Why do we need Jesus to be our mediator?

Jesus took on flesh so he could become a mediator between God and men. God is holy and cannot allow anything unholy to dwell in his heavenly kingdom. Humankind needed Jesus to reconcile the gap between our earthly lives and the eternal lives we will gain in heaven.

Sometimes a verse like 1 Timothy 2:5 causes us to picture God incompletely. Countless works of art portray the wrath of God. Many verses describe his reactions to the sins of men. God sent the flood and only Noah and his family were saved. God promised his people a land flowing with milk and honey but then allowed their enemies to remove them from their homes. Scripture describes God as a “jealous God,” and his wrath is a very real part of his character. But, his wrath is never a complete picture of who he is.

First John 4:8 says, “God is love.” God’s wrath is simply one aspect of his love. God hates whatever hinders people from knowing him and wanting a relationship with him. God cannot allow evil to exist in heaven because he wants nothing in heaven that will harm his children. Some of his angels were cast out of heaven because God is going to protect heaven from anything unholy.

John 3:16 explains God’s love saying, “For God so loved the world, he gave us his only Son” (emphasis added). God gave us Jesus so we would have a mediator.. His blood sacrifice makes us holy; therefore, we can one day enter the perfection of heaven. Jesus, our mediator, will stand with us and tell his Abba, his dad, that we are his brother or sister. We are his family.

God knew we would never be holy enough for heaven so he gave us his Son so that we could be made holy. God’s perfection makes it impossible for him to accept what is harmful to our lives, our sins. “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).

There is only one God and there is only one Jesus, our mediator. Jesus functions in our lives today, through his Holy Spirit, reconciling us to God and making us fit for heaven. Jesus is the model for our own faith and the pathway for our eternal relationship with God. Jesus is the only Son of God and the only mediator we need to be made righteous and ready for an eternity with our holy God.