Jesus: Man of Suffering, Soul Physician of the Suffering, and Sympathetic High Priest
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Table of Contents
Here’s what you’ find in this free resource:
- A Blog Post About Jesus’s Suffering: The Chronic Suffering of Jesus: Your Sympathetic High Priest.
- A Comprehensive Collation of Every Gospel Passage Where Jesus Suffered: 256 Passages from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
- A Blog Post About Jesus Healing the Suffering: Jesus: Soul Physician of Embodied-Souls.
- A Comprehensive Collation of Every Gospel Passage Where Jesus Healed the Suffering: 102 Gospel Passages from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
- A Blog Post Jesus As Our Sympathetic High Priest: Jesus Empathizes with Your Traumatic Suffering.
- A Blog Post About Jesus and Solitude: 48 Gospel Passages About Jesus and Solitude: Rest, Renewal, Withdrawal for Reflection, and Prayer to His Father.
Man of Suffering; Acquainted with Our Suffering
Long before the four Gospels pictured Jesus’s suffering, Isaiah prophesied about it.
He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain (Isaiah 53:3).
- Jesus Is the Man of Suffering.
Long before the four Gospels pictured Jesus as Soul Physician, Jesus quoted Isaiah’s prophesy about Himself.
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor (Luke 4:18-19; Isaiah 61:1-2).
- Jesus Is the Soul Physician for the Suffering.
We know from Hebrews 2:9-11; 2:14-18; and 4:14-16, that Jesus is our sympathetic High Priest who empathizes with our weaknesses, infirmities, and sufferings.
“For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin” (Hebrews 4:15).
- Jesus Is Our Sympathetic High Priest.
Jesus, being the God-man, perfectly depended upon His Father. Throughout His life on earth, Jesus models for us the spiritual discipline solitude.
- Jesus Is Our Perfect Model of Dependence upon the Father.
Biblical Resources for Biblical Counseling and Christian Living
For the past several months, I have been studying the Bible cover-to-cover, Genesis-to-Revelation with a focus on suffering and the embodied-soul. My single-spaced typed notes on the Old Testament are over 1,000 pages.
More recently, I’ve begun a study of the four Gospels—with the same focus on suffering and the embodied-soul. My single-spaced typed notes on the Gospels are over 200 pages.
I originally thought that my study in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John would focus primarily on Jesus: Soul Physician of Embodied-Souls. Indeed, that’s where I started. You’ll see some of the fruit of that focus in the free PDF.
However, as I did a second, and then a third, thorough reading of the Gospels, I began to collate all the times that Jesus suffered—not just during His Passion Week, but throughout His entire life. I began to see: The Chronic Suffering of Jesus. You’ll see some of the fruit of that research in the free PDF.
My hope is to complete a comprehensive book on Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Becoming Soul Physicians of Embodied-Souls.
Until then, I am providing free resources like this 50-Page PDF: The Gospels, Traumatic Suffering, and the Embodied-Soul.
