Our Heavenly Advocate
Rodney Miersma provides an expository meditation on 1 John 2:1-2, focusing on Christ's role as our heavenly Advocate and propitiation before the Father. The article emphasizes that while Christ's redemptive work cleanses us from sin, this truth should motivate us toward holiness and obedience rather than carelessness, addressing both the comfort of Christ's intercession and the believer's responsibility in sanctification.
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: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. I John 2:1, 2 My little children! The apostle John uses an address that literally means "offspring." It is derived from a word that means "to bring forth or to produce." He has been inspired to proclaim the Word of God through which we...
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