The Advocate (2)
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5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
vs 5 John speaks about the message which he has heard from Christ directly. He also speaks about what his own eyes have seen and how his hands have handle concerning the Word of life.
How he seen The Word that became flesh.
He was a eye witness testimony to these things.
vs 5 this is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you, That God is light and in Him theres no darkness at all.
Malcolm Muggeridge declared:
Misery is to be shut off and in darkness, and of course, alas, there is still no way of avoiding that. Suddenly it’s gone; the light of awareness, gone; as you might suddenly lose your love for a person. It’s gone, blotted out, and you are in darkness, confined in that terrible little dungeon of the ego, that little dark dungeon down there, tortured by fears, appetites, frustrations, ambitions, greed—all these things crowd in on you like invisible devils, and there you are—lost. That’s hell. People ask what hell is. I say that is hell, and that’s what it’s going to be like.
Imagine being tortured by your fears and never able obtain confidence.
Imagine having a appetite but your appetite is never satisfied.
Imagine having greed but never able to get one dollar.
Imagine having frustrations in your life with no relief .
Imagine not having the capacity to love anyone or to receive love.
These longing plague your soul with no way out.
In this life we have appetites and we fill it. Though at times these appetites are illegitimate.
The irony is that though theres satisfaction its only temporal and gives a false sense of hope.
Hell is complete darkness and no sense of hope.
God doesn’t have darkness in His being because God is light.
God has an infinite amount of love. See Darkness is void of love but God has a infinite amount.
We see the parculiar nature of His love that He would die for the guilty.
God love is strange. Because theres no human love that will be willing to die for the ungodly.
Only an infinite God who has a infinite amount of love would die for the guilty.
6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
“It is a bankruptcy of all moral and spiritual inclination toward God and holiness, as well as of power to be or do good.” William Newell
We were still without strength isn’t talking about being physically weak its referring to our moral failures.
He died for those who are powerless to help themselves.
God isn’t asking you to return the favor that He died for you.
No return on investment.
It is absolute grace!
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Scarcely will one die for a sternly honest man. He’s honest reliable. Maybe a father for a son .
Perhaps will one die for a noble man. Maybe one who is in the military service a noble mans life for another.
But no one will die someone who deserves to die.
But Christ did it!!!
Yesterday at GLBC we studying the book of Philemon. Paul asked him to exercise Philemon.
Philemon doesn’t have any written doctrinal statements in it but its about a gospel that is lived out.
You have a man named Oneimus who was a run away slave possibly ran away because he has stolen items from his master Philemon.
And somehow he met up with PAul the Apostle got saved. And Paul sent a letter to Philemon.
said he is sending him back
16 no longer as a slave but more than a slave—a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
Paul is saying Philemon you are a child of the light. And this is what light looks like,
I know you are use to him being unprofitable but he is profitable now as a brother.
Go back to 1 John 2:1 “1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”
John didn’t want his church to sin. But he realize not one of them was perfect. So we need a Advocate
Advocate with the Father- He speaks to the Father as our defense,
Like Jesus is our lawyer speaking before a Judge
Our spokes Person.
Hes One who speaks in our defense .
Job knew he needed a Advocate
33 Nor is there any mediator between us, Who may lay his hand on us both.
Job realize he’s need for a Advocate
No man can condemn you because we have a Advocate. Romans 8:34.
34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
There is only One Advocate
5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,
Christ appears before God as a representation before God on behalf of man.
24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;