You and I have been having some good
heart-to-heart talks regarding the person of
God, the person of Jesus Christ, the very
Son of the living God, and the person
of the Holy Spirit.
And I pray that these little heart-to
-heart talks will have been of real benefit
to you because it does make all the
difference in the world as to whether or
not God is a person, whether Jesus is
absolutely all that He said that He was,
deity and divinity.
And it makes all the difference in the
world as to whether or not the Holy
Spirit is a person.
And it has been my desire to bring
you face-to-face with a person so
that you might have fellowship with that person.
One cannot have fellowship with a spirit.
If God is just spirit, then how in
the world can you and I have fellowship
with just a spirit?
If the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, is
just a spirit, how in the world can
we have fellowship with just...
And you and I must come face-to
-face with a person so that we might
have fellowship with that person.
And as I told you in our last
heart-to-heart talk, a person has intellect.
A person has emotion.
A person has will.
With the intellect, a person can know.
A person can think and understand.
With the emotional capacity, a person can feel.
Without the emotional capacity, one cannot love.
With the will, a person can decide.
A person can act.
And I left you in our last heart
-to-heart talk proving to you from the
Word of God that God is a person.
And as a person, He is our Heavenly
Father planning for us, acting in our defense,
making decisions for us if we're yielded unto
Him, loving us, understanding us.
Oh, it's so wonderful to have that security
to know that there's a Heavenly Father and
we're personal to Him and our needs are
individual and are personal to Him.
All right.
Now we come face-to-face with the
person of Jesus.
Oh, this is so wonderful.
Do you want to know something?
You and I do not have to be
defeated on a single score.
Now, it's one thing to make that remark.
And in making that remark, I do not
tell you these things to make you feel
good.
These things are based upon the Word of
God and God's Word is truth.
Do you want to know why not one
of us would ever go down in defeat?
It's because we have this very moment in
the person of Jesus Christ, our great High
Priest, seated at the right hand of God
the Father.
Whether you're Catholic, whether you're Protestant, regardless of
your creed or your race or your color,
if you have been born again, we may
differ on some of our theology, if you
have been born again, your sin's covered with
the blood and you are a member of
the Body of Christ, you have a great
High Priest.
I have a great High Priest.
Oh, that is so comforting.
Not only comforting, I have victory.
I do not have to yield to defeat.
I can stand face to face with the
enemy of my soul and know that I
have a great High Priest in the person
of Jesus Christ, who is seated at the
right hand of God the Father, ever living
to make intercession for me.
I give you the Word.
And remember again, the Word is truth.
And your own little pet theology will not
change truth.
Argument will never change truth.
Truth remains.
And God's Word is truth.
So read with me from the fourth chapter
of Hebrews.
This I like, the fourteenth verse.
Seeing then that we have a great High
Priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus,
the Son of God, let us hold fast
our profession.
For we have not an High Priest which
cannot be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities, but was in all points gifted like
as we are, yet without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne
of grace that we may obtain mercy and
find grace to help in time of need.
I've never owned a Bible, but what this
portion of the Word of God was the
very first thing that I underlined in red.
Oh, let's pause a minute and consider it.
It makes all the difference in the world
what you believe regarding Jesus Christ.
You may say He was as near perfect
as any man who ever walked.
You may say He was an ideal example
so far as man is concerned.
But it takes one who is more than
a perfect example, one who is more than
just man, to take the position of great
High Priest.
If Jesus were only man, then any good
man could take the position of great High
Priest.
Only one could take that position of great
High Priest.
The very Son of the Living God.
Just one.
Absolute Deity and Divinity.
And that's the reason you see that Jesus
said, it is necessary, it is expedient for
you that I go away.
I have to leave you.
Because when I have gone, I will send
the Holy Spirit.
And He'll be your great Strengthener.
He'll come.
Because I have to assume the position of
great High Priest.
Seeing then that we have a great High
Priest that is passed into the heaven.
Jesus, the Son of God.
Not Jesus, as a beautiful example.
But Jesus, the Son of God.
Let us hold fast our profession.
For we have not a great High Priest
which cannot be touched with the feeling of
our infirmities.
Therefore, we see that Jesus is a person
with emotion.
He's touched with the feeling of our infirmity.
He's more than Spirit.
Because only a person with a definite personality
can have the capacity of emotion.
He's touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
Was in all points tempted like as we
are, yet without sin.
Now, that's vitally important that you understand this
personal Word of God.
Because, you see, you cannot understand the suffering
of another unless you have suffered.
You cannot comfort another unless you have had
a Gethsemane.
If you have never had the death of
a loved one in your life, if you
have never stood before an open grave, and
one who was practically flesh of your flesh
passed from this life, if you have never
had your heart broken, then you cannot be
touched with the sorrow of another.
You cannot.
One who has never suffered cannot comfort another.
Do you understand what I'm trying to say?
God could not be a righteous God, God
the Father I'm talking about, because God was
never tempted.
Never.
And you say, Kathy Kuhn, you're getting into
deep theology.
I know.
There are three persons, God the Father, Jesus
Christ the Son, the Holy Spirit.
But remember, Jesus Christ was not God the
Father.
Neither was God the Father the Holy Spirit.
Three definite personalities, separate and apart from the
other, yet never working separate and apart from
the other, but each working in conjunction with
the other.
It was Jesus who came to this world.
The Word was made flesh and dwelt among
us, becoming as much man as though he
were not God.
And of course, in the same likeness, as
much God as though he were not man.
But, taking upon himself flesh and dwelling among
us, he could have yielded to temptation.
You've heard me say it over and over
again, that Jesus could have yielded to the
temptation of the evil one, when he was
tempted of the devil.
He could have yielded to those temptations.
Otherwise those temptations would have been farce.
But yet he did not yield to those
temptations.
The Scripture here says, he was tempted in
all points, like as we are, yet without
sin.
He did not yield to temptation.
Therefore, the Scripture says, that he will be
our judge.
God the Father will not be our judge.
Because you see, he has never had the
feelings that Jesus has had.
And when Jesus becomes our great judge, he
can judge righteously, because he too has faced
the same temptations that we have faced.
He knows exactly what it's like.
And he can judge righteously.
Understand?
I pray the Holy Spirit to make this
rule of the heart.
Now remember, as long as we are in
this old body of flesh, as long as
this is still corruption, the enemy of our
soul will tempt us.
I would lie to you, if I were
to tell you this moment, that I have
reached such a spiritual plane where I'm never
tempted.
And when someone comes to you and tells
you that they have reached such a spiritual
plane, that they cannot be tempted.
Oh, I get scared to death of people
like that.
Because they are only deceiving themselves.
Are they lying?
Not quite sure which, you know.
Kind of like that.
Because as long as we're still in this
body of flesh, and as long as the
enemy of our soul is still here on
earth, we will be tempted.
And the more that you do for God,
and the greater your consecration, the greater will
be the temptation.
But to knock one of us needs yield
to that temptation.
And temptation itself is not a sin.
And do you want to know why you
do not have to yield to any temptation?
And why you need not go down and
defeat him a single scorer?
Because the scripture says, we have a great
high priest who ever liveth to make intercession
for you and for me.
Oh, doesn't that do something to you?
Isn't that thrilling?
Don't stop there now.
Keep right on going.
Please do something for me.
Mark these three verses in your Bible.
The three verses that I'm giving to you.
It's the fourth chapter of Hebrews.
The 14th, 15th, and 16th verses.
Don't stop there.
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne
of grace, that we may obtain mercy and
find grace to help in time of need.
Yes.
This very moment, I don't care what you
may be experiencing.
I don't care how weak a Christian you
may be.
I don't care what the circumstances are under
which you have to live.
How big the temptation.
Regardless, there's no exception whatsoever.
Jesus makes no exception.
The thing remains is, how much do you
want to overcome that temptation?
How much do you really want to live
a victorious Christian life?
How sincere are you about the whole thing?
It's left with you.
On the other side, every provision has been
made for your success as a Christian.
Every provision has been made for your victory
over that temptation.
Provision has been made for a consistent, daily,
Christian life of victory.
You were not born for failure.
You were not made for failure.
It was never ordained that any one of
his children should live this life here on
earth as a failure.
Depressed.
You and I were made to be heirs
of God and joint heirs with Christ Jesus.
Let us therefore come boldly.
You don't have to be timid about this
thing.
You don't have to make apologies for coming
into his presence.
You don't have to just timidly make an
excuse for coming to his throne.
Let us therefore come boldly.
Square your shoulders.
Remember to whom you belong.
This is a part of your inheritance.
Come unto the throne of grace.
Something?
The throne of grace.
Grace that is greater than our sins.
Grace that is greater than all of our
shortcomings, all of our weaknesses, all of our
failures.
The throne of grace is open to you
and open to me that we may obtain
mercy.
Mercy.
Whose mercy?
His mercy.
The mercy of God.
Can you think of anything greater than the
mercy of God?
And find grace to help in time of
need.
All you have to do is to come,
confess your need, mercy is waiting, the grace
is there, the great high priest who ever
liveth to make intercession for you, and through
him the Father forgives.
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