Wed June 10

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words God, Jesus, and mediator.

Reading

1 Timothy 2:1-7—One Mediator

Optional Reading

Hebrews 8:6

Keys for kids

Also for the littles. Young households might choose, after Keys for Kids, to go directly to praise and prayer.

A mediator comes in the middle of two persons or groups.
Jesus comes in the middle of us and God.
As our mediator, Jesus paid for our sin so we can be right with God.

Questions

(Some read the ?s before the notes/ ask them after.)

What does a mediator do?
Why do we need a mediator between us and God?
As mediator, what does Jesus do?

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

As Hebrews 8:6 tells us, we have a mediator in Jesus. The word means to be “in the middle.” Jesus comes in the middle of us and God to settle matters between God who is holy and men and women who are not.

Hughes comments that our exclusive God has an exclusive mediator—“and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (v. 5). … Jesus is the only go-between. Because he is both God and man, he can represent both sides equally. In effect, Jesus answered in his person the cry of Job, “If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both” (Job 9:33). Jesus lays one hand, so to speak, on the Father and the other on his children—he is our “mediator.”

As our mediator, Jesus pays for our sin and grants us His righteousness. There is no other way for matters to be settled between us and God. Berkhof notes that Christ not only “talks peace” but establishes it: lays the foundation for it by his active and passive obedience; then persuades men to accept it.

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 111a, 111d

Prayer

Rejoice in your mediator, Jesus Christ.
Pray for change in you from last Lord’s Day’s sermons.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.