How prevailing the intercession of our great High-priest! He pleads for us, not like one supplicating for blessings, which he knows he does not deserve; but, as a Son with his Father, who knows he prays for promised blessings, which were purchased with his blood. His intercession, founded on his all-meritorious sacrifice, must be ever-prevailing. At the grave of Lazarus, he said, "Father, I thank thee, that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people that stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me." John xi. 41, 42. Not one for whom he intercedes shall fail of salvation; not one petition he presents can fail to be heard and granted.

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