If any man sins

If any man sins

"If any man sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." 1 John 2:1

How completely are all our necessities met in the Lord Jesus! How suited is He to us, in all the offices He sustains!

Here He is set before us as our Advocate . Under every charge of guilt, and sense of sin—give Him, my soul, your cause to plead, and do not fear the issue. His plea on your behalf will be His sufferings and death on your account, and pleading with "the Father"—His Father and your Father, He will surely prevail; your transgressions will be forgiven, and your iniquities blotted out.

What then? shall I "continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid!" What! shall I indulge in that evil that cost the Father the sacrifice of His Son—and the Son His sufferings and death on the cross? May the thought be far from me!

O God of my salvation, deepen my abhorrence of all sin. Give me grace to watch and pray, that I fall not into temptation. Enable me to crucify the flesh, with its affections and lusts; to put off the old man with his deeds, and to put on the new man, which, after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness; and by the mercies of God may I present my body a living sacrifice, which is my reasonable service.

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