Wednesday, November 6, 2013

ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN! BY Ike T. Sidebottom



The Holy Spirit of God spoke through the patriarch Job, saying, "How should man be just with God?" If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean: yet shalt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, and we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that should lay His hand on us both." (Job 9: 1,30-33)

It is evident that Job was clearly shown the deep and unabridged chasm between himself, the sinner, and God, the righteous One. Consequently, His cry for a "daysman" to stand betwixt him and God. Laying one hand upon God and the other hand upon Job, thereby bridging the chasm between them.

The "daysman," or mediator, has been supplied in the person of "the man Christ Jesus." The appointed preacher, and apostle and teacher of the Gentiles, was moved upon to reveal the fact that it is the desire of "God our Saviour" that all men be "saved," and "come unto the knowledge of the truth." Coupled with this unprecedented longing in the heart of God our Saviour, He has also set forth the essential facts that He is the "one God," Who became the "one mediator" between God and men, "the man Christ Jesus" ( I Timothy 2:1-7).

With God's Word as our authority, we may be absolutely positive in our teaching that "the man Christ Jesus" is not a mere man. He is man, but He is also God. He is the one, and only, God-man. Therefore He is the one and only mediator between God and men. These things are attested in "all Scripture."

A mere man could never be rightly spoken of as being "the same yesterday, and today, and forever." Yet, we find that God has spoken through the Psalmist David, saying, "0 my God ... Thy years are throughout all generations. Of old, hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of Thy hands. They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure: yea all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same, and Thy years shall have no end" (Psalms 102:24-27). It is also written in Malachi 3:6, "I am the Lord, I change not."

The writer to the Hebrews certified these same truths, saying, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever." Thus we see that both the Old Testament and New Testament writers have joined together in testimony that the man Christ Jesus is from everlasting to everlasting and that He is unchangeable. Therefore the "one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time" is none other than perfect God and perfect man. Therefore He is the go-between, and is capable of putting one hand in the hand of the fallen sinner and the other hand in the hand of the righteous God. This makes it possible for the believing sinner to be linked up with God through the tie which can never be broken.

Let us rejoice and give thanks for our fellowship with God through Jesus Christ His Son, our Saviour.

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