*Thursday Reflection*
*June 10, 2021*
*Obey God’s commandments*
*For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. 1 John 5:3 NRSV*
Greeting friends 
I begin this reflection by asking what are the commandments of God? We can find the answer in Luke 10:27 which says, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.'”
As John reflected in this chapter he stated that everyone who believes in Jesus has become a child of God and everyone who loves God, loves his children too.  This is how we know we love God, when we love his children and keep his commandments. 
As I reflected on the Apostle John’s comments, I realize how easy it is to say we love God, but here John shows us that we cannot love God without loving those who are part of the body of Christ and also without loving our neighbor which includes our enemy. *No amount of position in the church, no amount of titles in the church and no amount of length of service in the church can replace or substitute the command of Jesus to love God and love others.* So in others words, your position of Elder, Steward or Treasurer nor your title of Bishop, President, or Reverend, nor your 20, 30, or 50 years of service in the church can substitute or replace God’s command to Love Him and Love Others.
*What does this Love entails?* I realize we find it easy to help those in dire need, but love surpasses this. Loving God means giving up everything for God-your time, your job, and your loved ones. God becomes the most important person in your life and this must be backed up by action. We cannot say we love God and we spend the least amount of time with Him daily. We cannot say God is the most important person in our life and we are not willing to give up anything for God. Likewise we cannot say we love people and we look down on them or speak to them in demeaning manner. We ignore their needs and operate as if they are below us. This is not reflective of God’s command to love our neighbours. To love your neighbour is speaking to them in a respectful manner, being there for them and journeying with them. When we love as God intended then we are believers of Christ.
John says God’s commandment to love is not burdensome. Everyone who believe in God has already defeated the world and we achieved this victory through our faith. So our faith helps us to love. Are you finding it hard to love someone today? Then check your faith, this is needed to show love to God and to others.
So obey God’s commandments and show love to God and to others for its easy to do with faith.
*Blessings*
*Christopher Euphfa*

Tuesday Reflection – June 08, 2021 Looking Forward to Brighter Days 
When we are experiencing hardships or difficulties, when we have received disappointing news or an unexpected and depressing diagnosis, it is great news to know that there is a promise of brighter days. As we continue in this period of pandemic and experience all the unexpected events associated with it, it is good to know that there is a promise of brighter days. Today’s watchword promises better days to an Israel that was experiencing feelings of abandonment by God as they struggled under the harsh conditions of captivity and exile. The prophesy of Isaiah was a promise of happier days. Hear today’s Watchword from Isaiah 60: 17. The Lord said, ‘I will appoint peace as your overseer and righteousness as your taskmaster.”  
In Isaiah 60, the prophecy focuses on the way God will redeem and use Israel as a light to the nations. It highlights a change from a time of darkness and gloom to a time of light and new life. Those who persecuted Israel will look to her as God’s chosen ones. What she lost through the persecution of the nations around her will be restored by God. She will experience better days than she had known. It shows us that when we lose stuff, we should not lose hope but keep trusting God who is able to restore to us much more that we lost. This spiritual renewal of Israel would lead to a time of physical prosperity for them. The grievances of the previous chapter – unfair and dishonest rulers – would be addressed under God’s new order. This would be welcome news for any suffering people and Israel was no exception. They could endure the present knowing that their future was already secured by God. The same goes for us. We endure the here and now knowing that God has brighter days in store for us. Peace, honor and prosperity is most attractive and meaningful after one has suffered through war, humiliation, and poverty. Indeed, the news of better days becomes most welcome to those experiencing hardships.    
For the child of God living in a time when the church and the Christian faith no longer enjoys the privilege of being held on a pedestal, when countries which once boasted to be Christian nations with their laws being the laws of Godliness have changed their position to one of secularism and individualism, it is good news to know that the time is coming when righteousness will be restored and God will receive the glory due to His name. In today’s world people and things are glorified. People in entertainment and politics are given more glory and admiration than that given to God, but the time is coming when their glory will be revealed as insignificant compared to that of the one true God, when their wealth and their earthly kingdoms will be discovered as insignificant compared to the kingdom that God will establish. In Fact, the time is coming when their possessions will prove worthless and useless to their salvation. 2 Cor 3: 10  For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels.  
These days we have seen how helpless those who we esteem truly are. We have discovered how worthless the pursuit of wealth truly is and we have seen how hopeless the systems we hold in reverence can be. In the midst of it all, we have also seen the worth of faith and trust in God as well as the value of a life lived in hope of God’s eternity. May we be reminded then that God who gives peace and righteousness to the suffering and oppressed remains the only hope for a better and brighter future. We are reminded in Romans 14: 17 that ‘His kingdom is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit’. Amen.
Bevon White

Monday Reflection – June 07, 2021God’s Steadfast Love in the Morning
Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning, for in you I put my trust. Teach me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8
Psalm 143 describes David in another crisis. Because his life was filled with so much activity and danger, it is challenging to link this Psalm to any one particular point of crisis. It could be when David was recognized as king and living as a fugitive from King Saul, or it could be from David’s time as king, particularly when his son Absalom led a rebellion against him. What is clear is that David is facing danger and pleading for God’s help. Experience has taught David that he must cry out to God or he would be lost. Not only is David crying out, but he wants a quick answer, so he says in verse 7, “Answer me speedily, O Lord”. Like David, we know that God always does things in His own time and at just the right time, but some crises of life become so unbearable that we desire God’s urgent intervention and deliverance.
In today’s Watchword, David wants to hear of God’s steadfast love in the morning. David needs to hear a good word from God, and asks that he would be caused to hear it. Perhaps David wonders if God is speaking and he is failing to hear. Isn’t it true that so many times God is speaking but we are not listening? We are not in tune with the Lord, or perhaps caught up in the busyness of life that we have shut out the voice of God. I was listening recently to a sermon by TD Jakes who said that if he were the devil, he would keep us busy. For when we get so busy, we fail to benefit from the still waters that the Lord provides, where He converses with us, revealing His will and plan for our lives, and we experience His peace.
At this moment David needs to hear something of God’s great mercy, His lovingkindness, His steadfast love. He needs to hear this early in the morning, so he will have the assurance and know where and how to walk during the day. David confesses that he didn’t know the way, and that he needed God to cause him to know the way. He didn’t only need the love of God, he also needed the guidance of God. Indeed, we can never go wrong when we start the day with God and follow His Holy Spirit’s guidance. Therefore, as we start making physical preparations for the day, we must also make spiritual preparations. Taking time with God every morning requires practice and discipline. There are dozens of things that may try to pull us away and distract us, but we must ignore them and make time for the Lord. Often the enemy tries to meddle in our lives, so that we think that we do not have time for prayer and meditation and we fool ourselves into believing that we will set aside time later in the day to spend with God.  
When we begin the day with God, He sends us off in the right direction because He knows what is waiting for us. Trusting Him means taking time with Him to set our course for the day according to His will. Isaiah says, the Lord “wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.” (Isaiah 50:4) As we seek to meet the challenges, bear the burdens, resist the temptations, solve problems, and fulfil the responsibilities to which we are exposed to each day, may we first draw near to God for His guidance, undergirded by His steadfast love.  
Jermaine Gibson 

Friday Reflection – May 28, 2021
Obedience is Important for Restoration
Good morning friends, blessed Friday to you all. This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. I invite you to journey with me as we take a few minutes to look at Acts 9: 17. 
Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” Acts 9:17 NIVhttps://bible.com/bible/111/act.9.17.NIV
Background:
 Most of us are familiar with  the story of Saul (Paul) and his Damascus road experience. He was on his way to seek out and throw in prison Christians who were living in that region. It was business as usual for Saul that day, but he had no clue his life was about to take 360 degree turn. 
Discussion:
While I read verse 1 to 17 of this chapter, I realized it was not only about Saul’s  (Paul) encounter with Jesus. It was also about Ananias’s encounter. The Lord appeared to him in a vision , giving him specific instructions to go to Saul and aid in the restoration of his sight. If Ananias was a Jamaican his response would sound something like this ‘ Mi??? Go to who??? Dat deh man  deh weh a kill haff Christian ppl leff rite an centa? Em nuh deserve fi si , him shudda blin long time!”
Jesus in his wisdom responded to Ananias explaining to him that this man Saul needed to be restore for His ( Jesus Christ) sake. Ananias now understood and was obedient to the Lord’s instructions.
Think about what would have happened if Ananias was disobedient. Look at the role Saul , now Paul played in the spreading if the gospel of Jesus. What if he was written off for his wrong doings? It is with that brothers and sisters that I say “Obedience is important to facilitate restoration, for yourself and also others”.
Application:
Too often we look at the worse in others because of what we know about them. We are yet to realize that Jesus is really an agent of change. Once a person has had an  encounter with Jesus, like Saul did on the Damascus road, then it’s our duty to play our part in the restoration process as instructed by Jesus Christ.  
Untill next week, obedience is important to the restoration process. Have a great weekend!
BlessingsShaneka Raymore Euphfa

Monday Reflectio

Monday Reflection – May 17, 2021 Prosperity Even in Prison
The chief jailer paid no heed to anything that was in Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.Genesis 39:23
To prosper means to succeed financially, flourish physically, and to grow strong and healthy. Willis and Garn indicate that: “When you are happy, when you have enough money and are at peace with how you are earning that money, this leads to the sustainable state that we describe as prosperity.” For Benjamin Hardy, prosperity involves three key things – money, happiness and sustainability. All of these ideas suggest that prosperity involves success and requires an environment that fosters such success.
While prosperity is understood as such in the secular world, this is not so in God’s kingdom. Today’s example of Joseph brings this point home forcefully, for he was in prison yet the Lord made him prosper. Joseph does not fit Hardy’s profile of prosperity for he had no money, he was unlikely not happy, and was not experiencing sustainability. Joseph is in prison because of a false accusation by his master’s wife, who made sexual advances to him that he resisted. A trace of Joseph’s life shows that he went from privilege in his father’s house to the pit his brothers threw him into, to being property in the slave market, to the privilege of managing Potiphar’s house, to the principled stand against temptation, to the perjury of false accusation, and to the prison of Pharaoh.
Though in prison, Joseph did not sit down sullenly in his sorrow, but he stirred himself to make the best of his condition. The chief jailer did not inquire into nor examine Joseph’s conduct and management of things; he took no account of what was in Joseph’s hands, nor required any of him. The jailer was satisfied with what Joseph did, and was very impressed by his prudence and faithfulness. A good man will do good wherever he is, and will be a blessing even in bonds and banishment. Why did Joseph prosper and gain the respect of the jailer? Because God’s presence was with Joseph and His favour was upon him. God supplied Joseph with His grace, giving him wisdom to do everything in the best manner committed to him.
We also see God’s hand and His ultimate plan as God’s story moves forward, putting Joseph in the place where he can save his family and the whole world from coming famine, and prepare a place for them to live with him. The experiences of the pit and the prison were sharpening the administrative skills Joseph needed to one day save his family and to save the whole world. God’s hand was guiding and directing all things. Neither the pit, slavery, nor the prison changed or defeated God’s plan for Joseph’s life. Importantly, this was Joseph’s experience, but God’s story. No matter where life takes us, may we recognize that while we go through the experiences, both good and bad, it is all God’s story, God’s hand, God’s plan.  
So what of prosperity God’s way? It is about submitting to the will of God, experiencing His presence, enabling His plan, and allowing His hand to lead. It matters not where God’s story takes us, once we are in His employ, God honours and prospers our work.
Jermaine Gibson 

n – May 17, 2021 Prosperity Even in Prison
The chief jailer paid no heed to anything that was in Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.Genesis 39:23
To prosper means to succeed financially, flourish physically, and to grow strong and healthy. Willis and Garn indicate that: “When you are happy, when you have enough money and are at peace with how you are earning that money, this leads to the sustainable state that we describe as prosperity.” For Benjamin Hardy, prosperity involves three key things – money, happiness and sustainability. All of these ideas suggest that prosperity involves success and requires an environment that fosters such success.
While prosperity is understood as such in the secular world, this is not so in God’s kingdom. Today’s example of Joseph brings this point home forcefully, for he was in prison yet the Lord made him prosper. Joseph does not fit Hardy’s profile of prosperity for he had no money, he was unlikely not happy, and was not experiencing sustainability. Joseph is in prison because of a false accusation by his master’s wife, who made sexual advances to him that he resisted. A trace of Joseph’s life shows that he went from privilege in his father’s house to the pit his brothers threw him into, to being property in the slave market, to the privilege of managing Potiphar’s house, to the principled stand against temptation, to the perjury of false accusation, and to the prison of Pharaoh.
Though in prison, Joseph did not sit down sullenly in his sorrow, but he stirred himself to make the best of his condition. The chief jailer did not inquire into nor examine Joseph’s conduct and management of things; he took no account of what was in Joseph’s hands, nor required any of him. The jailer was satisfied with what Joseph did, and was very impressed by his prudence and faithfulness. A good man will do good wherever he is, and will be a blessing even in bonds and banishment. Why did Joseph prosper and gain the respect of the jailer? Because God’s presence was with Joseph and His favour was upon him. God supplied Joseph with His grace, giving him wisdom to do everything in the best manner committed to him.
We also see God’s hand and His ultimate plan as God’s story moves forward, putting Joseph in the place where he can save his family and the whole world from coming famine, and prepare a place for them to live with him. The experiences of the pit and the prison were sharpening the administrative skills Joseph needed to one day save his family and to save the whole world. God’s hand was guiding and directing all things. Neither the pit, slavery, nor the prison changed or defeated God’s plan for Joseph’s life. Importantly, this was Joseph’s experience, but God’s story. No matter where life takes us, may we recognize that while we go through the experiences, both good and bad, it is all God’s story, God’s hand, God’s plan.  
So what of prosperity God’s way? It is about submitting to the will of God, experiencing His presence, enabling His plan, and allowing His hand to lead. It matters not where God’s story takes us, once we are in His employ, God honours and prospers our work.
Jermaine Gibson 

Monday Reflection – May 10, 2021The Fear of the Lord
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Proverbs 1:7a
The book of Proverbs is considered a collection of practical life wisdom given mostly in short, memorable statements. It is concerned with practical life wisdom more than ideas about God and His work of salvation. As Solomon launches out in this first chapter, he establishes the foundation of all wisdom in today’s Watchword – the fear of the Lord. His vital theological principle is that true knowledge and wisdom flow from the fear of the Lord. This fear of the Lord is not a cowering, begging fear, suggesting being afraid of God.
So, what is the fear of the Lord? It is the right reverence that the creature owes to the Creator. It is the proper respect and honouring of God. Bridges says that it is that affectionate reverence by which the child of God bends himself humbly and carefully to his Father’s law. For Kidner, it is a worshipping submission to the God of the covenant. Ross submits that the fear of the Lord expresses reverential submission to the Lord’s will and therefore characterizes a true worshiper.
God should be regarded with respect, reverence, and awe. This attitude of the creature toward the Creator is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom. Wisdom cannot advance further until this starting point is established. The fear of the Lord suggests the pursuit of a right relationship with God, and this is critical to gaining knowledge and wisdom. Waltke beautifully and correctly says that, “What the alphabet is to reading, notes to reading music, and numerals to mathematics, the fear of the Lord is to attaining the revealed knowledge of this book (God’s word).” When Solomon speaks of beginning, it is not about stage one, instead it is the first and controlling principle.
This principle of the fear of the Lord as the beginning of wisdom runs throughout scripture. This includes: Job 28:28 – “Truly, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.” David says in Psalm111:10, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. And as Solomon concludes his thoughts in Ecclesiastes 12:13, he says, “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for that is the whole duty of everyone.”
I agree with Morgan who asserts that, “The fundamental fact, then, is that in all knowledge, all understanding of life, all interpretation thereof, the fear of God is the principal thing, the chief part, the central light, apart from which the mind of man gropes in darkness, and misses the way.”
As we embark on this special month of May, recognized as Child’s Month, and where we also celebrate Education Week, Teachers’ Day and Mothers’ Day, may we develop the disposition of the fear of the Lord, demonstrate it in our daily lives, and inculcate it in our children. Only then is true knowledge and wisdom ours.  
Jermaine Gibson 

Tuesday Reflection – May 04, 2021God Hears and Responds to Us.  
In today’s Watchword, David praises God for responding to his call and in the process, strengthening his soul.  On the day I called, you answered me, you increased my strength of soul. Psalm 138: 3. The soul is described as that God part of the human being. Adam became a living soul after God breathed his breath (His Spirit) into him. As living breathing beings then, we are living souls in need of the support and strengthening of the one who is the keeper of our souls. Psalm 121 reminds us ‘the Lord will protect you from all evil, he will keep your soul.’ 
This is one of the many Psalms in which David praises God for coming to his rescue. He called out and God heard.  David looked back with thankfulness. On the day I called, you answered. David recognized that he was in the realm of the survivor because of God’s mercy, because of God’s grace, because God heard him when he called. Today, every single person hearing my voice can, and should, look back with thanksgiving for we are here today, we too are survivors, because of God. In Ps 32: 7 he declared, You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance.  
That was not all friends. When God moves on our behalf it causes our faith to grow and this increased faith leads to increased confidence in God’s ability. Thus we hear David in Psalm 23: 4, Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. David looked up with confidence. Confidence in the one who restores our souls, who strengthens our souls. This means that in spite of our brokenness, in spite of the torment we face, in spite of at times losing ourselves to the world, God will rescue us when we call for help. The confidence that David has is not in his perfection, but rather despite His imperfections. God will always be there for him, despite his limitations, God will always surround him with His presence, God will rescue him when he calls. We learn from David that when God’s children call upon Him in faith, God hears and responds. This is the confidence reflected in Psalm 27: 3 Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident. We can always look to God in confidence knowing that nothing that comes at us will be too much for God to take us through. 
It is precisely because of this thankfulness and confidence that David can now focus on what is ahead. David looks forward with hope. He is thankful for the experiences of the past. He knows that God will hear his cry for help. Knowing that God’s mercies endure forever gave David hope. Thus, in Psalm 118: 5 – 6 he declares, I called on the Lord in distress; The Lord answered me and set me in a broad place. The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? Indeed, if God is on our side, what can earthly systems do to us? Our confidence, our hope is in the Lord and that gives us the strength to face anything. The doctrinal text from Rom 10: 12, reminds us: The same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him. May your soul find strength through thanksgiving, through confidence and through hope as God moves on your behalf. Amen.
Bevon White

They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support. He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me. 2 Samuel 22:19-20
Roll back the curtain of memory now and thenShow me where you brought me from and where I could have beenJust remember I’m a human and humans forgetSo remind me, remind me dear Lord.
This song may best describe this Psalm of praise by David in 2 Samuel 22. The Psalm appears almost as David’s final words. Thus, it is a summary thanksgiving for God’s many deliverances of David throughout his long life. This song is the same as Psalm 18, with minor variations. David looks back on his entire life with tremendous gratitude and sings this song. It is a summary of David’s whole character and attitude through life. Morgan shares that David possesses a strong conviction of the absolute sovereignty of Jehovah, of God’s omnipotent power to deliver, of the necessity for obedience to His law, and of assurance that in the case of such obedience God ever acts for His people. This constituted the underlying strength of David’s character.
David piles title upon title in praising God – such as rock, fortress, deliverer, shield, stronghold, refuge, Saviour. God’s work for David was so big and comprehensive that it could not be contained in one title. This reveals that that which David sings is more than theory, it is personal experience. God delivered David from so much, for example Goliath, Saul, Israel’s enemies, Absalom, and even his own sinful passions. We would do well to recognize that God takes us through some stuff so that the words from scripture may come alive, and the songs we sing become more meaningful.
David recalls how danger surrounded him on every side – physically, spiritually, emotionally, socially. He was on the brink of ruin when he cried out to God. The enemy of our soul wants us to believe that we cannot call upon the Lord in our distress – as if we had to be right with God and sitting peacefully in a prayer chapel to pray rightly. David knew that God hears our distress signals. Impressively, David magnificently describes God rising from his throne in heaven in response to his servant’s cry, parting the clouds, and descending to fight the king’s battles accompanied by earthquakes, thunder, storms and lightning. David pictures the Lord coming to meet his need, coming with glory and speed. He came so fast to David that it seemed that God travelled upon the wings of the wind. What a God to our rescue!!!
The Psalmist possesses confidence in the love of God. Such love God has for us that he won’t tolerate the distress of His beloved. David knew that all the victory was due to God’s hand, not due to his own ingenuity or ability. Without the Lord for support David knew he would fall. He had a sense of God’s delight in him. His plea for deliverance was rooted in relationship, not merely in a desire to survive. What do we see when we look back on our lives? What do we recall as we roll back the curtains? Who do we see? I trust that we see a loving God who journeys right alongside us, leading, guiding, correcting, protecting, delivering, providing, supporting, strengthening, enabling and empowering us. And may we never fail to give to God all the praise and glory that He so rightly deserves.
Jermaine Gibson 

Friday Reflection – April 30, 2021
The Gospel of Peace
The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)Acts 10:36 KJV 
*Background*
Jesus did not come into the world, for some, but for all men: Jews , Gentiles and all nations. It was foretold through the prophet Isaiah ( 9:6-7) and again in Acts chapter 10, we hear Peter proclaiming this same Gospel of peace ( Jesus is Lord of all).
*Application*
 Jesus Christ, by whom peace is made between God and man, is Lord of all. *There are 3 things we should note about this Gospel of peace:*
1.  The Gospel of peace through Jesus Christ advocates for right standing not just with God, but also peace among men ( all nations).
2. The Gospel of peace is the extended grace of our Lord Jesus Christ to ALL people. Not Just ‘Christians’, but to all those who seek a relationship with him. 
3. The Gospel of peace is everlasting. There is no end to this peace that is offered through Jesus Christ. 
*Pronouncement*
May the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, guard your hearts and mind in Christ Jesus. May you be able to stand before God and man as one who is overshadowed by the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ. May your mouth speak only the things that will facilitate peace and love. May you never forget or discredit the peace which Jesus offers to all people. Let peace everlasting guide you in the way you are to go. 
Until next week, let the beauty of Jesus be seen in you.
Many Blessings,Shaneka Raymore Euphfa

Thursday Reflection – April 29, 2021Jesus our Advocate

“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.” 1 John 2:1 NRSV
Good night friends,
We have breaking news. We now go to court in session.
Bailiff: Please rise. The Court of the Heavenly Kingdom, is now in session, the Honorable Judge the Lord God Almighty presiding. 
God: Everyone may be seated.God: Let me remind you that this is a bench trial where I am judge and jury. 
God: Bailiff what is today’s case? 
Bailiff: Your Honour, today’s case is The Kingdom of Heaven versus the person reading or listening this reflection.   
God: Is the prosecution ready? 
Satan: Yes, Your Honour.  
God: Is the defense ready? Jesus: Yes, Your Honor.  
God: Satan can you give us your opening statement. 
Satan: God today I will prove that the person reading this message has sinned against you and is deserving of death. This person has sinned against you not once, not twice but countless times. We know what the scripture says, “For the wages of sin is death” and this sinner before you deserves to die. How can a just God be associated with such a sinful person. 
In 1 John chapter 1 Saint John says that those who have fellowship with him and live in darkness lie and do not have the truth in them. The person reading this has sinned and therefore the truth is not within them, hence they are deserving of death. That is all your honour. Thank you. 
God: Jesus your opening statement. How does your client plead? 
Jesus: My client pleads guilty your honour. Indeed the person reading this has sinned. There is no doubt about that. Indeed the punishment for sin is death. But I want to highlight that my client does not make sinning  a habit as Satan puts it.  If Satan had continued reading into chapter 2 of said 1 John he would have realised that whilst we do not want anyone to sin, however  IF by some moment of weakness they do sin, the person who sins has an advocate in Jesus. 
Your honour Satan is trying to create the picture that this person is deserving of death, but must I remind Satan as advocate I’ve already paid the price for this person’s sin.  Therefore, the sin of the person reading and listening to this reflection is not held against them once they have accepted me in their heart and sincerely confess their sin. 
God: I’ve listened to both arguments and I have decided to dismiss the case against the person reading this Reflection. Once they accepted my son Jesus and confessed their sins, they are free to go. Case dismissed. Court adjourned. 
Friends we have an advocate who makes Intercession for us when we sin. This does not mean we continue sinning because of our advocate but in the event that we do Jesus is there for us. 
Shalom
Christopher Euphfa