![]() ![]() We have to realize that the identification of Jesus with sin means a radical change of all of our sympathies and interests. ![]() ![]() Yet we are always ready with our own ideas, and our intercession becomes only the glorification of our own natural sympathies. We do not identify ourselves with God’s interests and concerns for others, and we get irritated with Him. Just the sluggishness and lack of interest produced by this kind of thinking makes us unable to intercede. We have the idea that there are certain good and virtuous things in each of us that do not need to be based on the atonement by the Cross of Christ. Spiritual stubbornness is the most effective hindrance to intercession, because it is based on a sympathetic “understanding” of things we see in ourselves and others that we think needs no atonement. We have “boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus.” Our ability to approach God is due entirely to the vicarious, or substitutionary, identification of our Lord with sin. Beware of thinking that intercession means bringing our own personal sympathies and concerns into the presence of God, and then demanding that He do whatever we ask. ![]()
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