Exhortation Station

Just a couple encouragements relating to Yahshua our High Priest:

Hebrews 4:14-16 — “Since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Yahshua the Son of Elohim, let us hold fast our confession. ¹⁵ For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. ¹⁶ Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” 

Another related passage is Hebrews 5:5-10 — “…Messiah did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest, but He who said to Him, “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You”; ⁶ just as He says also in another passage, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” ⁷ In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety. ⁸ Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. ⁹ And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation, ¹⁰ being designated by Elohim as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.”

What stands out about these passages to me is the fact that Yahshua Himself wrestled with the same things we wrestle with in our struggle against sin, yet He overcame.  Yahshua was sinless not because He wasn’t tempted, but because He was tempted and overcame through “the One able to save Him from death.”  It’s tempting for us to think, “well, of course Yahshua overcame — He was the Son of Yahweh — but I’m different.”  That’s just a lie of the enemy to make us think we’re weaker than we are.  Listen to John 14:12 — “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.”  If we who believe in Yahshua can do “greater works than these,” then we can also overcome just as Yahshua did!

I’ll conclude with 1 Peter 2:9 — “…you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.“

Remember Hebrews 4:15 — that our High Priest Yahshua was tempted “in all things,” yet without sin.  When we feel weak, are going through a trial, or wrestle with a temptation, let us remember that Yahshua has been in our same boat.  He knows — He sympathizes — He’s rooting for us.  Through it all, our High Priest came out victorious.  Let us also be victorious, and as a “royal priesthood,” let us “proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light!“