In Hebrews 3, Verse 1 it says - now get this. Listen to this carefully: Jesus is the apostle - now notice this - the High Priest of our confession. So what are you giving Him to be a High Priest with? Remember it's the High Priest who dealt with the sins of Israel, but they had to let Him know what they were. Jesus needs something to work with. He's done the work. The problem is we've got to do our part. He's the High Priest of our confession, so the Bible says in Hebrews; hold fast your confession of faith. It's always using the same word, homologia, a profession, a statement agreeing with God about my sin, and about the remedy. Hebrews 4:15, we don't have a High Priest that doesn't know what it's like to be tempted and can't feel what we feel, and doesn't understand us. There's not someone there who's impersonal. We have Him - He's so personal He walked everywhere in Israel, He suffered everything we could suffer, He knows exactly what it's like. So when you go to talk to Him, He knows what its like - I know what that's like. Oh, I know what that one's like! Oh-ho yeah, I know what that one's like. You must come to Him and the Bible says, let us come boldly! Boldly! Boldly! Boldly! Ooh, ooh - no, that's not how to come. That's coming religiously. We are to come boldly!
Where do we get our boldness from? Because we absolutely know what Jesus has done, and if I will step in and agree with it, then His High Priest ministry will be effective, and this is what'll happen; the court in heaven - number of places refer to it. I won't go into the things on it now, but the court in heaven, there's a prosecutor there, and he reads out the list of charges. Here you are, he did this, this, this, this, this, this - oh! Look at them. It's such a long list. Then comes over to you and of course the Angel of the Lord, the Scribe Angel is there and the Holy Spirit's there. They check the records - oh, that's pretty true. It's exactly what went on down there, and we know exactly what happened down there. We were watching too. And so now it comes to your turn to speak, so what will you speak? Well I didn't know. Don't blame me. Don't look at me like that. Don't blame me. Well, it was my father, it was the Pastor. I didn't go through the new Christian's class - and so it comes out. Well it wasn't really that bad. Well anyway, that guy was mean to me, so it's all - now you understand what you're doing is, your falling into the trap, there's no blood will apply to you for what you've done. The devil will say guilty as charged, so I've got a right to have a go at him. Jesus said if you harbour unforgiveness in your heart, and won't admit to it and deal with it, well of course the devil will have a right to afflict with infirmities and sicknesses and things - and people wonder why there's so much trouble?
This is what needs to come. Lord, I hear the list of charges. How do you hear them? Because the Holy Spirit talks to you about them. If He doesn't, someone else near you will come and tell you [laughs] There's a lot of people around like to tell you, but there it is - so I am guilty. Just I have done exactly what was said that I did. I did it. I am guilty. However, I brought these matters to the cross, to the blood of Jesus Christ. I believe that Jesus, I put my case in Jesus' hands. He will speak to me. Now of course if you go to a court, you have to have lawyer, and the lawyer does the speaking for you, so they just ask you, are you guilty or not guilty? So in this case you say well, I'm guilty. They say great! The devil's rubbing his hands, he can have a good go at you now. Your lawyer stands up and His name is Jesus Christ. One John, Chapter 2, Verse 1: We have an advocate with the Father. He is gone in, a High Priest has gone into the heavenly places, to be in the presence of God, for us it tells us. Oh! He's there for us!