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Issue No.014 March 23, 2006 Christ Our Sympathizer

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#1 · March 23, 2006, 5:56 am

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Perspective:-                           <B
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person.  As a result there is no mutual agreement or encouragement. Only depression, disagreement and dissension remain.  Truly it is a painful situation.

 

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321.0pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">In the midst of such a scenario, a child of God can take heart; he has a Lord who is able to sympathize with him. “For we do not have a High Priest who can not sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet with out sin.” Heb.4:15. 

Lord Jesus Christ has gone through all what we suffer, even that which we have never suffered. When the almighty God took the
form of a man -except sin-and dwelt among us, He was misunderstood, underestimated and mistreated. The Lord went through indescribable and incomprehensible sufferings.  Ps.69:20. Heb.2:10.
 

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mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">As a result, writer says that He is able to identify with us. He could be the merciful and faithful High Priest representing us before the Father. He is able to aid those who are tempted and suffered.

What a blessed privilege it is brethren, to remind our souls again that even if nobody understands us perfectly we have a merciful, sympathetic Lord who is close to us, pleading for us at the right hand of the Father. 1Jn.2:1, 2.  Not only He knows our
state and needs; He is able to carry us through. 
 
Just before His departure He told His disciples, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">“Because I live, you will also live.” Jn.14:19c. Paul elaborates it further, “For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.” Rom.5:10.
 

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“Oh, what peace we often forfeit
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All because we do not carry,
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N T K

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Worthy quotes:-          Sympathy

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“Sympathy is your pain in my heart.”
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align=center>“Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.”
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2">                                                                        Edmund Burke