Jesus Intercedes For Us
Channel: George Burdick
Date: 2021-07-07

Someone wrote:

"The FACT that JESUS, HIMSELF is Interceding for ME to My Heavenly FATHER just BLOWS ME AWAY!!! HALLELUJAH, THANK YOU, JESUS!!!!!!"

All good, but . . . 

Just keep in mind that we must be abiding in Him and following the lead He provides through the holy spirit. Otherwise we return to condemnation:
⚫   "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Romans 8:1) 

*_Having_* the holy spirit is necessary and essential. But nothing changes unless we *_follow_* it. We must be in repentance, willing to be *_led,_* following the lead He provides through the holy spirit. He will help us overcome slavery to sin, but we must be willing . . .  Jesus says:
⚫   "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent." ( Revelation 3:19)

Note the "if"s:
⚫    "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 
For as many as are LED by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." (Romans 8:13,14)

While we "walk in the light" - the holy spirit - He intercedes for us and covers - present tense - new sins we might commit:
⚫   "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John 1:7)
⚫   "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." (Hebrews 7:25)

How do we "come unto God"? On His terms:
⚫   "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent" (Acts 17:30)

Obey, and we are promised His mercy:
⚫   "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." (Proverbs 28:13)

But if we revert to willful sin, no longer in repentance, no longer abiding in Him, there is NO coverage for those new sins:
⚫    "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries." (Hebrews 10:26,27)

Judgment is on "the house of God" - His church - right now:
⚫   "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" (1 Peter 4:17)

⚫    "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." (Hebrews 4:1)

⚫    "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." (2 Peter 1:10,11)