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One Mediator

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

What would you do if a person on this earth spoke for God, and of course, you loved God? Imagine for a moment, wouldn't you want too obey his/hers ever word, as coming from God?

We are not talking about a fallacy here, but that you actually believe with your whole heart that you had found God's prophet upon earth, and for you to know God, and please him, you needed to be instructed by this mediator between man and God.

John 1:41 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ{"Messiah" (Hebrew) and "Christ" (Greek) both mean "Anointed One".}).

Wouldn't you worship this person, you might say here, no! I only worship God, but take a breathe here, this person is not human in this one sense, they are not speaking their own words, but God's word, making them the very mouth of God speaking through them!

People worship everything under the sun, from cars to sports heros, they even idolize objects, isn't that giving some worship other than God? Well it is, yes, when we idolize something, we know it is worship. Its not about how wicked, or good men/woman that have come into power, but rather its about us givine them power, as an idol instead of God.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Wouldn't most of us feel specially chosen, to be one of the few to of actually found this prophet of God, why wouldn't we? Secretly, we have always known there is something special about ourselves, which others didn't see about us; now God Himself has confirmed it by sending us his prophet.

What if this prophet got upset with you, and reproved you, wouldn't you be devastated? Wouldn't you take such counsel too the heart, and fall upon your face and repented, I mean it is from God's mouth piece that you have been corrected, right?

What if this prophet told you that all other ways of worship was wrong, and he had the truth as God's mouth piece. Moreover, that you were in a very special group, then he commanded you not to even pray for those of other religions, wouldn't you obey his commandments?

Matt. 5:43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor,{Leviticus 19:18} and hate your enemy.{not in the Bible, but see Qumran Manual of Discipline Ix, 21-26}' 5:44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you.

What if you believed your eternal life depended upon listening to this prophet of God, even if it meant leaving you family, friends, and, your life's work, wouldn't you obey? What choice would have have in it, if the prophet demanded that he/she thinks for you, why wouldn't you like him make every important decision in your life, wouldn't you want him too?

Entrusted With Unrighteous Power

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

Now ask yourself what man or woman would want that kind of power over the lives of others; a good person, or a wicked person? Who would feel so qualified too think they had the right to control your every thought, and action by their teachings?

Rom. 12:2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. 12:3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Putting these thoughts too words actually sound shocking don't they? But, nevertheless, the words are true, and have been practiced from the time of Christ Jesus. We can find such power grasp in every form of mankind existence, from family, government, business, and religion, people will gladly take your rights too gain power over you as superior, from your teacher to your boss.

Usually it is the weakest of the human race that take such power, moral cowards, who become flatter with their own greatness thinking they are specially chosen, and without a blush they are willing to take life and death matter into their own hands over you!

Their need for greatness and idolization is markedly, a lust, they must have, it becomes an all consuming desire in them too obtain too. We know there are prophets and guru's in every form in our lives upon earth; those that love the lime light of idolization, and believe such idolization justified by their specialness.

Jude 1:8 Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

Jude 1:9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!" 1:10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

They consider themselves unique from others, having a special gift that must be shared, and enshrine to help, or save mankind. Their knowledge is too important for it too be lost; how could this world survive without them?

Jude1:18 They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts." 1:19 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

But is this power righteous, or unrighteous, when it make choices for us, and controls the lives or others, where indeed can we go to find a proper balance on power, is it to mankind in religious position, or government leaders, business executives?

Luke 22:25 He said to them, "The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called 'benefactors.'

Easily Mislead

We as human's are easily mislead, well, none of us want to think so, but we can be mislead easily, this is truth of human existence, yes, but why? It is because we are sinful, we have desires, and we want those desires meant. And we don't want to meet them ourselves, we want others to take responsibility for us. Those others are people that know more than we know.

Rom. 3:11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
3:12 They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."{Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Ecclesiastes 7:20} 3:13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit."{Psalm 5:9} "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"{Psalm 140:3} 3:14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."{Psalm 10:7} 3:15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood. 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways. 3:17 The way of peace, they haven't known."{Isaiah 59:7-8} 3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."{Psalm 36:1}

Thus,those having knowledge, is worshiped which can mislead us easily, why? Because we stand in awe of people with greater knowledge than our own; hence, we are willing to show them respect, honor, and even idolize them because of such knowledge.

Moreover, knowledge from God is very powerful in misleading us, because we understand the person must have a better relationship with God than we do, that is, they must communicate with God better than us, hence, they are specially chosen to have such knowledge by God.

John 5:39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

If we believe they are appointed by God we come under their control for fear of displeasing God. This fear and power becomes compounded when using God's word the bible, where indeed the power and knowledge comes from in the first place.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Many believe this knowledge is righteous because it comes from God's word the bible, and if spoken correctly it is truth, and this truth is from God, so we must obey it if we want to please God.

So as one can quickly see, such power can,and will be abused easily if a person has the wrong motivate in applying it too us.

John 5:40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.5:41 I don't receive glory from men.5:42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

God's Righteousness

First, God has only one person He calls His righteousness, and that is Christ Jesus, and that is why God has made him His prophet to all the nations of our earth. God has not made any man a prophet since Christ Jesus, His own Son, upon earth.

Heb.1:1 God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 1:2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. 1:3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Those claiming to be God's prophet upon earth other than Christ Jesus are false prophets, simply, because there is no other person righteous before God, but Christ Jesus, all other men/woman can only stand right before God through Christ Jesus righteousness; not in their own righteousness. So when one claims to speak for God as God's prophet, he either gives glory to God's true prophet, or stealing glory from God prophet Jesus Christ.

1Cor.1:30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption.

1 Corinthians 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks.

1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

There are only two position, darkness, or light, but not both in one person. In other words, it is either Christ Jesus righteousness, or our righteousness, but both do not meet in the middle. One cannot get unleavened bread from yeast.

1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Men Speaking Truth?

Is it possible from God's point of view for men to speak the truth completely, no! But why, if I speak from God's word the bible isn't it the truth? NO! Truth does not come from sin and darkness, truth exposes sin and darkness in us, and we can repent of it, but we cannot be the truth as Christ Jesus is the truth of God, why? Because Christ never told an untruth, such as flattering someone, so that he didn't hurt their feelings; he never told part truth, so as too make his boss happy, or a wife, or husband. Christ Jesus never sinned in deed or words, that is why he is righteous, and was appointed as God righteousness for mankind.

Jer.17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? 17:10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Jesus is also the truth, that is, God's truth for mankind, the truth that leads us to eternal life. So the best mankind can offer us in mediatorship is at best a slippery slop of good friut,and evil fruits, and what does this mean?

It mean all human have both good and evil in them, but not just good, or just evil. One must be prepared to eat from both when putting faith in mankind as our mediator too God, we will get both good, and also evil; just like a fig tree with thorns, or a thorn bush with figs.

Picking and eating the fruit of humans, and their organization, will give you bloody figures, none of us will find blessings alone. This is the question we must all face; do we start living a lie by human justification, which is saying, the thrones aren't there for the good, to hid the evil?

James 3:8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 3:9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. 3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

Believing The Lie

Here we must be painfully honest because if we aren't we will start believing our own self-justification in denying the evil thorns. Does God and His word justify the bad in us or does it point it up, and than we repent of it? Hence, we are justified, by the blood of Christ Jesus?

The lie becomes compounded if we believe imperfect men stand as our mediator before God, why? Because essentially, we are saying they are Christ Jesus on earth, put in charge of our faith. Hence, what ever they says back up by God's word the bible is infallible truth.

But when it proves otherwise, and it will, because one cannot get perfection from yeast, or sweet water from polluted water, what do we do? Do we blame God as mislead us? Most would deny feeling this way, but are you angry and confused by human conduct using God's word the bible? If so you have put faitn man, saying they are in God's position. The confusion is proof of idolizing something more than God's chosen channel of salvation Christ Jesus.

James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 1:14 But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 1:15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death. 1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

The anger is our trying to control something that is out of your control, which is the imperfection in us in our being deceived by our own desires to see Christ Jesus in the flesh, when in fact, we are clearly told we must walk by faith and not by sight through God's word the bible.

2 Corinthians 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Many would vehemently argue, nd deny claiming, they were walking by faith, only, causing them more anger, and a greater loss of faith, but why? Because we do not gain in truth of Christ Jesus by trying to protect ourselves from the truth of our human condition.

Luke 4:18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,{NU omits "to heal the brokenhearted"} to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed.

Here is the real issue, our stay and support has been removed, we feel out of control; life changing event are coming into our lives, we must rethink all we know about God, and our faith. The longer we stay angry at those who deceived us, whom themselves are deceived; the longer we prolong our anger and confusion, in blaming that which is common among all of us as sinner. The anger keeps the truth of Christ Jesus coming into our lives to heal us.

Yes, healing from the one true mediatorship of Christ Jesus, God's truth, and righteousness. The problem we must face is do we have real faith the type Christ will be looking for when he return, faith in God alone, and not in man, as God's infallible agent over our earth?

Getting Bogged Down In Legal Issues

What does this mean, getting bogged down in legal issues? Which is precisely that which mislead us in the first place. You have put faith in doctrine, believing that it is the Christ, which is found in the leadership of your religion.

But we have not put faith in God's appointed prophet Jesus Christ as we have been taught! Instead we have put faith the written doctrines, and what does that mean aren't they one in the same? No!

Christ Jesus is the truth, as previous discussed, but man is not, nor can they be, why? Mankind can use God's word in the bible, but it does not make them the truth as Christ Jesus is the truth.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Jesus is not truth by doctrine, he is rather the living truth of God because he did God's will perfectly. He did not become the truth by living by works of doctrine, he became the truth by living in love for His Father by faith.

Thus, doctrine cannot produce love of God, whic requires faith in God's truth too us, Jesus Christ. When doctrine goes from law, transforming our hearts into love, and faith for our heavenly Father it become truth. The fact that one would put a man or men as God's chosen channel proves the person has no real love for truth in them!

1 John 4:9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

Worshiping In Spirit and Truth

First, one must accept basic truth, which is we cannot come to know the truth of Christ Jesus, without Holy Spirit from God. The wind blows where is wants, which confuse legal Christian's. The Spirit cannot be contain by doctrine no more so than the Holy Spirit can; doctrine can explain some things about the Holy Spirit. but it cannot be the free gift of God's Holy Spirit.

John 3:8 The wind{The same Greek word (pneuma) means wind, breath, and spirit.} blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

No man or organization can take God's Holy Spirit by teaching of the bible, it is not control by men just like the wind is not; no group of people can say where the wind comes from or where is going, and who God chose to have His Holy Spirit.

Luke 12:12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say."

Thus, we as Christian's must worship in Spirit and truth. The truth is Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of truth comes through the life of Christ Jesus for us. When we lack faith, and look to men, we die in our faith, and we certain won't have Spirit and truth. The bible than becomes a legal book, a contract full of do's and don't that we must obey to gain eternal life.

John 16:13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Faith requires that we put faith in God's chosen channel as the sinless bread of God, hence, that we understand with spirit that he cannot deceive us if we pray for wisdom, why? Because he cannot lie, he has no human flesh that sins making him an every changing shadow as men who have both good and evil fruits on their branches.

John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
15:2 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 15:3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. 15:5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

We must believe that God and His Son Christ Jesus are not far off from each of us, and can, and will, communicate happily with us, in the law of love. Yes, that Christ Jesus is God's wisdom, and God will not hid from us or mock us for asking for such wisdom.

Acts 17:27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

God is better than mankind, he has appointed us a king that conquer this world under the test of human flesh; He will not deny us in any manner because he is loyal love.

James 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. 1:6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

Removing the Veil of the Flesh

It is up to each one of us to turn to the Lord where the Holy Spirit resides and the veil of our blindness to be removed, blindness to the glorious good news in Christ Jesus, hidden from our eyes by laws of the flesh through man made religion.

2 Corinthians 3:16 But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

The veil of sinful flesh that deceives the world we live in, towards the truth of God. We must come to trust in the unleavened bread of God with all our hearts, mind and soul, that he alone is the one good tree having only precious fruit of eternal life on his tree of righteousness. Men can guild us to Christ Jesus, but they cannot give us the wind of Holy Spirit, they can set laws of the flesh upon minds of the flesh, but they cannot enslave God's children from having the Holy Spirit, which is gift of God to His children.

2Cor.3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Men cannot teach us God, and His wisdom that comes from being a son of God, part of God's goodness through his love of us in Christ Jesus. The fleshly minds wisdom is of no value at all in the sight of God, it is the wisdom of men that keeps the world in bondage of darkness.

Mankind must come up, up to the unleavened bread of God, the wisdom of God, and partake of life, to understand life. Mixing unleavened bread with yeast produce corruption and death. Looking to men or too ourselves for life, is looking to death.

John 6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven{Greek and Hebrew use the same word for "heaven", "the heavens", "the sky", and "the air".} to eat.'"{Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25}

Micah 4:1 But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh's temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.
4:2 Many nations will go and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem;

Faith requires trusting in unseen, not in men, in believing God love for us, hence, he and will not leave us or fail us, no matter how ugly this world comes too be.

See also: nu-truth.com