LD 6 - Jesus Our Mediator

The Bible is a like a mystery book. Paul uses the word mystery over a dozen times to describe how the gospel works as the revelation of Jesus. Here is the dilemma: a just and merciful God made people to glorify and enjoy him. But people chose to rebel and make themselves and their posterity eternal miserable. God is just so he can't dismiss sin. How then can people be saved?

That "mystery" has been "kept secret for long ages." But it has "now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations" (Rom. 16:25).

The solving of the mystery is "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27). But understanding what that means is no less mysterious than knowing the problem it solves. "Great indeed is the mystery of godliness: [God] was manifested in the flesh" (1 Tim. 3:16).

The gospel is the answer to the seemingly unsolvable human problem. In his beloved Son God has provided a mediator, one who stands in our place to be condemned and receive the penalty we deserve.