The One Who Is Both Purchaser And Price
Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
Hebrews 7:25
Umpires, referees, arbitrators, judges—without them, disputes could never be settled.
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But a dispute of eternal dimensions between a sinful human race and the holy God required a Mediator who could go between heaven and earth. God acted to send the only one fully qualified to represent his need for justice and our need for mercy: the God-man Jesus Christ.
Jonathan Edwards discusses God’s unilateral action on behalf of humanity.
WALK WITH JONATHAN EDWARDS
“The redeemed are dependent on God for all.
“All that we have—wisdom, the pardon of sin, deliverance, acceptance in God’s favor, grace, holiness, true comfort and happiness, eternal life and glory—we have from God by a mediator; and this mediator is God.
“God not only gives us the Mediator, and accepts his mediation, and of his power and grace bestows the things purchased by the Mediator, but he is the mediator.
“Our blessings are what we have by purchase; and the purchase is made of God; the blessings are purchased of him; and not only so, but God is the purchaser.
“Yes, God is both the purchaser and the price; for Christ, who is God, purchased these blessings by offering himself as the price of our salvation.”
WALK CLOSER TO GOD
As God incarnate, Jesus was the perfect go-between. Paul described Jesus’ unique role this way: “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people” (1 Timothy 2:5-6).
The price for man’s rebellion was high, demanding nothing less than the death of the Mediator.
The response of the Mediator was love personified: “He offered himself” (Hebrews 7:27).
And you have God to thank that he did all that for you!
