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Can someone read 2:1?

John is breaking from talking about those opposing the faith and he is now addressing the congregates in a very personal way that also demonstrates his authority over t6hedm

Now when we read this it is important to remember, verse 10 of chapter one,” If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” So, we know when John says, he is writing that we may not sin.” He is not suggesting that we have sinless perfectionism. What he is saying is that one of the victories of Christ at the cross was to give us power over sin. I myself was once a dope shooting alcoholic but the Lord has taken those desires away from me. So, I have had major victory over sin, but I still sin.

And if I do, I have an advocate with the Father

Hebrews

The Greek word Paraklētos which means advocate here is only used here and then four times in John’s Gospel specifically by Jesus in the upper room discourse used when praying and speaking of sending the Holy Spirit John 14:16,26; 15:26;16:7

The Holy Spirit testifies of Christ and is Christ’s Advocate and Christ is our Advocate by arguing for our justification. The very justification that He obtained for us with His own Blood mediator, intercessor, helper

At this time Christ is still not in His role as Judge, but also, He is not merely an advocate with the same short comings as me.

He is our High Priest. He is a high priest forever after the order of Melchisedc. Melchisedc is the High Priest that Abraham offered a tithe to in Gen 14, so he was before the Law of Moses.

In the Old Testament for the Nation of Israel under the Law it was the Aaronic priesthood, Aaron the brother of Moses, the tribe of Levi. As we all know, Jesus came out of the tribe of Judah, and from this tribe Moses said nothing about priests.

For Christ to fulfill His role as High priest to not only to the Nation of Israel but to all the Nations of the world He world have to be a priest of another order. The priesthood in the OT was weak because the priests would always die themselves but that is not so with Jesus.

Can someone read Heb 7:16

who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.

In the Dispensation of Law, the Levitical Priests would themselves sin and die. Never actually atoning for sin because every single ritual and act that was done was done looking forward to the day that Christ would fulfill everything.

2 Cor 5:21 teaches that Jesus was made sin on the cross that through faith in Him and His work that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Christ.

Again, this is one of the reasons that Jesus is both man and God. Man, so that he can empathize with us and God so that He is forever there to point to His perfect sacrifice. He does not make His sacrifice time and again though.

It was a one-time offering. Can someone read Heb 10:12

Propitiation which means: A means of appeasing. Christ’s blood has appeased a Holy and Righteous God’s anger and wrath toward believers. Christ is the propitiation And He lives forever to advocate to the Father that His sacrifice be accepted.

Because Christ is our High Priest, we can have full assurance that the sacrifice has indeed satisfied the Father’s wrath and anger toward us who believe.

However, it does say, for the sins of the whole world. Does this mean that everyone will be saved? I wish this was what it meant but it is not. All men are born sinners, but Christ gives all men the same opportunity. Can someone read John 1:12 please?

Again, it comes back to Jesus and what you believe about Him, and His work. Do you believe that the Creator came down and lived a sinless life and died as the sacrifice for our sins? It is once we understand and truly believe what Christ has done and understand that we are forgiven and have peace with God, it is when we believe, we will start to live out our salvation in victory.

Read Colossians 1:3-6

This is why it is so important that we be in fellowship with the Father and Son through the Holy Spirit so that by revelation we can know the grace of God in Truth and that is when our faith will produce the desired fruit.