KP: The Intercessor

KP writes:

I was reading the notes from a sermon Allen Hood recently preached and was struck by them. I hope that they leave you in awe of our sovereign God as they did me.

Kristian

"Between the sovereignty of God and the destiny of man, one finds the intercessor. There in the great chasm between God’s blazing righteousness and man’s fallenness, an intercessor is found waiting. There love waits and wrestles for God to be heard and man to be pitied. The courageous are found there fighting for God to be adored and man to be accepted. In this holy place one enters into the suffering heart of the Mediator, Jesus, who vindicates His Father’s glorious name and atones for the rebellion. This is a holy place, a divine meeting where doors open to deep caverns of divine paradox, where God’s emotions and economy lead to groans and pleas for triumph and redemption. Blessed is the man who waits here.

Blessed is the man who enters secret chambers where justice and mercy give birth to love in action. Blessed is the one who enters into the divine unity of God’s own nature. Justice demands sentence on the trespassers. Blazing righteousness zeroes in on the defiled. Mercy reaches to cover and kindness moves to adorn. In the swirl of God’s own passions the intercessor is beckoned to where God prays to God, where the Son asks His Father to forgive them and the Father agrees, crushing the Son with the burden of the masses. The intercessor meets the crucified Jesus at Golgotha’s triumph and finds fullness there. God’s fullness! And our acceptance into it! "