WCF 08 Of Christ the Mediator Flashcards
What does the term mediator mean?
The one to go between God and man to reconcile His enmity against us.
What are the three offices of Christ as our Redeemer?
Prophet, Priest, and King
What three functions?
The head and savior of the church
The heir of all things
The judge of the world
Why is it important to understand the three offices, according to Calvin? 2.15
To establish a firm foundation in our understanding.
What is the five-fold purpose of the mediator.
Redeem
Call
Justify
Sanctify
Glorify
What is the purpose of the mediator, according to Calvin? 2:6
No knowledge of God for salvation is possible apart from the Mediator.
Prove divine nature
John 10:30 I and my Father are One.
Phil 2:5-6 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Prove human nature.
Gal 4:2, 4 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. … But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Phil 2:7-8 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Why did he need to be God?
That he might sustain and keep the human nature from sinking under the infinite wrath of God and the power of death,
Give worth and efficacy to his sufferings, obedience and intercession,
Satisfy God’s justice, procure his favor, purchase a peculiar people, give his Spirit to them, conquer all their enemies, and bring them to everlasting salvation.
(WLC 38)
Why did he need to be Man?
That he might advance our nature,
perform obedience to the law,
suffer and make intercession for us in our nature,
have a fellow-feeling of our infirmities;
that we might receive the adoption of sons,
and have comfort and access with boldness unto the throne of grace.
(WLC 39)
What Calvin say (about why Christ needed to be God and man)? 2.12
We could not ascend to God so he must come to us. He took our nature upon himself to impart to us what was his, and to become both Son of God and Son of man in common with us.
What qualified Christ to be mediator?
All the fulness of God was in Him.
Holy
Anointed
The Lord Jesus, in His human nature thus united to the divine, was sanctified and anointed with the Holy Spirit above measure;1 having in Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge;2 in whom it pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell:3 to the end, that being holy, harmless, undefiled, and full of grace and truth,4 He might be thoroughly furnished to execute the office of a Mediator and Surety.5 (WCF 8.3)
What distinct attributes to execute his task?
holy, harmless, undefiled, and full of grace and truth
In what humiliation consists?
Christ’s humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time. (WSC 27)
In what exaltation consists?
Christ’s exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day. (WSC 28)
