God Intercedes (2 of 4)
Series: It’s All About God (Part 2)
Jeff Strite
Romans 8:26-28
The court was in session and there were the usual niceties that had to be observed. Everyone stood as the judge entered the courtroom. When everyone was seated again, the judge read the charges, and then asked the man at the defense table: ‘‘Are you the defendant in this case?’’
The defendant replied with these words: ‘‘No sir, your honor. I’ve got a lawyer to do the defendin’. I’m the guy who done it.’’
He done it! He was guilty - but he had an attorney who would defend him.
Intercession is what lawyers do for their clients, and lawyers are often the defenders of guilty people.
That’s why in I John 2:1 it says ‘‘My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate (or lawyer) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.’’
When we are guilty (when we have sinned), Jesus is our advocate/attorney; Our defender; Our ‘‘intercessor’’. He intercedes on our behalf. In fact that’s why Jesus came and died on our behalf.
A famous prophecy about Christ is found in Isaiah 53:12 where God declares: ‘‘Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes INTERCESSION for the TRANSGRESSORS.’’
When Jesus came and died for our sins on the cross so He could make INTERCESSION for us. We were sinners; we were guilty; He came to be our defender, our advocate, our intercessor. And we received from Him... the opportunity to be freed from condemnation. We have a God who loves us so much... that He intercedes for us. ‘‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...’’
In fact, intercession is IMPORTANT to God because (as it says in Psalm 103) ‘‘He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquiti ...
Series: It’s All About God (Part 2)
Jeff Strite
Romans 8:26-28
The court was in session and there were the usual niceties that had to be observed. Everyone stood as the judge entered the courtroom. When everyone was seated again, the judge read the charges, and then asked the man at the defense table: ‘‘Are you the defendant in this case?’’
The defendant replied with these words: ‘‘No sir, your honor. I’ve got a lawyer to do the defendin’. I’m the guy who done it.’’
He done it! He was guilty - but he had an attorney who would defend him.
Intercession is what lawyers do for their clients, and lawyers are often the defenders of guilty people.
That’s why in I John 2:1 it says ‘‘My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate (or lawyer) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.’’
When we are guilty (when we have sinned), Jesus is our advocate/attorney; Our defender; Our ‘‘intercessor’’. He intercedes on our behalf. In fact that’s why Jesus came and died on our behalf.
A famous prophecy about Christ is found in Isaiah 53:12 where God declares: ‘‘Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes INTERCESSION for the TRANSGRESSORS.’’
When Jesus came and died for our sins on the cross so He could make INTERCESSION for us. We were sinners; we were guilty; He came to be our defender, our advocate, our intercessor. And we received from Him... the opportunity to be freed from condemnation. We have a God who loves us so much... that He intercedes for us. ‘‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...’’
In fact, intercession is IMPORTANT to God because (as it says in Psalm 103) ‘‘He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquiti ...
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