Grosey's Messages

1 Timothy 2:1-5    You Need A Mediator

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.3 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.7 For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

 

15 Q. What kind of mediator and deliverer  should we look for then?

A. One who is truly human and truly righteous, yet more powerful than all creatures,  that is, one who is also true God.

16 Q. Why must He be truly human  and truly righteous?

A. God's justice demands  that human nature, which has sinned,  must pay for its sin; but a sinner could never pay for others

17 Q. Why must He also be true God?

A. So that,  by the power of His divinity,  He might bear the weight of God's anger in His humanity  and earn for us  and restore to us  righteousness and life.

18 Q. And who is this mediator -  true God and at the same time  truly human and truly righteous?

A. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was given us  to set us completely free  and to make us right with God.

19 Q. How do you come to know this?

A. The holy gospel tells me.  God Himself began to reveal the gospel already in Paradise; later, He proclaimed it  by the holy patriarchs and prophets,  and portrayed it  by the sacrifices and other ceremonies of the law;  finally, He fulfilled it  through His own dear Son.

Patriarch Job's Court Language

contend (Job 9:3; 10:2)                answer (9:3, 16)

judge (v. 15)                                   set a time (v. 19)

daysman (v. 33)                                           reason (13:3)

order my cause (v. 18)                 plead (v. 19; 23:6)

hear me (31:35)                                           adversary (v. 35)

2 Questions

"How can I be righteous before God?" (9:1–13) 

"How can I meet God in court?" (v 14–35)

I Need A Mediator
For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him, That we may go to court together. There is no umpire between us, Who may lay his hand upon us both.

A Mediator Provided
1 Timothy 2:5-6. "For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus; Who gave Himself a ransom for all....
Why Is Jesus The Only Mediator?

The Eternal Purpose Of God

1Peter 1:18-20  knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who believe (1 Pet. 1:20).

Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

He Is The Eternal Person

Anselm of Canterbury: salvation "could not have been done unless man paid what was owing to God for sin. But the debt was so great that, while man alone owed it, only God could pay it, so that the same person must be both man and God. Thus it was necessary for God to take manhood into the unity of his person, so that he who in his own nature ought to pay and could not should be in a person who could."

He Paid The Eternal Payment

"The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45).

He paid the debt He did not owe     I owed the debt I could not pay
I needed someone to wash my sins away  And now I sing a brand new song, "Amazing grace" the whole day long Christ Jesus paid the debt  that I could never pay

 

Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

 

1 Timothy 1:12-16 "It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life."

1 Tim 2:1-6  This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.

Calvin, "the apostle's meaning here is simply that no nation of the earth and no rank of society is excluded from salvation, since God wills to offer the gospel to all without exception."