1 John 2:1-2

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

From Background Notes [BN] for May 12^th & 13^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Newcomers to marriage are, by all intents, "little children." To the newlyweds, then, this passage says: "I am writing these things to you so that you might not divorce.

But if anyone does divorce, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous…" When our marriages are in distress, on the verge of divorce, in the midst of separation, and all hope seems gone, these passages encourage us with the truth that Jesus Christ is our "advocate." The Greek word used here is paraklētos: one "called to one's aid; a legal assistant." In John's Gospel the same term is applied to the Holy Spirit. God comes to our aid, takes up our cause, and seeks our restoration. Here is restorative justice in action ― the kind of justice which does not settle scores but which saves souls ― and marriages.  [BN, 6]

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