Although we have the purging of sins through Christ, we are in a place of temptation where, through ignorance and weakness and a thousand things that may arise, we are in constant peril of turning aside and slipping. What is to become of us then? What is to sustain and carry us through? God reveals the blessed Priest who cares for the soul-One who has the full confidence of God the Father-who has given the most entire satisfaction to Him-One who is seated at the right hand of God and who there is unceasingly occupied with our need, on the ground that we belong to God and are already redeemed and have no more conscience of sin.
Faith receives and asks of God what He intends to be our strength and comfort in the midst of our weakness and dangers. His answer is that Christ is there to plead our cause, as surely as the Spirit is here to render us sensible of it. And it is through Christ's intercession at the right hand of God that we are brought to feel our need and failures, for we never judge it without getting moral blessing through that judgment. All power of Christ resting on us is in proportion to the depth of the moral estimate produced in our souls by the Spirit of God in answer to the intercession of Christ, and it is part of Christ's intercession for us that we are made to feel, when we have in mind and fact gone astray. [12]