The Only Robe of Acceptance before God
"For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." - I Timothy 2:5 [KJV] No sooner has living faith embraced the Person of Jesus (and that is the first object which faith lays hold of), than it embraces H im as the divinely-appointed Mediator. And how sweet and suitable is such a Mediator to a poor, sinful, crawling reptile, a wretch defiled, morning, noon, and night, with everything foul and filthy, who has broken the law of God a million times, and cannot keep it a single moment! "How can I," argues the soul, "so full of sin and depravity, how can I approach with acceptance the great, glorious, and holy Jehovah? I cannot, I dare not!" But when it sees, by the eye of faith, a divinely-appointed Mediator, a glorious Intercessor, a great High Priest over the house of God: One that has shed H is blood to put away sin; One who has righteousness to justify, and has a fulness of grace and glory to give to the poo...