“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.” (Hebrews 7:25)
There is no other way to approach God than through Jesus Christ.
Nor is there some “secondary channel” through which a person can approach Jesus.
As some try to do through his earthly mother, Mary. As if she is somehow a participant in the “Mediatory” office of Christ. As if Christ is too stern, too hard, or too demanding to approach directly.
Believing that Mary will speak with her son and smooth the way for those who come to her!?
Nor can we go through any of the Apostles or Saints or other “good persons” which make up some mythical “communion of the saints” that Catholics are told they can pray to for help. Just as a believer would ask a fellow Christian, upon this earth, to pray for them.
Nor can we talk to or seek help from angels. We are never told to speak with angels or to seek them out or to pray to them for help. Even though the religious culture around us talks alot about angels and how we all have our own angels that help us.
Which is true for those who are Christians – we have angels that are given to minister to us, for the Lord’s sake. But they take their directions from the Lord and not from us. Nor are we given any permission to ever call upon them personally for help.
Because the Bible makes it clear that Christ alone is sufficient. He is the One faithful and fully “able” High Priest through which we must approach God. There is simply No Other Way.
In fact, Christ is God Himself. Along with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
And there is no other person, living or dead, who can participate in any way as a Mediator. Because there is none that is worthy except for Christ.
Whether for salvation or for our needs upon this earth.
Our Great High Priest
Many passages in the book of Hebrews make it crystal clear that Christ alone is the High Priest. And that there is no longer any priesthood system upon earth that one may go to for help, for cleansing from sin, for forgiveness, for salvation.
He alone is our Mediator.
Imagine how many people, how vast the multitude is, that trust in some other way to find relief from suffering and pain. How many people sincerely seek help from a saint, or Mary, or an angel, or from some other entity. But are never really helped. Who never truly find peace.
OR, what is worse, they Do receive some temporary deliverance, some comfort, some blessing. And so, their faith is drawn into a false hope. And then double down in their devotion to some other way.
When people presume that there is some other way or some additional way that they can take in order to reach Him, they offend the Lord. They are unwittingly doing what Hebrews sternly warns against:
“Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?” (Hebrews 10:29)
The Bible makes this truth so clear.
- That Christ alone is sufficient
- His Sacrifice was offered Once and for All Time
- There are no more sacrifices required
- There are no rituals or sacraments that can provide cleansing, forgiveness, or salvation
- There is no other Priest or priesthood system
- That faith in Him Alone is what is required
- That our own good works do not add anything to salvation
- That one cannot add anything to the finished work of Christ
When a “Christian” Trusts in Some Other Way
It is amazing that so many who claim to be “Christian” or even “born again” will simply not accept that what He did was enough. That what He IS is enough.
And that a person must come to Him directly and exclusively for both salvation as well as for help in every single one of our problems.
Because there is no other source of help that we have in heaven or on earth or in some other mystical, middle-ground place between heaven and earth.
“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 2:5,6)
Those who teach otherwise are not speaking the truth. Regardless of their religious position or, intellectual stature, or other presumed authority. Regardless of how many supposedly educated and spiritual men and women presume to teach some other or some additional way.
A huge denomination, a huge religious order, church councils, or some other ancient order of great scholars and “fathers of the church” have absolutely no authority to tell us something that is contradictory to the word of God. Nor can they presume to establish ANY “Traditions” that are equal to or possess the authority to “inform our interpretation” of the word of God.
AND, if we choose to believe them, our faith is no longer in Christ alone according to His word alone. It then becomes a faith in a council or a priesthood system or in a set of traditions.
It is Not faith in Christ.
To go some other way, by way of some other physical or “spiritual” person, other than Christ alone, is to become a thief and a robber who tries to climb up some other way into the sheepfold. As the Lord spoke of in John 10.
He alone is sufficient. And He alone is able.
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