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I want to talk for a few minutes tonight on the glorious truth that there is a Man in Heaven who is both our Saviour and our Sympathizer.
The New Testament as a whole teaches us very plainly that God’s Son became a man and gave His life as a ransom for the whole human race; the book of Hebrews, which I want to look at tonight, contains that same teaching; but it also adds something that the other New Testament books don’t talk about: the book of Hebrews calls Him a High Priest, and it goes into great detail about Christ’s High Priestly work in our behalf.
With that in mind I want to read two short passages from the book of Hebrews.
Heb. 2:14-18 and Heb. 4:14-16.
The writer is showing in chapter 2 that in order to save mankind, Jesus had to enter the human race. Redemption for the sin of man could only come through a man. But that man would have to be sinless. There was no way that one sinful man could redeem another sinful man. And so Christ entered the human race by being born of a virgin, and because He was sinless, God accepted his death as satisfaction for the sins of the human race.