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When we sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, to get the picture Jesus completely righteous with no sin in him is our advocate before God the Father who stands in our place first to He is the propitiation for our sins.

And just say that word out loud with me or think about it, propitiation, propitiation, what does that mean? It means the one who turns aside just judgment, the one who turns aside wrath.

This is what Jesus does. He stands in the gap for us as our advocate.

He takes the penalty that we deserve upon himself in his righteousness. He became sin for us in order that we might what?

Second Corinthians might become the righteousness of God. Jesus is the propitiation, what a great word for our sins and not just for our sins, for the sins of the whole world, for the sins of people in every nation, tribe and tongue who trust in Jesus.

This is an invitation for the whole world to believe in Jesus, to find in Jesus an advocate before God the Father who has paid the price who has endured the just wrath we deserve in our place for all who trust in Him.

Jesus, we praise you as our advocate. We love that you are at the right hand of the Father right now and all of your righteousness as our advocate, all glory be to your name, the propitiation for our sins.

We love that you are the propitiation for our sins. We are so grateful that you have taken the just judgment, the just wrath.

We deserve eternal wrath. We deserve you've taken it upon yourself. You've endured judgment in our place and turned aside the wrath of the Father toward us that we might experience the love of the Father that we might be welcomed in by the Father.

As sons and daughters, we praise you as our propitiation and not just ours only. We praise you as the propitiation for the sins of the whole world, for the sins of men and women in every nation, tribe and tongue and so God, we pray.

Because the name of Jesus, the advocate, Jesus, the propitiation for sin to be made known among all the nations, we pray. We pray today specifically for the Hazara people of Afghanistan, 3.8 million of them, 0.03% Christian. God, you know these numbers far better than we do.

We do, you know the names of those few Christians and you know the names of the millions of people who have little to no access to the gospel right now.

And who don't know the good news about Jesus, the advocate, Jesus, the propitiation. So God, we pray. Change that. We pray for the spread of the gospel among the Hazara. We pray for many disciples we made and churches to be multiplied among the Hazara of Afghanistan.

And please God, please bring it about for your namesake, for the glory of Jesus, the propitiation for our sins in the world among the nations, for the glory of Jesus, our advocate with the Father.

We pray all of this according to your word before you right now. Oh God, in the name of Jesus, our advocate. Amen.

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