Understanding Christ's Intercession

Sinful man cannot condemn sinful man. The one who condemns is none other than "the accuser of the brethren" Satan himself.

Most think that Christ is seated at the right of the Father, and when the "accuser" comes along and says, look at what Charlie24 just did, you call that one of your elect? Then Christ turns to the Father, with the nail prints still in His hands, as says, Charlie 24 is mine, bought with a price.

That's not actually how it works.

Paul in his epistles and especially in the Book of Romans, tells us that when Christ was nailed to that Cross, we were nailed to that Cross with Him, when He died on that Cross, we died with Him. We have become a new man in Christ Jesus, placed in Him by faith. All of our past, present, and future sins have been forgiven us.

Christ is now seated at the right hand of the Father. Paul said that we are in Christ, seated with Him on that Throne. Eph. 2:6

"And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:"

All of our failures in this Christian walk, Christ makes them His own, just as He did when our sins were washed away at conversion. It is automatic through faith, because we are in Him.

That is not say that we don't ask for forgiveness when we sin, as John said. If we persist in that sin, surly God will deal with us as children, and His chastisement will find us and deal with us accordingly.

Christ is our Intercessor by taking our place, making our sins His own, though He has never sinned.

He does this for us in love and mercy. Who am I that Christ should do this for me?

 

Here we go again, like cats and dogs.

Rom. 6:6
"Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin."

I'm going to tell you something, Van, you don't know your Bible as well as you should.

Don't continue with this endless arguing and make me really embarrass you!

 

I agree! But read your Bible before you make corrections.

Who we were before conversion was crucified with Christ.

We are all human and make mistakes, but Van, you have a way of starting off the discussion on the negative side of argument. Just saying.

Maybe it's because that's what I've learned to expect from you, maybe I'm at fault.

Either way I feel it's just best that I not respond to any more of your posts.

 

We are crucified with Christ, that is, since we have union with Him in the Spirit, we died with Him in His death, and were raised from the dead with Him, through that union with Him. But we did not suffer with Him. He suffered alone and carried our sins in His own body alone, on the tree, and alone expiated them. Our union with Him was at His death.

How we live out this life in Christ determines rewards or loss at the judgment seat of Christ, which is only for Christians.

 

Actually, it sort of is, less your embellishments.

All that is true, but in Romans 8:34, we are told that Christ is at the right hand of God, and is interceding for us. The two verbs are in the Present Tense, which, in Greek, denotes continuity. Christ is constantly at the Father's right hand and is continually interceding for us. According to Hebrews 7:25, that is why He is able to save 'to the uttermost' as I have explained on another thread

 

I agree, I have no problem with this! I just provided more detail.