Devotionals by Raul Ries

SATURDAY May 23, 2026

Jesus the Mediator

...to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Hebrews 12:24

Hebrews 12:24 tells us that Jesus is our Mediator. First Timothy 2:5 says: For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.... One Person, Jesus Christ, is the bridge between God and man.

Many people want to get to God their own way, but Jesus is the only way. In John 14:6, Jesus said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”  Today, people say there are many ways to God. That is not true. You may have seen a bumper sticker saying all religions should “co-exist.” But that is impossible. There is one and only one way to God, and that, my friends, is through Jesus––period.

When God flooded the entire earth, He had Noah build an ark. To be saved, Noah and his family had to go into the ark. There was no other way of salvation. The tenth and final plague on Egypt was the death of the firstborn. God told Israel to kill a lamb and put its blood on their doorposts. If they were in the house and under the blood of the lamb, death would “pass over” them. There was one and only one way to be saved. You had to be under the blood of the lamb, and Jesus is The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29).

Jesus is the Mediator of the new covenant. Therefore, there is no more killing of animals. By the blood of Jesus, we are cleansed and washed. Jesus is: ...the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. Abel offered a blood sacrifice, but it only covered sin. The blood of Jesus takes away our sin.

The Lord Jesus did not take to himself this honour of being a Mediator; he was called to it, appointed of God for such a purpose.
~Philip Henry~

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