Alexander Beith on Christ pleading for believing sinners

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He pleads in their behalf. Though heirs — heirs of God — joint-heirs with Christ, his people are here in a state of nonage, and are left to struggle with a thousand difficulties. Their hearts are right — their spirits are willing — their cause is good; but they are encompassed with innumerable infirmities.

Sin mingles in, cleaves to, everything with which they have to do. It is the parent evil with which they have to contend. Amidst the toils of the conflict to which they are called, the complaint is ever heard, “Oh, wretched men that we are who shall deliver us from the body of this death?” for they know that their Lord has written many things to them, “that they sin not.”

Sin is that, therefore, which they hate — which they fear — which they flee; yet to them belongs a high privilege in such circumstances. It is, that “if any man sin, he hath an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” That advocate pleads his own merits in their behalf — even Gethsemane — Calvary — a perfect righteousness; and, when hope often seems ready to die within them, they are revived, strengthened, upheld, because he “maketh intercession for them.”

For the reference, see Alexander Beith on Christ pleading for believing sinners.

P.S. Yes, I know that he has an odd name, but I am always on the lookout for new authors to read.
 
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