What makes Jesus uniquely qualified as our sympathizing High Priest?
Heb. 4:15; 2 Cor. 5:21; Ps. 51:5. Christ was tempted in all points as we are. His temptation was real. If He could not have fallen, then His temptation had no power. “Many claim that it was impossible for Christ to be overcome by temptation. Then He could not have been placed in Adam’s position; He could not have gained the victory that Adam failed to gain. If we have in any sense a more trying conflict than had Christ, then He would not be able to succor us. But our Saviour took humanity, with all its liabilities. He took the nature of man, with the possibility of yielding to temptation. We have nothing to bear which He has not endured. . . . In man’s behalf, Christ conquered by enduring the severest test.” The Desire of Ages, p. 117. Christ was the spotless Son of God. In Him was no sin. He lived the life that God originally intended for us a life in harmony with the life of God. He lived in constant communion with His Father. Compare Christ bearing the sins of the world at His first
