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All right. So, this is a fun little thing that's actually really awesome. So, what is Jesus doing right now?
First of all, fun fact. So, here's what it says. 1 John 2 chapter 1, my little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. This is one of my favorite passages in the entire Bible. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate, it says with the father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the and then it says propitiation for our sins.
Now, here's why this this passage is so stinking awesome. When first John 2 uses the word advocate, you can't see it in the English language. In the Greek language, it was a very explicitly judicial term. It was a courtroom term. So just like we have litigators and lawyers and we have defense attorneys and then we have prosecuting attorneys. The English word advocate is translated from the Greek word that means defense attorney. It's saying that heaven is like a courtroom. This says that Jesus every second of every day is before the father as a defense attorney for Christians.
And then it says he's a propitiation for our sins. Now, here's what's really awesome. So, this is so cool. The Bible says that Satan, the book of Revelation calls him the quote unquote accuser of the brethren. When it uses the word accuser, it uses the Greek word for a prosecuting attorney. So, Revelation says heaven's like a courtroom. Satan is a prosecuting attorney trying to condemn you. So I imagine every time you sin, Satan stands up before the father and essentially says, "Yahweh, God almighty, Paul Cunningham just sinned." And your very own written and eternal word and your word says that heaven and earth cannot pass away without your words passing away. Says that every sin deserves death. And he says Paul Cunningham just sinned and sin deserves death. And so I demand that you in your justice condemn Paul Cunningham.
1 John chapter 2 says what Jesus is doing is at that moment imagine in a courtroom Jesus stands up right next to you and he says objection your honor when a defense attorney is in a courtroom a defense attorney never pleads for mercy. It would be really stupid for Paul to have committed a crime and then a defense attorney to go before the judge and say, "Would you please just forgive him? Let it slide this one time." No good judge would ever do that. What a defense attorney does is they present a case for a quiddle.
When 1 John 2:2 says he is the propitiation for our sins, the word propitiation is a big fancy word that means a payment that satisfies. So imagine every time Paul Cunningham sins, Satan stands up and demands his condemnation. Jesus stands up and says, "Objection, your honor." Yes, Paul Cunningham sin. And yes, every sin deserves death. And he says, "But I already went to the cross for that sin and I shed my blood for that sin. And your honor, it would be unjust. You would be an unjust judge if you punished the same sin twice." And so, your honor, I do not ask for mercy for Paul Cunningham. I demand justice for my blood. You must forgive Paul Cunningham. And every single time, the father says, "Uh, quit it. A quidd."