- Christ as our Mediator (Job 9:32-33)
1 Tim 2:5, 1 Jn 2:1-2, Heb 8:6, Heb 9:15, Heb 12:24
In the Old Testament, Job lamented knowing that there was no mediator between God and himself. (Job 9:32-33)
Job 9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Jesus, the Christ, is the mediator between God and us. (1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 8:6)
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Jesus became the propitiation for our sins and became the mediator between us and God. (1 John 2:1-2, Hebrews 9:15, Hebrews 12:24)
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.