Thirsting Souls Bible Teaching

(Heb 3:1) “Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;”  Do not miss that the text has gone from saying Jesus will help you from sinning to calling the saved, “holy”, sinless. Positionally I am completely without sin in Christ – holy. Practically, still living in this flesh, I need His help overcoming my old nature. Sin does not affect my position. It affects my fellowship with God.

 (Heb 2:14) “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same;…(Heb 2:18)  For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour (help, aid) them that are tempted.”  To be tempted is not sin (Jesus did not sin, though temped). So the help is to aid us from sinning.

(Heb 2:14) “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same;…(Heb 2:18)  For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour them that are tempted.”  “Suffered”: in a bad sense of misfortunes, to suffer, to undergo evils, to be afflicted. The Scriptures do not reveal to us “in” what ways or “to” what depths His sufferings; only that they took place!

 (Heb 2:17) “Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”   The Priest is needed because of the necessity of a blood sacrifice. Moses law was not given in expectation that any offspring of man could keep it (Rom 3:19). It was given to reveal to man his need of a substitute – a Savior.

 (Heb 2:17) “Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”   Understand, mercy cannot be given by a Holy God without the payment of sins first being made (Rom 6:23). It’s the balance of Goodness. Mercy comes through the cost of blood (Ez 18:4,20).

(Heb 2:17) “Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”   The making of the Lord Jesus our Great High Priest is not only prophecied through speaking of Melchezedec, but through O.T. sacrificial law: it was the High Priest that performed the act of offering and applying “reconciliation” for man’s sin. Jesus did that for you and me.

(Heb 2:17) “Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”   “Behoved”: was needed, owed, under obligation.  He had to be fully a man, to the degree of being born as an infant, required to live a full life sinless in a world of sin.

(Heb 2:17) “Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”   “Behoved”: was needed, owed, under obligation.  Remember, holiness requires a right, suitable payment to be made for the sin of man. That payment revealed in O.T. law is the blood of a perfect (without blemish) substitute, sacrifice.

(Heb 2:16) “For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.”  Why develop a way to save man and not angels? I can only suppose for man there was some level of ignorance, whereas in the fall of angels there was not.

(Heb 2:16) “For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.”  Here is proof positive that Jesus was not an angel volunteer to come and die for mankind. If He was an angel, this statement would be meaningless. He was and is of the Godhead, taking the nature of man in order to die for man’s sin!