What does it mean, that Jesus makes intercession for us? Jesus is our mediator, our intercessor and our advocate; He stands between God and us, but just what is He doing when He does that? Is He pleading with the Father to be merciful to us and forgive us? No, a thousand times no! The Greek word is entuchano meaning “to meet with, to converse with, to entreat.” The question is just this: With whom does the Christ meet, with whom does He converse, and whom does He entreat? God, or man? God so loved the world that He gave His Son for us. God so loved! God gave the Son! Does the Father of love have to be entreated to be kind and merciful and gracious unto us? Listen! “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, NOT IMPUTING THEIR TRESPASSES UNTO THEM…now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though GOD DID B-E-S-E-E-C-H Y-O-U by us: we pray (Greek: beg, petition, beseech, intercede) you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God” (II Cor. 5:19-20). Therefore, we find that HIS INTERCESSION IS TO US-WARD, to meet with us, to converse with us, to entreat us, to petition us, to intercede with us, to reveal the Father’s heart to us, to bring us back to Father, that we might be reconciled to God! His intercession works in us that we might know Him in all His glorious and eternal reality! All this attention of Christ is directed toward us! God does not need to be interceded with for us, it was the invisible and unknowable God who sent the Christ to us, to meet with us, to draw us that we and the Father might be one again. Oh, the wonder of it!
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 05:33:31 +0000
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