
Tottenville Evangelical Free Church
Our Sympathetic High Priest
The sermon explores the necessity of Jesus' human life and suffering to qualify Him as a sympathetic High Priest who can relate to human weakness. It examines Hebrews 5:7-9, highlighting how Jesus offered prayers with reverence and learned obedience through His agony in Gethsemane and on the cross. The preacher emphasizes that Jesus was made complete for His priestly role not by moral improvement, but by enduring suffering to fit Him for His mission. This passage clarifies that Jesus is the sole source of eternal salvation, received through faith which manifests as obedience. The message concludes with a call to view prayer as a solemn priestly duty and to rest in the secure, eternal salvation provided by Christ.

