Jesus As Our Advocate:

This is His work for our restoration when we fail.
“If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1). “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
Lastly, salvation is taken up in another way, spoken of in Romans 13:11. “Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.” This is the salvation of our bodies. “We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump” (1 Corinthians 15:51‑52).
Like Thee, Saviour, in a moment,
Changed as on the cloud we meet;
Jesus, written on my forehead,
Precious name, divine and sweet.
So whether it is for our salvation as to being sheltered from judgment, or His care and keeping us in the pathway, or that which is yet future at His coming for us — it is all Christ Himself. Thus may …
We See Jesus.
Seeing the Prize Ahead
“They looked … and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared” (Exodus 16:10).
How often the children of Israel looked back to Egypt from which they had been delivered. “We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic” (Numbers 11:5). The result was always murmuring, complaining, faultfinding and discouragement.
But in Exodus 16:10, they look ahead over the wilderness. As a result, Jehovah was pleased, in some way, to reveal Himself in the cloud. With this vision of glory they could continue on to the promised land.
There is a timely word for us in Philippians 3:13-14. Here Paul says, “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
What is the prize in the Christian life? CHRIST!
May He alone be our object here, and may we ever have the end in view — the Glory!
Cause my heart, Lord Jesus,
With fresh desire to burn;
Keep the hope before me
Of Thy soon return.
To look back and around will only discourage and dishearten. We can be encouraged and strengthened only as …
We See Jesus.
The Father Revealed in the Son
“The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. … We have seen with our eyes. … We have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life. … He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father” (John 1:14; 1 John 1:1; John 14:9).
How do we know God the Father? In Christ!
“Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person” (Hebrews 1:3). “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him” (John 1:18).
We have the full revelation of the Father and the Father’s heart manifested in the Son. The Son, and the Son only, could say, “I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do” (John 17:4).
The Apostle John had the privilege of seeing the Lord and walking with Him when He was here on the earth. “This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true” (John 21:24).
Now we have the written Word revealing the Incarnate Word —Jesus Christ. “Search the Scriptures; for … they are they which testify of Me” (John 5:39). “He that saw it bear record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe” (John 19:35).
As we read the Holy Scriptures, may we see Christ in every line — Christ, the Sent One of the Father — Christ, the One who has fully shown to us all that the Father is in Himself. And may it rejoice our hearts as …
We See Jesus.
Seeing Jesus Seated in Heaven
“We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor” (Hebrews 2:9).
As the above verse is the theme of this book, we will make very little comment here.
What a precious thought:
“Christ Jesus … took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Philippians 2:5,7-8).
And what is the result?
“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name” (Philippians 2:9).
Four times in the Book of Hebrews we have the Lord Jesus seated at the right hand of God: