Our Heavenly Advocate

"We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."--1 John 2:1

The advocacy mentioned here in the above verse can be called as, "pleading the cause" of the believer, and is connected with deliverance. Such an advocate can never fail, as Lamentations 3:58 says, "O Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life". This figure of an advocate is taken from a lawyer pleading the cause of a criminal, and using his best endeavors to bring him off unhurt. But such advocacy may fail for two reasons–

The first one could be the incompetency of the advocate; or the second the poor quality of the case and its cause.

As regards Christ, there are no such hindrances to the success of the advocacy. How?  He can plead his own sufferings, blood, and obedience. His very Person as the Son of God, and yet son of man, gives unspeakable value and validity to every plea of the great Intercessor.

What then is the validity,has his intercession in the court of heaven! It is true, that he cannot deny the truth of the charge brought by the accuser of the brethren (devil) against his client; but he can present his own meritorious sufferings, and the sorrows he endured for the accused.On this ground he can stand up as his surety and representative, and plead with the Father that he has suffered in his place as a substitute.  Then, On the firm, solid ground of justice and equity, He can plead on his behalf, "Let the accused go, for I endured the penalty due to him."

Praise and Thank God for Jesus Christ and His ministry of advocacy on behalf of every believer in Christ. (Men, women, and children from every tribe, tongue and nation.)