CT073 - Jesus is Able to Sympathize with My Weakness

A Lord's Supper meditation on Hebrews 4:14–16 — the passage about a high priest who knows exactly what it is to be us. The old high priest disappeared behind a curtain once a year; Jesus passed through the heavens themselves, all the way to the Father, and he stayed.

In this episode, Matthew Allen walks the text phrase by phrase: a great high priest who is not too exalted to understand, one who has been tempted in every way as we are — hunger, exhaustion, grief, betrayal — yet without sin. His sinlessness is the purity of the spotless Lamb whose blood was sufficient to pay for our sins at the cross, and the resurrection is heaven's announcement that the sacrifice was accepted. Because of him, the throne we approach at the table is not a throne of dread, but a throne of grace — and the invitation is to come boldly, bringing the very weakness we'd rather hide, to receive mercy and find grace right at the point of our need.