God will redeem man through a Man. What, then, would be required in a Redeemer? Remember that sin has caused a terrible breach between God and man. God is morally unable to have fellowship with the sinner, and the sinner is morally unable to have access to God. If any real reconciliation is to be effected between them, there is a need for a Mediator who would stand between God and man. Such a Mediator must be one accepted and trusted by both parties, one who partakes both of God’s nature and of man’s nature, one who, in the work of reconciliation, would represent both God and man equally, one who would satisfy every claim of God upon man and of man upon God. In other words, a true Mediator must be a God-man.

The Saviour of men must be a God-man. Christ Jesus, the Mediator, is the God-man. He is not the man-God. He is not a man who became God but God who became man. He is not a man who, for a special purpose and at a special time, was invested with Deity, but He is God who, for a special purpose and at a special time, was invested with humanity. He always was God: He became man.

Hebrews 1:1-3

¹  “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, ² hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed Heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds, ³ who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.”

No words could teach more clearly that Christ Jesus, the Saviour, the God-appointed Mediator, is God. He is the eternal Son, the Heir, the Creator, the upholder of the universe and all therein. He is the Son who is the commencement, the continuance, and the consummation of all things. He is the Son, the effulgence of the Father’s glory and the very essence of His Person. He is the eternal Son who said of Himself, “Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58); who declared, “I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again I leave the world, and go to the Father” (John 16:28) and on the eve of returning to His Father, prayed, “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was” (John 17:5).

Only God could represent God in this mediatorship. As in creation, so in redemption; the Father works in and through the Son. “God in Christ was reconciling the world unto himself.” Christ Jesus, the Mediator between God and man, is God, the eternal Son, “the Lord from heaven.”

Source: “Life on the Highest Plane” by Ruth Paxson

Righteous God, thank You for Your plan of redemption through a Mediator.