The message today is advocate. Advocate. One word. 1 John 2, verses 1 and 2. An advocate is one that pleads
the cause of another. God's people have an advocate. 1 John 2, verses 1 and 2. My little children, these things
I write unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have
an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous."
What a statement. Jesus Christ the Righteous. He is the propitiation for our
sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the
whole world. An Advocate is one who pleads
the cause of another. Now, who needs an advocate? Those who are guilty. Those who
are guilty need an advocate. The Scripture declares that the
whole world is guilty before God. Everyone. Guilty. Those who are guilty, those who
are cursed with sin. God's law condemns all humans. There's a level playing field.
We're all guilty before God. Sin has ruined us and our iniquities
have prevailed over us. And before God's law and justice,
we who are guilty in our natural state cannot save ourselves,
no matter what we do. We cannot even answer for one
of our transgressions, not one, let alone the millions which
cry out against us. Is there any advocate for a sinner
like me? Amen. There is. Is there any advocate for sinners
such as we are? Yes. Sinful man like us who cannot
save ourselves, let alone anyone else. In the court of heaven,
our works are absolutely worthless before God. But oh, God's people have an
advocate. Who then can be an advocate for
God's people? Who then can be an advocate for
God's elect? It is Jesus Christ the Lord. And He pleads our cause before
our Father, beloved of God, We have an advocate, Jesus Christ,
the righteous, the perfect one, the sinless
one, the holy one. Remember in Sunday School we
looked at, even the demons called Him the Holy One of God. They know who He is. As Josh
said yesterday when I was talking, He created them. Of course He
knows who they are. They know who He is. They know
who He is. Yet man has no idea who Jesus
Christ was and who Jesus Christ is. The Holy One of God. Sinless, spotless, God incarnate
in the flesh. The perfect, spotless Lamb of
God is the advocate for His people. He left the glories of heaven
to die before God's law and justice for His people, for sinners who
could not save themselves. I can't save myself. I'm a sinner
by birth, nature, and choice. But I know one who saved my soul,
and he saves all who comes to him. Jesus Christ, the righteous. Jesus Christ the righteous. And
God's people say praise His mighty name. Thanks be to God for His
mercy which is being revealed to us. For His grace. And there's
only one who is fit and suitable to be our advocate. Only one.
The Lord Jesus Christ. Look at our verse. 1 John 2,
verse 1. My little children, these things
write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have
an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. Now
let us ponder some things about our advocate. Our advocate counts
it not robbery to be equal with God. Because He is God. God incarnate in the flesh. And
in Him the Father is well pleased, and in Him dwells all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily. All the multitudes in heaven
worship Him and adore Him. And the Father has committed
all judgment and all authority to Him. Christ has all power. Again, we saw in Sunday School,
the demons were subject to Him. He said, Hold thy peace, and
they couldn't say a word. He's all-powerful. Everyone and everything is subject
to them, whether they believe it or not. Everyone and everything is subject
to the Lord Jesus Christ. All of us here in this room,
all of us in this world are subject to the great King, the Lord Jesus
Christ. The King of kings and the Lord
of lords. God has given Him a name which
is above every name. He is full of power. He is full
of grace. He is full of truth. He is full
of mercy. And there is none like Him. None
like Him. None. God incarnate in the flesh. So let us remember, we who believe
on Christ, that we have an Advocate, and He is called Jesus Christ
the Righteous. And it is because of the Lord's
mercies that we are not consumed. We are saved and forgiven for
Christ's sake and in Christ and nowhere else. The mercy of God and the grace
of God has been manifested towards sinners in Christ. Salvation is in no other No other. Y'all know I used to be a Catholic.
I used to be in that darkness. There was no salvation in that
church. None. I had no idea who Christ
was until He was pleased to reveal Himself. And oh, what an advocate I have. Now Christ is not an advocate
for those who think themselves just or for the self-righteous,
those who feel like they have no need for a physician. But
God's people, we are needy people. I need to be saved. My sins will
condemn me. Salvation is only in Christ and
Him alone. Oh, the Lord Jesus Christ came
to call sinners to repentance. He died for sinners. He came
to save His people. He came to save me. He came to
save Brother Tim. He came to save Brother John.
He came to save us from our sins. Let us remember that Jesus Christ
was Lord and He is Lord. We don't make Him Lord. He's
already Lord. And He was God manifested in
the flesh. Fully God and fully man. And He was tempted yet without
sin. Perfect. Spotless. Now all I am is sin. My thoughts
and my deeds and my words. But my Savior, the One who came
to redeem His people from their sins is perfect, spotless, not
a sin in thought, not a sin in deed, not a sin in word, not
a sin in action. Perfect, spotless. The opposite
of what I am. This is my Savior. This is my
Advocate before God. before His law in justice? Oh,
He's fully man and fully God, tempted yet without sin, bone
of our bone and flesh of our flesh. The perfect man. Now, why? Why did God come to
earth? To live a perfect life and to
die upon the cross. Because He's my substitute, and
He's the substitute of all who would believe. And He lived the
perfect life, and it was counted to me. And if you believe, it was counted
to you. And then he died before God's
law and justice, because it says the soul that sinneth it must
die in Christ. My sins are imputed to Christ,
and the sins of all the believers are imputed to Christ, and he
bears them before the wrath and justice of God, the great substitute
of his people. And he cries, it's finished.
Do you know that He was holy and without sin, that He knew
no sin, as I said? He was harmless. Turn, if you
would, to Luke 23. Now, He's God incarnate in the
flesh. He has all power, all might. Remember, before He comes
to earth, angels are bowing down before Him, covering themselves,
crying, Holy, Holy, Holy. And He condescends and becomes
a man. Why? To redeem my soul. To redeem
this old sinner's soul. To redeem the souls of all His
people who are sinners just like me. But yet, I stand before you
a man redeemed, saved, not by anything I've done, by nothing
I've done at all. but all by what Christ has done
in Him alone. Look at Luke 23. And then put your finger in John
14. We looked at John 14 this morning, and I want to bring
that out again today. But look at Luke 23, verses 1-5. Pilate could find no fault in
Him. And a whole multitude of them arose and led him unto Pilate.
And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow
perverting the nation and forbidden to give tribute to Caesar, saying
that he himself is Christ the King. And Pilate asked him, saying,
Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said,
Thou sayest them. Then said Pilate to the chief
priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man. No fault. And they were the more fierce,
saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry,
beginning from Galilee to this place. Now, do you know that
Satan could not find anything in Christ? That He's perfect? We looked at this in Sunday school.
Turn, if you would, to John 14, 30. Christ Himself proclaimed
His sinlessness. He's perfect. Look at John chapter
14. Now, if Satan comes to us, he's
got lots in us, doesn't he? Because we're sinners. Lots of
footholds with us. But with Christ, He's perfect,
spotless, sinless, holy, undefiled. Look at John 14.30. Hereafter
I will not talk much with you, for the prince of this world
cometh and hath nothing in me. Perfect. Sinless. In order for Christ to be our
advocate, in order for Christ to be the advocate for sinners,
He must be perfect. He must be holy. He must be undefiled. Because we as sinners, right,
can't save ourselves or anyone else. But He's perfect. He's
the God-man. Sinless. And the Scripture declares
here that Satan comes and has nothing in him. And this is who
the believer glories in, right here. This is the one who the
believer glories in. This is who the believer delights
in, like you bought out on Wednesday night, brother. We delight in
Christ. To glory in Christ is just to
delight in Him. To delight in Him. To be in awe
of His majesty. To be in awe of His sinlessness,
to be in awe of His substitutionary work, that He died for sinners
upon the cross. And to be in awe that He rules
and reigns in heaven right now. Now, our text says this. Let's go back to our text. 1
John, it says, My little children, these things write I unto you,
that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. Now, we
who are saved sinners, it's not a matter of if we sin, is it?
Because we're sinners. I'm saved, but I'm still a saved
sinner. That doesn't give me a license
to go crazy. But it's not a matter of if,
it's a matter of when. But I ask you this, you who believe.
Now, folks often say, well, you guys, you think you're holier
than thou. No. No, if you really know a grace believer, no, we
think we're the worst human being in the world. And I ask you this,
you who believe. I often ask myself this. Brother Donnie brought this up
one day when I was talking to him. You guys have heard me say
this many times. Do you sin more than you want to? We do, don't we? I don't want
to sin. I desire to be holy. But I'm
a sinner. Now, there's one day when I breathe
my last breath. Oh, and when I see my King face
to face, I'll be made holy. Oh my, what a day that will be.
But I struggle with sin every day, every second now while I'm
here on this earth. But I have confidence in my Savior
who saves sinners. He's my righteousness. So the
Scripture's not promoting here the false lie of sinless perfection.
I remember years ago running into a guy I was out with a friend
and we were talking to people about Christ and I remember being
out and ran into this guy and he said, well, I haven't sinned
since the Lord saved me. And I just think right away,
oh my gosh, this person does not know Christ. I never sinned
since the Lord saved me. So right away I identified him
as one who believes in sinless perfection. They believe that
you can make yourself, it's all works. They believe that you
can make yourself so holy that you don't sin anymore. And I
said, well, have you ever gotten mad at your wife? Well, you know,
and I said, well, you telling me that you believe that you
never sinned, you're a liar. So you're sinning. See, we sin.
We're sinners. We don't condone our sin. We
don't desire to sin. Turn, if you would, one chapter
over to 1 John 1, verses 8 to 10. We are saved sinners. Look at this. If we say that
we have no sin, verse 8, we deceive ourselves. So that man was deceiving
himself. And it's not just religious folks
like that. A lot of folks, when you say that they're sinners,
they say, well, I'm not a sinner. Yeah, you are. Whether you believe
it or not, you are. It's our self-righteous pride.
It's our self-righteousness that keeps us from Christ. It's our self-righteousness. We say that we have no sin. We
deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. Look at this, though.
This is marvelous. If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned,
we make Him a liar, make God a liar, and His Word is not in
us. So John is not holding out over
in Back to our text, my little children, these things write
I unto you that ye sin not, and if any man sin, we have an advocate
with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. Now, John's not
holding out the possibility that man can be totally free from
sin here, because that would be contrary to what we just looked
at in 1 John 1. John's saying, as Brother Henry
Mahan has brought out, and I'll quote Brother Henry here, I write
this epistle to you that ye might not live in sin. Indulge the
flesh. Walk in disobedience and behave
like the world of unregenerate man." Holy Spirit convicts us of sin.
And we repent. We repent. We turn to God and
we say, Lord, please give me grace and strength. Forgive me. So when we have the true grace
of God in our heart, we do not conzone our own sin. Now, the
one thing you'll notice in religion, is religion is always pointing
out other people's sin. Grace folks say, I'm the chief
of sinners. I hate sin more in myself than
anyone else. We recognize we've been shown
our sinfulness before a holy and righteous God, and we mourn
over our sin. We mourn over it, and we condemn
our own sin, and we confess our sin, and we seek to avoid sin. We seek to do that, but we're
sinners saved by grace, and we ask God to give us grace and
strength to overcome them. So when we sin, we don't desire
to go out and live a sinful life, lest anyone accuses us of being
an antinomian. We don't desire that. You know,
when you preach grace, folks often accuse you of being an
antinomian. I ain't never heard one grace preacher say, you can
go out and do whatever you want. I've never heard one say that.
Never. Oh, we pray. We pray God give us strength.
But we know when we sin, right, that we have an advocate. Jesus
Christ the righteous. Our text tells us that. Here
our hope springs from our unworthiness, our unworthiness, and his merits. Not from anything in us, I'm
not saved because of anything I've done, but because of what
Christ has done. You know that Christ can save
every sinner that comes to Him. I know He makes us willing. I
know that. But He not turned a sinner away
yet that's come to Him. Never. Oh, but I'm not saved because
of my My worthiness, I have no worthiness before God. But in
Christ, I have his merits and what he's done. He is the Lord, our righteousness.
Look what our text says here. Jesus Christ, the righteous. The Lord, our righteousness,
right? The perfect one. This is his name. Jesus Christ
the righteous? Let me tell you, the only hope
for sinners is Christ. The question is, are you a sinner? Has God shown you? Has God revealed
to you? That's what He's done to we who
believe. We're not self-righteous. We know what we are. The question
is, has God revealed to you that you're a sinner in desperate
need of Him? I pray that He would. I pray
that He would. Oh, what a great Savior. What
a great Savior. Not many folks think that they're
sinners. And when you get down to the
gist of it, they think that they are good. Folks think they're
good. I used to think I was good. I
used to think that God would take me, I told you this, and
weigh me in the scales of justice, and here's Wayne and his life
and his sins. I don't know what else was on
the other side. I have no idea. Probably the justice and law
of God. He's not that bad. It don't work
that way. Scripture says there's none good.
There's none righteous. All have come short of the glory
of God. Everyone. That's a level playing
field, isn't it? That means that there's not one
of us who can merit salvation. There's not one of us who can
merit heaven. But, there is one who is the
advocate of his people. One who died upon the cross.
One who lived the perfect life and then died upon the cross.
Jesus Christ, righteous. The sinners substitute. And we
know what substitution is, right? You see it in sports. One guy
comes out, someone goes in. That's a very basic thing of
substitution there. Christ took my spot before God's
law and justice. My goodness. My little children,
these things I write unto you, that you sin not, and if any
man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ
the Righteous. So man stands in desperate need
of an Advocate. God's people need an advocate.
We cannot redeem ourselves. We cannot satisfy God's justice
by our works, by our words, by our thoughts, or by our actions.
Do you know that the word works in the English dictionary is
defined by actions which you do in your mind as well as actions
which you do with your hands and your feet? not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to His mercy He has saved us.
We're saved by the pure mercy and sovereignty of God in Christ.
The believer has an advocate, one who pleads on his behalf,
one who intercedes for us before the Father, one in whom the Father
is well pleased, one who is the head of all believers, one who is our righteousness
before God. Jesus Christ the Righteous, He
makes intercession before God for His people, and He pleads
for the ones whose sins were laid upon Him. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who
is He that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea,
rather than is risen again, who is even at the right hand of
God, who also maketh intercession for us, for this sinner. Romans 8, 33 and 34. Christ is the one who has made
full satisfaction. Now think of this if you're a
believer. Christ has made full satisfaction of God's law and justice. Full satisfaction for the sins
of His people. Therefore, our sins are not charged
to us. I ask you, is this not grace?
Is this not mercy? Our sins condemn us, but yet
Christ dies in the room and place of sinners. Marvel at this, beloved
of God, that Christ has paid for the sins of all the elect
that the Father gave Him from eternity. The sins of His people were imputed
to Him. And He is our Advocate. He is the Advocate of His people.
And He has satisfied all that God has demanded from them. Christ has satisfied. And only He can be the Advocate
for God's elect as He Himself gave Himself for us. In offering, in a sacrifice to
God for a sweet smelling Savior. He poured out His soul unto death.
He did it. He did it. He made His soul an
offering for sin. Christ did it. He redeems us
not with silver and gold, but with His own precious blood.
Now one may say, I'm a great sinner, therefore God would never
show me mercy. Oh, let me tell you this. Paul
called himself the chief of sinners. And Christ saved him. Remember,
he was going out and hauling Christians out of their house
and having them cast into prison. And Stephen was stoned before
him. Christ saved him. David committed
murder and adultery. And the Lord saved him. We who are redeemed say the Lord
saved us. He's able to save anyone. He's able to save the most vilest
sinner who comes to Him. Oh, that God would make you willing
to flee to Him. That He'd make you willing. That
God would grant you grace to lean on His almighty arm. Him
who is the advocate of his people, Jesus Christ the righteous. We
are told by God the Holy Ghost that Christ glorified not himself
to be made in high priests, but was called of God as it was Aaron.
So also Christ glorified not himself to be made in high priests,
but he that said unto them, Thou art my son, today have I begotten
thee. As He saith also in another place,
Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, Hebrews
5, verses 5-6. He's our everlasting advocate,
our everlasting priest, our everlasting king. He was not only called
to the office, but He was sworn it, turn if you would to Hebrews
7, He was sworn it by an oath. Hebrews 7, to be our advocate,
to be our intercessor. This was all planned and purposed
by God. Hebrews 7, verse 20-22. And as much as not without an oath,
an oath he was made priest. For those priests were made without
an oath, verse 21. But this with an oath by him
that said unto him, the Lord swear and will not repent, thou
art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. By so much
was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. So we see in our text
in Hebrews 7 that the believer's advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteousness, is our sworn advocate by Jehovah
himself. By Jehovah himself. Christ is the believer's advocate
before God. He is appointed to this office
by Jehovah Himself. And then let's look at the next
verse in our text, in 1 John 2. I'll read verse 1 again. My little
children, these things write I unto you that you sin not.
And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous. And He is the propitiation for
our sins. Not for ours only, but also for
the sins of the whole world. Substitution and satisfaction
occurred at Calvary's cross as Christ died the sinner's substitute
over 2,000 years ago. See, look again in our text,
1 John 2.2. And He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours
only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Here, our text
boldly proclaims Jesus Christ the righteous, right? In verse
1. It is His righteousness that is imputed to us. Dear dying
lamb, your precious blood shall never lose its power until all
the ransomed church of God be saved to sin no more. Now let
us think on this. We who are redeemed by the precious
blood of Christ, He who shed His blood for us
is our advocate right now in heaven, right now in glory, right
now. We have an advocate with the
Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and none is able to destroy if
He protects. None can condemn those with whom
He justifies. None. No one. Now look again. And He is the propitiation for
our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the
whole world. Now the Greek word here for propitiation,
this is wonderful news to sinners. The Greek word means an appeasing.
An appeasing. Propitiation. The means of appeasing. The means of appeasing. A propitiation. The Lord Jesus Christ has appeased.
Now think on this. You who are redeemed. And this
is good news for sinners. The Lord Jesus Christ has appeased
and He has turned away the wrath of God from us. It's appeased in Him. It's satisfied
in Him. It's turned away from His people
in Christ. That which is justly for us is turned away. The wrath of
God is turned away from sinners in Christ. Appeased. Satisfied. Why? Because he was the sinner's
substitute on Calvary's cross. Turn, if you would, to John chapter
3, verse 35 and 36. Now, outside of Christ, the wrath
of God abides upon unbelievers. But in Christ, the wrath of God
is turned, appeased in Christ. John chapter 3, verse 35 and
36. The Father loveth the Son, and
hath given all things into His hands. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. Look at those wonderful words,
beloved. Based upon nothing in us. based
upon nothing we've done. Because there's nothing good
I've done. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. And he that believeth not the
Son shall not see life. But the wrath of God abideth
on him. So Christ is the believer's mercy
seat. He's the believer's atonement.
And think of the word atonement. At-one-ment. At-one-ment. Oh, my. Who is our sacrifice? And the wrath of God has been
removed from His people, appeased for the believer by our great
substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ. And remember, you've often heard
me say, and I love this illustration, the sword of God's justice was unseathed and was plunged
into Christ. What an illustration. It must
be satisfied. And for the believer, it was
in Christ. It was. Propitiation is the removal of
the wrath of God against sinners by the death of Jesus Christ
the righteous. Again, wonderful news for sinners. Propitiation is the removal of
the wrath of God against sinners by the death of Jesus Christ.
Propitiation means to cover, to atone, to pardon and reconcile. We who believe have been reconciled
to God. What good news for the believer
in Christ. God's wrath against my sins,
and if you believe against your sins, has been appeased, has
been removed by the shedding of the precious blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Turn, if you would, three chapters
over, or two chapters over. 1 John 4.10. 1 John 4.10. Now you talk about love. There
is no greater love than Christ dying for His people. The sinless one dying for sinners. Look at this. 1 John 4.10, Herein
is love. Not that we love God, because
none of us loved God before He saved us, did we? But that He
loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation to turn away
the wrath of God. for our sins, for my sins. And if you're a
believer for your sins, herein is love. There's no greater love
than this. That God Himself would become
a man and bleed and die and suffer what He did on Calvary's cross. He would turn away the wrath
of God for my sins. God the Father sent His Son,
the Lord Jesus Christ, who was God Himself. He is fully God
and fully man to be the believer's propitiation. And this is wonderful
news for sinners. Wonderful news for sinners. Turn
if you would to Romans chapter 3. Romans chapter 3, wonderful news
for sinners. Oh, that God would show you your
need for Him. You know, as I said, I'm a sinner
saved by grace. God is showing me my need. And
I fled to Christ. I was made willing by the Holy
Spirit of God. I was a self-righteous, parasitical
man when I got into religion. At first, I was just crazy. Just
doing whatever I was pleased to do. Then I got into religion.
And then I was the most legalistic, most self-righteous man, I think.
And we probably all feel that way. But God saved me out of
all that. He showed me His grace. He showed me that I'm the chief
of sinners. Look at this in Romans 3, 25
and 26. Whom God has set forth to be
a propitiation, again, that's the turning away, right, of God's
wrath. Through faith, we must believe
in Christ, in His blood, to declare His righteousness, remember,
Jesus Christ the righteous, for the remission of sins that are
passed through the forbearance of God. Now, Brother Henry said
that for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance
of God, that's talking about the Old Testament saints. to declare, I say at this time,
his righteousness, that he might be just in the justifier of him
which believeth in Jesus. So how can we who believe say
that all our sins are forgiven in Christ? Now again, I've often
said this. Every one of our sins was future.
So we are forgiven past, present, and future sins in Christ. Because
every one of my sins, every single one of them, was future at Calvary's
cross. Every single one of them. Let's
go back to our text. We're almost done. 1 John 2,
verse 2. And He is the propitiation for
our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the
whole world. He is the propitiation, the sin offering, not just for
Jews, but for Jews and Gentiles. And we're all Gentiles here.
Not just for this generation, but for believers of every generation.
Not just for those who read this epistle, but for every believer
throughout the whole world. He's the propitiation for all
the elect of all the ages. Our Lord has a people out of
every tribe, tongue, and nation. Everyone. And He is not the advocate
or mediator for unbelievers. Neither is He a propitiation
for them, because in John 17, verse 9, He says, I pray for
them, I pray not for the world. He prays for His people. He doesn't
pray for everyone. He's not the propitiation for
the whole world, in the sense of every single person, but He's
the propitiation of all the believers out of all the world. I pray for them, I pray not for
the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me is elect,
for they are Thine. So the believer who looks daily
to Christ, we're closed with this. The believer who looks
daily to Christ, who is our advocate, looks daily to Him for mercy,
for grace, for comfort, for help, for strength, for guidance. Christ
is to His people the rock under their feet, their ark and their
city of refuge, their sun and their shield, their fountain
and their shelter, their advocate and their physician, their captain
and their savior, their life and their Redeemer, their hope
and their life. In short, He's our all in all.
He's everything. He's absolutely everything to
us. The Gospel reveals a Savior whom we must trust, a Sovereign
whom we must obey, a Priest on whose atonement we rest, Christ,
a Prophet from whom we must learn, a Father whom we must worship,
and an Advocate to whom we must commit our whole cause. Let us never forget that the
Gospel flows from the rich, free grace of God in covenant love
to His people with abundant mercy. It's abundant mercy that we receive
in Christ Jesus, our Lord, who is the righteous, the advocate
of His people. And God's free grace is only
found in Christ. only in His work, only in His
death, only in His resurrection. It's only found in Him. Salvation
is only in Christ. And it becomes effectual through
the revelation and operation and application of the Holy Spirit
of God. As we are born again by His might,
by His might, by His power, by the preaching of the Gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God grants faith imparts
love and gives hope, gives us hope. All in the demonstration
of his mighty power. God's mighty power. If you're
saved, you're saved because it pleased God. Salvation is of
the Lord, it's nowhere else. And we say, God's people say,
praise God to our great Advocate, Jesus Christ the Righteous. Let's go to Lord in prayer. Gracious
Heavenly Father, oh we praise you Lord Jesus. We give you thanks
and praise we who believe that you are our Advocate. We have
no merit in our own. No merit in us at all. And we
praise and thank you that you went to Calvary's cross and died
the sinner's substitute. Died in the room and place of
your people before God's law and justice and satisfied it.
There is nothing left. You've turned the wrath of God
away from Your people, and we will forever, forever glorify
Your name. Oh, we pray You use the message
to draw sinners to You, that You'd grant faith if it's Your
will, that You'd draw sinners to Thee. Oh, we pray in Jesus'
precious name, Amen.