There is One Mediator and It's Not Your Pastor

To believe that man can or could be one’s spiritual covering is to say that man can or could be one’s “spiritual mediator" between God and their followers, who assumes the role of hearing from God on behalf of their followers.

This statement says that Christ died in vain and that the new covenant of Grace is void. It also suggests that the followers are spiritually deficient and inferior to the leaders, and thus basically incapable of seeking and hearing from God for themselves, and are incapable of an ongoing communion and fellowship with God. So, they need a "mediator”, someone who supposedly has a more elite status with God, to be a priestly "go-between" between them and God.

This assumption assumes that Church leaders are much more spiritual than the people, and therefore more capable of receiving from God what is best for their followers. By the way, if that premise sounds familiar to you, it is because it is virtually identical to the theories which the Catholic priesthood and papal system of Catholicism are based.

This whole matter of "spiritual mediators" is so totally comical and such a complete insult to the truth of the personal priesthood of believers that every knowledgeable believer should be thoroughly disgusted and totally outraged at such a foolish and blasphemous notion.

The Bible explicitly says, "There is one God and ONE mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all...." (1 Tim. 2:5). There is never, ever to be any "spiritual mediators" between God and men, except Christ Jesus Himself. The Man with the nail prints in His hands is the only true spiritual mediator between God and man. All the rest are conceited impostors! Jesus is the only Man who ever lived a perfectly sinless life, which was the requirement enabling Him to become the spotless Lamb of God.

Those who masquerade and introduce themselves as mediators between believers and God are fortunate that God has not struck them down dead! If Uzza, the loyal friend and servant of David was struck dead by God for merely touching the religious icon of God's presence, and if Ananias and Sapphira were struck down dead by God for having lied to the Holy Spirit, how much more severe punishment would one deserve, who is so blatantly blasphemous as to claim to be the spiritual mediator between God and man? Selah...(Think about it.)

Find out more in my new book, Clever Lies and Assumptions from the Pulpit to the Pews.