Hebrews 4:15 For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Oh Friends, Manana! Today it’s Espanol! (smile) Without the proper accents though, cause I can’t get them on the computer. Anyway, Today’s Bit is such a powerful and moving testimony of our faith, that no other supposed deity, has, can, or will ever replicate. I’m talking about the humanity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! Which of all the many gods that humans worship ever came to earth and walked among men in human flesh, or promises to return? None my people, none! That’s why our faith is so unique, so poignant, strong, ‘unbendable,’ unbreakable and provides the world’s only solid foundation upon which to build an earthly life. As Bruh Paul boldly declares: ‘For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.’ That’s very important to us believers with mortal needs and feelings, cause it means Jesus, our Advocate, our Be All and End All, the highest of all high priests, now sitting at the Father’s right hand, through His intercession on our behalf, can sympathize with our problems since He personally experienced the full gamut of human emotions and feelings when He walked this earth, two thousand years ago. What a momentous occasion my Friends! Now because of that earthly human experience, when we call upon Him, He is able to empathize with our human weakness and frailties, having also endured them at one stage in His eternal existence. Praise His Holy Name People! Isaiah describes His earthly ordeal thus: ‘He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.’ (Isa.53:3-5) Oh my people, what a horrible time we showed Jesus! He shouldn’t be sympathizing or empathizing with us, but we with Him, for very few of us will ever suffer the persecution, injustice and horrendous, death He suffered. Consequently, we are assured of one thing; when we call upon His Holy Name in our times of trouble, we know that He understands what we’re talking about, due to His personal experience, even including temptation; ‘but was in all points tempted like as we are.’ Yes Friends, Jesus suffered temptation like all of us do. As He said to His disciples at the Last Supper; ‘Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.’ (Luke 22:28) He was tempted, ‘yet without sin,’ since He was God in human form. According to the scholars, two words describe Christ’s temptation; ‘temptability and impeccability.’ The first means ‘to be appealed to,’ and in that sense Christ was tempted, but not with evil or wicked desires, for as God He could not be tempted with evil, or commit sin, due to His ‘impeccability,’ or sinless character. But though Jesus could not sin, didn’t mean He couldn’t be tempted, cause temptation can be real even without sin. We are constantly tempted but don’t sin unless we give into the temptation. As James declares: ‘Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.’ (James 1:13-14) Yes my people, Jesus experienced it all, except the evil desires. And temptation is the most difficult when we choose not to give in to it and sin, so you can imagine how hard it was for Jesus to handle the temptation, since He could not sin in His human form and had no option but to endure it completely. Wow! Imagine us enduring all temptation completely nuh. Impossible! Then too, as the scholars note, during Jesus’ most serious temptations, He did not rely on His attributes, His divinity, but rather on the WORD to resist Lucifer’s enticements. The first time, He rebuked him: ‘It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.’ (Mat.4:4) The second time: ‘It is written again, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.’ (Mat.4:7) And the final time: ‘Get thee hence Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.’ Tell Him Jesus! ‘Then the devil leaveth him, and behold angels came and ministered unto him.’ (Mat.4:10-11) Oh my Friends, that’s how we’re also supposed to behave. When the enemy tempts us with his lies and evil doings, rebuke him in the name of the Lord! Use the most powerful instrument ever designed; ‘THE WORD OF GOD! That will chase Lucifer back to his evil lair, then like Jesus, angels will come and minister to us. It’s not easy. But look at what Jesus did for us: ‘For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.’ (2 Cor.5:21) It’s precious little to ask, that we, in gratitude, at least try to resist temptation. Much LOVE!…all Jesus asks…is that we sincerely try…
Oh Friends, Manana! Today it’s Espanol! (smile) Without the proper accents though, cause I can’t get them on the computer. Anyway, Today’s Bit is such a powerful and moving testimony of our faith, that no other supposed deity, has, can, or will ever replicate. I’m talking about the humanity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! Which of all the many gods that humans worship ever came to earth and walked among men in human flesh, or promises to return? None my people, none! That’s why our faith is so unique, so poignant, strong, ‘unbendable,’ unbreakable and provides the world’s only solid foundation upon which to build an earthly life. As Bruh Paul boldly declares: ‘For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.’ That’s very important to us believers with mortal needs and feelings, cause it means Jesus, our Advocate, our Be All and End All, the highest of all high priests, now sitting at the Father’s right hand, through His intercession on our behalf, can sympathize with our problems since He personally experienced the full gamut of human emotions and feelings when He walked this earth, two thousand years ago. What a momentous occasion my Friends! Now because of that earthly human experience, when we call upon Him, He is able to empathize with our human weakness and frailties, having also endured them at one stage in His eternal existence. Praise His Holy Name People! Isaiah describes His earthly ordeal thus: ‘He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.’ (Isa.53:3-5) Oh my people, what a horrible time we showed Jesus! He shouldn’t be sympathizing or empathizing with us, but we with Him, for very few of us will ever suffer the persecution, injustice and horrendous, death He suffered. Consequently, we are assured of one thing; when we call upon His Holy Name in our times of trouble, we know that He understands what we’re talking about, due to His personal experience, even including temptation; ‘but was in all points tempted like as we are.’ Yes Friends, Jesus suffered temptation like all of us do. As He said to His disciples at the Last Supper; ‘Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.’ (Luke 22:28) He was tempted, ‘yet without sin,’ since He was God in human form. According to the scholars, two words describe Christ’s temptation; ‘temptability and impeccability.’ The first means ‘to be appealed to,’ and in that sense Christ was tempted, but not with evil or wicked desires, for as God He could not be tempted with evil, or commit sin, due to His ‘impeccability,’ or sinless character. But though Jesus could not sin, didn’t mean He couldn’t be tempted, cause temptation can be real even without sin. We are constantly tempted but don’t sin unless we give into the temptation. As James declares: ‘Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.’ (James 1:13-14) Yes my people, Jesus experienced it all, except the evil desires. And temptation is the most difficult when we choose not to give in to it and sin, so you can imagine how hard it was for Jesus to handle the temptation, since He could not sin in His human form and had no option but to endure it completely. Wow! Imagine us enduring all temptation completely nuh. Impossible! Then too, as the scholars note, during Jesus’ most serious temptations, He did not rely on His attributes, His divinity, but rather on the WORD to resist Lucifer’s enticements. The first time, He rebuked him: ‘It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.’ (Mat.4:4) The second time: ‘It is written again, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.’ (Mat.4:7) And the final time: ‘Get thee hence Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.’ Tell Him Jesus! ‘Then the devil leaveth him, and behold angels came and ministered unto him.’ (Mat.4:10-11) Oh my Friends, that’s how we’re also supposed to behave. When the enemy tempts us with his lies and evil doings, rebuke him in the name of the Lord! Use the most powerful instrument ever designed; ‘THE WORD OF GOD! That will chase Lucifer back to his evil lair, then like Jesus, angels will come and minister to us. It’s not easy. But look at what Jesus did for us: ‘For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.’ (2 Cor.5:21) It’s precious little to ask, that we, in gratitude, at least try to resist temptation. Much LOVE!…all Jesus asks…is that we sincerely try…
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