How The Holy Spirit and Christ are the ONE MEDIATOR--ONE INTERCESSOR—One Comforter

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First Objective of This Study

 

The first purpose of this study is to determine if the ONE Mediator, the Man Christ Jesus, is also the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. In this study, we will find texts that say the Holy Spirit is our Mediator Intercessor. We will find texts that say Christ is the ONE MEDIATOR—INTERCESSOR, who ever lives to make intercession (mediation). This is another fulfillment of Ellen White's definition of the Holy Spirit as being Christ. It will prove as well that Christ is God because only God can search and know the heart of man.

 

“And Jesus said He would give us the Comforter. What is the Comforter? It is the Holy Spirit of God. What is the Holy Spirit? It is the representative of Jesus Christ, it is our Advocate that stands by our side and places our petitions before the Father all fragrant with His merits. There He accepts the petition of the humblest saint. He doesn't ask you how much money you have, or how heavy you are loaded with property, but the very humblest saint that brings his petition to God, and [his] thank offering is made fragrant with the riches of His grace, and the Father accepts it as your offering, and the blessing comes to you, grace for grace.” {RC 285.4}

 

The Comforter is the Holy Ghost:

 

It is not essential for you to know and be able to define just what the Holy Spirit is. Christ tells us that the Holy Spirit is the Comforter, and the Comforter is the Holy Ghost, "the Spirit of truth, which the Father shall send in My name." "I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him, for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you" [John 14:16, 17]. This refers to the omnipresence of the Spirit of Christ, called the Comforter. Again Jesus says, "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth is come, He will guide you into all truth" [John 16:12, 13]. {14MR 179.2}

 

July 16, 1892: The Saviour is our Comforter. This I have proved Him to be. {8MR 49.3}

 

Personification     “The Holy Spirit is the Comforter, in Christ's name. He personifies Christ, yet is a distinct personality. We may have the Holy Spirit if we ask for it and make it [a] habit to turn to and trust in God rather than in any finite human agent who may make mistakes.” {20MR 324.2}

 

"Christ declared that after his ascension, he would send to his church, as his crowning gift, the Comforter, who was to take his place. This Comforter is the Holy Spirit,--the soul of his life, the efficacy of his church, the light and life of the world. With his Spirit Christ sends a reconciling influence and a power that takes away sin.

In the gift of the Spirit, Jesus gave to man the highest good that heaven could bestow....

The Spirit was given as a regenerating agency, and without this the sacrifice of Christ would have been of no avail....

It is by the Spirit that the heart is made pure. Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ has given his Spirit as a divine power to overcome all hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil, and to impress his own character upon the church." E.G. White, Review and Herald Articles, May 19, 1904, vol. 5, p. 42.

 

The soul of Christ’s life is the Comforter, the Holy Ghost Spirit that He emptied Himself of at His Incarnation. This is the only way the Holy Spirit could be a separate distinct person and still be the soul of Christ’s life.

 

TOKENS OF DIVINITY

 

"7. Made himself of no reputation. Literally, 'emptied Himself.'  This emptying was voluntary (see on John 10:17, 18).  It was not possible for Christ to retain all the tokens of divinity and still accomplish the Incarnation.  The outworking of this emptying is detailed in the remainder of Phil. 2:7 and in v. 8.  See Vol. 5, p. 918."  SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, p. 155, col. 1.

 

Phl 2:7  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

 

Phl 2:8  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

 

“5. The Subordination of Christ. Voluntarily assuming the limitations of human nature at the incarnation, the Lord Jesus Christ thereby subordinated Himself to the Father for the duration of His earthly ministry (see ps. 40:8; Matt. 26:39; John 3:16 4:34; 5:19, 30; 12:49; 14:10; 17:4, 8; 2 Cor. 8:9; Phil. 2:7, 8; Heb. 2:9; see on Luke 1:35; 2:49; John 3:16; 4:34; Phil 2:7, 8).

 

‘Laying aside His royal robe and kingly crown’ (DA 22, 23). “He voluntarily assumed human nature.  It was His own act, and by His own consent.” (EGW ST Jan 20, 1890; cf 5T 702).  “He humbled Himself, and took mortality upon Him.” (EGW RH Sept. 4, 1900).

 

“The Son of God was surrendered to the Father’s will, and dependent upon His power. So utterly was Christ emptied of self that He made no plans for Himself. He accepted God’s plans for Him, and day by day the Father unfolded His plans” (DA 208; cf. 664. ‘While bearing human nature, He was dependent upon the Omnipotent for His life.  In His humanity, He laid hold of the divinity of God’”{EGW, ST, June 17, 1897 par. 8}

 

 

"What saith our Saviour? "I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you." "He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and will manifest myself to him" When trials overshadow the soul, remember the words of Christ, remember that He is an unseen presence in the person of the Holy Spirit, and He will be the peace and comfort given you, manifesting to you that He is with you, the Sun of Righteousness, chasing away your darkness. "If a man love me," Christ said, "he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him" Be of good cheer light will come, and your soul will rejoice greatly in the Lord".-Letter 124, 1897. Sons and Daughters of God, p.185.

 

 

Problem: How is the Comforter the Holy Spirit and yet the Saviour? How does the Holy Spirit personify Christ and yet is a distinct personality. Only by my presentation of the Godhead.

 

Second objective of This Study 

 

Some who do not believe that Jesus was God (Like Confidential), interpret 1 Timothy 2:5 to mean that Jesus was only a divine man, but was not God in the sense of being equal to God. This study will prove that the ONE mediator is the Holy Spirit of Christ AND HIS HOLY SPIRIT DIVINE NATURE, for the human nature of Christ could not search out the mind of men.

 

Confidential and 1 Timothy 2:5, say that there is one God, and one mediatory between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Confidential uses this verse to try to prove that Jesus was not equal to God. The purpose of this post is to determine if the Mediator, the Man Christ Jesus, is also the Holy Spirit. In this study, we will find that the Spirit is our Mediator Intercessor. This is another fulfillment of Ellen White's definition of the Holy Spirit as being Christ. It will prove as well that Christ is God because only God can search and know the heart of man.

 

Psa 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

 

 Rom 8:27  And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.

 

From the above two verses we can conclude that only God searches out and knows the secrets of the heart (mind). Christ is God, because it is He who searches our heart.

 

Hbr 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

 

Rev 19:13

And he [was] clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

 

 

It was Christ’s who was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood.  He is the Word of God. He makes intercession for us. He is the ONE mediator. He is the Comforter. He is the Holy Spirit Ghost. The word Holy Ghost does not appear in Scripture until Matthew 1:18.

 

Christ as God: "The Word was with God, and the Word was God." Before men or angels were created, the Word was with God, and was God. {RH, April 5, 1906 par. 5}

 

Exd 8:10 And he said, To morrow. And he said, [Be it] according to thy word: that thou mayest know that [there is] none like unto the LORD our God.

 

Did Moses not know that there is ONE LORD AND ONE GOD, and that Jesus is Lord and God?

 

The Third Objective of This Study

 

The third objective of this study is to prove to Bryan Bissell that there is ONE MEDIATOR—INTERCESSOR--COMFORTER, because He believes that all three, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost Spirit are all Comforters. My objective is to prove that although they all come to us, John 14, there is ONE MEDIATOR, INTERCESSOR, COMFORTER, the Holy Spirit Ghost of Christ, which He emptied Himself of at His Incarnation.

 

1Ti 2:5 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

 

God is a Spirit:

Jhn 4:24 God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.

 

All three persons of the Godhead are of that ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT, THE ETERNAL SPIRIT[RB1] , which is Holy.

 

Gal 3:19 Wherefore then [serveth] the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; [and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.


Gal 3:20 Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one, but God is one.


1Ti 2:5 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;


Hbr 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.


Hbr 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.


Hbr 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.

 

Intercessor--Mediator The Same Thing

 

Rom 8:26  Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

 

 Rom 8:27  And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.

 

Isa 53:12 Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.


Jer 7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.


Jer 27:18 But if they [be] prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and [in] the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.

 

Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

 

Note: The Spirit ITSELF makes intercession for us. There is ONE MEDIATOR, Christ.1Ti 2:5 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;


Rom 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.


Rom 8:34 Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.


Rom 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

 

Note: Did Elias not know who to make intercession to? He made intercession to God. He made intercession to Christ who is God. He made intercession to the Holy Ghost Spirit of Christ who is God.

 

Jhn 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

 

Note: Thus, Elias, in making intercession to God, made intercession to Christ, because no man cometh unto the Father but by Christ. This confirms that Christ is God. It also confirms that Christ is the one mediator, the Holy Ghost Spirit.


Hbr 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

 

Note: Who ever lives to make intercession for us? Who does the Bible say that we must come to God through? Christ! And then he, as the one mediator, Holy Ghost Spirit, makes intercession for us.

 

The definition of mediator in 1 Tim. 2:5 is as follows:

Number 3316

Transliteration:

mesites {mes-ee'-tace}

Word Origin:

from 3319

TDNT:

4:598,585

Part of Speech:

noun masculine

Usage in the KJV:

mediator 6

Total: 6

Definition:

  1. one who intervenes between two, either in order to make or restore peace and friendship, or form a compact, or for ratifying a covenant
  2. a medium of communication, arbitrator

TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament

 

Meaning of Intercession in Romans 8:34: Rom 8:34 Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

 

Number 1793

Transliteration:

entugchano {en-toong-khan'-o}

Word Origin:

from 1722 and 5177

TDNT:

8:242,1191

Part of Speech:

verb

Usage in the KJV:

make intercession 4, deal 1

Total: 5

Definition:

  1. to light upon a person or a thing, fall in with, hit upon, a person or a thing
  2. to go to or meet a person, esp. for the purpose of conversation, consultation, or supplication
  3. to pray, entreat
  4. make intercession for any one

TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament

 

God bless,

 

Ron