Pray Your Way Through 3
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The Dream Team:
We have 3 Legal Representatives:
1. Jesus
1. Jesus
2. Holy Spirit
2. Holy Spirit
3. The Blood
3. The Blood
Jesus
1. Son of the Judge
1. Son of the Judge
Mark 1:10-11 (ESV)
10 And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
2. He is our truth and therefore we have peace in the Trial.
2. He is our truth and therefore we have peace in the Trial.
John 14:6-7 (ESV)
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
3. Our Advocate
3. Our Advocate
1 John 2:1-2 (ESV)
1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Characteristics of Advocate:
A. He is pleading our cause before court.
A. He is pleading our cause before court.
B. Defends and creates a proposal for the court.
B. Defends and creates a proposal for the court.
C. He is not supporting us, also promoting us during the trial.
C. He is not supporting us, also promoting us during the trial.
Holy Spirit
1. The Spirit verifies who we belong to. We belong to God.
1. The Spirit verifies who we belong to. We belong to God.
Romans 8:16 (ESV) 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
2. He is our reminder in trial who we are and who we belong to.
2. He is our reminder in trial who we are and who we belong to.
John 14:26 (ESV) 26 But the Helper (counselor), 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 have said to you.
3. He is our researcher in the case. He lets us know the heart of God.
3. He is our researcher in the case. He lets us know the heart of God.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 (ESV) 9 But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— 10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
Blood
1. Key Witness! The blood speaks a powerful word about you.
1. Key Witness! The blood speaks a powerful word about you.
Hebrews 12:22-25 (ESV) 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
2. He is our “Turnaround” in the case against us.
2. He is our “Turnaround” in the case against us.
Revelation 12:11 (ESV) 11 And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
Hebrews 4:14-16 (ESV) 14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hold on to your confession!
