… If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 1 Jn 2:1 Jesus Christ, our advocate stands before the Father to plead for our sin. We are guilty of sin. Our innocence and our righteousness cannot be pleaded. It’s our advocate’s own righteousness that he must plead for…
…He is the head of the body, the church: … that in all things He might have the preeminence. Col 1:18 Preeminence means superiority or supremacy. Jesus has the preeminence over the creation and all that is created in heaven and earth, because He is before all things and in Him all things hold together.…
All we like sheep has gone astray… and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:6 Psalm 23 starts with “The Lord is my Shepherd.” That must mean we are the sheep. Not some, but all of us are like sheep and we have turned in our own way. Like sheep, we…
