Jesus, Our Advocate
1John 1:10-2:1
Big Idea: We sin because we are sinners and Jesus saves sinners. When we stand before the Judgement seat our individual acts of sin will be atoned for and Jesus will come to our defense. Even when our hearts condemn us, Jesus comes to our side and declares His Word over us.
1 John 1:5–9 (ESV) — 5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have [are having] fellowship with him while we walk [are walking] in darkness, we lie [are lying] and do not practice [are not practicing] the truth. 7 But if we walk [are walking] in the light, as he is in the light, we have [are having] fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses [is cleansing] us from all sin. 8 If we say [are saying] we have no sin, we deceive [are deceiving] ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess [are confessing] our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse [is cleansing] us from all unrighteousness.
We are _____________________
10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
[The perfect tense is] the verb tense used by the writer to describe a completed verbal action that occurred in the past but which produced a state of being or a result that exists in the present (in relation to the writer).
We sin because we are sinners, but we are sinners because Adam sinned.
Genesis 2:16–17; 3:6 (ESV)
2:16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”… 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Jesus Saves ________________________
1 John 2:1 (NASB95) — 1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
Parakletos:
advocate (legal) n. — a person who acts as a spokesperson or representative of someone else’s policy, purpose, or cause; especially before a judge in a court of law.
John 14:16 (ESV) — 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper (advocate, parakletos), to be with you forever,
John 14:25–26 (ESV) — 25 “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Helper (the advocate), the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Not only does the accuser of the brethren stand against us to deny God’s work in Jesus, not only does the world stand against us, but so does the old man.
Romans 6:6 (ESV) — 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Galatians 5:24 (ESV) — 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Hebrews 12:2 (ESV) — 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV) — 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Galatians 6:15 (ESV) — 15 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Romans 6:4 (ESV) — 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
