I Need Someone Who is Worthy and Able
What kind of mediator and deliverer should I look for? One who is a true and righteous human. Yet more powerful than all creatures, that is, one who is also true God. Before I will turn to Christ, I must be convinced that I myself cannot pay. For I am proud. I would rather not depend upon someone else to pay my way. I would like to be able to say I paid the price. But why can't I render the payment of righteousness, the rendering of perfect obedience? Because the righteousness which can stand before God (which is acceptable to God) must be absolutely perfect, and in complete agreement with the law of God, whereas even my best works are all imperfect and defiled with sin. 1 Corinthians 15:21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. 2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Isaiah 9:6 For u...
