Question 38. Why must the Mediator be God?

 

Question 38. Why must the Mediator be God?

Answer. The reason why the Mediator must be God is that he may hold human nature in check, and not fall under the infinite wrath of God, and the power of death; that he may give value and efficacy to his sufferings, obedience, and intercession, and so satisfy the justice of God; that he may obtain for himself a peculiar people, and put his Spirit upon them, and subdue all their enemies, and bring them to everlasting salvation.

 

The mediator is not God, but the Son of God. The reason the mediator becomes the Son of God is to persuade God that he will be a sacrifice on behalf of sinners. The wrath of God, the righteous God, is appeased by the Son of God on behalf of man. The Son of God dies on the cross on behalf of sinners, appeasing the wrath of God. Therefore, for those who enter into Christ, the wrath of God is appeased by the mediator, and sinners are forgiven.

Originally, angels were the sons of God, but some of them wanted to be like God and opposed God, so God became angry and created the material world to confine them and made them human. In 2 Peter 2:4, it says, "If God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of darkness to be kept until judgment." The chains of darkness are the earth. This means that humans are the earth in which God confined the spirits of angels. In Genesis 2:7, it says, "The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being."

As in the parable of the prodigal son, a mediator was needed to bring back the fallen angels to the kingdom of God. Because the just God must punish sinners. That is why He predestined Christ, and became Christ Himself, and became a mediator in the name of the Son, and was born into the world and died a substitutionary death. Therefore, those who enter into Christ, God releases His wrath, revives the spirits that were imprisoned and dead, and gives them freedom and makes them sit at the right hand of God.

 

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