“In yourself, alone on your side of the scale, you are a sinner; but in him you are perfect, just, beautiful, righteous. You’re lost in your Advocate. Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:21, “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” That means that just as Jesus was not personally sinful but was treated as sinful and punished on the cross, now we who believe in him, while not personally righteous and perfect, are treated as righteous, beautiful, and perfect by the Father, for Jesus’ sake. So what is the job of the first Advocate? It is to say before the Father, “Look at what I’ve done. And now, accept them in me.”