Intercession is what lawyers do for their clients, and lawyers are often the defenders of guilty people. That’s why in I John 2:1 it says “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 (we might say “lawyer”) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”When we are guilty (when we have sinned), Jesus is our advocate or attorney; Our defender; our “intercessor.” He intercedes on our behalf. In fact that’s why Jesus came and died on our behalf.A prophecy about Christ is found in Isaiah 53:12 where God declares: “Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes INTERCESSION for the TRANSGRESSORS.”Jesus came and died for our sins on the cross so He could make INTERCESSION for us. We were sinners; we were guilty; He came to be our defender, our advocate, our intercessor.So our Favorite Scripture passage today is Romans 8:26-28, “The Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.”Some feel like God’s not listening because they don’t feel WORTHY of His attention, that we’re not good enough to enter Christ’s presence. But the Bible says we have boldness and confidence to enter into God’s presence, and we do not require the prayers of others.“Therefore, brothers, since WE HAVE CONFIDENCE to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, LET US DRAW NEAR with a true heart in FULL ASSURANCE of faith…” (Hebrews 10:19-22).When Jesus died on the cross, the curtain that walled God off from His people was torn in two —from top to ...
