Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome to Truth for the Journey from Clifford Baptist Church, 635 Flescheslobel Road in Amherst. Today's scripture is Hebrews, chapter 2, verse 17. And the sermon is entitled Beholding Jesus Our High Priest, delivered today by Associate Pastor Nathan Williams.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Wherever you are in life, we have many different roles. And typically the busier someone is, the more hands they have and everything, the more roles they take on.
And tonight I want to talk about Christ.
And the thing about Jesus Christ is he is our God and He is infinite.
And his work is so great that the amount of hats he wears is beyond being numbered.
But I want us to focus on one thing. In my limited mind, I can only focus on one thing at a time or else I start to get lost.
So tonight my hope is for us to center on one hat that Jesus wears.
One title or office or role or function Jesus has.
That I think is one of the most beautiful pictures of who our Lord is.
The Bible refers to Jesus as many things. Jesus is a prophet who proclaims the word of the Lord. He is the incarnate word of God, of the Lord, and he calls us to repentance, shows us the truth.
But Jesus is also called king, the King of kings. He is the God and the creator of all things. He's over everything and he deserves our allegiance and he deserves our obedience.
But today I want to look at a third title role he has, and that is of Priest Jesus as our high high priests.
I believe it's one of the most beautiful pictures of who Jesus is. And something interesting is Jesus can be a prophet even to those who don't believe in him.
Jesus can be a king even over those subjects that reject him and don't obey him and he judges.
But the thing about being high priest, Jesus is high priest for the people who believe in him.
And I just think that's fascinating that as believers we have a special relationship with God through Jesus as our high priest. And today I just want us to behold him, look at him, and I will probably do an insufficient job. But my prayer has been that we will see Jesus in his glory and that that will change us as a people.
Looking at Jesus as our priest, I don't know what comes into your mind when you think about priests.
At least for me, it seems to be an old timey word. We don't walk down the street and find a priest. Maybe if you go to a Catholic church, they have priests.
But when I think about priests, I think about old temple practices in the Old Testament or if you watch Some sketchy movies. There's these pagan priests that have weird rituals and do things and these holy men per se.
But today I just want to simplify it. And this is not verified by the Webster dictionary or people use ChatGPT now, not the Webster dictionary. But I want us to see what the function of a priest is and how Jesus fulfills it in thinking and preparing. I want us to look specifically that a priest is one who is set apart to represent the holy God to an unholy people and a man representing an unholy people to a fearfully holy God.
So a priest is representing a holy God to an unholy people.
And then flip of that is he's representing an unholy people to that holy God.
Because something God definitely is, is holy. He's set apart. He's wholly other.
We in our own nature cannot relate with him.
But when God created the world, his desire and his love for us was for us to be in relationship with him.
And that's not just a term we use at church because it sounds nice. Do you want a relationship with God? No. That is why we were made is to be in full thriving relationship with our Creator. And that's what it means to have a full and thriving life is to be in right relationship with God, in right relationship with others. And I think that's a big part of what it means to be made in the image of God.
And this idea of priests is everywhere in the Bible.
And before we jump into our text in Hebrews, I just want to do and fly over 30,000ft of where this idea of priest, a middleman that ensures that an imperfect people can walk in right relationship with a perfect God.
And I believe that in a way it starts with Adam in the Garden of Eden.
So you have the holy God walking in the garden with Adam. He's with Adam. He's in relationship with Adam. And he tells Adam, hey, keep and cultivate the ground, have dominion and be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. I think Adam was to represent God to the whole world.
But what happens in Genesis 3, Adam rebels and becomes unholy and loses that closeness with God that he had before he fell.
And from then on, humanity has a severed relationship with the holy God.
But something beautiful about our God is that he pursues the rebellious man and he makes a way for man to have relationship with him even when we don't deserve it.
And you see, priests begin to pop out throughout the Old Testament and it's foreign to us. We're not Used to it. In our culture we are not used to having priests. But this image of a middleman that constantly is helping people be in right relationship with God is scattered and pointing all through the Old Testament.
One of the first ones that show up is in Genesis 14. You don't have to flip there. I'm going to be jumping around with this guy called Melchizedek, who's called God of the priest of the Most High, who's appointed by God to bless Abraham and then receives an offering for God from Abraham. He's a middleman.
Some people think that this is a priest appointed by God. Some people think it's a pre incarnate Christ. There's many ideas about who he is, but he is a priest who is a middleman for God with Abram a sinful man, and with Abram to God.
And it really picks up in Exodus where God calls his people, says, I'm going to bring you into the promised land.
They come to Mount Sinai in Exodus 19, and there's thunder, there's lightning. The holiness of God is on the mountain. Even if animals touch it, they die.
And the people were terrified of the holiness of God.
And God makes a covenant with these people founded on his everlasting love and his faithfulness to his people.
And he makes a way for them to be near his presence, to have the benefit of relationship with him without perishing before Him.
And the Mosaic covenant is formed and that is the agreement before God and his people on how they can walk before Him. And they create a tabernacle where God will dwell.
And then there's a priesthood established to mediate between God and the unholy people. There's rules they have to follow to be holy.
If they mess up and they sin, sacrifices have to be made for their sins to be covered, to be able to continue to be in relationship with God. And these priests had to be anointed and set apart for this task.
No one, it's not anyone can walk up and say, I'm going to be a priest today. It's those God has set apart and given the task.
In Leviticus 16, one of the most beautiful parts of the Jewish people's faith is the Day of Atonement, where the priest would lay his hands on a sacrifice and the sins of the people would pass on to the sacrifice and he would atone for their sin.
So all the people's sins could be atoned for.
And this continues. The temple's made, the priesthood continues until the people rebelled against God. The temple's Destroyed.
And there's One of the saddest passages of scripture, I think is in the end of 2 Chronicles where God talks about this is where he was dwelling.
But now, because of the rebellion of the people, there's no remedy to stay with them. The temple's destroyed.
But then God comes back in Ezra and they recreate the temple. And then when Jesus comes on the scene, there's a new temple and the priesthood's continuing.
But at the end of Jesus ministry, in Matthew chapter 23, he looks out at the temple and said that the temple has now become desolate.
And he's sorrowful over this.
The temple where God's presence is supposed to be is now desolate. Well, how in the world is where God's dwelling and where a priesthood's established to make sure people are in right relationship with him? How can that become desolate? It's the fountainhead of life dwelling there. But I think that means that in a way, God's presence had left.
And then Jesus goes on to die and then to rise again. So the God of the universe in the flesh dies and rises again right after the temple became desolate. So I think that's significant.
What does Jesus do? What does Jesus fulfill? What is Jesus doing to where God can still be in relationship with his people through Christ?
It's because Jesus becomes the fulfillment of the priesthood, fulfillment of the law, and the fulfillment of the temple to where now we, his people, believers in Christ, can be in right relationship with God.
So I want to look at Hebrews chapter two, and there's one verse in Hebrews chapter two that I believe lays plainly how Jesus serves as our high priest.
That the foreign idea of serving the middleman who makes sure that we can be in right relationship with God. Because if we're not in right relationship with God, we cannot have true life.
So let's look at Hebrews chapter 2, verse 17.
Hebrews 2, 17.
God's word says, therefore he referring to Jesus, had to be made like his brothers in every respect so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God to make propitiation for the sins the people.
Let's pray together. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your word.
I thank you. While your word has so much information for us that can become overwhelming, you also clearly present to us how Jesus has fulfilled the old covenant, has fulfilled the priesthood by being our high priest.
So, God, I pray that as I inadequately explain and teach and walk through this, that you will make yourself known to us that you Our high priest will intercede for us. You, our high priest, will come near to us and you will be the middleman, not me, between each of these people in this room and our Holy Father.
Pray that you'll sanctify us in your truth.
Your word is truth. In Jesus name.
Amen.
So the point of tonight that you've already gotten is Jesus is our high priest.
That's who Jesus is for us as believers. And in this one verse we see Jesus serves as our high priest through his status, through his service and through his sacrifice.
Jesus serves as our high priest through his status, status, through his service and through his sacrifice.
In the first part of this verse, we see, therefore he talking about Jesus the Christ.
He, Jesus, God himself in the flesh, had to become and made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest.
It's interesting. Jesus had to become a man to be our high priest. Because what is a high priest? It's the middleman.
Someone who gets both sides and can represent a holy God in their holiness, but also can represent and understand humanity to a holy God.
So when Jesus becomes man, he is God, representing himself in his status as God.
He is able to perfectly represent God to us.
Whereas if you look back to Aaron in the Levitical priesthood, one of the big blemishes for Aaron is what does he do right after he gets hired for the job? He creates an idol for the people and they worship a false God. Well, that's not that good of a priest if a priest is not representing who God is, actually creating a false God and leading people astray.
But we see Jesus is better than that because Jesus is God himself showing up on the scene, making his himself known.
Aaron had to be consecrated, set apart, and made in a way holy for his service.
Jesus was already holy, making God known so he can represent God to man.
And I love a few verses before, in verse 14, it unpacks us a little bit more. It says, since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, since the children of God share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things.
And through that he was able to accomplish his work as priest.
And I think of it like a lifeguard.
If a lifeguard is supposed to be helping people in the water, the middleman between life and death or life and the person drowning, they can't just say, well, I hope that person eventually comes above the water.
They see bubbles coming up and some movement through the waves. Now what do they do? A good lifeguard gets in the water to rescue the person that is drowning. In the same way, Jesus, as our merciful and faithful high priest, did not count equality with God with something to be grasped, but emptied himself, took on the form of a servant, even to the point of death, becoming like you and me, so he could represent God and his fullness to us.
And that brings me great comfort. If we have this type of high priest that is holy in God himself, that means anything he does has the stamp of approval of God.
It's not a third party that comes along trying to figure things out.
Who may be able to speak on behalf of God may be misinterpreting. No, it's God himself.
So in my walk, in my following of trying to be in right relationship with God, I have a comfort knowing that what my high priest says truly is representing who God is.
But a priest is the middleman.
So while in his status as God, he's able to represent God to us. Jesus is also 100% man, so he can represent us to God.
He's the perfect middleman, 100% God, 100% man.
And while that is a complicated thing that might be hard to understand, it's the truth of God's word that Jesus is 100% man and can represent us before God.
I don't know if you've ever been in a situation where there's a power dynamic and it's thrown off. You don't have as much influence, you don't have as much sway as someone else, and you might find a representative to help you.
Maybe it's an elected official, maybe it's someone you hire.
Maybe it's someone who is a professional and certified in the field.
And your hope is getting a representative to help you and plead your case is that they will actually represent what you want.
But often to our dismay, a representative that you send on your behalf will end up advocating their own agenda and what they actually want.
And you sit back going, well, that doesn't help me at all.
But the beauty of Christ being our high priest is he became man and lived a human life.
The pains and the discomforts we feel, he's felt the feeling of concern or uncertainty. He has felt the temptation that can weigh on us. He has been tempted.
And many think because he is perfect and he is holy and he is God. He has experienced temptation even greater than we have because we give into it.
So what better representative to plead the human cause than Jesus, our high priest?
And I love is when we see what Jesus does in John 17, we see Jesus taking time to pray.
At the beginning of John 17, Jesus is talking to God. But then he doesn't just stay talking to God about himself. He moves on to talking about his disciples. And then the beautiful thing about it, he is even mindful of you and me.
In the Gospel of John, in verse 20, he says he doesn't just ask for these only, but those who believe in me through their word.
He goes on to pray for us, advocating for us, interceding for us.
And I love some of the things we see Jesus says in Luke when he's hanging on the cross.
He advocates for the people before him who are being tempted and giving in to temptation to kill him and to do evil. He said, father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
It's the heart of our priest advocating for man to God.
And that means the truth of Romans 8:31 is if God is for us, who can be against us?
If Jesus is our high priest representing us before God Almighty, we can know our case is being pleaded.
And because he is God and he is the Son that God delights in, we know that his case is going to be honored for us.
That gives us a confidence that Jesus isn't just a hope in the sense of a blind, uncertain hope, but he is a hope that does not put us to shame because it is certain and will not let us down. And that brings me a comfort.
Because we have those seasons where we may be looking more at our sin and our mistakes or the stressors of our life. And we may begin to think, well, how am. How in the world can God use me or care about me or have anything to do with me? Even in those moments when we're in our muck and mire, Christ is representing us before our Father and pleading our cause, which gives me a comfort.
And even when I can't find any strength in myself, I can trust in Christ.
And that gives me a confidence in my ability to be holy before God. Because Jesus is praying for me. Jesus is there to help me and show me who God really is.
So as I look at him and learn more about him, see the very heart of God in Christ, my motivation for doing right is no longer, well, I need to prove myself or I really hope that I can make up for yesterday. It's like, no, I desire to honor the one that has already made a way for me and advocating for me.
It's like the friend that you're good friends with, you know, has goodwill towards you, really cares for you, want to help them, but the Person that you're kind of scared of, you don't know if they're actually out to get you. You're kind of apprehensive to give them a favor.
But Jesus is our high priest, advocating for us constantly, even before we were aware of our need.
But this verse continues, it says that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God.
We see the second way is Jesus our high priest. Through his service, through his works, through what he does, through his task, through his responsibilities, through his service, we see that Jesus truly is our high priest, that we can depend on and trust Him.
Something I love about the word Christ is it comes from the Greek word Christos, which just means the anointed one.
Which it would be weird for us to walk around Jesus, the anointed one wouldn't really make sense because we're so used to saying Jesus Christ.
But the idea of the anointed one or the Messiah carries a symbol of being set apart for a task. Just like Aaron was when he was anointed for the task of being the high priest for the people.
Jesus very title is Christ the anointed one.
So Jesus has been set apart for service for God.
Jesus is set apart for the service of God.
Jesus time and time again talks about, I'm not doing my own will, but I'm doing the will of my Father.
Jesus isn't doing the will of people who have hired him. He's doing the will and the work and the service of God, which means as he serves and ministers for us, it's God Himself extending His arm of love, his invitation of grace and his mercy to us who do not deserve it.
We rebel against God. We, in our own way, don't want anything to do with him, even hate him apart from the grace of God.
But Jesus in his service is doing the will of the Father, of doing what it takes to bring us in right relationship with God.
And there's these little things throughout the Gospels that I think are beautiful little pictures. In Matthew 2, one of the gifts that the magi give is frankincense.
And if you go and look in Exodus 30, frankincense is one of the incenses that are used during the intercession of a priest when the priest is ministering on behalf of the people. And while it could have just been a precious gift that the priests were giving, it also could be a symbolic thing pointing to how Jesus is going to be the faithful priest for his people.
And just like he's the anointed one. And Aaron was anointed and had a ceremony where he was set apart for the service of priests.
Well, no one really knows what in the world's going on. When Jesus talks about needing to be baptized to fulfill all righteousness, in a way it's an initiation into his service in his ministry on earth.
So in a way it's his anointing and beginning to fulfill his service as his people's high priest.
And the high priest had many services, they had to do many responsibilities.
In number six, we see that Aaron blessed the people.
We know the common blessing, may the Lord bless you and keep you. May his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
But Jesus also gave blessings.
One of my favorite is in Matthew 5. He said, Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Jesus knows that he can bring satisfaction to those who are empty and can't find right relationship and standing with God.
Also, the high priest had a responsibility of assessing the purity of the people, the holiness of the people.
If someone had an uncleansed part about them, whether it's through a defilement or a health issue or something they've touched that they shouldn't have, the priest would decree whether they were clean or unclean and whether they could be a part of the camp or if they had to be outside of the camp because of how great and holy God was. In the same way in Jesus ministry and his service he encountered unclean people and he reflects the heart of God by declaring unclean people clean.
The woman who had a bleeding that made her unclean, Jesus, instead of becoming unpure by being touched by her, made her pure.
The lepers and the people that Jesus encountered that the priest had to assess if they were pure or unpure. Jesus as our highest priests made them pure and clean.
And I loved how the priests would do sacrifices. And then they could declare the forgiveness of God for the atonement of sins for the people.
Jesus would look at people like he does in Matthew 9 and would say, take heart, my son, your sins are forgiven.
And it would rile up the religious people, because on what authority? How is Jesus doing? Jesus as the fulfillment of the Mosaic priesthood, as the high priest of God could do this.
And also he is our high priest in his service of intercession, interceding for us on our behalf. I've referenced it earlier as he represents us to God.
But if you flip on to Hebrews chapter seven, there's a verse that hit me the other day between the eyes that Even though I've been through Hebrews a few times and studied and worked, I've never noticed this verse. It's Hebrews 25. And I was reading and someone pointed it out in verse 25 says, Consequently he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him.
Why? Since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Jesus. The point that I read was Jesus doesn't just lay his life down once on the cross.
Jesus eternally lays himself down by dedicating himself to interceding for his people, the people who come to him.
And he is a merciful high priest. To do that. He worked through the high priest of the Old Testament. They had their little side gigs, the little things they would do. They would take breaks, they would take turns. Sometimes they would mess up and cause big problems for the people of God. But Jesus always is going to intercede for his own, which makes him merciful and faithful. That is the definition of faithful always.
I'm not that steadfast in my own walk, but Jesus is. As he intercedes and prays for me and prays for us, makes me think of Peter and his own weakness about to face temptation, for he is going to betray Jesus. And Jesus says, satan has asked that he may have you, but says, I have prayed for you.
I don't know if I'll ever understand how great Jesus own prayers for me and for us as his people who are trying to follow him and we're faithless, how he is remaining faithful to us as our high priest, always interceding for us.
That means seeing Jesus at our high priest again is a great comfort because his service to us never ends.
It continues.
I think sometimes this lie creeps in or this inaccuracy creeps in. That yes, Jesus has once for all done something.
And we think, well, the offer's on the table. If we accept him, we'll be okay. But then we think Jesus kind of leaves us to ourself to figure out the rest of our lives alone.
And we get right back to the same state we were without him, where we're trying to feel like we have right standing before God and other people by what we can do, how good we can if when we mess up, we're like, well, I'm a terrible Christian today. And when we do well, we're like, oh, I'm a good Christian today. And we lose sight of Christ's continual service to sustain us in every moment of our life.
If we rest in that, we realize it's never about. We're on a good day, we're being a good Christian, as people like to say.
Jesus is interceding for us just as much on the day that we're the bad Christian who messes up and feel like we have dug ourselves into a hole, we have a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God on our behalf.
That means, just like Jesus can cleanse those that are unclean and forgive sins and do that as a ministry of God, I have a hope of holiness. We as God's people have a hope of holiness not within ourselves, but within the ministry and the service of our high priest, Jesus, as He forgives us of our sins, as we trust in him, as he, as vile and dirty as we can be, makes us clean in his service as high priest.
And this is chiefly seen in the third point of this evening, in the last part of this passage, that Jesus serves as our high priest through his sacrifice.
As we Finish this, verse 17 of chapter 2 says he might be so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
And different translations say to make reconciliation, to make atonement.
There's different words that are used there.
But at the heart of this is the sacrifice and the importance of the sacrifice that Jesus is our high priest gives.
And I think there's no better place that unpacks and explains just the depth of this, because we have the image, the type in Leviticus 16: of on the day of atonement, the priest laying the sins of the people on the sacrifice. And there's a goat that was sacrificed and a scapegoat that was sent off. And this idea of sins being forgiven through a sacrifice that takes people's place.
But we see here in Hebrews is a beautiful picture. If you read through the book of Hebrews, unpacking this chapter after chapter after chapter, and kind of the pinnacle of explaining the sacrifice is part of chapter nine into the beginning of chapter ten.
And I just want to read part of that.
So in verse 11 of chapter 9, if you want to flip there, I'm going to read verses 11 through 14.
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then though the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is not this creation, he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
For if the blood of goats and Bulls and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer sanctified for the purification of the flesh.
Look at verse 14.
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
We see a lot of undertones explaining how what the priest did in the Old Testament Jesus does in a greater way.
And if you want, you can go through a Bible study, walking through each of those images, each of those examples.
But we see that the sacrifice that the priest would make in the Old Testament might be able to purify the flesh and atone for sins, but they had to keep on doing it over and over again, over and over again, because the people were still in their disposition, sinners, and they would continue to sin, so they would have to sacrifice again.
But we see Jesus enters into the holies of holies, not of a tent or a temple on earth, but in the very presence of God himself, that we in of ourselves would be no more in the presence of, because of our unholiness.
He brought a sacrifice to God that through his eternal spirit, him being God himself, his sacrifice was so worthy, so great, so mighty, so sufficient, that all that we deserve because of our sin was satisfied by his sacrifice.
And it goes on to say it purifies our conscience from dead works to serve a living God.
So I believe what Jesus does in his sacrifice as high priest has a twofold sufficiency, two ways it's sufficient to God.
It satisfies the payment our sins deserved.
Our sins make us deserve separation from God.
And God is just.
So he can't just kind of turn a blind eye and ignore. No, he has to be just. Or is he not true to himself?
But the beauty that Paul unpacks in Romans 3 is God is not only just, but he's the justifier.
Because in Christ that punishment is paid.
So I don't know if you've ever been in a situation where you have a lien on an asset, whether it's a car or a house or something, and you have defaulted on the loan and the creditors are calling, and if you don't answer the phone or you don't figure it out, they're going to come and take the vehicle away. They're going to take it, or there's going to be nothing you can do.
But if that debt's paid, if the debt you owe is satisfied, the creditors can't come after you because the books are clear.
Which means you don't have to worry and stress about the creditor anymore.
The same way God in His mercy becomes sin for us, he becomes sin for us so that we might have his righteousness.
He takes the punishment from our sin so we do not have to fear God anymore.
Before God and His justice, in a way, was coming for us in our sin. But when Jesus satisfies that, it brings us comfort as his people. Because there is no thing to worry about before God.
Jesus has paid our debt.
And that's a truth that I always forget to let sink in that Jesus and His grace has paid our debt.
But that's one part of the sacrifice. The other way this passage is, it purifies our conscience.
We see that Jesus deposits funds in our account, doesn't just pay off our debt. He deposits funds in our account to where we can have a clean conscience from our dead works to serve the living God. We're broke, we're bankrupt. We can't fund and serve God and of ourselves. But Jesus pays our debt and gives us his own righteousness, allows the spirit of God to dwell in us, to be at work in us through his work as high priest, through his sacrifice, so that we can serve our living God.
Because on our own we cannot please him.
But as Christ works in us and through us, as a popular song says, yet not I, but through Christ in me, we're able to serve a holy God through the work of our high priest through us.
In Hebrews 10:14, it says, for by a single offering he has perfected for all times those who are being sanctified.
So Jesus has finished the task of making us right with God.
But now he's at work in us to sanctify us and make us who we were always meant to be.
So as believers, as Christians, we have a comfort in who Jesus is as our high priest.
And we have a confidence of living holy lives not as we look to ourselves, but as we look to our high priest.
As we go before the throne of grace with confidence because of who our high priest is.
Don't lose this hat that Jesus wears.
Don't forget and lose sight of who our Lord is for us every day of our lives.
Because I truly don't know if there's much comfort and confidence of holiness to be found outside of how Jesus functions in this way.
And if we're here in this room and Jesus is not our high priest, if we have not turned to trust in what he has done for us and we're continuing to trust in what we can do for ourselves, how we can impress God, how we can impress others.
We're missing the hope of the gospel that Jesus provides.
So look to Christ as your high priest. Helpless, realizing you need his status as high priest. Not the only status, the status you can try to find that you need his service as high priest. What he can do for you, not what you can do for Him. You can never do enough for Him.
And you need the sufficiency of his sacrifice, not the insufficiency of your own that you tried to give.
So whether you're a believer that needs to focus on Jesus for who he is and give yourself to him, or if you're an unbeliever who has never rested in who Jesus is, tonight's the night is to look to Jesus who is our merciful and faithful High Priest. Let's pray together. Heavenly Father, I pray that you will be with us tonight, that your spirit will show us who our Lord is.
They will see Jesus not as some guy who lived 2000 years ago who had some nice things to say, but as God himself in the flesh, who is our high priest that can make us in right relationship with God, which is the very reason we were made. Apart from that life is not worth living.
So God help us to hold fast to our confession tonight and to trust in him in Jesus name. Amen.
[00:43:55] Speaker A: Clifford Baptist Church invites you to join us for worship every Sunday morning at 11am for more information about our church, please call our church office at 434-946-0555.
