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00:01Ten signs Jesus isn't enough for you, even though He is.
00:07You've stopped being amazed by Him.
00:10Your time with Jesus feels more like a check-in than a relationship.
00:15What used to move you spiritually doesn't anymore, and you aren't sure why.
00:22You trust Jesus with eternity, but not with today.
00:27Your spiritual life is getting busier, but not deeper.
00:33You're more focused on what Jesus hasn't done for you than what He already did.
00:40Your walk with Jesus feels like it's stuck on repeat.
00:45Minor stress feels like a full-blown crisis.
00:50You don't expect Jesus to do anything big in your life.
00:55You're no longer living like Jesus could return at any time.
01:01Stop living like He's not enough.
01:05He is.
01:07Jesus is enough.
01:12Coming up today on Turning Point.
01:15He's your high priest as if you were the only one who had a high priest.
01:20He's yours.
01:21He's not just ours as a church.
01:24He's yours.
01:25He's mine.
01:26He belongs to us.
01:27He wants us to take ownership of Him in His role as our high priest.
01:33Deep roots, strong branches, abundant leaves.
01:37This is the flourishing life God designed for you.
01:40A life firmly planted, growing strong, and unshakable through any storm.
01:46In his new book, Five Psalms for a Flourishing Life, Dr. David Jeremiah invites you to step out of a
01:52faith
01:52that feels like just getting by and into an active, growing faith rooted in the unchanging truth of God's Word.
01:59In this powerful study, Dr. Jeremiah explores five key psalms that have nourished God's people for generations.
02:06Psalms with the power to revive your soul and transform the places in your life that feel dry, barren, or
02:12stuck
02:12into meaningful growth in God.
02:14These aren't self-help strategies or positive thinking techniques.
02:18They are time-tested truths that have sustained God's people through millennia of both triumph and trial,
02:24teaching us how to sink our roots deep into eternal resources while bearing fruit that blesses the world around us.
02:30Dr. David Jeremiah will send you five psalms for a flourishing life in appreciation when you give a gift of
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02:38Or for your gift of $75 or more, request three books, one to keep and two to share.
02:43Five psalms for a flourishing life, new from Dr. Jeremiah.
02:47Contact Turning Point Ministries today.
02:58No matter who we are or where we have been in our journey with Christ,
03:04there will inevitably come a time when we feel that nobody on earth can understand our situation.
03:13Our most intimate friends, our spouses, our parents, will not be able to feel what is going on in our
03:20lives.
03:21Our questions and doubts may not even be translatable into words,
03:26and we will ache for someone to whom we can go with our soul's needs.
03:33This section of Hebrews is about that someone.
03:38The writer of Hebrews speaks of him as our great high priest.
03:45Say that with me.
03:46Our great high priest.
03:49The high priestly ministry of Jesus Christ has been hinted at in all of the chapters we have so far
03:56studied.
03:57In fact, in every chapter up until this one,
04:01he's been either referenced or spoken of specifically.
04:04In the third verse of the first chapter, we are told that Jesus sat down at the right hand of
04:10the majesty on high.
04:12Chapter 2 and verse 17, we are told that we have a merciful and faithful high priest.
04:18In verse 1 of chapter 3, we learned that our Savior is the apostle and high priest of our confession.
04:25In every chapter thus far, the ministry of Jesus Christ as our high priest is mentioned.
04:33But hardly anything is said about him.
04:35We don't know what he does, how he functions as a high priest in our lives.
04:41The Lord has given us his word to be our monitor, to help us know how we're doing.
04:48We're told the word of God is sharp as a two-edged sword, and it pierces into our lives and
04:53helps us know where we are.
04:55Basically, there's no posturing with the word of God.
04:58And along with the word of God, we have the God of the word,
05:01before whom everything is demonstrable, and God knows our hearts and our motives.
05:06So here we are now.
05:08We're on this journey from Egypt to the promised land,
05:11from our salvation in Christ until the time when we're in heaven.
05:14We're in this in-between time, pilgrims and strangers.
05:18We have the word of God.
05:19We have God in heaven.
05:20But there's one more piece of this puzzle that the writer wants us to acknowledge,
05:24and that is we also have someone in heaven whose specific responsibility and promise is
05:31that he will help us in every situation that we face.
05:36Now, with that in mind, let's look at these verses together.
05:39And notice, first of all, that we have a heavenly high priest.
05:44We have a heavenly high priest.
05:46Verse 14 says,
05:48Seeing then that we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavenlies,
05:55Jesus, the Son of God.
05:58Who is this high priest, and what is our relationship with him?
06:02Well, we'll get to that as we answer some questions.
06:05First of all, whose he is?
06:07I know that doesn't sound like a good sentence, but it is a good sentence.
06:10Whose is this high priest?
06:13Notice, we have a great high priest.
06:18We have him.
06:20Every one of you here today, if you're a Christian, Jesus Christ is yours.
06:26He's your high priest.
06:28Let me say it this way.
06:29He's your high priest as if you were the only one who had a high priest.
06:34He's yours.
06:36He's yours.
06:37He's not just ours as a church.
06:38He's yours.
06:39He's mine.
06:40He belongs to us.
06:41He wants us to take ownership of him in his role as our high priest, whose he is.
06:48Number two, what he is.
06:51What is a great high priest?
06:53Well, obviously, this is a reference back to the Old Testament.
06:56Remember again, I keep reminding you, what's the name of this book?
07:00It's called Hebrews, and it's written primarily to the Hebrews with application to all of us.
07:06All the Hebrews would have known all about priests.
07:09Let's face it.
07:11In Baptist churches, we don't know much about priests.
07:14But the Hebrews knew about priests.
07:16They knew that in the Old Testament, priests were appointed by God to be mediators between God and man.
07:23Only the high priest could offer the highest sacrifice under the Old Covenant, and he could only do that once
07:29a year.
07:30Every year, every year on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, he would symbolically bring all the sins of the
07:37Jewish people into the Holy of Holies
07:39and sprinkle blood on the mercy seat as a symbol of sacrifice to atone for the sins of the people.
07:47No one individual in Israel could do that.
07:49Only the high priest could represent the people to God.
07:54And before he could go into the holy place, he had to offer a sacrifice for himself, for he himself
08:01was a sinner.
08:02Hebrews 5.3 says,
08:03Because of this, he is required, as for the people, so also for himself to offer sacrifices for sins.
08:13On the Day of Atonement, when the high priest came to offer the sacrifice for his people,
08:18he would pass from the sight of the people into the Holy of Holies,
08:22carrying the blood of the sacrificial animals, the blood of atonement.
08:27And he stayed in the Holy of Holies only as long as it took to sprinkle the atoning blood on
08:33the mercy seat.
08:35In fact, the Holy of Holies was so holy that if he did anything wrong while he was in there,
08:41he would not come out alive.
08:43It was a very awesome thing for the high priest to go into the Holy of Holies.
08:47That was like being in the very presence of God himself.
08:50While he was in the Holy of Holies, the high priest never sat down.
08:55As soon as the sacrifice was offered, he left the Holy of Holies and he never returned for a whole
09:02year.
09:04Between the yearly Yom Kippur's, every day required other sacrifices on the part of the people of Israel.
09:11These sacrifices which came from the fields and the flocks of the Jewish worshipers never ended
09:19because, you see, the priesthood was imperfect and the sacrifices were imperfect.
09:24The writer of Hebrews refers to Jesus Christ not just as a priest or even as a high priest,
09:35but as our great high priest.
09:40The Bible says when Jesus had finished his atonement for our sins,
09:46we are told that he went into the holiest of holies.
09:51He went into the very real, literal presence of God, the holiest of all holies,
09:57and presented the blood of his own sacrifice.
10:00And the Bible says having done that, he sat down at the right hand of God.
10:04God, the sacrifice was made by the perfect high priest.
10:09The sacrifice itself was perfect.
10:11And Yom Kippur would never, ever have to occur again to atone for the sins of people.
10:18Whose he is?
10:21He's my high priest.
10:22I have him.
10:24What he is?
10:25He's the great high priest.
10:27Here's the third question.
10:29Where he is?
10:30The Bible says that he's in heaven.
10:33Did you know that when Jesus was on this earth during his incarnation,
10:37he functioned primarily as a prophet?
10:40He foretold the word of God.
10:42He's coming back again someday, and the Bible says when he comes back,
10:45he's going to come back as our king.
10:47But in between his role as a prophet when he was on the earth
10:51and his role as a king when he comes back again,
10:54he functions as our priest.
10:56He's our priest in heaven, taking care of the interceding for us.
11:02That is so necessary.
11:05Whose he is, what he is, and where he is.
11:10And now finally, almost like the first question, but not quite,
11:14who he is?
11:15Who is he?
11:16Notice it says he is Jesus, the Son of God.
11:21Say it with me.
11:23Jesus, the Son of God.
11:25This puts together in one phrase his humanity and his deity.
11:29Jesus is his human name, and he's the Son of God.
11:32That's his divine name.
11:33And just in case we've forgotten who this great high priest is,
11:37the writer wants us to remember our high priest
11:40is none other than Jesus, the Son of God.
11:44And here's an interesting thought that I don't want you to miss
11:47because I kind of ran into this this week,
11:49and then it brought back memories of having studied this
11:51a long time ago but having almost forgotten it.
11:54And I want you to listen carefully so you don't misunderstand
11:56what I'm saying.
11:58When Jesus left this earth to go back to heaven,
12:01hear me carefully, he did not lay aside his humanity.
12:06Jesus is in heaven as in his humanity he was
12:12after his resurrection on this earth.
12:15When I pray to Jesus, I am praying to not only Jesus,
12:21the Son of God, I am praying to Jesus,
12:23who is in his humanity at the very right hand of the Father.
12:28Now, that helps me and encourages me
12:30because sometimes we think, well, maybe he's back in,
12:32he's in a spiritual form like his father.
12:34No, no, the Bible says he never, ever laid aside his humanity.
12:38In fact, the Bible says it this way.
12:39There is one God and one man between God and man.
12:42Who is that?
12:43It is the man, Christ Jesus.
12:45The Bible says Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,
12:49today, and forever.
12:50He is a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
12:54When Jesus answers our prayers in heaven,
12:58he answers those prayers as if he were here
13:01in his resurrection body interacting with us,
13:04person to person, human to human,
13:08and that's why we can have such great confidence
13:11when we go to him.
13:12He is not just the Son of God.
13:14He is Jesus, the Son of God.
13:18He is our great high priest.
13:22So, we have a heavenly high priest.
13:26But that brings us to the second point in this outline.
13:29Because we have a heavenly high priest,
13:32we have a human responsibility.
13:35Notice it says in verse 14,
13:37because of all that I have told you so far,
13:40let us hold fast our confession.
13:46Our confession is important to us.
13:48The Bible says that with our mouths,
13:50we confess our faith.
13:53You know, there are a lot of Christians today
13:55who have joined the Secret Service.
13:56Have you noticed that?
13:58They're underground Christians.
14:00They're covert Christians.
14:02But the Bible says if we're going to make it
14:04through this wilderness,
14:05if we're going to get from Egypt to the Promised Land,
14:09if we're going to experience our quest for the best,
14:12we need to understand the importance
14:15of holding fast our confession,
14:18not being ashamed of who he is.
14:20Do you know that in the Roman Empire,
14:22when Christians were brought before the Roman tribunal,
14:26they were told either to confess Caesar or die?
14:32And many of them confessed Christ
14:34and that cost them their very life.
14:37Most of us have never been put in a spot like that,
14:40but we are in places quite often as believers
14:43where it's easy for us just to kind of shy away
14:46from who we are, kind of melt into the crowd,
14:49not be offensive or, here's one,
14:52be politically correct.
14:55And we don't confess Christ.
14:58Now, let me tell you, you confess Christ with your lips,
15:01but you also confess Christ with your life.
15:03It's not just what you say, it's what you do.
15:06And here's the thing that I think is so interesting.
15:11The writer of Hebrews is telling us to confess Christ,
15:14to hold fast our confession,
15:16not because it's simply a requirement,
15:19but in order that it might be beneficial to us in our walk.
15:22How many of you know that when you are outward by your faith,
15:25when you confess Jesus Christ openly,
15:27it gives you courage to face the challenges of the day
15:31because you have declared who you are.
15:33You've declared your allegiance to the high priest
15:36who is in heaven,
15:36and you're walking in fellowship with him,
15:38and somehow your walk is stronger,
15:40your steps are brighter,
15:41and you get through the wilderness
15:43a whole lot better than you do
15:45if you try to be a covert Christian.
15:49We have a heavenly high priest,
15:51and we have a human responsibility.
15:53Number three, we have a human high priest.
15:56Notice what it says in verse 15,
15:59for we do not have a high priest
16:01who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses.
16:08Our high priest in heaven,
16:10as I've already told you,
16:11who is he?
16:12He's Jesus Christ in his resurrection body,
16:17still in his humanity.
16:19And the Bible says this Jesus Christ,
16:21who is our heavenly high priest,
16:23is also our human high priest.
16:26And because of that,
16:27he can sympathize with our weaknesses.
16:33I remember when I was going through cancer some years ago,
16:36once in a while people would come up to me and say,
16:38oh, Pastor Jeremiah, we're praying for you,
16:40and we really know what you're going through.
16:43And my first question wanted to be,
16:44well, what kind of cancer did you have?
16:47Isn't it easy for us to go to people and say,
16:49we know what you're going through,
16:50and we don't have a clue?
16:52And usually that kind of encouragement
16:53doesn't do much for the person
16:55who's at the other end of it.
16:56Well, I want to tell you something.
16:57When you go to Jesus with whatever it is
16:59you've got going on in your heart,
17:00and you tell him what you're going through,
17:01he's already been there and done that,
17:03and he knows exactly what you're experiencing.
17:07And the Bible says he sympathizes with you.
17:09And the word sympathize is made up of two words,
17:11which means to suffer with.
17:15To suffer with.
17:17It means he doesn't just look upon our suffering
17:19from the outside and try to get a gauge on it.
17:22No, the Bible says he enters into our suffering
17:25and literally suffers with us
17:27no matter what it is we're experiencing.
17:30He sympathizes with us in our weaknesses.
17:35The Bible says he sympathizes with us
17:38when we are, say this with me,
17:40without strength.
17:43Without strength.
17:45And the Bible tells us that not only
17:48can he sympathize with us in our time of testing,
17:50but he can strengthen us in our time of temptation.
17:53Notice the end of verse 15.
17:55But he was in all points tempted as we are,
17:59yet without sin.
18:03Hebrews 2.18 puts it this way,
18:05For in that he himself has suffered being tempted,
18:08he is able to aid those who are also tempted.
18:13He's seen it all.
18:14He's felt it all.
18:16And he understands what's going on in your life and in mine.
18:19Say, Pastor Jeremiah,
18:20I'm under such temptation pressure right now.
18:24Well, the Bible says,
18:25There is no temptation taken you,
18:26but such as is common to man.
18:28But God is faithful,
18:30who will not suffer you to be tempted,
18:31but will with the temptation
18:33also make a way of escape
18:35that you may be able to overcome it.
18:38Listen, you have someone in heaven,
18:41not only who feels your suffering,
18:44but understands your temptation.
18:46In fact, it's interesting.
18:47In Hebrews 2.17,
18:49we are told that Jesus was in all things made like to his brethren.
18:54And in Hebrews chapter 4.15,
18:56we are told that he was tempted in all points.
19:00He was made in all things like us,
19:02and he was tempted in all points like us.
19:06And because of that,
19:07he knows what we experience.
19:10He was made like us
19:12so that he could minister to us.
19:16Now, notice we have a heavenly responsibility.
19:19Notice verse 16.
19:21Let us, therefore,
19:23come boldly to the throne of grace,
19:25that we may obtain mercy
19:27and find grace to help in the time of need.
19:31Now, the Bible says,
19:33because we have a human high priest
19:36who can identify with our infirmities,
19:39who understands our temptations,
19:41we have a heavenly responsibility.
19:43And what is that responsibility?
19:44Look what it says.
19:45Let us, therefore,
19:47come boldly to the throne of grace.
19:49Now, in this verse,
19:51let me, again,
19:52go back to the question method.
19:53This is kind of like a catechism.
19:55And let me ask these questions.
19:57This is about prayer.
19:59So, the first question is,
20:00how should we pray?
20:03Let us, therefore,
20:05come boldly to the throne of grace.
20:08You say, man, I've heard people do that.
20:10They just sort of come after God with,
20:13wait a minute.
20:14Boldly doesn't mean disrespect.
20:17Boldly doesn't mean get in God's face.
20:21Boldly literally means,
20:22in the text itself,
20:23it means come to God in prayer,
20:26saying it all.
20:28That's what the word means.
20:29Come saying it all.
20:31Putting it all on the table,
20:32leaving nothing out.
20:34Tell God everything there is to tell.
20:38Pray your prayers in technicolor.
20:41Pray your prayers in high definition.
20:43Pray your prayers saying it all.
20:46So, how should we pray?
20:48Let us come boldly.
20:50What should we pray?
20:52The Bible says,
20:53we should pray that we may obtain mercy and find grace.
20:57Very simply, that means mercy for the things we've already done
21:01and grace for the things we're involved in.
21:04How many of you know that there hardly is a day that goes by
21:07that we don't need God's mercy for something we did?
21:11You're looking at me like you don't understand what I'm saying.
21:15Every one of us have to throw ourselves on the mercy of God,
21:18don't we?
21:19Lord, I never meant for that to happen.
21:21I never meant for that to happen in my life.
21:23Please have mercy on me and forgive me.
21:25And he does.
21:26The Bible says,
21:27we come saying it all to the throne of grace
21:30and we ask for mercy for what we've done
21:33and grace for what's going on in our lives right now.
21:38How we should pray, what we should pray.
21:43And thirdly, and finally, why we should pray.
21:47The Bible says we should pray that we may obtain help
21:51in the time of need.
21:54And I'll tell you what,
21:55we're in a time of need right now.
21:57Are we not?
21:57As a nation, as families and individuals,
22:00there's never been a better time for this message
22:03than this time.
22:04The Bible says we come and we ask God for grace and mercy
22:09and then we ask him to help us in our time of need.
22:14Once again, a little word study.
22:16The word help here is an interesting word.
22:18It's only found one other place in the New Testament.
22:22And it is really an interesting picture of what this means.
22:27The word help is also found in Acts 27, 17.
22:31It says, when they had taken it on board,
22:33they used cables to undergird the ship.
22:37And the word undergird is the word help.
22:40Now watch this picture.
22:42The ship had so much cargo on it
22:45that it wasn't strong enough to get through the storm.
22:47So they undergirded it with cables.
22:51In the same way, when we come to God in need,
22:55he undergirds us with his strong, loving arms
22:58and makes it possible for our ship of state
23:01to get through the storm
23:02and not get blasted out of the water.
23:05How many of you know that's the kind of help we need?
23:07We need God to undergird us.
23:09We need him to come with his strength in our weakness
23:12and put his strong arms under us
23:14and help us get through the storm.
23:17We pray to him that we might find help
23:22in the time of need.
23:24I don't know what's going on in your life today,
23:27but I do know this, and let me say it again.
23:31I have, you have, a high priest in heaven
23:37seated on the throne of majesty at the right hand of God.
23:41He's offered up the sacrifice for your sin,
23:44and he's there in his body
23:47making intercession for you and me
23:50and experiencing with us everything we experience,
23:54sympathizing with us in our infirmities
23:58and identifying with us in our temptations.
24:02And he comes to us with this glorious invitation.
24:06My children, come before the throne of grace
24:11saying it all and ask there for mercy
24:16for the things in the past
24:18and grace for the things in the present
24:20and find there help for your needs
24:26so you can get through the storm.
24:29I've been saying this, and I say it again today.
24:32Listen carefully.
24:33I recommend him.
24:35I recommend him to you.
24:37I want you to know him.
24:39I want to be a priest today for God,
24:41standing between God and you
24:43and saying to you, God loves you,
24:45Christ died for you.
24:46If you will put your trust in him,
24:48you can go to heaven and be with God forever,
24:51and the only thing that's standing between you and heaven
24:54is your own unwillingness to repent of your sin
24:58and accept the sacrifice
24:59which Jesus has already provided for you.
25:02Will you receive him today?
25:04Will you come and be a Christian?
25:07Will you lay hold of your confession of faith
25:09and become today what God designed you to be?
25:13If you will, he has promised to come,
25:16live within your heart,
25:17and walk with you every step of the way
25:19from here all the way to the promised land.
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