"...this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time" (I Timothy 2:3-5).
From Matthew Henry commentary:
God bears a goodwill to all mankind. There is one God, and one only. This one God will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth. It concerns us to get the knowledge of the truth, because that is the way to be saved.
There is one Mediator, and that Mediator gave Himself a ransom for all. As the mercy of God extends itself to all His works, so the mediation of Christ extends to all the children of men.
We deserved to have died. Christ died for us.
He put Himself into the office of Mediator between God and man.
A mediator supposes a controversy. Sin had made a quarrel between us and God. Jesus Christ is a Mediator to bring God and man together.
(God is so good to us. And His salvation, found in Christ Jesus, so right and available to us all. "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!" (Romans 11:33). May we all be rejoicing in this salvation!)
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