JESUS
CHRIST-ADVOCATE
Christ is our attorney and His portfolio is
His propitiation. He stands before His Father in heaven, and every time we sin,
He doesn't make a new propitiation. He doesn't die again and again. Instead He
opens his portfolio and lays the exhibits of Good Friday on the bench before
the Judge. Photographs of the crown of thorns, the lashing, the mocking
soldiers, the agonies of the cross, and the final cry of victory: It is
finished.
John
Piper
Jesus Christ is an Advocate for Sinners,
Sermon, February 10, 1985, www.DesiringGod.org,
Used by Permission.
If we cannot claim to live sinless lives,
then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that
we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our
perfection but of His propitiation.
John
Piper
Jesus Christ is an Advocate for Sinners,
Sermon, February 10, 1985, www.DesiringGod.org,
Used by Permission.
He who might
have been placing a vial of wrath in the hand of every angel around His throne,
with a commission to pour it out on this rebellious world until it was utterly consumed,
is standing at the moment, at the altar of incense, presenting our prayers for
mercy, and officiating there as our great High Priest.
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Unknown
An advocate
is one who is called along the side of another, for his comfort and help. He is
a lawyer to plead our cause in court. The judge with whom our Advocate pleads
is His Father and ours. A crime is urged against us, deserving the sentence of
death. Now it is the place of our Advocate to plead for His clients. Behold,
Jesus Christ, the sinner's Advocate, as He pleads our cause in heaven.
Don Fortner
The Sinner’s Advocate, 1 John 2:1, Used by Permission.
We are charged with sin and unrighteousness. Our Advocate cannot plead our
innocence. He cannot plead the extenuating circumstances of our transgressions.
But he does plead his own righteousness! He pleads for the non-imputation of
sin on the grounds that we are clothed in His own righteousness.
Don Fortner
The Sinner’s Advocate, 1 John 2:1, Used by Permission.
Many a good
and righteous cause on earth has been lost by the death of its advocate. But
our Advocate, as He is without beginning of days, is without end of years. As
the tinkling bells of the High Priest’s vestments were heard by the crowd in
the outer court, while he himself was ministering within the veil – the sound
conveying to them the assurance that he was still engaged in the solemn act of
intercession – so the ear of faith can still catch up the music of these sacred
chimes – these silver bells in heaven – “Blessed are the people who know the
joyful sound!”
John
MacDuff
Clefts on the Rock – The Believer’s Ground of Confidence
in Christ, 1874.