yesilovesjesus

The problem among the men of the congregation is the controversy of salvation that the false teachers were causing among the people. Although they disagreed with one another they carried that anger with them to worship, which did not allow them to freely worship God. Worshipping with the opposite of love in your heart makes you a hyprocite. Worship is supposed to be an expression of your love for God. If you say you love God but hate your brother or sister in your heart, what you are really revealing is that you don't truly love God because man is made in the image of God.

I believe Paul emphasized the roles of Mediator and Ransom to help us realize how significant Christ's role is to mankind's salvation. When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden we were separated from God. God initially used the sacrificial blood of animals to reconcile man to himself, but then fulfilled the law through Christ by reconciling us through a human sacrifice, through one that was blameless and without sin, Jesus Christ. Since God is too holy to be with sinful men he uses Jesus Christ, one who is fully God (holy-without sin) and fully Man (human) to stand in the gap for mankind. As a Mediator, God looks at us as if he were seeing Jesus, he sees us holy because of Jesus' death on the cross and resurrection--Jesus has reconciled us to God through his death on the cross, He became the sacrificial Lamb. Jesus' death is a ransom for us because he gave up his life for our sins, he was without sin yet sacrificied his pure body and life so that we may be right with God. He paid an ultimate price for our sins. He did not deserve to die, but rather mankind deserves death. His death paid for our reconciliation with God, we no longer need to be separated from God. Hallelujah!! We can have an eternal relationship with our Heavenly Father, through Jesus' death if anyone believes Jesus died on the cross for his or her sins. A beautiful gift for mankind!