The Alpha of Mediation

UV 3090/10000 The Alpha of the Mediator
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
I Timothy 2 v 4
The word “alpha” signifies a combination of teaching of the word of God and the testimony of man for in the book of Revelation it is stated that only the word of God along with testimony of man leads to salvation of mankind. Hence, alpha gives people an insight not just into the word but the practical and real experience of the grace of Christ in their lives. The uni-verse above speaks about the truth of Jesus being the one and only mediator between God and men. It speaks of His humanity as well as His divinity. His humanity enables Him to understand and empathise with our predicaments and suffering. His divinity makes Him a perfect or complete mediator.
This uni-verse makes it abundantly clear that there is only one mediator –Jesus who mediates our salvation. Neither Mary, the mother nor the apostles and saints through the ages can take the place of a mediator. The moment we think we need one such human mediator, we are saying that Jesus is not good enough for us while both the word and testimony of faithful people states clearly and demonstrated that Jesus is the perfect, complete, irreplacable Mediator. We need a mediator in Jesus as God is absolutely holy and Jesus by His death on the cross gave all who believed in His mediation the right to the eternal inheritance. He made possible a better covenant than the one mediated by Moses. Jesus fills the breach between God and man. He gives us eternal hope and hope in the present life through a better promise and a better guarantee of its fulfillment. A mediator knows both sides to a covenant or agreement he is brokering. Jesus knows the demands of God’s righteousness, the problems of man’s sinfulness, his need for an unfailing way to eternal life, his need to know the truth of God and his desire for the abundant life. He knows the standards of God and the needs of man and in His life, word, deeds, death and resurrection, intercession now at the right hand of God, the Father, He reconciles the two without contradiction or inconsistency.
Jesus as Mediator obviates the need for any other means or person to reach out to God. He manifests to us the nature or character of God, the Father. His mediation makes us children or sons and daughters of God. We can take any question, any issue, any difficulty, any challenge to our Mediator and He will give us an answer, a solution, a word to relieve us of the excessive burden of our situation. This is the reason Jesus defines Himself as the Way (to God and salvation), the Truth of eternal life, the source of eternal life.