{"id":39906,"date":"2026-04-13T20:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39906"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:41:26","slug":"26-0414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0414\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ Stands Up for Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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The voices in our world and the voices in our head.\u00a0<\/b>Who is this morality patrolman who issues a citation at every stumble? Does he ever shut up? No. Because\u00a0Satan<\/em>\u00a0never shuts up.<\/p>\n

Revelation 12:10 (NLT) says, \u201cFor the accuser has been thrown down to earth, the one who accused our brothers and sisters before our God day and night.\u201d \u00a0Satan is relentless, tireless. The accuser makes a career out of accusing, but he will not have the last word. Jesus has acted on our behalf.<\/p>\n

He stooped. Low enough to be spat upon, nailed, and speared. Low, low enough to be buried. And then he stood. He stood up. Romans 8:34 promises that he is in the presence of God at this very moment standing up for us. So we have a clean conscience. We have a clean record. Free from condemnation, a new life in Christ!\u00a0Grace.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Read more\u00a0Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The voices in our world and the voices in our head. Who is this morality patrolman who issues a citation at every stumble? Does he ever shut up? No. Because Satan never shuts up.<\/p>\n

Revelation 12:10 (NLT) says, \u201cFor the accuser has been thrown down to earth, the one who accused our brothers and sisters before our God day and night.\u201d Satan is relentless, tireless. The accuser makes a career out of accusing, but he will not have the last word. Jesus has acted on our behalf.<\/p>\n

He stooped. Low enough to be spat upon, nailed, and speared. Low, low enough to be buried. And then he stood. He stood up. Romans 8:34 promises that he is in the presence of God at this very moment standing up for us. So we have a clean conscience. We have a clean record. Free from condemnation, a new life in Christ! Grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39908,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39906\/revisions\/39908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}