Jesus Knows How You Feel // Jesus, Our High Priest - Tony Evans

Our Lord and Savior has many names in Scripture infused with the power to transform your life.

Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, and author of over 100 books, booklets & Bible studies. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 1,300 US outlets daily and in more than 130 countries.

[jamesmorrell]

GOD the FATHER GOD The SON GOD the HOLLYSPIRIT be so lifted above the HEAVENS

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That you may be glorified in all things

[naimeaeava]

AMEN YA AMEN STRET YA! LOVE FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA❤

[pamchrist]

U got a double hitter, preach that 👏🏾👏🏾

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No matter how hard life gets...we're never alone!❤✝

[glitterypinkdiary]

Tears started welling up my eyes. I needed this. 🙏

[rachaita]

Hallelujah Amen ❤️ Glory to Jesus Amen

[jamesmorrell]

Me to brother all things work together for good AMEN

[OlivierL]

Wow! I am being blessed with this great truth .... as I am listening it again.... all the way from Malaysia. Sharing this friends. Thank you Ps Evans.

[simoiyahector-morales]

Thank you for this timely message pastor Evans

[thetruthwillblowyouaway]

• Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
we were created from the beginning with a free will.
Created and put, set firmly into a perfect world without DEATH.


If there were death, it won't be very good.


• a.Adam and b.Eve got tricked and 1.sinned with their free-will and death entered the world.
a. Romans 5:12 12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.


After that, the world was gradually getting more wicked and eventually lost fear and thought of God.


• 2. Then the flood occurred.


If the flood occurred, it Destroyed everything.


Distorted everything. The soil capable of growing who knows what kind of fruits and vegetables. The point is that our soil today is not capable of that.


• Now, what is happening is because of the actions(and the free-will) of someone else or in most cases our own actions.
When pregnant women in 8th month of pregnacy smoke and drink like crazy and then something bad happens... is GOD to be blamed for that?


When someone decides to get himself drunk and then decides to go for a ride and ends dead in a car accident... is God to be blamed?


When someone decides to go and shoot 30 people... is God to be blamed for that?
When people smoke cigarettes and/or drink for a Prolonged period of time and caught various diseases... is God to be blamed for that?


If we smoke, drink, take drugs, eat unhealthy, excessively, it might not have an effect on us, noticeably, but it might have a detrimental effect on our dna and subsequently genes. It might alter them. And when we have kids, don't we pass some of our genes to them? What IF those detrimental effects reflect on them?


• 3. Judgement day will come and God will straighten things out based on our record of deeds, actions.


And maybe because of that, God will not go back and correct the actions of the culprit even though that the outcome of his actions would impact other innocent people.


If He does that, he is interfering in the record, account of that person(the culprit) and kind of erasing some of his bad deeds.
But, Personally speaking, and I am sure that you may relate to this too, but I don't owe the remarkable moments in my life to luck. I owe them to God.


There's been some things that just are too unlikely to happen by chance you know.
• So do your work for Jesus, follow his words and keep and eye on your account.


Jeremiah 29:11 11 For I know the plans I have for you, ” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.


Colossians 3:23-24 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.


Romans 8:28 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.


• keep in mind that the above verse does not say that you will live as king in a mansion down here on earth.
Jesus hasn't lived like that. WHY WOULD WE?


Are we above him? Are we better than him? nope.


But if you TRULY love JESUS, GOD, things will work out for you.


• NOW, YOU MIGHT ENCOUNTER someone who will WRECK all the above plans that GOD has for you.
But again, that is not God's fault.


IT IS THAT EVIL PERSON'S fault and he will be kept strictly accountable for that when the time comes.
1 Corinthians 3:17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for God's temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.


• So don't lose hope and faith in JesUS, just because people hate you and do wrong to you.
IT IS THE PEOPLE WHO DO THAT.


IT IS NOT JESUS. You may lose hope in people, but not in JESUS.


• John 15:18-24 18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’[a] If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘[[[[They hated me without reason]]].


• God is not partial.


Romans 2:11 - For GOD does not show favoritism.
He loves us all equally.


And he will judge us all equally based on our account, record of deeds(works).
• And you, I and everyone else needs to erase that foolish thinking that judgement day will be a day only of REWARDs, chocolates, candies and such. IT will be a day of distress and anguish also.


• So we must evaluate our attitude and find out for certain, are we following the teachings of JESUS CHRIST or the teachings of someone else.


Matthew 16:27 "For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and WILL THEN REPAY EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS


For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
< Ecclesiastes 12 >


REVELATION > 20:12 - 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had as recorded in the books.
2 corinthians 5:10 > 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things while in the body, whether good or bad.


1 Corinthians 15:21-22 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.


1 Corinthians 15:45 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”;5 the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

1 Timothy 2:13 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.

[thetruthwillblowyouaway]

What do you call a child that won’t defend his father and protect its HOUSE? A lot of things, but certainly that child is definitely not loyal, and even further probably doesn’t even love his father.


•If going to church is the only thing that we do for God and then we expect something back it is a little hypocritical don't you think?


A lot of people are reluctant to post anything concerning Jesus, God on their profiles because of what their friends will think of them...


That's hypocritical and we shouldn't live for Jesus in private because he's died for us in public.
Matthew 10:33-35 33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.


•Also many people are losing their faith because God is not avenging them or giving them the things they want.
Of course he won't do that even though that's not entirely true.


God has intervened in our lives many times but we just owe it to luck or our abilities without even considering that it's been God.


And again if he was to intervene in every situation, why there would be the need for Free will or Judgement day?
See, we are living, performing deeds and meanwhile everything is being recorded. You may cheat, kill, ruin, but at the end it will caught up to you.


at Judgement day, we will be held accountable for everything that we have ever said, done and thought. That is what most believers are missing.
So don't lose hope.
Judgement day won't be only a day of reward. It will be a day of intense distress and anguish.
Nowadays everyone tends to preach a happy Bible and overlook the words of Jesus.


• •Do you know how much Jesus's been hated for speaking out the truth and correcting people? He's been hated even by his own people.


Because he hasn't been constantly spouting soothing words of money, rewards and pleasures as many people do today.
And as a result of that they are gaining numerous followers without realizing that they are instilling subtlety in their minds the wrong impression of what to be a CHRISTIan means.


Luke 13:27 27 “But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!’
So are you following Jesus and do you know him? Or you follow your whims and desires? The things that suit you?
Matthew 12:36 But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.
every empty word sounds pretty intense, doesn't it?



> REVELATION > 20:12 - 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had as recorded in the books.


> 2 corinthians 5:10 > 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things while in the body, whether good or bad.


If Christianity is diminishing it is because of the idleness of the believers.


Most are putting of the work for someone else to do it. At best, procrastinating.
How if not by works we can change something?
Go, set an example.
Spread the gospel.


We should follow Jesus Christ right?
So If we call ourselves CHRISTians, Then we ought to do the work he’s been doing too!


Spreading the gospel. Not only to already established believers but those who are not familiar with it.
We should try to inform them about it. At first adapt our language, approach to their thinking and gradually introduce our point.


If past a certain period of being a CHRISTian you haven’t come to that conclusion, then you should really ponder about are you following Jesus or someone else.


We ought to stay with the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The words of Jesus are in there.
If we are not living, or at least TRYING, endeavoring to live according to them, then we should seriously reconsider our attitude. Because we are saved only through what Jesus has done and also he will be our judge.
I’m sure no one wants to hear this :


Luke 6:46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord, ' and do not do what I say?

Matthew 7: 21-23 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord, ’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who [[[does the will of my Father who is in heaven]]].
22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’

23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you < SEE he said evilDOERS. Do is a verb you do something = work, deeds...


Matthew 15:8 "'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.


So really, we should ask him in a prayer, daily, what he wants us to do for him.
And don’t let the scoffers bother you. How can one think that everything, matter, the universe can appear by no creator, designer escapes me.


Do your work for Jesus and let them scoff.
The BIBLE says it will be this way :
“””2 Peter 3:3-4
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
“””

[thetruthwillblowyouaway]

• If we are able to put the infinite God in our around 3 pounds brain, then what God is he?
God is above us in every way, time, dimension(PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE).

God, The God of the Bible is not affected by time space or matter.
And Again, if he is affected by time, space or matter, he is not GOD.

! Universe = Uni - single ; Verse - spoken sentence;
result of this - We live in a single spoken sentence?
Well who pronounced it then?
Look here - Genesis 1:3 And God said " Let there be light "

Time space and matter is what we call the continuum, they have to come to existence at the same time. All of them.
Because if there were a matter but not space, where would you put it?
If there were matter in space, but no time... when would you put it?
You can't have time, space or matter independently. They all have to come into existence simultaneously.

THE BIBLE answers that in 10 words.
- In the beginning(there's time);
- God created the heaven(there's space);
- And the earth (there's matter)

So you have time, space, matter created a trinity of trinities there, because:
- Time is past, present, future
- Space has length, width, height
- Matter has solid, liquid, gas.

You have trinity of trinities created simultaneously. And the GOD who created them, has to be outside of them.
If he is limited by time he is not GOD. Trinity, just as God, Son and the Holy spirit.

So the God who created this universe, IS outside of the universe.
He is beyond, above, in, through it, he is not affected by it!
(A).
Just like the God(technician) who created your computer, he created it from outside the computer. He was not inside of it.
He is not affected by its boundaries, and so God is not affected by the boundaries of the universe.
If we are in the 3rd or 4th dimension he is above that (5th +)

• Think about it, this. Let's suppose that you are creating, programming some game, for example like super-mario, ok?
Now do you think this unit, npc(mario) will be able, have what it takes to understand that it is created and that it is confined by the game and the space where you have put it into? The game and the space that you have designed, programmed OUTSIDE of it. Outside the boundaries of that dimension(the case of the computer) and the game? >

< There is no way that mario is going to understand and know HOW, WHEN he's been put into those finite boundaries(the case of the computer, the monitor, the cpu - pick one. The point is that ALL of them are finite, restricted by his comprehension and view).

And so we are unable to understand, how, when, we have been programmed and put into our finite space(the universe), bY WHO, and what's outside our finite space.
WHY? One of the reasons for that is,
because we lack that ability, insight( we lack the code, it is not fully embedded, programmed into our being, soul).

So, how can we start to get some understanding, insight of how, when, by who we have been created?
> Well, the BIBLE, which means
B - basic
I - instructions
B - before
L - leaving
E - earth
MAKES IT CLEAR :
1. John 3:16 - 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

2. John 14:6 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

<> yeah, and what about that? How is that going to help?
Well if you sincere, genuinely believe in Jesus, he will do the following :

3. John 14:15-17
Jesus - If you love me, keep my commandments. I will ask the Father to give you another Helper, to be with you always.
He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you.

4. John 14:26
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

(that teaching, will embed into your soul, part of the instructions, code, needed to complete and start to understand why, how and by who we are created).
Part of the instructions? Well, to attain the others you have to contribute some love, patience and FOLLOW the 10 LAWS given by GOD.
Then you will be on the right path to find the missing, requisite instructions to fulfill your source code :)

• The image of an old man is given to God for the reason that everyone, independently from his IQ, AGE OF EXISTENCE, Can form a mental picture of him. IT IS NOT THIS way because GOD is an old-bearded man. IT IS because of us and for US. You wouldn't give God image of an astronaut right?
Why? Because think about the people 1000+ years ago? Is this astronaut suit going to mean anything to them? Nope, because they are not advanced enough to comprehend it. They have never seen one. But they HAVE SEEN AN OLD MEN. Right?
Everyone gets old :)

AND because of that God has been assigned with the image of an old man, so that everyone can visualize him.
If God presents himself in his full form our senses, brain won't discern and fit him in.

And the idea that a spiritual force(like angels) can't have an impact on a material body... think about emotions, love, hatred, envy and rationality...

Also we are affected by so many things. Take for example GRAVITY? Do you see it? Can you give me on jar of it and color it in green? You can't but you are affected by it...

So you better stop worry about who wins the next cup, ball or whatever interest you,
and start worrying about what have you contributed to God's creation and where you are going when you die.
Turn to Jesus, today!