The Substitute Redeemer We Need
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 10/9/2016 AM |
Text: | I Corinthians 1; Lord's Day 6 |
Psalters: | 132, 321, 117, 80 |
- Who He must be.
- A mediator is someone who stands between and reconciles two parties that are at odds with each other.
- A deliverer or redeemer is one who buys back a slave or captive by paying the debt or the ransom.
- Jesus is both Mediator and Redeemer, and thus is the Savior.
- He was appointed by God for this task.
- There is only one mediator between God and men (I Tim. 2:5; Hebrews 8:6; 9:15; 12:24).
- Jesus redeems us from sin, and frees us from the power of Satan, purchasing our redemption with His blood (Eph. 1:7).
- The Mediator and Redeemer must meet certain qualifications.
- He had to be real man, for man sinned.
- And He must be true God.
- Who alone has these qualifications? Our Lord Jesus Christ.
- God sent His Son to us out of free grace (John 3:16; Romans 5:8; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 5:2; I John 3:16).
- Jesus met all the qualifications.
- He was completely human, born of a woman.
- He was a perfectly righteous man, free from all original and actual sin and from all sinfulness.
- He is God, the Second Person of the Trinity, co-equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit (I Tim. 3:16; I Jn. 5:20).
- The union of the divine nature with the human nature is called the “Incarnation” ( coming in flesh).
- In Christ we have complete redemption and righteousness, for Christ is a complete and the all-sufficient Savior.