A Better Mediator | Exodus 20:18-21

If you’ve ever got into a serious dispute of any kind, whether it be with a work colleague, boss, business partner, or perhaps even your spouse, and things get to a point where the relationship completely breaks down; you will know that in order to try and restore the relationship, a mediator is appointed. What does this mediator do? A mediator represents the views of each party to each other, they restore communication. Ultimately they try to bring the two parties together, reconciling the relationship, so that they can come back into each other’s presence.

The nation of Israel has been camping below Mount Sinai and has just heard the voice of God himself speak the Ten Commandments. They are terrified, they feel inadequate under the demands of God’s law, and they fear his judgement, as they see before them his presence in form of thunder and lightning and smoke upon the mountain. They’re shaking in their boots, they want God to stop speaking and they don’t want to draw near to him at all. Because of this, they cry out for a mediator – Moses – as a go between them and God, in this covenant that God established with Israel.

What we’re going to see in this sermon is that this covenant that God makes with Israel at Mount Sinai (which the NT calls the "old covenant"), is really just pointing to something much greater and infinitely superior: a New Covenant. In this covenant, Christ, not Moses is its mediator, and because Jesus is the better mediator of this new covenant, this means that we can come freely and with confidence before the presence of God.

Preacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.

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