Facing Life’s Record
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Jesus will appear as their advocate, to plead in their behalf before
God. “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous.”
1 John 2:1
. “For Christ is not entered into the
holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into
heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.” “Wherefore
He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by
Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
Hebrews
9:24
;
7:25
.
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As the books of record are opened in the judgment, the lives of all
who have believed on Jesus come in review before God. Beginning
with those who first lived upon the earth, our Advocate presents the
cases of each successive generation, and closes with the living. Every
name is mentioned, every case closely investigated. Names are ac-
cepted, names rejected. When any have sins remaining upon the books
of record, unrepented of and unforgiven, their names will be blotted
out of the book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased
from the book of God’s remembrance. The Lord declared to Moses:
“Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book.”
Exodus 32:33
. And says the prophet Ezekiel: “When the righteous
turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, ... all
his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned.”
Ezekiel
18:24
.
All who have truly repented of sin, and by faith claimed the blood
of Christ as their atoning sacrifice, have had pardon entered against
their names in the books of heaven; as they have become partakers
of the righteousness of Christ, and their characters are found to be
in harmony with the law of God, their sins will be blotted out, and
they themselves will be accounted worthy of eternal life. The Lord
declares, by the prophet Isaiah: “I, even I, am He that blotteth out
thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy
sins.”
Isaiah 43:25
. Said Jesus: “He that overcometh, the same shall
be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of
the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and
before His angels.” “Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before
men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But
whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My
Father which is in heaven.”
Revelation 3:5
;
Matthew 10:32, 33
.