Alfred Norris - Class 4 - Our Great High Priest

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   Talk #4 is entitled Our Great High Priest. By Brother Alfred Norris, Alfred. In order to keep the. Last address short, I mean not more than two talks long. I did cut out one piece of material which really. Shouldn’t be left out. And only referred to it to the. Extent that I spoke of that object that Hezekiah destroyed, but.

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   He destroyed. Moses serpent in the wilderness. And called it a piece of brass. But it’s too important to be dismissed with only that simple illusion. So I wonder if you’d begin by turning to John Chapter 3, when something which is printed as part of Talk Three will now find its place in Talk 4, John Chapter 3, verse 14.

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   Well, against the background of the words, we. All know so well God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. That whosoever believeth in him. Should not perish but have eternal life. We have words which are similar to that and the Lord says or John says for. Him And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, Even so.

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   Must the son of man. Be lifted up that whosoever believeth. May in Him have eternal life reading the revised version. And there the Lord. Deliberately compares what is now going on in his actual redemptive Mission, but that which had gone on to provide an active type. In the days when Israel sinned in the wilderness. You know that story well enough.

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   I’ll just remind you it’s basic facts. Israel spoke against God. God. Was angry and sent. Fiery serpents to punish them. They could do nothing to. Repel the pirate serpents or cure their bites. And so, in their desperation, as people will. They called to God for help, and God said to Moses. Make us up in the bronze.

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   And put it on a pole that. Those who look at it. May live. And so they did. Later, as we have said, it became a mere object of idolatrous worship. It had been stood. Up in holy places, and they brought it out and made. Alive and I’d love it. And Hezekiah says that’s the end of that. We won’t have the objects anymore and he destroyed it, but the Lord.

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   Made use of the occasion. Nonetheless, he didn’t need. The image for that purpose and said that’s what Moses did and it would be like that again. Now would you like just to look at the notes? I haven’t referred you to them before at page 8, which is part of Talk 3, ostensibly.

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   And see the. Parallel drawn on. Line 7 and downwards between. What happened when? Moses raised up his serpent. And what? Was to happen to the. Lord.

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   The words are almost all. Taken from John 314. They begin with the Lord saying as Moses lifted up. Which is to be compared. With so must there be lifted up then? The Moses story, The Serpent and the parallel is the son of man and. Then it was that any man who looked upon that serpent, and the parallel is that whosoever believed in him.

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    The Son of Man. And finally he lived and the parallel is may have eternal life. He’s a very close. Parallel obviously deliberately worked out. By the Lord and intended to be pressed in its every detail. So the lifting up of Moses. Serpent is like the lifting up of Jesus. Just concentrate on the lifting up.

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    I suppose what Moses did was cast this snake secure. It to a wooden stake, and see to it that. The stake was itself secured. In a socket of the. Ground and the. Lifting up would be placing of it high. Enough for people to see it.

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    In the case of the Lord Jesus. Christ, he uses that word. Lifted up. Three times about himself. This one. And when you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you shall know. That I am he in John chapter eight, I think. Then the. Last one in chapter 12. I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will drop all. Men unto myself.

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    And at that point John explains what Jesus meant. This he spake, signifying what death he would die, so lifting up his crucifixion. In the case of the Lord, what is tempted to do on the? Weather, perhaps, there may have. Been a local gruesome vernacular, which they speak of lifting up as we would speak of strung up being a means of execution, But that’s just a guess. The certain thing is that.

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    The Lord is comparing the erection to view of Moses serpent with the. Exposure to view of. Himself upon his cross. The next point I’ll just differ. For a moment, because it’s the most difficult and in some ways the most important, actually comparing the Serpent with the Son of Man, line 2 of this comparison, line 3 is plain enough, I think. Any man who?

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    Looked upon the serpent is. Compared with whosoever believeth in. Jesus but whoever looked upon the serpent? By the serpent bit. The snake bitten. The same bit the people. Who couldn’t cure themselves of their disease? What did they look at? The evidence that God could do? What? They couldn’t. A picture of a serpent, defeated, executed on the pole.

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    Held before them to show God’s. Victory over it. And so those who looked. At it did what they said. And I’m badly bitten and I’m dying. But if I trust in God, God has shown that what? I and my healers and all my recommencers can’t do, he can do. He’s still able to.

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    Conquer my sin and the power of it, and believing in that, they were healed of their snake bites just locally the snake bites, I expect. They went on being sinners almost as much as ever. Before they don’t seem to have reformed much, but in the parallel they recovered from their sin bite and lived. And of course the last bit of paranoid is lived I I went on for a long time under the illusion that what the the. Numbers Passage really said.

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    Was that they? Were healed. But it doesn’t really really. Does say they lived, they were dying people and they. Lived and the Lord. Says that whosoever believeth in him, Jesus. Lifted up, may have eternal. Life, you look upon the. Cross of Jesus and you live. To Thy cross we look. And live we have those. Words I can book, don’t we?

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    So whoever looked on that, he lived. A slight digression which could make the 4th talk 4 talks long. There’s a slight. Digression about that he lived. The word life in the New Testament is a very distinctive word. It sometimes just means the kind of life you and I live. Whosoever a lot of his.

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    Life shall lose it. But it can be the kind of. Life that you and I want to live without doing. And without Christ I am living a. Life which is a living death, There’s no. Meaning in it no. Purpose for it, it just ends where it began with. Christ, there’s a new kind.

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    Of life that doesn’t end like that. And John’s Gospel in particular calls it eternal life. He doesn’t mean a life. Which from now on goes on and on, physically enjoyed forever. He doesn’t mean immortality in those contexts. He means that you passed. From one kind of living which isn’t worthy of the. Name to another kind of living that is Parallels.

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    Let the dead bury their own debt. That goes out publish abroad the Kingdom of God. This my son. Was dead and is alive again. Was lost at this time. You have a Quicken who were dead. In trespassers sins. Thus the name of thou. Live us and not dead.

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    More parallel cases where what? We call. Life is. Called in the Bible. From God’s point. Of view a living death. And the Lord says, I haven’t come either to perpetuate death or to bring it about. I’ve come to. Give life the thief cometh. Not but to steal, and to kill unto destroy. But I have come that.

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    They might have life whosoever. Believeth in the Son of God shall not come into condemnation, but he’s passed out of. Death into life, says John in chapter 25. Sorry, chapter 5, verse 25 quoting the words of Jesus. So those who believe in the. Lord, and see him exalted upon the cross, and see the meaning of it may pass out of the living death, which is the death of the unregenerate into the life which belongs to the servants of Christ. I.

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    Picture the way in which. Life is spoken of in John’s Gospel, something like this. God has all life, all the time. He is immortal, of course. And the true. Life of the ages belongs. To him. Only he can share it if he chooses.

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    From time to time he has dipped down. Upon the earth with his messengers, and they have revealed. The life that. Belongs to God, never more so. And when as John’s. 1st letter puts it. We have seen the. Life, the eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested unto us. And he’s talking about Jesus.

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    So when Jesus said he. Hath the son hath the life he hath not. The Son hath not the life, we are being told. See the life of God, come down from heaven and create a pool of illumination upon the ground and step. Inside it and stay there and you have the. Life of God.

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    Step outside in all in darkness again, or let God take away his life and it’s gone. The believers in God walk in the light of life. They’re no more immortal in the fleshly sense than ever they were. Not till. After the sleep of death, if that it must be, when the resurrection comes, and eternal life merges in immortality to the life which he now live, we live by faith, the faith which is of the Son of God, as I said earlier, as Paul said, who loved us and gave himself up for us.

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    So to look at Moses. Snake transfixed offered life from death by snakebite. And look at Jesus Christ transfixed of undergrass offers that life that belongs to God instead of. Death by human sinful mortality and looking upon Jesus crucified is what does it.

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    That’s a difficult bit looking on. Jesus crucified. As Moses lifted up, so must be lifted up. The Serpent, the Son of Man. The Serpent and the Son of Man on a parallel. Line. The anti title of the serpent being the son of. Man, does that make sense? To think of the Lord. Jesus Christ as in any way comparable with the serpent. His life was altogether lovely.

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    Who did no sin, neither was guile pounded his mouth. Can you dare you dare I? Think of the Lord. Jesus Christ on the cross. As in any. Way linked with the serpent, Yes, it looks as though I can and we can and we all should see that there is a parallel there. Would you look to a very well known verse of Scripture please in Hebrews chapter 2, Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 for as much then as the. Children are partakers of flesh and blood. Jesus also himself likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death. That is the devil.

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    Just pause for a moment. Notice the apostles insistent emphasis. Jesus also himself likewise, but there’s no doubt about it. He rubs it in, doesn’t it? And he can’t mistake it. It’s actually about Jesus be talking, Jesus also himself. Likewise, some of you might know this story, but there was once a brother who was lecturing in a nearby towns of my own in England, and he wanted to emphasize the fact of Jesus Christ coming back.

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    And he said. And I’ve never forgotten. This Jesus Christ second return back to the earth again. Second, return back again, but you missed. You didn’t miss. His point didn’t mean his eighth return. He made his second beyond the doubt. But here you have here. Jesus also himself likewise took part of the same.

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    So then Pallows, did you and I have a certain kind of nature called flesh and blood? Because. Of that. Jesus also himself likewise took part of the same there. Is a necessary link. Between our pleasant blood nature and our Saviour having the same. If it were not the same, the equation will collapse. The two are tied together.

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    My flesh and blood. And his flesh and blood. Why so that? Because he was. In that flesh and blood. Nature by death he might destroy. Him that hath the power. Of death, that is the devil. Now they will believe in an immortal. Distinct separate devil have an awful trouble with these verse, this verse.

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    I don’t see how they can ever explain it. But we who believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, that he. Was yet bore our nature.

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    And who know that after he? Had died, He was perfected. Can see, can’t we, that when that Christ in that nature hung until he died upon his cross, all that was in that nature was put to death, and only the purified, refined, perfected Christ would be raised? He put away. Sin. Yes, that’s a quotation from the same book. Now once in the old end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin.

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    By the sacrifice of himself. He partook of pressure and blood, but his death. Might destroy the devil. Destroy. The devil and put away. Sin become parallel terms, and all made possible because the Lord partook of that same. Flesh and blood. Nature that you and I have. So if then we can say that the Lord’s death destroyed the devil, then we can say it.

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    Destroyed the devil because the Lord’s death put away. Once and for all. Of all that. Might have been unacceptable to God had it been exercised, but it wasn’t. The Lord didn’t sin. And now? He demolished even the power to sin by causing his pleasure and blood nature by his own will to die upon the cross What Moses brazen serpent signified, and the breast taker got no say in the matter.

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    You molded it and you stuck it there. So the Lord Jesus Christ’s death. Accomplished in that. By his own free will, laying down his life. He calls to be set up for all to see upon the cross the defeat of sin. He did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. But he died that the source of sin might be removed, I don’t know whether. This will.

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    Appeal to you or not? But you will know we all have a sort of a. Problem with the fact that the temptations in Matthew chapter 4 and in Luke chapter four are. Described in terms of a. A confrontation between Jesus Christ and the Devil or Satan or the evil 1.

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    And if that were being? Acted as a drama, you’d have to have the Lord Jesus Christ engaging in discussion with a second party outside himself called the Devil.

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    There’s one other place in Scripture where something similar but rather more shadowy is done. That’s when the Lord, talking about his pending death, said henceforth. I will not speak much with you, my disciples. For the Prince of. This world cometh and hath nothing in me, and I see a picture before my eyes. Of the Lord Jesus Christ hanging upon the. Cross dying.

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    And along comes the Prince of this world sees Jesus there dying, shakes his head suddenly, and goes away. There’s nothing left for me. That’s done me. In that death of Christ upon the cross.

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    So if we see the Lord Jesus Christ as we must. Not just. Going through what he went. Through as a willing servant. Enduring and enjoying and submitting. To carrying out the will of God. But somebody doing it for you and me?

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    Then nothing the Lord did is a fight between him and any one other person. No victory he won is just a victory over the sin he might have committed but didn’t is yet one more nail in the coffin of your devil and mine. He fights that fight for us. He is fighting our sinfulness.

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    He’s winning our victories and the seed of. The woman shall bruise. The seed of the serpent is fulfilled in him, and to see him. Defeating the Wiles. Of the devil in a pictorial presentation of his temptations in Matthew 4 is to see him going so. Far the devil’s got nothing left. He’s on the.

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    Verge of total defeat, and as it were in a dramatic picture, he comes and takes a look. The Prince of this world cometh enough nothing in me and knows he hasn’t a hope.

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    The Lord has effectively at that. Point destroyed. Him that had the power of death. That is the devil. And all this is possible because the Lord did share our nature and wouldn’t have been possible if He hadn’t. And would not have been possible had the Lord. Been and still was eternal God, or a mere man forsaken by God. He was Jesus in his own person, carrying out the war against the devil and bringing it to a successful conclusion. For as much as you and I are per take us of pleasure and blood, Jesus also himself likewise took part of the same nature. His death might destroy well for him as of all for us more protractedly the devil, Our sin, too, must yield to that victory, if we will let it.

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    But now let’s look about and see where we have got you and I in our Christian living, if we have understood the message of the previous. Talks, particularly the last one. Then we don’t resist the cross of Christ. We join it. We don’t try to stop Him being crucified. We expect to be crucified ourselves, not physically, but spiritually, in our own rejection of the old man and his deeds. We consent to be crucified with Christ. We see ourselves side by side with Him. We.

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    Appeal to him for help. And so we want the old man to stay dead. Now we’d like to live a faithful life in your sight. All that is made possible by seeing the picture of the Christ upon the cross and taking up our cross and following him. But Paul in Romans chapter 6 has got to that point. Please show us that we’re all under sin in the first few chapters.

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    Exemplify to us what it means to trust in God by the faith of. Abraham in chapter 4 spoken. Of the goodness of God in bringing Christ to the birth. For us. For it was God’s work in bringing Christ to the birth for us, and has commended his. Love told us in that while.

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    We were yet sinners. Christ died for us in Chapter 5. Leaving up to the point where he says the worst to sin, the greater the. Opportunity for the grace of God. What I sinned about grace did much more about. Than he faces the inevitable. Question which we may not ask in words, but we’re always asking in our lives. If the grace of God is so big, if there’s no sitting too great for it, then why don’t we sit a bit more to give His grace more opportunity if God likes coping with? Problems.

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    Let’s give him. Plenty. Shall we continue in? Sin that grace may abound. God says, Paul says in Romans chapter 6. The answer is perm and uncompromising. No, we will not. How should we do our dead? To sin there any longer than it, know ye not the to whomsoever ye render. Yourself servants to obey his servant, ye. Are to whom?

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    Ye obey whether of sin. To death or of. Obedience and to righteousness. You haven’t thrown away. All shackles, Paul says. When you believe in Christ, you’ve cast off the ball and chain of bondage to human sin. You’ve consented of your own freedom to be yoked to the Lord Jesus Christ. You’re not your own.

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    Masters any more than you ever were, but where the wages of sin was death, the gift of God through Jesus Christ to His servants is eternal light through Jesus Christ our Lords. So don’t think you can go away. And live as you like, now that God has shown how great His forgiveness is, but recognize.

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    That you’ve thrown all that. Over. And now you shouldn’t willing to be going on doing that anymore. How shall we that are dead? Unto sin live any longer than it. So no, there is no excuse for continuing sinfulness. For those who are in. Christ. And then Paul takes a candid look around in the 7th chapter of Romans at Creation, including himself, and he considers how he wants to obey the law of God.

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    And doesn’t do it very well. So that way of God, which he. Delighted in his mind, his members refuse to cooperate with. And all along he finds himself. Lapsing into sin, he even. Goes through his previous. Record of Jewish goodness, which has a very good record. And is it where he goes through the 10 commandments?

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    That’ll have no other God beside. Me. He ticks himself off. I’m just like that. That’ll make no given. Images he. Didn’t do that either. That’s not Take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Not guilty. All of the Sabbath day. And keep it holy, Not guilty. A breach of that? All of thy father and thy mother.

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    He says he’s not guilty and we must. Believe him that should not. Steal not in the accident. Sense he hadn’t done that, that will not. Kill not guilty that will not commit adultery, Not guilty that shall not speak false witness. Well, I think he would have had second thoughts about that one, but he says anyway that even that one I’m not presently troubled about because I’ve.

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    Come to a. Point where I can’t escape. I had not known sin, except the Lord said, Thou shalt not covet when that commandment sin revived and I died. Just think, you’re not to steal your neighbours ox, but you might want to. You’re not to corrupt your neighbour. ‘S wife and it might be a very attractive. Thought if only you could do it and get away with it. Coveting is the one sin before which almost everybody must say guilty.

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    That, says Paul, was me. He seems to say that even my allegiance to the law of Christ has not made. That uneasy matter to deal with and.

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    Having laid down as a law that we must not. Continue in sin. He looks at the thoughts that go on in his own mind, and he says, oh, wretched man, that I am, who shall deny me from this body of death? Christ might have died. For me and I might. Have put away the past, but it’s the.

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    Present I’m concerned with and. I’m not even succeeding there. The atonement is not employed. As far as I’m concerned, I’m still a sin and I can’t help myself.

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    That’s what he seems. To be saying in his dramatic presentation of the futility of Fleshy’s claims in Romans Chapter 7. And then all of a sudden. There bursts out of the. Black darkness, the words I thank God through Jesus Christ, my Lord, What the Lord could not do in that it was weak through the flesh.

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    God sending his own Son in the likeness of sins flesh and forcing in the flesh condemned. Sin and hope revives again and. He sees the Lord Jesus Christ as being not. Just the dire for sins. But the one who? Lives. Did you go through Romans 8? You’ll see that he is now proceeding from the cross to beyond the cross. It is Christ that died.

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    Yeah, rather that. What was your said to complete that sentence? It’s Christ. That dies and he’s coming back again of. Course he is. That isn’t what Paul says. Not here. That’s not his immediate purpose. It is Christ that died gay. Rather, that he’s risen again. And is sat down at the right hand of God making intercession for us.

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    The atonement is not over, the work is still going on. The Lord is not taking a 1900 years sleep between his ascension and his return. How little do you understand what he’s doing it? How he’s doing it, that he is doing it, is not in doubt. There’s a risen Christ up there. Looking down on your need and. Mind ever living to make intercession for us, and it marks the.

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    Facial between. Failure and triumph with him. There we need not. Go wrong. It is Christ that died, yeah. Rather, that he’s risen again. And is set down at the right hand of God, if God. Before. Us who can be against us, who shall separate us. From the love of. Christ shall angels or. Heights or depth, or principalities or power, I am persuaded that.

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    Nothing can do that says. Paul, but the heartfelt. Cry, nobody can help me. The Romans Chapter 7 that emerges. Nobody can stop me of Romans chapter 8. If God be for us, he gives us and we just look at this, a little panorama of what God started to do, is going on doing and he’s going to finish doing.

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    Romans chapter 8, verse 28 Romans 8 verse 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to learn that are called according to his purpose. For he did. For no he also for. Ordained to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the first one among many brethren.

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    And then we for. Ordained then he also. Called to be. Called and we also. Justified and we justified, then we also glorified? And then what should we say to these things if God before us, who can be against us and he goes from start to finish, a finish that hasn’t happened yet. He foreknew he foreordained.

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    He called he justified. And in some way we’ve all got as far as that at. Least our justification is proceeding. If God be willing but glorified. No, that is yet to come, but securely to come it won’t. Fail for those who are. Justified and made righteous in Christ, God is. In control of everything that will. Happen to the faithful believer, and if it is left in his hands, reposed in his hands, and if we cooperate with him, all things work together for good.

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    So in Romans 8, it isn’t just. Christ did done. That is, the solution to our sin problem is that Christ did die and we agreed to die with him, and we have formally. Put away our. Old man, and we don’t make a perfect job of what we have set about doing, but help is at hand. The Lord is still there to help.

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    He wants to finish off successfully that which he began so effectively in his death. He ever liveth and maketh intercession for us, and that’s where Hebrews comes back into the picture again. So could we turn to the chapter, which we looked at a few minutes ago in chapter 2 and read on

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    Hebrews 2? We’ll reread verse 14 for AS. Much then, as the children. Are partakers of flesh and blood. Jesus also himself likewise took part of the saying that through death he might. Destroy him that hath. The power of death that is the devil, and deliver. Them who through? Fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

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    For Verity he took now. In the nature of angels that he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behold. 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. For in that he himself had suffered. Being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted. So there are two.

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    Interconnected reasons why Christ needed to be like us in His nature. The one was to suffer. And conquer sin in his dying, and the other was to be a. Merciful and faithful High priest it always when we look up to the one who is seated at the right hand of. God, we say he’s just like us. And in the sufferings he had,

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    he’s just like us in the battles he fought more than we are in the victories he won. But he did it from our baseline. He’s been through it all, and we know he feels what it’s like. We know he knows what travel we have in doing battle with our sin, and we know he still wants to help.

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    He who willingly died for our sins is willing now to do all that he can to help us be successful in our battle against the sinfulness which remains. Wherefore in all. Things it beholds him to. Read like unto his brethren, not. Just to die, but to continue that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest.

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    In things pertaining to God, to make. Reconciliation for the sins of the people, for he’s been through it himself. In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.

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    The same point he’s. Taken up and expanded. A little in the 4th. Chapter Hebrews Chapter 4, verse 14. Seeing none that we have a great High Priest, that was the title of our talk, Our Great High Priest. Seeing that we have a great High priest that he’s passed into the heavens. Jesus, the Son of God. That has hope past our confession, but we have not a high priest.

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    That cannot be. Touched with the feeling of our infirmities. We will not have been in all points tempted. Like as we are yet without sin that has therefore. Drawn near with. Boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.

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    We have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmity. There have been high priests like that. There have been. Callous office, seeking high priests. Priests who were only in it for the money as they were priests who couldn’t care less about those administered for. But we’re doing their job for the reputation, the position and the security and the wealth. It might have brought care, but I should think was such a high priest.

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    Who could say to his palaces with utter disregard of all human feeling, you know nothing. At all neither consider that it is expedient. That one man died. For the people Innocent thought he be, and that the whole nation perished. Not What a high priest. I wouldn’t like to find myself in his hands, would you?

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    A man who? Cheerfully gave away Innocent. Lives to. Pursue the ends, he. Thought were? Either desirable for the. Nation. Or for his Casper, For himself. He was one who couldn’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities at all. Who couldn’t quote, care less about the feeling of our infirmities.

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    So let’s see how far that went when they brought about the death of Jesus. There no function against hiring a traitor to deliver him. He gave Judas his thirty pieces of silver. They don’t. Come against bribing. Witnesses to testify falsely against. Him they suborned and. That means they bribed witnesses.

88. 35:31

    They didn’t mind. Throwing on one side all their Jewishness to get Pilot to agree with them. We have no king but Caesar, which in other circumstances they would have bitten off their tongues rather than say, and they didn’t mind taking. One of the worst. Characters around and giving him his freedom instead of the innocent Christ. There was a man called.

89. 35:55

    Barabbas, who was a robber? Who was a rebel who had committed? Murder in the Rebellion. And there was Jesus Christ there, who had done nothing. Wrong at all. And pilot with more. Than a hint of his tongue in his Roman cheek, put the two side by side, as it were before them, and said, Now, which would you like to have this wreck of humanity?

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    Who? No. Good can be found. There’s every action we know about his. Evil or the sinless son of God, Pilot wouldn’t have called him Son of God, but nevertheless the sinless man who claims to be your king.

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    And they said not. This man but Barabbas, or as Peters are telling me, puts it, you denied the Prince of. Life and ask for the murderer to be granted unto you. Let the. Murderer live, Let the life. Giver, die. Or if you’d like to use some other language for it. We don’t want Abel, we want Cain, who was that wicked one and slew his brother.

92. 37:09

    And all that under the leadership of their existing. High priest till they occur to me actually just about now, that that kind of bad example could have been in the right the mind of the one who wrote Hebrews when he said we have not an high priest that cannot be touched. For the Lord is so different.

93. 37:29

    Not just because He’s righteous and wouldn’t do anything that was wrong. Not just because He’s just and wouldn’t acquit the guilty and condemned the innocent, but also because He’s merciful has been through it before. And though now he lives above it. All his glory still realize how he got there. And knows. What a battle it was and can have compassion with our intermities.

94. 38:04

    For we have not a hype. That cannot be touched with the feeling of our. Infirmities, we wonder, have been at all. Points tempted like as we are yet without sin, let us. Therefore, draw near with. Boldness unto the throne of Grace, that in our needs and our failings and our apprehensions about the future, His help may be made available to us, and that we may find mercy for things committed and grace to help in time of need for dangerous threatening. Let’s do that, the apostle says, as part of our Christian pilgrimage.

95. 38:46

    As an indispensable part of our Christian pilgrimage. I don’t want to beat any drums or ride any hobby horses. There’s one thing that. Stands out quite. Clearly from this passage on the other one and many another it is that by means we may not know God is not inert in your life and mine the. Our future does not depend only upon our diligence in reading, though.

96. 39:11

    We must do that or in continuous in fellowship. Though we must do that. Or efforts to live? True to our profession that we must do that too, but is also in his hands. If you need the record test and who doesn’t, go and ask. And in the ways that only. God may know, he will not betray, nor let you down.

97. 39:36

    Ask and it shall be given unto you. Knock and it shall be over unto you. Seek and ye shall find. And without. Being able at all to sound the depths of James’s words, that eminently practical, down to earth, Man James, he says, if any man like wisdom and who doesn’t let him ask of God who give it to all men liberally and deny it somehow if we mean it.

98. 40:18

    If in our prayers. We go in our destitution to our God and say please help, the Lord will not say no nothing. To do with claiming gifts, nothing to do with exalting. Human powers nothing to do with wanting to work wonders. We’re asking, Lord, we have heard that if we work. Out our salvation with fear and trembling.

99. 40:41

    It is thee that thou that workest in US, both to will and to do with thy good pleasure. Please. That’s what we like. So one doesn’t stand alone in the battle against sin. It is God that is willing to work, the High Priest who is willing to mediate, and the One. Who had been through? It all who is willing to help

100. 41:07

     One Tale Piece. Responding to a question that I was asked just before this session began, I was referred to a passage in Hebrews in chapter 6.

101. 41:22

     Where? We might usually start reading at verse 4. But it is impossible for. Those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and. The may partakers of the Holy Spirit and tasted of the good Word. Of God, of the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again into repentance.

102. 41:45

     Seeing their. Crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him into an open shame. That crucify to themselves the Son of God. Afresh is the one occasion where the Word in the introduction to these notes is used. The unasked our Oh crucify. Again, the Apostle uses it only here for those who reject the way of life. And turn back.

103. 42:10

     To the calling they are supposed to have Forsaken may be guilty of crucifying the Son of God afresh and putting into an open shape what I was asked might that mean? And I wasn’t asked. But it would be just the same kind of question if we turned over to chapter 10 and read verse 26. For if we sin willfully after that we. Have received the knowledge of the truth that he. Made of no.

104. 42:44

     More sacrifice for sins, but a certain. Fearful, looking for. A judgement and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversary. He despised Moses. Law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. And how much? Sorer punishment suppose ye. Shall he be thought worthy who has trodden? Under foot, the Son of God. And had counted. The blood of the covenant where when he was sanctified an unholy thing, and had done despit under the spirit of grace. For we know.

105. 43:17

     Him that that said, vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. That the Lord and again the. Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

106. 43:31

     Now there are two passages of solemn shuddering warning as to what could be or could have been. The fate those who threw their enlightenment. To the winds and wilfully turned back to darkness. Who, amongst other things, forsook the assembly of themselves together. And went back to the Temple, or to Jewish worships, or to old customs, and left the Church and the ecclesias of the faith in the lurch.

107. 44:01

     The apostle warns those in that position that there could. Be a certain fearful looking for of judgement. And the possibility of renewal of. Repentance, because they would be guilty of crucifying to themselves the Son of God, afresh, treading under foot the Son of God. Counting the blood of the covenant, where would there have?

108. 44:24

     Been sanctified. An unholy thing and the picture. But the right of draws is almost unbearable to see in one’s mind. Can you picture yourself taking a big hammer and driving nails into the hands and feet of Jesus? Again, that’s crucifying. It’s not a lot of trash, isn’t it? Can you picture the Lord Jesus Christ then taken down? From this cross that you have prepared for him and stamping in his face.

109. 45:00

     I trembled under foot. The Son of God. Can you see yourself dabbling in the blood that flows from him, counting the blood of the covenant, where we are sanctified and unholy thing? It seems to me the Apostle was. Deliberately overdrawing an awful situation to warn us that Christ died once and for all and.

110. 45:21

     Though there. Is infinite mercy to those who seek to continue in Him. And infinite mercy, too, for those who, having lapsed, draw back in. Time. There may. Be none for those who. Draw away and won’t. Come back and lose themselves in the world again in this 6th chapter, in that 10th chapter, in the parts of Matthew and Luke that deal with the sin. Against the Holy Spirit.

111. 45:49

     That hath no forgiveness. In that part of the 1st letter of John which speaks of the sin unto death. There is, in all cases, I believe, a picture of the wilfully impenitent. Who have wanted for all thrown. Away the offer of salvation and refused to have it back and won’t accept mediation or restoration That says the apostle, is like crucifying Christ again by one who once said he was willing to be crucified with him.

112. 46:26

     I don’t want to dwell upon that anymore. Except to say that we mistake the situation if we suppose. That there isn’t. Christ is beyond all feeling

113. 46:38

     that the suffering is over and. The tenderness of heart has. Gone and the victory? Having been won there. He is secure, happy, satisfied not to be hurt.

114. 46:52

     It’s not true. The scriptures tell us he can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, and I would take it that if. We decide, we don’t. Want him to be touched, He can be hurt by it.

115. 47:08

     He stands to make. Intercession for us. And that must mean his feelings are there with joy when we respond with grief or we don’t. If there is more joy in the presence of the angels of heaven over 1 Sinner that. Repenteth than over 90 and 9 just persons that need no repentance. How do the angels?

116. 47:28

     Feel about 1 Sinner that won’t repent. If the Lord is made happy by our compliance, isn’t it necessarily made unhappy by our refusal to comply? Our God is very vulnerable. Do you know you can make your creature wretched? Creature, your creator Wretched.

117. 47:51

     And do I know that too. We have an awful power in our hands to take away a measure of bliss from our own God if we don’t respond to Him, and a wonderful opportunity of making him happy if we do when. Saul was at his worst. He said Saul, Saul. Why President, is thou me?

118. 48:16

     And you can see the Lord feeling the bruises when Stephen has the stones hit him. We can see the Lord saying you left me shivering in the cold when you wouldn’t help my brother. I see the goose flash on the Lord’s purse, but we can see the Lord saying I was. Hungry. And you gave me.

119. 48:39

     Food I was. Thirsty. And you gave me. Drink. I was naked and you gave me clothing. I was sick. And in prison and you visited? Me in as much as you did it, as one of the least of these, my brethren, you can see the Lord rejoicing for the care His Saints give one to another in His name, And this is our high.

120. 49:02

     Priest so vulnerable in his. Greatness who can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities? To whom we are exhausted, as it were, by the mercies of. God to go and repay we can’t repay but show appreciation of His sacrifice and seek His help and get His blessing and rejoice his heart and wait for the day. When the joy will be plain in his. Face when he sees us before him.

121. 49:35

     I think when the Lord. Says depart from Yechurst. It will be a misery. For him to do so when he says, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation. Of the world that. Will be his supreme joy when thou shalt make his soul, and offering for sins as I 53 again he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days. And the pleasure of the Lord shall. Prosper in his hand.

122. 50:10

     By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many the only reservation I have. But what I’ve tried to say to you, especially in this last talk, is that such a long way to go myself to be as true? To that office of the. Lord, and that graciousness, as I exhorted you to be just to try to help each other all the time, shall we together in one, till the Lord comes and sees us as the body of His bride.

123. 50:51

     The wedding feast now complete. Back to the earlier talks, not just guests. Nor a feast, nor a bridegroom. Above all, not a bridegroom taken away, but a bridegroom come back. And the wedding properly furnished, When the bride comes arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, of the Lord’s washing, they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb, and fulfills, it is only eternal joy that for which he came and lived and died.

124. 51:24

     Who for that? Joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shape, and is now set down at the right hand of God.