law court. He is our defender, our spokesman, our intercessor.56 He ‘speaks on behalf of the accused.’57 It is also a title that John gives to the Holy Spirit in his gospel (John 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7). The NIV translates, ‘we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense.’ My wife Emily’s father died when she was sixteen. I remember her periodically mourning the fact that she no longer had an ‘advocate.’ Her father was a fiercely loyal man, almost to a fault. No matter what, he would defend