I BELIEVE IN ONE GOD....Understanding important truths from the Bible….

I Timothy 2:5 NKJV

  

“There is one; There is one mediator”.  The one God demands all our devotion and he alone is to be recognized as the only God, there is none other.  Whatever He is that He has revealed about Himself, is to complete our knowledge of God.

Any god so called which is not that which is revealed in Holy Scripture is a lie.  It is idolatry to recognize in any way this lie as God.  The fact that there are many gods is a great demand for every believer to know the true God and as surely to reject the lie.

There is some attention to be directed to what is known as the two other religious which are monotheist, Mulems and Jews.  But this is not so with respect to the true God.  The mere fact that they allow no idols does not mean they worship one God.  The One God of Scripture is the Triune God of our salvation.  Thus has He revealed Himself.  Thus He is.  Thus alone can He be worshipped.

Paul takes this revelation of God one step further.  There is a commonality in the One God and the One Mediator.  The One God includes the One Mediator and the One Mediator is included in the One God.  There seems to me a very close likeness between Paul’s statement here and John’s in John 1:18, No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

There is an absolute to be recognized.  And this is; all the honor and distinction that the One God merits in His office, the One Mediator has in His uniqueness.

The Mediator has in Himself alone the responsibility, the authority, and the ability to be what He is.  As the Godhood is not shared with the creature so the mediation of this One belongs to no creature.

Both the Son and Spirit are intercessors.  Both the Son and the Spirit are advocates.  We as Saints share with the Son and the Spirit the responsibility of intercessions and advocacy.  But no one shares with the God-man the Mediatorial office.

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Christ’s mediatorship is thus exercised in all the phases of redemption from election in God’s eternal counsel to the consummation of salvation.  He is Mediator in humiliation and exaltation.  There is, therefore, multiformity attaching to his mediatorial activity, and it cannot be defined in terms of one idea or function.  His mediatorship has as many facets as his person, office and work.  And as there is diversity in the offices and tasks discharged and in the relations he sustains to men as Mediator, so there is diversity in the relations he sustains to the Father and the Holy Spirit in the economy of redemption.  The faith and worship of him require that we recognize this diversity.  And the unique glory that is his as Mediator demands that we accord to no other even the semblance of that prerogative that belongs to him as the Mediator between God and man.

New Bible Dictionary, “Mediator”, pg 757, John Murray.