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We're continuing in Hebrews and 
today will be in Chapter 4, 

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verses 14 through 5 verse 10. 
Therefore since we have a great 

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high priest who has passed 
through the heavens Jesus, the 

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son of God, let us hold fast to 
our confession. 

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For we do not have a high priest
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our weaknesses, but one who has 
been tempted in every way as we 

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are yet without sin. 
Therefore let us approach the 

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throne of grace with boldness so
that we may receive Mercy. 

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See and find Grace to help us in
time of need. 

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For every high priest taken from
among men is appointed in 

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matters pertaining to God for 
the people to offer both gifts 

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and sacrifices for sins. 
He isn't able to do, he is able 

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to deal gently with those who 
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since he also is closed with 
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must make an offering for his 
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people. 
No one takes this Honor on 

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himself instead a person is 
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Just as Aaron was in the same 
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to become high priest, but God 
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today. 
I have become your father, also 

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says, in another place you are a
priest forever. 

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According to the order of 
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life, he offered prayers and 
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tears, to the one who was able 
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And he was heard because of his 
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son, he learned obedience from 
what he suffered after he was 

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perfected. 
He became the source of Eternal 

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salvation for all who obey him. 
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high priest. 
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Melchizedek, this is the word of
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So recently, I feel like my life
has been a bit of a blur. 

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I don't know if you've ever been
there, I feel like all my days 

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are running together. 
Yes, it's the busyness of life 

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but probably more than that. 
This is just been a emotionally 

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taxing season. 
There's a lot of different 

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circumstances going on in and 
around my life to the point 

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often that I don't even know 
what I'm feeling or why I'm 

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feeling it. 
You know, if it's one or two 

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things in your life, you can 
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For me, it's been a lot. 
Of different things. 

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And so, it's just been 
interesting and I know that I'm 

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not alone in that, even here in 
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I know that there have been some
heavy situations that have taken

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place, and when you're in one of
those Seasons or experiencing 

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some of those overwhelming 
emotions, there's not much 

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better than being in the 
presence of someone who just 

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gets it. 
Like, maybe they've walked 

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through the same thing, the 
exact same circumstance, so you 

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don't have to try to explain How
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They just understand. 
Maybe they're just an empathetic

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person, right? 
Who you feel? 

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They know you and you've known 
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And so you feel like you can 
trust them with your full range 

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of emotions. 
You don't have to just put the 

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smile on and continue forward 
the other night on Wednesday. 

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I think it was on my way into 
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Something I was doing over there
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And I was pretty emotionally 
overwhelmed and honestly, I just

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needed someone to talk to and 
the spirit reminded me that I 

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Friend and a mentor who knows me
extremely well and that he was 

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going to be dropping his kids 
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I was going to and so I just 
text him I was like hey would 

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you wait up on me? 
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but I can turn around. 
I was like, would you please do 

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that? 
And I texted him and just said, 

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hey, hang out here and so I met 
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walked up to him and he's like, 
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And I think he was a little I 
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bit because I'd been bawling. 
My eyes are red and I just told 

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him, I said Jamie, I just need a
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just cried for a minute. 
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for a second. 
I briefly shared some high level

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details of what I was going 
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I told him, I said, I need to 
talk to someone. 

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I didn't have to give a 
backstory, I didn't have to try 

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to help you catch you up with, 
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I could just dump it on you and 
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Okay. 
I just needed someone to 

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sympathize with where I was and 
that is what he did for me in 

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that moment. 
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some people like that in your 
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If not that God would provide 
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any other human, there is one 
who can empathize and sympathize

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with us in regard to any 
situation that we are facing 

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either day or night from 
suffering, Temptations to death 

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to loneliness to pain, fear 
grief, our passage today that 

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you just heard red serves as a 
witness. to Jesus, who is the 

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great and sympathetic high 
priest, who sees you, where you 

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are at and who sympathizes with 
you and who stands as the source

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of your salvation, from all the 
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offers So good morning again, 
church. 

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As I said earlier, in my name is
Joel. 

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I have the privilege of serving 
as the pastor for preaching and 

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oversight here alongside Kevin, 
our pastor for shepherding. 

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And as always, I say this every 
week I'm so grateful to look out

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and see your faces this morning.
But but especially on this 

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Bittersweet day. 
As you heard read a moment ago, 

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we're continuing in our sermon 
series through the book of 

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Hebrews today, we're looking at 
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you want to follow along will So
have versus on the screen even 

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though I'm probably not 
referencing many because I'm 

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preaching a shorter sermon than 
normal, so I'll be alluding to 

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them, but not reading each of 
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So those of you that have been 
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Now, I'm going to quiz you. 
The theme of Hebrews is what All

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right, we'll go with that. 
Jesus is better, right? 

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And we say better than what and 
we say, everything Jesus is 

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greater and more Supreme period 
and the preacher of Hebrews is 

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exploring this concept. 
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deeper into one of the main 
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He wants to explore and that is 
that Jesus is the true and 

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better high priest who mediates 
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people. 
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Now he's kind of alluded to it 
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to unpack it into greater detail
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So for sake of time we're not 
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today either but we are going to
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because to understand not only 
the whole Bible, but the book of

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Hebrews, we need to understand 
the old Covenant sacrificial 

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system that the Israelites 
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And one of the main roles within
that system was the role of high

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priest. 
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background on priest that the 
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already had in their minds. 
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priesthood was established in 
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When God gives the Covenant law 
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talked about, he gives them the 
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the nation of Israel. 
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Humanity had already proven 
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corrupt and so God provides a 
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among his people? 
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old Covenant system and the 
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thing at the center of, that was
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And so what happened is God 
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Aaron, who is Moses? 
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Is this prophet? 
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priests and serve as the first 
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And he says that through his 
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levitical people that the 
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And so these high, We're set up 
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sacrifices before God, on behalf
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people so that they could have 
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God is Holy and set apart and 
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atoned for. 
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was angry, and if they came into
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destroyed. 
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magnificent that when we come 
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destroyed. 
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system, God would be able to 
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So you had this high priest and 
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But not only that, a lot of 
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nation of Israel was called a 
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nation of Israel and the nation 
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to be to represent. 
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I'm going to make you a kingdom 
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nation's. 
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Israel for Israel. 
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light to the world and bring all
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and reign of God, but the 
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Do they fell. 
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like Ezekiel and other prophets.
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I mean, the prophets are having 
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Not only that the entire nation 
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end up back in Exile, we've 
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And so throughout the threat of 
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where is the faithful high 
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Who's going to lead us properly?
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one who would Faithfully fulfill
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mediate between God and the 
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for all for the sins of the 
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finally and forever be in the 
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just in a temple or around it or
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But actually the Blazing face of
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This concept of the high priest 
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have been extremely familiar for
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preacher sermon which we believe
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So the preacher isn't going to 
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mentions a few keywords as I've 
heard him called hyperlinks that

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take us back to the hill old 
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Christ and shows us how 
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see the Covenant later. 
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East is fulfilled in Christ 
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just this text we're not going 
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But basically the preacher is 
unlike flooding us with a just 

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ton of theologically Rich truths
And they're all filled with hope

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great hope about the reality of 
Jesus, as our great high priest.

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If you remember last week, we 
ended kind of one of the warning

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passages and it ended with the 
truth that before God, all of 

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our hearts, the intentions, 
everything, our thoughts, it's 

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all exposed and naked before 
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little bit of a scary thought, 
Because if we're honest were all

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in need of a high priest, but 
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Jesus becomes for us and it's 
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Clear? 
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exposed, when the thoughts and 
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And literally what he says is, 
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everything is exposed and you 
must give an account in chapter 

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4 verse 14. 
He says, therefore since we have

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a great high priest, who has 
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Jesus, the son of God, let us 
hold fast to our confession. 

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Let us approach the throne of 
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The answer is to run to Jesus, 
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We are told in our text, that 
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Meaning he is the Eternal son 
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privileges. 
He did not have to become flesh 

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and become our true high priest.
But he did, we're told that this

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son was appointed to be the high
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Just like Aaron. 
He didn't choose this, but even 

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better because he says that 
Jesus doesn't come from the 

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Earthly line of Aaron, where 
priests would live and die and 

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the new one would rise up and 
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It was this cycle where there 
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but he's from the Eternal line 
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It's forever don't get Mackenzie
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Do that them trip you up its 
this mysterious figure. 

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It's meant to be a little 
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Okay, we're going to see him 
more in Hebrews. 

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I promise we're going to come 
back to it, so set it to the 

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side. 
But for right now, the point is 

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the eternity of Melchizedek it's
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This is not a high priest where 
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He lives forever. 
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for all and intercedes for us 
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tempted in every way as you are 
all the ways and temptations, we

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Face Temptations to sin. 
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We saw that a few weeks ago, but
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does become flesh. 
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priest. 
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sin. 
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Priestly, ambassador of God and 
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perfectly. 
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like, look to the face of Jesus.
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other human. 
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of suffering. 
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the cross and 5:8. 
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obedience, which doesn't mean 
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What this means is that in his 
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was like to learn how to trust 
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wasn't a mechanical thing. 
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Wasn't this mechanical thing? 
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You know what it tells us in 
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his Earthly life? 
Jesus offered prayers and 

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Do we think of Jesus that way? 
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Like, I've been there that was, 
that was me this week, like 

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walking around in the back side 
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Hoping, no one could hear me, 
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I don't even know what I'm 
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your help. 
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happy. 
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I don't even know. 
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emotionless person, we've missed
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Jesus prayed all throughout his 
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all throughout where he was 
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his father. 
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When he prayed, not my will, But
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Unlike Adam who in a garden 
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Jesus, even though in his 
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Gethsemane, he begs for another 
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I don't like this. 
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I'm be done. 
I Surrender. 

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He remains faithful and because 
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sacrifice Earthly. 
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animals constantly on behalf of 
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people. 
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as he's called to do. 
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through the heavens, which means
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of God, not the Earthly high 
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holy Place once a year and he 
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rules and rituals and cleanse 
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this place once a year. 
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presence of God, not in a 
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the very throne room where God 
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dies and he says it is finished 
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It was forbidden, you would die.
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finished, the veil is ripped 
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come in and look, And not only 
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It is no longer contained. 
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accessible once a year through 
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It is now released to All 
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accessible through the blood of 
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And by the power of the spirit, 
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We're told that our text said he
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appeals to be freed from death. 
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Easter morning. 
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ignored him for three days, but 
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grave and he rises again to 
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glorified. 
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And we're told in Romans that 
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right now, no matter where 
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interceding for you at the right
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The spirit is praying for you 
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be uttered. 
When you don't even know what to

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say. 
He gets it and he is praying the

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perfect prayer you need. 
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we're told he's through his 
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perfected. 
This word in the Greek is the 

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same root word is, when he said 
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just means the work is completed
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salvation, for all who obey the 
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What does the commander to obey?
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Simple? 
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In the work of Christ, it's 
trust in that his life, death 

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burial and Resurrection receive 
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on your behalf and when that 
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do it in our own strength, in 
our own works and we surrender 

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to him, we are welcomed into the
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rejoicing. 
This flood of truth, about Jesus

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is our great high priest and and
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us, if all these things are 
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I want exhort you to do. 
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First of all, in verse 14 of 
chapter 4, he tells you hold 

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fast to your confession, don't 
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Gospel. 
Don't run to trying to figure it

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out in your own strength. 
Hang on. 

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It's all we have, we are not the
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tells us to approach the throne 
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So we may receive mercy and find
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not land how it should. 
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the terms of the old Covenant, 
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would have been super familiar 
with no one could ever 

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approached the most holy place, 
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of God let alone with boldness. 
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I mean there were rules because 
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you to die. 
So let me give you these, these 

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rules and regulations. 
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enter the most. 
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That was once a year. 
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who you are, no matter your 
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your income level, no matter 
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your socioeconomic status 
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Whether it was the wrong side of
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It doesn't matter. 
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may I say commanded to approach 
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with boldness? 
That's crazy. 

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Like, are you sure you really 
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You really don't know what I've 
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This is radical. 
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No matter who you are, what 
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or the millionth Rhonda Jesus 
and his open arms and this is 

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offered to you. 
Because Christ is your high 

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priest who intercedes for you 
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And I love this because the same
prayers that he prayed while he 

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was living in his flesh. 
He is now praying for you along 

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with the spirit when you're 
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And you can't even put words to 
the Ian's you're feeling Jesus 

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gets it. 
I can't say I understand what 

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you're going through. 
There's a lot of situations 

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where I can't say hey I've been 
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But I know one who has, I know 
one who sees you. 

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And here's you and sympathizes 
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There is no one who gets you. 
Like Jesus. 

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No one Earthly brothers and 
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which we are, they can sit with 
you and weep with you and they 

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should. 
I hope we have tangible 

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representations of that, but no 
one ever cares for you, like, 

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Jesus. 
And here's the beauty, not only 

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does he sympathize with you 
because people can sympathize 

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with you and I think maybe a 
better word is empathy empathy 

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for our context or we're at 
because it's not just, oh, bless

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his heart. 
I feel. 

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Sorry for him like his sympathy 
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That moves him to action. 
He can actually save you. 

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He will rescue you when you call
out to him, your prayers will be

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answered. 
Now, maybe not in the time of 

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manner, you'd pick there might 
be suffering in your own garden.

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Of grief and surrender where 
you're wrestling with the father

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and saying, I don't like this. 
It is there any other way? 

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Like I don't like this path 
forward. 

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I don't like what you're taking 
me through. 

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Can we go around it? 
Can we wrestle and we grown and 

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we cry. 
And then we say, I trust you, I 

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don't understand it. 
I don't get it but not my will. 

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But yours be done and here's 
what I can promise you. 

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On the authority of scripture, 
there is resurrection hope for 

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the one who trusts in the work 
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Again, it might not be in the 
here and now but he will redeem 

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every bit of grief and pain and 
as you trust him you become 

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changed. 
You are transformed into a new 

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people when this is what Jesus 
is create and we surrender, you 

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know what were called and first 
Peter our Royal Nation. 

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God's people a kingdom of 
priests you will become Little 

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Priest to the world. 
You become to the world. 

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That Jesus was to you to the 
father and you're just bringing 

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people into the great high 
priest. 

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We're told were a kingdom of 
priests. 

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East and you know what it says, 
why does this so that you may 

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proclaim the excellencies, The 
Marvelous Glory of him, who 

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brought you out of Darkness into
light We sympathize with others 

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like Christ sympathizes with us.
That's why we go to the 

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nation's, we want to see more 
Glory. 

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We go because Jesus came to us. 
We sinned because the father 

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sent those closest to him, his 
own son to rescue us. 

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And we can't do this in our own 
strength. 

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It is all through Christ alone, 
all of this is made possible, 

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because Jesus is the true and 
better high priest, who sees us 

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who sympathizes with us and who 
saves us.