Thy Throne O God For Ever and Ever: A Sceptre of Righteousness Is the Sceptre of Thy Kingdom - Part 1126

Jesus -- the one and only mediator between God and man. (I Timothy 2:5)

"For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth -- for there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time." (I Timothy 2:1-6)

This same point is clarified again in apostle Paul's message to the brethren in Galatia.

"And this I say, the covenant that was confirmed of God in Christ, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after cannot dis-annul that it should make the promise of none effect ... for if the inheritance be of the law, [it is] no more of promise but God gave [it] to Abraham by promise. Wherefore then [serveth] the law? It was added because of transgressions till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made, [and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a [mediator] of one, but God is one." (Galatians 3:17-20)

Therefore, the only mediator between God and man is the Lord Jesus the Christ. It is He who is the begotten Son of the holy Spirit of God.

"And the angel answered and said unto [Mary], "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore, also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." (Luke 1:35)

It is this same Jesus who was conceived of the Seed of the Holy Ghost. This is why the spiritual nature dwelling within Jesus was not the natural seed of Adam’s fallen race.

"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. For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament [is] of force after men are dead; otherwise, it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats with water, and scarlet wool, and hysop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people, saying, "This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you."

Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry, and almost all things are by the law purged with blood and without shedding of blood is no remission. [It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands [which are] the figures of the ture' but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us, nor yet that He should offer Himself often -- as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others -- for then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world; but now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself ..." (Hebrews 9:15-28)

His spiritual nature was pure, holy, and undefiled. The same God who created us in the beginning was made flesh so that we might know His love in our hearts. The ultimate reason why God willingly became as one of us -- so that we could walk in the cool of the afternoon with Him.

But God did not have to appear on earth to understand humanity. God made man from the dust of the earth, and woman from Adam's rib. He already understood our inner being. However, as a consequence of the transgression in the Garden of Eden, we became total strangers and foreigners to the pure humanity that had indwelt Adam -- prior to being put out of the Garden.

At that point, Adam's mental and intellectual growth (in the context of pure humanity) became stagnated. Adam and Eve both, at the time of expulsion from the Garden of Eden were left only to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. Their hearts chasing the worldly constructs and yet still running empty.

But it doesn't have to be this way. God loved us enough to dwell among us, knowing that His precious blood would have to be shed on the cross. "He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not ... but as many as received Him -- to them gave He the power to become the sons of God -- to them that believe on His name" (John 1:1-18)

This is the message that we need to take hold of today.

"God who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by [His] Son whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds -- who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person and upholding all things by the Word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins ..." (Hebrews 1:1-14 and Hebrews 2:1-18)

His love everlasting! His mercies true! Respond to the love of Jesus today. Ask Jesus to become Lord in your life right now wherever you are. And then repent and be baptized into the name of Jesus so that you too can receive His glory in your life. (Acts 2:37-42)

Stand in the offering plate.