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One Mediator Meaning
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Jesus the Mediator Bible Study
What is the One Mediator Meaning
Let us begin, shall we? A Mediator is defined as a negotiator who acts as a link between two parties. The Bibles reveals that Jesus is the Mediator of the New Covenant.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the Mediator of a better Covenant, which was established upon better promises.
And for this cause He [Jesus] is the Mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
The Bible is clear ... Jesus is the Mediator between us and God because mankind broke God's rules in the Old Covenant and Jesus brought in the New Covenant and only through Jesus can our prayers be heard by God. Let's do a little exploring shall we?
If you have not already, you may want to read the New Covenant study within our Christian Walk Studies to become more familiar with what the Bible shares on the New Covenant.
We are taught to plant seeds of Truth and we are to water those seeds within ourselves, so I would like for us to do a little watering so God can do a little increase within us.
7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he
that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every
man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's
husbandry, ye are God's building.
For those who have read the New Covenant study/sermon ... I would like to "water" what we have learned a bit more and expand on the meaning of this New Covenant, look into how Jesus is the Mediator of this New Covenant and how it affects your life today ...
A "Covenant" is an agreement between two parties. In this case the agreement was between God and man. It was based on law given to the people by God, through Moses. The Old Testament of the Bible, is based on this Old Covenant.
But, the Bible teaches us that God chose to create a New Covenant and this New Covenant is revealed by the New Testament. Our Father told us in the Bible that we will know that He is God because He tells us things that will happen before they occur. Did our Father prophecy, through His servants the prophets, of the coming of this New Covenant?
Absolutely!
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a
new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of
Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them,
saith the Lord:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in
their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and
every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me,
from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I
will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
God said that He would place the law within our hearts and forgive all of our sins and remember the sins no more. Now this does not mean that the Law is of no effect, rather it is saying that when you believe in Jesus, God will place the laws within your heart. It is confirmed that He had performed this act in the New Covenant (Testament) ... It says that God found the Old Covenant to possess faults and that Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant.
6 But now hath He [Jesus] obtained a more excellent ministry,
by how much also He [Jesus] is the Mediator of a better Covenant,
which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then
should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, He saith, Behold, the
days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
God found fault with the Old Covenant ... A better Covenant was made, which had better promises, as the first was not faultless. God found fault with the practices and promises because His people could not abide by the first Covenant.
So, with Love ... God made a better Covenant that His people could abide by with better promises. Yes, our loving Lord is perfect and what He does is perfect. But, a strange thing happened on the way to perfection. Much like we find in the book of Genesis:
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at his heart.
God created man and man is not perfect. Not because the design was flawed, but rather because in love, God gave mankind free will. If you throw in the enemy of our souls (Satan) and the choices mankind has made having this free will altered the perfection thereof and God ... Found a serious fault that we would have condemned by.
So God's perfect Covenant, in a perfect world have been effective, but His children fell and were not perfect and in Love, He created an even better Covenant that His children could deal with. When God found the fault with the Old Covenant ... God did not change man by removing free will, but rather changed the Covenant. In this New Covenant based on Love.
He placed the laws in the hearts of man.
So, in order to save His children, He had to sacrifice His Son Jesus as to establish a new blood Covenant worthy of cleansing the sins of the people. In the days of Moses, blood was sprinkled on the people to establish the Old Covenant. (Kind of like a blood pact between friends.) Now, in the New Covenant, it is the blood of Jesus that established the New Covenant.
For this is my Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Now, the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the Blood of the everlasting Covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Now, let's talk about how this New Covenant affects you in your Christian walk. We now know that Jesus is the Mediator or Bridge between you and God. You can not get to God without going thru Jesus. So, if you have been praying, but not saying "In Jesus name" your prayers are not being heard. We are taught to Always ask in Jesus' name.
And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it.
Jesus is the gateway between the Old Covenant and New Covenant. Between the old outcome of death and the renewed Eternal Life Promise ...
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
You must enter in the Jesus door to get to God ...
23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I
say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will
give it you.
24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and
ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the
time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall
shew you plainly of the Father.
26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not
unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
So, we pray to God through Jesus. Simple enough. But, we also have been taught to pray by way of the Holy Spirit ...
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we
know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of
the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the
will of God.
Sooooooo, our prayer comes from our Soul and is felt by our own spirit and the Holy Spirit feels it and makes intercession for us thru Jesus to God. The Holy Spirit interprets our Prayers. Pretty cool huh?
What are the laws of this New Covenant? Have the laws themselves changed? Most that study God's Word use this Scripture to reveal that the laws have not changed.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
So, the New Covenant which is based on better promises still has laws. But, who was Jesus talking to? Who were Jesus and the Apostles preaching the New Covenant to?
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying,
Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the
Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts,
and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David;
my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and
besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost
sheep of the house of Israel.
Jesus made it clear He was sent to the Lost sheep of Israel (at least at that time) But there were faithful gentiles (those who were not Jewish) who Jesus was amazed at their Faith and performed miracles for.
25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the
children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs
which fall from their masters' table.
28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy
faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole
from that very hour.
Jesus had come to end the Old Covenant and get as many Jewish souls to repent and accept the Truth before the New Covenant was to begin. As Jesus made clear, He came for the Jewish people at that time.
But ... Why not Gentiles? Because the Old Covenant which was broken by the Jewish people was not made with Gentiles, it was made only with the Jewish people.
Now, after the death, resurrection and rising to Heaven of Jesus, the New Covenant took effect.
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament,
that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were
under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise
of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be
the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead:
otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
After Jesus was taken to Heaven and the Gentiles (non-Jewish people) were now able to become Christians into the New Covenant. We are also told that in the New Covenant, Jewish and Gentile are deemed as being the same.
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him.
Note ... This was after the New Covenant takes effect.
Many Jewish Christians were none to happy about this as the Old Covenant Law said Gentiles were unclean and even eating with them could defile a man. But, Peter learned the hard way that what God calls clean is clean and spoke up.
7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and
said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God
made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word
of the gospel, and believe.
8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving
them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their
hearts by faith.
10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck
of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Some Jewish Christians wanted to impose the laws of the Old Covenant on the Gentiles. However, the Holy Spirit thought it was fitting to "burden" the Gentiles with only a few "laws."
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which
from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from
pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and
from blood.
So the elders of the early Christian Church sent a message out ...
23 And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The
apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are
of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.
24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from
us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be
circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to
send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26 Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell
you the same things by mouth.
28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to
lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from
blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye
keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, Mercy, and Faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Are the Gentiles (and the Jewish souls for that matter) still subject to the same laws of the Old Covenant which those before us were unable to bear so God creates a New Covenant?
Here is Wisdom:
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a
new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of
Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them,
saith the Lord:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in
their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their
God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and
every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me,
from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I
will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
By Grace, God is placing the laws within us slowly as we walk this Christian walk. We need Faith in Jesus and the rest is a miracle. It is God's increase.
We need only plant seeds of truth and water them by reading God's Word.
Check out these Scriptures and decide for yourself what you believe:
For the law was given by Moses, but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under Grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
For by Grace are ye saved through Faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
I do not frustrate the Grace of God: For if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; Ye are fallen from Grace.
In short, there is a New Covenant and it is based on Grace not law. It is not our works that will get us into Heaven but His Love and Grace that will cause the laws to be placed into our minds and hearts causing us to do His will.
By no means is God's Grace a "Get out of hell free" card. You are still responsible for your actions after you receive God's Grace.
God's Grace reveals that if you truly believe in Jesus and the Truth that He was willing to die for you, and did, that you would know that He loves you so much that you will want to do what He wants you to do because you would know that He is looking out for your best interests.
You will try hard not to do things that would make him ashamed or disappointed in you. You may fall, but always remember that only a worm is free from the worry of stumble and the real test is to see if you will get up, dust yourself off, carry on and never surrender.
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