Turn your eyes upon Jesus: The Great Mediator

Hebrews 8:1-13

Hebrews 8:1–13 NASB95

Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer. Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law; who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, “See,” He says, “that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.” But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second. For finding fault with them, He says, “Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, When I will effect a new covenant With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day when I took them by the hand To lead them out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant, And I did not care for them, says the Lord. “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, And I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, And they shall be My people. “And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen, And everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ For all will know Me, From the least to the greatest of them. “For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And I will remember their sins no more.” When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

Mediator

Eerdmans Bible Dictionary MEDIATOR

A “mediator” is normally the third party through whom agreement is reached between two parties previously in conflict with each other; though this idea is present, it must be understood as one among other legal and social metaphors for the work of atonement, most notably “ransom”

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition) Mediator

me•di•a•tor \ˈmē-dē-ˌā-tər\ noun

14th century

1: one that mediates especially: one that mediates between parties at variance

2: a mediating agent in a physical, chemical, or biological process

Different Viewpoints

Sovereignty of God Freewill of Humanity

Religious Relational

Legalism Liberalism

Conservative Progressive

Orthodox Revisionists

Judaism Christianity

Newton (Reason) Darwin (Passion)

Christ Jesus

Christ/Messiah - The Office or position of a deliverer

High Priest - Delivered the atonement sacrifices for the people and the nation

King - Delivered the people from tyranny

The position that was established by and through the Sovereignty of God

Jesus - A person, a human being having the Freewill of Humanity

New Covenant

The blending of religion with relation, position and personal. The combination of the Sovereignty of God and the Freewill of mankind only found within the Christ Jesus. Salvation comes through God’s Grace (Sovereignty of God) and your faith (Freewill). The application of this is in the Lord’s Supper.