Our Intercessor

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Our Intercessor

“Wherefore, he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.” (Hebrews 7:25)

Old hymns often carry a better truth than many preachers of the gospel expound. On any given day, I would hear my grandmother and Mom going about chores while softly singing some old gospel hymn. It brought joy to them and knowledge to me. I came across this excerpt and know not the author. It tells a truth clearly and simple. Study this second verse of the moving old hymn “Arise, My Soul, Arise” speaks of Christ’s intercessory work on our behalf and the basis on which His prayers are accepted.
“He ever lives above; For me to intercede,
His all-redeeming love, His precious blood to plead.
His blood atoned for all our race (repeat)
And sprinkles now the throne of grace.”
You see, our Lord puts our blood drop of forgiveness, acceptance and atonement for our sins at our conversion. With it’s deposit upon the throne of sacrifice He’s purchase of eternal life and all the angels of heaven sing praise and Glory. But, until we claim, in in a proper manner, to receive God’s Grace, it is not applied. Christ is our intercessor, pleading with the Father to save us from our sins, for which the penalty has been paid by His “sacrifice . . . for this he did once, when he offered up himself” (Hebrews 7:27). It is “the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1 Peter 1:19) which pleads for our forgiveness. He does this for us because He “loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood” (Revelation 1:5) as we come to God in repentant faith Christ passes to Him our drop of holy blood.

Because Jesus was Himself a fully righteous man, He could die on behalf of another; because He was fully God the Son, His death was sufficient to pay the penalty for the whole human race: “Jesus Christ the righteous; And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world” (1 John 2:1-2). “Thou art worthy . . . for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation” (Revelation 5:9).

All must come the same way. We can only come through the Gate, Jesus. “to the general assembly and the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling” (Hebrews 12:23-24).
If you have ask for your drop of holy blood, you have eternal life. If you have not and are striving along in the darkness of sin, you should accept immediately. Time is not eternal and will soon end. Know God, know peace. Amen 04-26-2019 BLL

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