531 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 3 Book 45 -

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 45 I Timothy 2:3-7 As we begin this lesson, turn to I Timothy chapter 2 verse 5. This is the verse that we were working on in the last lesson. I Timothy 2:5 "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" We were showing in the last lesson, how God the Son became flesh, became the visible image of the invisible God. John writes: "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if (it’s conditional) any man sin, (we know we will) we have an advocate (like I said that’s a different term than mediator but nevertheless it fulfills the same role.) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:" At the Father’s right hand interceding for us. Now come back with me to Galatians chapter 3 verse 19, which is the only other place that Paul uses the word mediatorother than in I Timothy. Galatians 3:19a "Wherefore then serveth the law?..." All the way from Adam at about 4000 BC, up until Moses, there was no written Word of God, there was no Law. At that time right and wrong was based on men’s conscience. So with the Law at 1500 BC and Adam at 4000 BC that tells us that there was 2,500 years that the human race did not have any written Word of God. To the nation of Israel He gave the Law, so there was no doubt about what was right and wrong. Now, who was the mediator at that time? Moses was! Moses was the one who stood between Israel and God. The picture is that now it isn’t Moses who is our mediator, it’s Christ Himself! We know that even as John places it in his little letter, if we sin, we have Jesus Christ the Righteous One as our advocate. Hebrews 4:16a "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,…" This is all on this same scenario of Jesus Christ the Righteous One, Who is our advocate, Who is our mediator and as such then, we can go right into the presence of God! Hebrews 4:14-16 (our faith.) Boldly! No, we are now on that plane as a redeemed, blood bought individual that we can come) boldly unto the throne of grace, (into Heaven itself) that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." God could have destroyed the Nation in an instant. Here’s the reason. Exodus 33:18-19 How could God say something like that? Revelation 5:9 saying, Thou (speaking of Christ) art (what’s the next word? Worthy!) What did Christ accomplish with His death, burial and resurrection? Here verse 6 tells us.. I Timothy 2:6 Pay the money and you can have the child. Christ paid the ransom! It’s beyond human comprehension. The ransom that Christ paid with His death, burial and resurrection is beyond human understanding. But He paid it with His shed blood. Come on over to the right again to I Peter’s little epistle, chapter 1 and verse 18-19, and here we find the price that He paid. I Peter 1: 18 Now verse 19. This was the ransomed price. I Peter 1:19-20a Who verily was foreordained (that should take you back to that verse in Acts chapter 2. Christ paid the ransom, not just for the few but for the whole human race. I Timothy 2:7 "Whereunto (In other words, the fact that Christ had paid the ransom. The fact that Christ is our mediator between God and men.) Why should I waste my time. But see, Paul is the Apostle of the Gentiles. (Romans 11:13) Chapter 9 verse 15. You want to remember that for the first eight chapters it is all Israel. I always call the stoning of Stephen in Acts chapter 7 as the epitome or the crescendo of Israel’s rejection. Saul, as you well remember, was on his way to Damascus to arrest Jewish believers who accepted that Jesus was the Christ. The Lord is now speaking to Ananias in the city of Damascus concerning this Saul of Tarsus. Gentiles,..." This has never been whispered before that God was going to save Gentiles. So after almost seven years of appealing to the nation of Israel to repent of having crucified their Messiah, and they will not, God now does something totally different. He reaches down outside a Gentile city, not inside the land of Israel but on Gentile ground and he saves this renegade, this religious zealot who was trying to stamp out the name of Jesus from the Jewish nation. Galatians 1:11-12 I am always pointing out when I teach Paul’s apostleship, remember that everything in the four gospel accounts was Christ before the Cross. It’s at least seven years after the cross that this man gets all of his revelations from the ascended Lord, Who is now up there at the right hand of the Father. I got it by the revelation of Jesus Christ. Then in verse 15: Galatians 1:15-16 "But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, (unmerited favor) 16. Among the Gentiles.) Not just to Israel, but to the whole human race! When Christ died, He died for ALL. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible