I Rest My Case

John Gray @ Lakewood Church

1. 1 John 2:1-2 KJV
1. 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:  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 
1. Propitiation:(from Latin propitiāre, "to appease;" from propitius, "gracious")[1] is the act of appeasing or making well-disposed a deity, thus incurring divine favor or avoiding divine retribution.
2. Advocate: a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy. (To one's aid)
2. The Law Reminds You of Your Broken Places.
1. There's an enemy who's trying to stop you when you're on the way to your final destination.
1. Stopped by police when you know you’re in the wrong
1. Get caught in  vulnerable moment.
2. Sometimes You Get a Warning
3. Other times you get a ticket.
1. The enemy wants to cause you to pay repeatedly.
2. Man wants to hold you hostage to the worse version of yourself
4. When  you get a ticket, you have to go to court.
1. Judges appreciate truth and humility.
2. The opposing counsel will have ample evidence.
1. Revelation 12:10 NIV 
1. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. 
3. The Blood Covers Your Mistakes
1. Blood is an external change agent and an internal work.
2. When you’re on trial be thankful.
1. Psalm 100:4-5 NIV
1. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. 
3. As you’re going through the trial rejoice
1. Psalm 100:4-5 NIV
1. In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 
4. 1 Peter 1:6 NIV
5. Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith even when we are going through bad situations.
1. John 19:30 KJV
1. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.