The Advocate
The Father Himself Loves us and is Willing to Hear us.
Two Intercessors: Christ the Advocate Above and the Holy Spirit the Advocate Within
Are the Gifts of Hs Love.
To Pray
To Pray in the Spirit,
To Pray According to the Will of the Father,
To Pray in Christ’s Name,
Are Identical Expressions.
Our Trust is Christ
In Christ Jesus our Lord we have Boldness and Access in Confidence Through our Faith in Him.
We do not come to God by bring our unworthiness to Him;
Rather, it is Christ Who Takes our hand and Leads us to the Father.
He Introduces Into the Presence of God all who are Cleansed by the Blood as those who Have Been Raised from the dead, for we are Clothed With Him as our Robe of Righteousness.
Hence our Trust is Christ Himself.
Set Free
It is not those special saints who are Freed from the law of sin and death.
It is Instead True that Every Christian is Set Free from the law of sin and death.
No Christian is without Strength!
Presumptuous
Besides the sin of rebellion there is also that of presumption, which is, that we do what we are not ordered to do.
Rebellion is failing to do what God Has Charged, whereas presumption is doing what God has not commanded at all.
To be active outside of the Lord’s Will is to be presumptuous.
It is reckoned as sin before the Lord if we work for Him without His Command and instead work according to our own idea, even though we may view what we do to be most excellent.
Thursday December 12 2024
LUKE 18.27
And He said, “The things impossible with men are possible with God.”
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1 CORINTHIANS 1.30
but out of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification,
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EPHESIANS 3.12
in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of Him,
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ROMANS 8.2
for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set me free from the law of sin and of death;
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PSASLM 19.13
Also—keep back Your servant from presumptuous ones, || Do not let them rule over me, || Then I am perfect, || And declared innocent of much transgression.
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