Question 23: Jesus Our Mediator

Paul declares the profound truth that Jesus Christ stands as the one and only mediator between God and humanity. Without Christ, people are enemies of God, alienated from him because of their sin (Colossians 1:21). Humanity needed a mediator to go before them, to make a way to God because they could not do it themselves. Jesus accomplished this by enacting a new covenant in his blood (Luke 22:20). Through Jesus, internal devotion replaces external religion. God gives people new hearts and new spirits, writing his laws on their hearts and changing them from the inside out (Ezekiel 36:26-27). God offers to embrace all people in this new covenant through faith in Jesus Christ.