Our Compassionate High Priest

“Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be

made like unto His brethren,

that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest

in things pertaining to God,

to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted,

He is able to succour them that are tempted.”

(Hebrews 2:17-18)

The Son of God, in our nature, having finished His redemption-work and returned to Heaven, wears that nature in an everlasting union with His GODHEAD. So that as God and Man in one person, He hath a perfect sense and apprehension of what constitutes the nature of both. He knows as GOD. He feels as MAN. Hence, it follows that His consciousness of what our nature is by His own, cannot but make Him enter into an intimate concern and fellow-feeling, in all that belongs to His church. He knows all, enters into the concerns of all and feels for all His afflicted people.