1. Don’t have to cower
1.1. Approach formally
1.1.1. KJ language
1.1.2. Boldly
1.1.2.1. With confidence
1.1.2.2. Assurance
1.1.2.3. You are loved
1.1.2.4. Welcome!
1.1.3. My kids don’t hesitate
1.1.3.1. Joy
1.1.3.2. Know love me
1.1.4. So let us come boldly before the throne of our gracious God!
1.1.4.1. Receive his mercy
1.1.4.2. Find help when we need it most!
1.2. The details of God
1.2.1. In beginning Word
1.2.1.1. Flesh!
1.2.2. God sent Magi
1.2.2.1. Wisemen
1.2.2.2. Gift
1.2.2.3. Frankincense
1.2.3. Prophecy
1.2.3.1. Foreshadow
1.2.3.2. Symbolize
1.2.4. Jesus our High Priest
1.2.4.1. Offer his life
1.2.4.2. Help us in time of need!
1.3. Let us approach... (Jesus)
1.3.1. Loved one far God
1.3.1.1. Jesus Savior!
1.3.2. Struggling financially
1.3.2.1. Jesus My Provider!
1.3.3. Hurting emotionally
1.3.3.1. Jesus My Comforter!
1.3.4. Struggling physically
1.3.4.1. Jesus Healer!
1.3.5. Tired exhausted
1.3.5.1. Weak
1.3.5.1.1. Strength!
1.3.6. Battling anxiety
1.3.6.1. Jesus My Peace
2. Not just a distant Savior
2.1. Feels sorry for us!
2.2. High Priest
2.2.1. Understands
2.2.2. Cares
2.3. Hebrews 10:14-15 NLT For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy. 15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,
2.4. Understands all our weaknesses
2.4.1. Relates to trials
2.4.2. Sympathizes w/pain!
2.4.3. Not sitting in heaven
2.4.4. Understands what you’re going through at this very moment!
2.4.4.1. Stress
2.4.4.2. Crazy family
2.4.4.3. Messiah
2.4.4.4. Conceived out of wedlock to teenage mom
2.4.4.4.1. Growing up very small town—known as “that bastard boy.”
2.4.4.4.2. Lived in poverty, criticized, ridiculed, bullied.
2.4.4.4.3. Tempted over and again by the devil attacking his most vulnerable
2.4.4.4.4. Had a close friend die—Grieved loss of family members
2.4.4.4.5. Accused of things he didn’t do—Friends betrayed him
2.4.4.4.6. Worst all—felt abandoned & deserted God—Wasn’t—Felt that way!
2.5. Understands what you’re going through at this very moment!
2.5.1. What you feel
2.5.1.1. He felt!
2.5.2. Where you hurt
2.5.2.1. He hurt!
2.5.3. Not sitting in heaven
2.5.3.1. Sucks be you
2.5.3.2. Our High Priest
2.5.3.3. Understands
2.5.4. Hebrews 4:14-16 NLT
2.5.5. 14 So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe. 15 This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.
2.5.6. 16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
3. Burn the incense
3.1. Representing Prayers of people!
3.2. Goat
3.2.1. Confessed sins of people
3.2.2. Symbolically transfer sins
3.2.3. Send goat wilderness
3.2.3.1. Off cliff
3.2.3.2. Forgiven
3.2.3.3. Removed
3.3. The sacrifice satisfies God’s justice and at the same time extends mercy!
3.4. Temporary
3.4.1. Old Covenant
3.4.2. We are not under Old
3.4.3. New!
3.5. Hebrews 10:10 NLT For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.
3.5.1. Hebrews 10:11 NLT 11 Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins
3.5.2. Hebrews 10:12 NLT But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand.
3.6. Story of Leg Asleep
3.6.1. Robes of Jesus!
3.6.2. Jesus
3.6.2.1. High Pries
3.6.2.2. Paid price for our sins!
3.6.3. Not a Temporary Covering
3.6.3.1. Permanent Removal
4. Jesus born Bethlehem during Reign of King Herod.
4.1. Magi
4.1.1. Wisemen traveled to worship the one “born King of the Jews.”
4.2. 3 Wisemen Or Magi
4.2.1. “Magi” originally referred to priests in Persia (fifth century BC), who were traditionally associated with secret wisdom, magic, and astrology.
4.2.2. Melchor
4.2.3. Gaspar
4.2.4. Baltasar
4.3. Matthew 2:10-11 NLT 10 When they saw the star, they were filled with joy! 11 They entered the house and saw the child with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasure chests and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
5. Frankincense
5.1. Possesses
5.1.1. antiseptic
5.1.2. astringent
5.1.3. carminative
5.1.4. diuretic
5.1.5. digestive
5.1.6. sedative
5.2. Very expensive
5.2.1. Practical gift
5.2.2. Helped treat sickness and wounds
5.3. Spiritual
5.3.1. Priests burned
5.3.2. Fragrant offering to God
5.4. Bible scholars
5.4.1. Frank—Symbolized
5.4.1.1. Priestly Nature Jesus
5.4.1.2. High Priest
6. QR
7. Priest? Represented the people to God!
7.1. Priests made sacrifices for the forgiveness of sins
7.2. Priests prayed prayers on behalf of the people to God
7.3. 2 Opposing Forces
7.3.1. Holiness of God
7.3.2. Sinfulness of Man!
7.4. If we don’t understand the Holiness of God We will always have a casual approach to sin
7.4.1. Holy
7.4.2. Set apart
7.4.3. Transcendentally Separate
7.4.3.1. Perfect
7.4.3.2. Flawless
7.4.3.3. Pure!
7.4.4. Holiness isn’t one of his ATTRIBUTES
7.4.4.1. Perfection of all them!
7.4.5. Power holy
7.4.5.1. Justice holy
7.4.5.2. Mercy holy
7.4.5.3. Holiness makes worthy praise!
7.4.6. He is HOLY
7.4.6.1. Perfect
7.4.6.2. We’re not
7.4.6.3. All sinned
7.4.6.4. Wages!
7.4.6.5. God Hates Sin
7.4.6.5.1. Hurts!
7.4.7. Critical
7.4.7.1. Judgmental
7.4.7.2. Gossip
7.4.7.3. Lost temper
7.4.7.4. Looked again!
8. Priest
8.1. OT Once year sacrifice
8.2. Day of Atonement
8.3. Priest sacrifice innocent animal
8.3.1. Tabernacle
8.3.2. Behind Veil
8.3.3. Holy Holies