DAVIDIC DEVOTIONAL

6th June, 2019

THE DUO ADVOCATES

David Abankwah

READ: John 14:16-17

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an ADVOCATE with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: -1 John 2:1‭ | KJV

The word ‘duo’ goes beyond just a word that stands for two. It is a definitive noun that depicts ‘two people who perform together, are usually seen together, or are associated with each other’. When we say Advocate in the Bible, we are too quick to think of one Advocate we normally know about: The Holy Spirit. Today, I am here to enlighten you about another Advocate you don’t pay much attention to. He is in the Person of Jesus Christ. Before we begin, let us look at the word Advocate because it seems many don’t understand this word well. An Advocate does three main things: 1. He pleads the cause of another.

2. He maintains or defends a cause or proposal. 3. He supports or maintains the interest of a cause of a person or a group of people. In a nutshell, the office of an Advocate is to plead, maintain and support. That is the work of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. They work together because it is God the Father who sends them. One thing you need to realise is that, God is one in purpose, but three in essence. You are one but you are three: Body, soul and spirit. We don’t have three Gods but one God. God the Father is the Head over the Son and the Spirit (1 Corinthians 11:3). Like the body, it is the head that controls the body.

The head has the eyes that sees, ears that hears, nose that smells, tongue that tastes, mind that thinks and coordinate everything and mouth that speaks. So the leader of the Godhead is God the Father. Father is the head and He says what should be done. You can see that during creation. The Son cannot send the Father and the Holy Spirit cannot send the Father. God respects leaders because He is a leader. If you are a wife and you don’t respect your husband as the head, you are a fool. Today submission has become a bitter medicine to take in.

Many women are proud to humble themselves under authority. The Son and the Spirit works hand in hand. The Spirit is the Word and the Word is the Spirit (John 6:63). That is the meaning of the Word being the two-edged sword, not one-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12). The first Advocate being the Son came first to reconcile us back to God by dying on the cross. He came purposely for sinners but the second Advocate being the Spirit came purposely for Christians. The reason why you are not having the Spirit is because of sin. He can’t plead the cause for sin to abound. He is responsible of supporting and maintaining Christians in the faith to the promised land of New Jerusalem.

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