"...there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind..."

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 “...who [God] wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.  For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,  who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.”   [1 Timothy: 2:4-6]

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"...there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind..."

God is one; therefore, He is the God of all men, and prayer should be addressed to Him in behalf of all men. As the one God, He desires the salvation of all men.  If He were one of many gods, He might be concerned only about His own worshippers.

Secondly, One is Mediator between God and men. This being so, no man can come to God in any other way. A mediator is a go-between, a middleman who can stand between two and communicate with both. Through Christ, Himself Man, God is enabled to approach men with forgiveness of sins. Consequently any poor sinner can approach Him, and will by no means be rejected.

Paul identifies the Mediator as the Man, Christ Jesus. This does not deny the deity of the Lord Jesus. In order to be the Mediator between God and Man, He must be both God and Man. The Lord Jesus is God from all eternity, but He became Man in Bethlehem’s manger. He represents the whole race of humanity.

The verse effectively answers the false teaching so common today that the blessed Virgin Mary or angels or saints are mediators between God and man. There is only on Mediator, and His name is Christ Jesus.

Dear friend, do you know your mediator?  Is Christ Jesus your mediator? 
 
 

"At the name of Jesus every knee should bow"

    

"At the name of Jesus every knee should bow"

 “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved...That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth..” [Acts 4:12, Phill. 2:10]