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Priesthood is that I may behave well;
Advocacy is when I do not behave well.
Priesthood keeps my heart in constant dependence in my
walk—its exercise is that I may not go wrong.
Advocacy is when I have gone wrong.
(Habakkuk 2:4) I want you to notice these words, “The just shall live by faith.” If you want to know what it was for a Jew in those days to live by faith, read Habakkuk 3:17–19. That is a fine example of it. This verse is quoted three times in the New Testament, and I believe each time the emphasis1
The first verse of Hebrews 2 introduces “faith;” its closing verse alludes to “some better thing,” which God had “provided,” or “foreseen” for us, who are Christians, compared with the saints of Old Testament times. This better portion which is ours does not consist of things visible to our natural1
The Advocate does two things: He pleads with the Father for us; He applies the word to us. The one maintains our cause if we sin, before the Father, against the accuser; the other brings up our practical state to our standing, which is always maintained without sin by the righteous Advocate, who ha1
In the Scriptures we often find God speaking to men in dreams, even as Elihu said to Job, “For God speaketh…in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men” (Job 33:14, 15), and it was in this way that the Lord spoke to Jacob. This seems to have been Jacob’s first personal de1