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This past Sunday, our lesson topic was "Accuser or Advocate" from a group study by Judah Smith called Jesus Is ________.  I found our discussion after the video to be challenging and encouraging at the same time.  So, let me pose the question Smith poses to us, "Are we to be accusers or advocates in our world?"  I know what the obvious answer is.  We should be advocates.  But how does this apply practically with our spouse, children, friends, neighbors? Can we be advocates all the time?  As the old adage says, "hate the sin, love the sinner."  Can we stand firm on convictions from God's Word in a non-accusatory way?  Or should we?  Like I told the class, it requires a lot of prayer and leading by the Holy Spirit.  Here are some verses that show examples of accusation? 10  And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the ...

Here is another song we sang at Liberate 2014.  Think about the words. You can listen below.  I also encourage you to return  here  to listen to "Once For All". His Be the Victor's Name 1. His be the Victor's Name Who fought the fight alone; Triumphant saints no honor claim; Their conquest was His own. 2. By weakness and defeat He won the glorious crown; Trod all His foes beneath His feet By being trodden down. What though the vile accuser roar Of sins that I have done; I know them well, and thousands more; My God, He knoweth none 3. He hell in hell laid low; Made sin, He sin o'erthrew; Bowed to the grave, destroyed it so, And death, by dying, slew. 4. Bless, bless the Conqueror slain, Slain by divine decree! Who lived, who died, who lives again, For thee, my soul, for thee. My sin is cast into the sea Of God’s forgotten memory No more to haunt accusingly For Christ has lived and died for me His Be the Victor's Name by Zac Hicks...