Jesus: The Advocate

Original date: January 24, 2021 PM

Subject: Titles of Jesus

Subject 2: Holy Spirit

Synopsis: Jesus is our Advocate with the Father and the Holy Spirit is Jesus’ Advocate with us.

Text: 1 John 1:8–2:2

Introduction

PRAYER

A. Read TEXT

1 John 1:8–2:2 (BBE) If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us. 9 If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil. 10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us. 1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one: 2 2 He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.

1 John 2:1b (NASB95) … we have an Advocate [a Parakletos] with the Father, [that Advocate is] Jesus Christ the righteous;

B. We have an Advocate with God.

1. The Greek word is: Parakletos which speaks of someone coming alongside us to help us, to support us, to speak on our behalf

C. In a few minutes let us press into the courts of glory, into the Throne room of God, with our needs.

1. And as we do so, let us remember that Jesus is standing before the Father pleading on our behalf.

2. He is in the Throne room of the Father pleading for us.

3. We press in knowing:

Hebrews 4:16 (KJV) Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 10:19 (LSB) Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,

Hebrews 10:22 (NLT) let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

D. As our Advocate, Jesus is passionately crying out to the Father on our behalf:

1. “Father, forgive them!”

2. “Father, send supernatural provision for them!”

3. “Father, as I prayed in John 17:22 (NASB), so I pray now:

i. "The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;

4. “Father, hear Me as I plead on their behalf — I died for them!”

Holy Spirit Advocate

A. So, like we should with an earthly advocate, let us be open and transparent with our great Advocate: Jesus Christ the Righteous.

1. Let us cry out to Him with passion.

2. Not dead, dry, listless words — a recitation of some prayer we heard as a child…

God is great, God is good, let us thank Him for our food.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep…

3. Instead let us cry out prayers under the anointing of the Holy Spirit Who, as Romans 8:26 says:

… the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

B. Let us, as the old hymn says: tell Him all about our troubles.

1. Let us cry to Him with complete abandon — holding nothing back.

C. Let us cry in passionate confession:

1. That He would forgive our sins.

2. Sins of wrong thinking.

3. Sins of wrong attitudes.

4. Sins of wrong words.

5. Sins of wrong behaviors.

D. Let us cry our passionately:

1. Lifting our voices to Him.

2. Begging Him that He would make us more of what HE wants us to be.

3. What He NEEDS us to be in this sin-sick world.

E. Let us cry out with passionate abandon for the salvation of the lost.

1. That WE would be the instruments God can use to “snatch them out of the fire, … hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.”

F. Let us passionately cry out in alignment with

1 Timothy 2:1–6 (NASB95) First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. 3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.

G. Let us passionately cry out for the sick.

1. For continued protection against ALL the communicable diseases of the season:

The common cold

New strains of covid

New flu strains

RSV

3. For those battling cancer

4. Other health problems.

H. Let us passionately cry out for those who are facing intense persecution because they follow Jesus.

1. Hebrews 13:3 (NLT) Remember those in prison [for the cause of Christ], as if you were there yourself. Remember also those being mistreated, as if you felt their pain in your own bodies.

I. We can have that passion in prayer because there is ANOTHER Parakletos who is pleading with US.

1. Jesus Christ the Righteous, the Parakletos, is pleading with the Father on OUR behalf.

2. The Holy Spirit, ANOTHER Parakeletos is pleading IN us and WITH US on Jesus’ behalf.

J. Jesus said in John 15:26 (NASB) "When the [Parakletos] comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,

K. The Holy Spirit is inside of us, pleading with us — be more like Jesus.

1. The Holy Spirit is pleading inside us: hear the words of Jesus.

2. Follow the words of Jesus.

3. Obey the words of Jesus.

Conclusion

A. So this morning, let us press into the presence of God, knowing that we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.

B. Let us press in to the Presence of God where the Holy Spirit testifies of Jesus — tells us the things Jesus wants us to know in this challenging time in which we live.

C. Let us not only passionately cry out to God, in the Name of Jesus.

1. But let us passionately LISTEN to what the Holy Spirit wants to tell us.

2. Because as Jesus told us in John 14:26 (NASB95) “… the [Parakletos], the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.

Altar

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