I Understand Your Troubles 🚸

Hebrews 5:1 (KJV) For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

“every high priest” Every high priest, what’s so important about that? Where they were taken from. Where? Among people just like themselves. These priests offered gifts and sacrifices for the sins of the people. 

Hebrews 5:2 (KJV) Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

These priests have compassion on those who have

committed sins of ignorance. They didn’t know it was wrong, in order to know it’s wrong you have to be taught that it is wrong. He or she is destitute of knowledge. In other words they are uninstructed or uninformed or untaught or unenlightened. Here’s the good news: God will not “despise their prayer.”

Psalms 102:17 (KJV) He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.  So we are without excuse. 

Romans 1:20 (KJV) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: But this earthly high priest had his on set of problems “for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.” The priest is a wonderful person, the pastor is a wonderful person but they have sin problems too. How can they help? Well one thing they are called by God therefore they can have compassion for they understand. The man that is saved from alcohol can understand the one who is wanting to get free themselves. Compassion. I was in a church service many years ago when a man walked up to the Pastor who was in the pulpit. Alcohol had wrecked this man’s life. As he stood there looking at the pastor with urine all over his pants, clothes torn and filthy with all the odors that come with that. A man who was seated about in the middle ways of the Church jumped to his feet and ran to where this man was standing. In compassion he put his arm around this man, had him sit down and with kind compassionate words talked with him. Why was this man so interested and so compassionate in what others might call a waste of time? The reason was simple: the man helping knew what it was like to let alcohol ruin your life for not many years ago he had the same problem. Proverbs 27:17 (KJV) Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.