Covenant Reformed News – December 2013 • Volume XIV, Issue 20
This article from Covenant Reformed News explains Jesus Christ's role as the one mediator between God and humanity, emphasizing that He mediates through His covenant work rather than merely through teaching or moral reform. The piece develops how Christ's mediation involves His substitutionary atonement (giving Himself as a ransom) and establishes Him as the mediator of the new covenant, addressing the fundamental enmity between holy God and depraved humanity. Readers seeking a clear, biblically-grounded explanation of Christ's mediatorial work and its connection to covenant theology will find this accessible and substantive.
The One Mediator Between God and Men What is a mediator? A mediator is one who comes between two or more parties at enmity, removes the enmity and restores them to friendship. Our Lord Jesus Christ is not merely a diplomatic or political mediator (whose task is to resolve disputes between two or more states or civil governments, or between two or more factions within a state) or a family mediator (who seeks to effect unity between two or more parties in a family) or a marital mediator (who...