Who is our advocate with the Father when we sin?
Jesus Christ the righteous One is the believer’s advocate with the Father when sin occurs. First John says if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One. This advocacy is the believer’s comfort, but it is not a license to continue in sin.
Les explains that Satan accuses every time a believer sins, but the believer’s comfort is 1 John 2: if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One. Les stresses this is not a license to go ahead and do these things because we know we have an advocate. But if we fail—and every one of us does and will—that advocacy remains the believer’s comfort. Even Corinth had this as their backdrop.
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
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If I sin as a Christian, do I have an advocate?
If any man sins, believers have an advocate and intercessor who represents them to the Father.