We Need That Advocate

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. 1 John 2:2

We're set, the whole world is saved! Out of context, many think that this statement covers everyone for all time, and from that no one needs to do any of that repentance stuff or ask after salvation. In the verse preceding this one, John speaks of our advocate. If we need an advocate, it is likely that someone wants to bring us to trial. If anyone should refuse the advocate, how will he or she stand at trial before the Holy One? On his or her record of right and wrong? Better have the satisfaction of the Law ready before it rolls over that record. And that is of course what a propitiation is, an appeasement of what God's justice demands of our sin; a satisfaction of the penalty the Law demands. Both are embodied in the Advocate, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Without Him, it is like that game where the avatar cannot go through the door without the key in hand.

Don't wait, have the Advocate on your case before the trial begins!

Bucky