that more than
anything. People keep asking me, what about
this, what about that? I don't know. Where are you right
now in your Christian life? I don't know. What are you going
to do about this? I don't know. And this verse
identifies me very well. Let's be honest about it, brothers
and sisters. If the Lord leads us to ourselves,
if He don't take us by the hand and guide us every step of the
way, then we'll err and it won't be long that we'll do it. Brother
Mahan used to say, if the Lord got us within ten foot of heaven's
door and said, find the way, be yourself, he said we'd get
lost. We're ignorant, aren't we? I
worry about people who are so wise that they don't feel they're
ignorant about things. Paul said, If any man be wise
in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
You see your calling. Not many wise men after the flash
are called. If a man still thinks himself
to be wise and he can make it on his own, I'm afraid the Lord
just ain't taught him like he should teach him because we are
ignorant about things, are we not? Here's what he said, I will
bring the blind by a way they knew not. I will lead them in
paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before
them and crooked things straight. These things will I do and not
forsake them, said the Lord. And we're not only ignorant,
but don't we go out of the way so easy. The old song that we
sing sometimes, Pronged to Wonder, Lord I feel it. I feel it. Don't you feel it? I feel it. Pronged to wonder, Lord, I feel
it. And we have to pray against these
things, don't we? Lord, give me understanding. Give me wisdom.
Lord, don't let me stray. Keep me from straying. In chapter
8, He tells us some more of our infirmities, not only our ignorance
and our out of the wayness are prone to wonder. He said, I will
be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more. We have this infirmity about
us. We have this unrighteousness
about us. We have this fallen nature. We
have this flesh, the Bible calls it. And Paul said, in my flesh
dwells no good thing. He said evil is present with
me even when I would do good. Evil is present with me. And
David said man at his best state is altogether vanity. That means
he's just empty and he's unprofitable. Don't you feel that? We all feel
that, don't we? And sometimes, I tell you, we
feel it to the point it becomes such a burden to us. We're such
a burden to ourselves. That we can grow discouraged.
We can grow discouraged. These infirmities, infirmities.
And then on top of ourselves, what we feel within ourselves,
we have these devils to tempt us. Principalities and powers
in the air. They're here tonight, aren't
they? They go with you everywhere you go. Suggesting these evil
things to you. Satan flying and going, walking
about in this world, seeking whom he may devour. We have that
to put up with. We have this world that entices
us. It's a miracle that the best
of Christians don't sometimes just utterly despair. And it's
because of these infirmities that we have. And when you and
I consider that we can't sit passive and just endure this,
It ain't like we become stoic, so I'm going to be all right.
I'm just going to sit down and do it. No, we're active, aren't
we? We're active. We have a course to run. We have
a walk. We have a cross to bear. We have
sins and weights to lay aside. And we can't sit down and quit. And those who are doing these
things, those who are walking and running and enduring hardness
as good soldiers, I tell you, those are the very people that
feel their utter weaknesses. They feel their infirmities.
And Paul here in verse 15, he gives us a word of encouragement,
and he puts it in a double negative. I love it when the Holy Spirit
does this, and He says it like this, we have not a high priest
which cannot be touched with a feeling of our infirmity. He could have said simply, we
have a high priest which can be touched with a feeling of
our infirmity. Why did He put this not only in one negative,
but in a double negative? We have not a high priest who
cannot be touched with a feeling. Well, He presents an argument.
This is a form of an argument, and it's an argument against
any opposition to the kind of high priest we have. He can be
touched. Sometimes when our souls are
in conflict, we're tempted to think this, the Lord don't even
know where I'm at. The Jews complained about this
before. My judgment passed over from
my God. My way is hid from Him. Does he even care? And sometimes
that awful temptation that the apostles themselves fell into,
Lord, carest thou not? Remember that? Larry just told
them that a few Sundays ago. Carest thou not? Wasn't that
an awful temptation to fall into? I wonder who suggested that to
their minds. Don't you even care Well, here's
an argument against that. And I tell you, Satan suggests
this to our mind, too, all the time. There's no help for him
in God. That's what he suggested to David. There be many that say of my
soul, there's no help for him in God. Is that truth? Is that the truth? There's no
help? Unbelief and Satan tempting us
to despair can add an awful grief to our infirmities. And unbelief
and Satan can't be dismissed very easy. I'm telling you those
are two things that's hard to get out of your mind. When unbelief
rises up and when Satan begins to tempt, unbelief says he don't
care, Satan says he hates you, he's brought you out here to
destroy you, and look at these feelings you're having. All these
unrighteous feelings, all this struggling with sin, these feelings
are an evident token that He hates you, that He's going to
destroy you, that He doesn't care for you. If He cared for
you, you wouldn't be like you are. You wouldn't be like this.
And I'm telling you what, that's not an easy temptation to endure.
I'm telling you that right now. Boy, that gets to the heart.
That gets to the heart. It is a difficult thing in the
midst of these infirmities, in the midst of these temptations
and unbelief in our hearts to live in the faith that Jesus
Christ really loves me, that He really cares for me, that
He really sympathizes and is ready to help me. I tell you,
it takes faith. You have to live by faith in
times of these temptations. and the time when this unbelief
springs up. So Paul sets these negatives
forth as an argument against unbelief and against Satan and
any other opposition that opposes Christ's felt sympathy for His
people. If the verse had said Christ
can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, if we didn't
believe that, well that would be bad enough. But who would
be so bold to stand right in the face of this verse and say
Christ don't care? Christ don't feel. He don't sympathize
with his infirm people when this verse says it very plainly, we
have not such a high priest. See how he anticipated the argument
of unbelief and Satan? He doesn't care. What kind of
high priest do you have? He doesn't care, unbelief says.
He doesn't care, Satan says. Well, here's this verse, and
our hearts love it when he comes here with these negatives because
this verse confronts every argument Satan has, every argument of
unbelief. It says, what kind of a high
priest do we have? And if unbelief says he don't
care, that's not him. We have not such a high priest.
We have not such a high priest. So see how the heart can get
a hold of this and turn it on the enemy and war with it? These negatives help the heart
that is willing to believe for they present an argument on Christ's
behalf that He's not uncaring, that He's not unkind, that He's
not unfilling, that He's touched with the feelings of His people.
I love it when He puts these in negatives like this. And then He offers us something
else here in the last portion of verse 15. He offers further
proof that Christ does fill the infirmities of His people and
He is willing to fill them because of what He willingly subjected
Himself to. For He was tempted in all points
like as we are, yet without sin. I wonder here in chapter 5 and
verse 7, I wonder if this does not have something to do with
the temptations of Christ. And it is said in chapter 2 and
verse 18 that He suffered being tempted. What awful, dreadful
temptations our Lord endured, not just at the hands of men,
How often does the Bible say they came to Him tempting Him?
The Bible says that numerous times. And we'll read just a
minute about when Satan tempted Him. How awful these temptations
must have been because His conscience was so pure. His soul was so
white. He was without sin. And I wonder
here in verse 7 of chapter 5 if this doesn't have something to
do with him being so dreadfully tempted, especially when he smelt
the foul breath of the devil, of Satan himself. Look here at
what is said in verse 7. Who in the days of his flesh,
when he had offered up prayers and supplications, pleadings,
beggings, with strong crying and tears, unto him that was
able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared."
Strong prayers, supplications plead him with tears, the Son
of God shedding tears. And I think it had something
to do, we know, no doubt, in the Garden of Gethsemane, but
I wonder in other places too, when he was tempted, how it humbled
and humiliated his soul to be so tempted. There's an old song. I thought
about singing it, but let me read it to you. I think this
goes right to what we're saying here in this verse. Does Jesus
care? Does Jesus care when my heart
is pained too deeply for myrrh, our song? as the burdens press
and the cares distress, and the way grows weary and long? Does
Jesus care when my way is dark with a nameless dread and fear? As the daylight fades into deep
night shades, does He care enough to be near? Does Jesus care when
I've tried and failed to resist some temptation strong? When
for my deep grief I find no relief, Though my tears flow all the
night long, Does Jesus care when I've said goodbye To a dearest
on earth to me, And my sad heart aches till it nearly breaks?
Is it all to Him? Does He see? Oh, yes, He cares. I know He cares. His heart is
touched. That's it, isn't it? With my
grief. When the days are weary and the long nights dreary, I
know my Savior cares. How can I know that? Look what
He endeared for us. Look at the temptations He endeared
for us that made Him cry, that grieved His soul. Look at that
just for a minute. Let's read. We don't have time
to comment on it, but put your little marker there quickly in
Hebrews chapter 4 and turn over to Matthew chapter 4. And let
me just read this to you. Look in Matthew chapter 4. In the last verse of chapter
3, He had been baptized and a voice came from heaven saying, This
is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. And then verse
1, Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness, to
be tempted of the devil in the wilderness and Mark said with
a wild beast. There was nobody around to supply
his need. How different this was when Satan
came and tempted our first parents in a beautiful garden surrounded
by plenty. Here the Lord Jesus was in the
wilderness surrounded by wild beasts and nobody was with him
all along. And when he had fasted forty
days and forty nights, he was afterward in hunger. And when
the tempter came to him, he said, If you be the Son of God, command
that these stones be made bread. Now Luke tells us he was tempted
for forty days. As he fasted, he was being tempted.
And then when he had ended his fast, he was hungered and Satan
came to him again, came to him probably in a real way, maybe
visible. And here's what he said to him
in verse 3. If you be the Son of God, command
that these stones be made bread. Well, I don't know, I don't know
very much about the principle of these temptations. But can
you imagine fasting 40 days? I don't know if anybody in modern
day has done that and lived. Maybe there have been. Moses
did. Elijah did. Forty days and then how hungry
you must have been. And for the devil to come and
say, turn these stones to bread and eat and eat. You're going
to die if you don't. Boy, that's a temptation He comes
to us with so often, doesn't He? He comes to us and says,
Boy, if you don't yield, if you don't do what I'm suggesting
for you to do, you're going to really suffer for it. You're
going to really suffer. You're going to hurt if you don't
do this. That's what He's telling the Lord. How are you going to
get out of this mess if you don't turn this stone to bread? And the Lord Jesus used the Scriptures
on it. It is written, Man shall not
live by bread alone. but by every word that proceeded
out of the mouth of God. God gave them manna from heaven
to eat. And if you look at the context
of this in Deuteronomy chapter 8 and verse 3, that's the context
where the Lord gave them manna from heaven. So why should the
Lord Jesus exercise a miracle when He knew that His Father
would take care of it? He could feed them with His manna
instead of obeying this foul mouth fiend from hell. Then the
devil, in verse 5, taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth
him up on a pinnacle of the temple. I wonder why he did that. I often
wonder why he did that. I wonder if it had something
to do with superstition, just superstition. The Pharisees gloried
in this city, and they gloried in the temple, in all the trinkets
of the temple. And I wonder if he thought, if
I can take him up there, I'll get him lifted up. I'll change
the whole way that he's thinking and he'll be like these Pharisees. I'll get him in all this superstitious
attitude. The devil ain't too smart sometimes. And when he tempted these Pharisees
about this, you know what they did? They yielded. They yielded. They said, oh man, we can't lose
this temple. We can't believe in Christ because
if we believe in Christ, we'll lose the temple. The Romans will
come and take away our place and our temple. It maybe had
something to do with superstition. Men are superstitious. Look how
the devil has deceived men today by lighting candles, praying
to the dead, and all of that silly stuff, building big cathedrals.
Maybe that's what he thought. But he took him up there to the
pentacle, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast
thyself down. For it is written, He shall give
his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they
shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dashest thy foot against
a stone. And Jesus said unto him, It is
written again, Thou shalt not test or tempt the Lord thy God."
Again, he used the Scripture. Isn't that a good example for
us? How do we endure these temptations? How do we know how to get through
them? Use the Scriptures. That's the way he did. Could
he have cast himself down? Of course he could. But why would
he obey the devil? Why would he yield to that temptation?
Then he goes on in verse 8, And again the devil taketh him up
into an exceeding high mountain. Now here's the humiliation. That
the Lord Jesus yielded himself to the temptations of the devil
to be tried by him. deliberately. And I imagine when
it says that he took his body, he took him up to the exceeding
high mountain, he literally did that. I don't think he was sitting
there thinking this or this was some kind of a vision. I think
he was permitted to do this. He took him up to the exceeding
high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world
and the glory of them. And Luke says he did it in a
moment's time, in just a moment. He showed him all the kingdoms.
I don't know how that happened, but doesn't it show us something
of the power of the devil? He showed him all the kingdoms
of the world. And he said unto him, All these
things will I give thee, if you will fall down and worship me. If you'll commit idolatry. if
you'll worship me, a creature. I know you're the Son of God,
but if you'll worship me, your creature, I'll give you these
things." Can you imagine what an awful temptation that was?
Not to yield, but just to hear it. He hated this. Why did he do this? So he could
be touched. So he could experience as a man
what it was like to endear these temptations, to have Satan whisper
these vulgar things in your ear. They went on to his heart. But
that's how he knows how you feel. He's experienced these things.
And he said unto him, Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written,
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou
serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came
and ministered unto him. He was tempted. And the Bible
says he was tempted here in our verse in all points like as we
are. There is not a temptation that
comes to you that did not come to him. And here is the difference
between Christ and us. He never sinned. He never sinned. It was impossible for him to
sin. He was God in humanity. He could not sin. Then somebody
has asked the question, and it's a good question, how could He
have been tempted then? If He was God in humanity, God
cannot be tempted of evil. How could He be tempted? As a
man, He could be tempted. And don't ask me to explain this. I just know that He was holy,
He was harmless, He was undefiled, He could not sin, and yet He
was tempted to sin. He was tempted. And we know that
because the Bible tells us this. He was touched with the feelings
of our infirmities. And when He says that He was
touched with the feelings of our infirmities, that doesn't
mean that He's just up in heaven and He feels what we're going
through. I can feel what you're going through. I just can't help
you. I give you a sympathizing ear,
and you give me a sympathizing ear, and that's good, but I can't
help you. But when Paul says that he can
be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, he means
he can really help us. He can strengthen us. He can
aid us. Look back over in chapter 2 and
verse 18. Let me remind you what he said
here, and this is what he's meaning this year. Chapter 2 and verse
18. For in that he himself hath suffered,
being tempted in all points, he is able to aid, to secure,
to strengthen them that are tempted." So what's the consequences or
what should we do in the light of all this? How should we apply
what he said here and what we've been studying on? Well, look
at chapter 16. Look in chapter 4 and verse 16. Look in chapter
4 and verse 16. Let us therefore. Let us therefore. See, we've not studied this for
no reason at all. There's a reason to study these
things and get these in our hearts concerning our High Priest, that
He can be touched. And there's no doubt about it
because of what He endeared. Therefore, in the light of this,
let us come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in the time of need. And this word boldly,
boldly, come boldly, it means to come with confidence. Come
frankly, come freely, come with freedom, without concealment. Do not come hiding the fact of
your sin and your weakness. No matter how shameful they make
you feel. Our frailty itself gives us a
claim on our High Priest. He's touched with the feelings
of our infirmities. You say, I feel it. I feel my
weakness. That gives you claims to come
to Him. Because you come to Him not out of some merit or worth,
but you come for mercy. Let us come boldly that we may
obtain mercy. And who comes for mercy? Who
needs mercy but the needy? The needy. This is not talking
to those self-righteous Pharisees. This is not talking to the strong.
This is talking to the weak, the needy. Let us come boldly. Don't be hesitant about coming.
Don't be backward, don't be fearful, come eagerly and with full assurance
that you will be received. Come humbly, for it is mercy
that you are seeking, but come without fear of being cast out,
for He is faithful that promised. And what did He promise? Mercy.
I will have mercy. And we come for this reason,
look at this, that we may find grace. We may find grace. Grace has never married it. Grace
is never earned. That's utterly impossible. Grace
is always found, isn't it? It's always found. It's a superior
looking with sympathizing eyes of favor to the inferior. It's the Lord of glory looking
upon poor, weak, needy sinners and showing them favor. Noah
found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And when Boaz showed Ruth
favor, she said, Who am I that I should find grace in your eyes,
seeing I am a stranger? Who am I? And that's what we
are. We're just poor needy sinners.
But we come for mercy. We come to find grace in the
time of our need. And what does grace do? Find
grace to help us. Find grace to help us. You know,
when grace comes to us and when we find grace, it never leaves
us like it finds us, does it? It helps us. Grace helps us. Grace strengthens us. Grace empowers
us. My son, be strong in the grace
that is in Christ Jesus. My grace is sufficient for thee.
My strength is made perfect in your weakness. Most gladly, therefore,
will I glory in my infirmities. For when I am weak, then am I
strong. Why? Because Jesus Christ is
at the right hand of God and His heart is full of grace. And
He gives us grace to strengthen us. And He shows us mercy for
our unrighteousness. I love the way he says this here,
the throne of grace. Let us come boldly to the throne
of grace. A fellow asked me one time, he
said, where do you guys get sovereign grace? Why do you keep talking
about sovereign grace? I said, well, what does the Bible
say about grace? Don't it say grace is on the throne? Let us
come boldly to the throne of grace. That's where we get sovereign
grace. Grace is sovereign. It rules,
doesn't it? It reigns. It subdues, doesn't
it? Don't you remember when it found
you, subdued you, you poor ignorant fool? Yeah. We were just poor
foolish, weren't we? Blind. Rebels. Led around by
Satan. Satan said, Boy, I've got this
one. He'll never get him. I've got
him. I've got the blind pulled down over his eyes. And then
he's such a rebel, I made a rebel out of him, Lord never get him.
Well, let grace come. Let grace come. You'll see. Because
grace is on the throne. Grace reigns. Grace reigns. That's where we get that. And
look at this, in the time of need, in the time of need, how
often? Anytime you have need. If you
feel a need, right now, Go to the throne of grace if you have
a need. Before you go to bed, wake up in the night, tomorrow,
when do you have a need? Once a week? Ten times a day? A thousand times a day? Whenever
you have need, we have a high priest whose heart is full of
grace, willing to show us mercy and can fill our infirmities.
Then come! Come! I tell you one thing, there
is no way that you can diminish the grace that's in His heart.
Some have suggested that you might as well take a teaspoon
and go to the ocean and dip it dry is to try to diminish the
grace that's in the heart of Jesus Christ. He's full of grace
and that's what we need. Then come boldly to the throne
of grace. So no wonder the Aaronic priesthood has seen its day and
is no more. No wonder the sacrifices there
in Jerusalem aren't offered anymore and never will be according to
God's will. No wonder the feast days and the tithing and all
of that is called weak and beggarly elements now. We don't need them
anymore, do we? All the reason we need those
things is to see Christ in them. And if we don't see Christ in
them, then they're of no use whatsoever. And why don't we
need Him? Because He's the sum and substance
of them all. He fulfills them all. He's our
great High Priest that's in the heavens. And we don't need those
things. We just need Him. We just need
Him. Come boldly to Him. Don't let
anything keep you from coming to Him. Don't let Satan whisper
to you that he doesn't care. He cares. Take this Word and
go with this Word and take it right to the throne of grace.
We have a High Priest who can be touched. And when you go,
I'm telling you what, whether you recognize it, whether you
feel it in your soul or not, when you go to Him, I tell you
this much, according to God's Word, He'll feel what you feel. He'll feel your burden. He feels
what's grieving your soul. He feels what's hindering you.
He feels it. I can't explain that. Why the
eternal triune God could condescend to feel what we're feeling. But
that's Him, isn't it? That's this God of love. That's
this God who loves us. Who loves us. Bless His name. Clarence, would you dismiss this?