Dr. Albert N. Martin

There are certain truths in the Word of God which function like ballasts in the souls of God’s people…The child of God who has filled up the barrel of his soul with these truths will have the necessary ballasts to keep on course and to not find himself capsized spiritually. [In the initial message of this series], I sought to address two very basic truths that act as ballasts in the soul…and here are the two truths that I said were like ballasts in the souls of God’s people. Truth number one: God is on His throne, governing all things in His universe as an absolute sovereign. The second truth: the crucified, risen, and exalted Christ shares that throne as the administrator of all things, leading to a glorious consummation.

Then [in the second message], we took up the third truth, and I stated it this way: the God who is on the throne, that God who is an absolute sovereign, that God who is governing everything in His universe, from the microcosm to the macrocosm, from every atom of every cell in your body, to every particle of every star in the farthest yet undiscovered galaxy, the God who governs all of that according to the Scriptures, is my loving, all-knowing, kindly-disposed, but principled Father in Heaven.

Now, I indicated in opening up that category of truth, that this truth of God as Father is counterpart to the truth that God is on His throne. It is a counterpart, not the negation of the first truth, not the absorption of the first truth, and faith must learn how to focus on that aspect of God and God’s relationship to His world and to His children. [This is something] which the circumstances most desperately need.

When nothing seems to make sense in your life, when nothing seems to make sense in what is happening in the lives of your loved ones, nothing seems to make sense in what is happening in the country, in the world, well then you see, your greatest comfort will not come from your realization that as a child of God, your God is your Father, but you need to focus on the reality that our God is in the Heavens; He has done whatsoever He has pleased. He knows what He is doing. He is in absolute control.

However, there are other times when we can derive little comfort from the fixation of faith upon the reality that God is on His throne, governing all things as an absolute sovereign. We need to know the reality and the preciousness of being able to come to Him as our loving, our all-knowing, kindly disposed, but principled Father in Heaven who delights to give good gifts to His children and who even cares for the sparrow as it falls to the ground.

Well, as truth number three is the counterpart of truth number one, God [who is] upon the throne, that God is our Father, so the second truth has a counterpart…Christ upon the throne is our advocate and intercessor, our indwelling life and strength, our guide and our constant companion.

This text is an edited transcript of the first few minutes of the following message:

Christ Is My Advocate (1)