To consider means to think carefully and attentively. It is analysing carefully. We therefore need to think carefully and attentively about Jesus; not in a hurry or disregarding some details, but taking even the smallest details into account. This is the exhortation we are given in Heb 3:1-2. We are are told specifically think about how faithful He was to God who appointed him. looking in the context, we see in chapter 2:14-18, we are told that since the children partake of flesh and blood, he partook of the same nature that through death He might destroy Him who had power over death, that is the devil. Remember that Jesus was God and for him to be a man and not only a man, for Him to die; it was the greatest humbling of all.
This is the cost it continues to say, he had to pay to deliver and set free all had lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying. The price has been fully paid. If you are afraid of dying, you are not enjoying what is written into your account. Of all other fears, death is the greatest fear; for example, you may be afraid that a person you love may get sick, or your properties be stolen, and also that your loved one, may die; of all these fears, death is the most serious; being sick or thieves breaking to your home is less serious than death occurring. Therefore, we conclude that Christ came to set us free from all types of fear death being the greatest. So IF YOU FEAR GOD, YOU NEED NOT FEAR ANYTHING ELSE.
We are told that He was made like us in every way. Yes, Jesus did not have a different flesh from our ours; he went through suffering and testings’ just like us. For this reason, He is able to run to the cry of those who are tempted. Wow, this is a glorious revelation, that since Jesus was made like me, was tempted and suffered like me, when I cry to Him every time I am tempted, He will run to help me.
Heb 4:15-16 tells us that Jesus was tempted in every aspect just as we get tempted but did not sin; and therefore whenever we are tempted we need to run to the throne of Grace to get mercy and grace to help us overcome the temptations we face in life
YOU NEED NOT FEAR, THE ONE WHO HAS GONE BEFORE US IS MORE THAN WILLING TO HELP US WHENEVER WE ARE TEMPTED. HE FACED THAT VERY TEMPTATION YOU ARE FACING NOW. LET US THEREFORE, WHENEVER WE ARE TEMPTED RUN TO HIM TO HELP US OVERCOME EVERY TEMPTATION WE FACE IN LIFE.
In Heb 12:1-3, WE ARE TOLD THAT IF WE DO NOT WANT TO BACKSLIDE IN OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE, OR GIVE UP RUNNING THIS RACE, OR BECOME TIRED AND GROW WEARY AND REDUCE OUR PASSION FOR GOD; IF WE WANT TO KEEP THE FIRE BURNING IN OUR LIVES ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES, then we are to run our Christian life fixing our eyes of Jesus who for the joy set before Him endured the cross despising its shame. We are to think carefully and intentively of all the grievous opposition and bitter hostility he faced from sinners.
We are told that Jesus, was so disfigured before being taken to the cross, that if you looked at His head; it did not look like head of a human being; and looking at His body, you could not think that it was a human being. Isaiah 52:14. Have you ever seen a picture of Jesus anywhere as described above?
The pictures we see in the market do not show how Jesus when He was in the cross. it is a Jesus of our own imagination.
Let us consider Jesus
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