Jesus, The Mediator (John Flavel)

1 Timothy 2:5

“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” 

What is the sense and import of this word Mesivth", a Mediator? The true sense and importance of it, is a middle Person, or one that interposes betwixt two parties at variance, to make peace betwixt them. So that as Satan is medium disjungens, a medium of discord; so Christ is medium conjungens, a medium of concord and peace. And he is such a Mediator, both in respect of his person and office; in respect of his person, he is a Mediator; i.e. one that hath the same nature both with God and us, true God, and true man; and in respect of his Office or work, which is to interpose, to transact the business of reconciliation between us and God.

How it appears that Jesus Christ is the true and only Mediator betwixt God and men. I reply, it is manifest he is so,

Because he, and no other, is revealed to us by God. And if God reveal him, and no other, we must receive him, and no other as such. Take but two scriptures at present, that in 1 Cor. viii. 5. "The heathen have many gods, and many lords," i.e. many great gods, supreme powers and ultimate objects of their worship;.. "But unto us (saith he) there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we by him;" i.e. one supreme essence, the first spring and fountain of blessings, and one Lord, i. e. one Mediator, "by whom are all things, and we by him." By whom are all things which come from the Father to us, and by whom are all our addresses to the Father: So Acts iv. 12. "Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved." No other name, i. e. no other authority, or rather, no other person authorized under heaven, i. e. the whole world: for heaven is not here opposed to earth, as though there were other intercessors in heaven besides Christ: no, no, in heaven and earth God hath given him, and none but him, to be our Mediator. One sun is sufficient for the whole world; and one Mediator for all men in the world. So that the scriptures affirm this is he, and exclude all others.

Because he, and no other, is fit for, and capable of this office. Who but he that hath the divine and human nature united in his single person, can be a fit day's-man to lay his hand upon both? Who but he that was God, could support under such sufferings, as were, by divine justice, exacted for satisfaction!

 Because he is alone sufficient to reconcile the world to God by his blood, without accessions from any other. The virtue of his blood reached back as far as Adam, and reaches forward to the end of the world; and will be as fresh, vigorous, and efficacious then, as the first moment it was shed. The sun makes day before it actually rises, and continues day sometimes after it is set: so do doth Christ, who is the same yesterday, today, and for ever; so that he is the true and only mediator betwixt God and men: no other is revealed in scripture; no other is sufficient for it; no other needed beside him.

(John Flavel, Of the Nature of Christ's Mediation)

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1 Corinthians 8:6

“But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.”