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Q. 38. Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God?

A. It was requisite that the Mediator should be God, that he might sustain and keep the human nature from sinking under the infinite wrath of God, and the power of death,[144] give worth and efficacy to his sufferings, obedience, and intercession;[145] and to satisfy God's justice,[146] procure his favour,[147] purchase a peculiar people,[148] give his Spirit to them,[149] conquer all their enemies,[150] and bring them to everlasting salvation.[151]

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[144] 

Acts 2:24-25. (행02:24-25) Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

Romans 1:4. (롬01:4) And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

Romans 4:25. (롬04:25) Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

Hebrews 9:14. (히09:14) How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

[145] 

Acts 20:28. (행20:28) Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Hebrews 9:14. (히09:14) How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 7:25-28. (히07:25-28) 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. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

[146] 

Romans 3:24-26. (롬03:24-26) Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

[147] 

Ephesians 1:6. (엡01:6) To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

Matthew 3:17. (마03:17) And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

[148] 

Titus 2:13-14. (딛02:13-14) Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

[149] 

Galatians 4:6. (갈04:6) And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

[150] 

Luke 1:68-69, 71, 74. (눅01:68-69, 눅01:71, 눅01:74.) Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; // That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; // That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear.

[151]

Hebrews 5:8-9. (히05:8-9) Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.

Hebrews 9:11-15. (히09:11-15) But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.


The Westminster Larger Catechism
웨스터민스터 대요리문답038 

문 38. 왜 중보자가 반드시 하나님이어야 하는가?

답. 중보자가 반드시 하나님이어야 할 이유는 인간성을 붙들어 하나님의 무한한 진노와 사망의 권세 아래 떨어지지 않게 하시며, 그의 고난과 순종과 중보의 기도에 가치와 효력을 부여하셔서 하나님의 공의를 만족시키시기 위함이다. 또 그의 은총을 얻으사 한 특이한 백성을 사시고 자기 영을 그들에게 주시며 그들의 모든 적을 정복하시고 그들을 영원한 구원에 이르게 하려하기 때문이다.