Praying in Jesus Name — Al Whittinghill

It's great to be here and sense his presence in this place with precious children of God. I want to pray with you. Let's just pray. Father, we need transformation in the inner man. We do not have to beg you tonight to move.

You've brought us here yearning to move among your church people, your people who know you. There's no reluctance on your part. It's not what we do that will get you to move. Lord, it's the drawing of your heart to those who respond to what you've shown them of your light.

And we know tonight you want to glorify your name in your church. So we pray tonight that this week, as so many people from this area come together, that you will speak to hearts at such a level that it feels like it might be the very first time you've ever spoke to them.

That it'll be glorious in the hearts of those who hear. And there'll be a fear of God that brings us to spend time with you on our faces in quietness and in confidence and letting you be our strength.

And so tonight, would you open your scripture. Lord, take it down beyond the resistance level, down to the part where no man can resist your living word. And may people who hear your voice, as it says you said, may they respond and live truly by the living word.

We thank you in Jesus' name, in advance. Amen. Well, when you come to people that you don't know and they have a hard time understanding your accent, you say, where is he from? I'm from Atlanta, Georgia.

I have one wife and five children. And my wife and I were supposed to come to the UK for our 30th anniversary in June. I had it all planned out. I was going to re-propose to her in Mary's Rose Garden.

I had big plans. But the day before we were to leave, her mother drew ill. And so instead of London, she went to Texas and I stayed with the young people in our family. And she was there when her mother passed to Jesus' presence.

And so she was a little upset with me coming over here without her. But then there's other things going on in her family right now as well. So I want to greet you from Atlanta, Georgia, and ask you to please pray for our nation because we're in trouble.

Revival, the Word of God, and the Seven Commands About Prayer

Well, would you turn in your Bibles to John chapter 14? And I want to... When revival comes, how deep the word of God goes in our lives and how long the movement of God is sustained in a given church community and in a people of God depends on several things.

You will never see revival until we have a revelation of what we're going to talk about tonight in depth in our heart. We won't have revival just because we need it desperately. We won't have revival just because we are convincing people of how needy we are.

We'll only have revival when we recover the vision of God as he gives it to us, when we respond to what he says to us. Nothing else will work if we humble ourselves under his presence. I almost felt that the Lord wanted us to just make our chairs into an altar before I started and say, Lord, we want to get down before you and humble ourselves and say, we need you to speak to us afresh.

But I believe that he will do his own word to our heart, even as we read these words together. So in John chapter 14, I want to read, beginning in about verse 10, and I want to just set a background before we read from this.

In John 14, 15, and 16, the Lord Jesus is spending his last moments with his disciples before he goes to be arrested. And in these three chapters, he gives them things that are crucial for walking in his spirit and understanding the ways of the Holy Spirit in their life.

And seven times, seven times, he gives seven last commands in these three chapters. You've all heard messages on the seven last words of the Savior on the cross. You know, Father, forgive them. Into thy hands I commit my spirit.

These are the seven last commands he gave to his disciples before he went and was arrested and was crucified. And they all have to do with prayer, all of them. And so you see in John chapter 14, him saying, I'm going away.

Don't let your heart be troubled. I'm going to prepare a place for you. But not just prepare a place, I'm going to prepare you for that place. And he's going to show how he does it in these chapters. Seven words about prayer, that's so significant.

And so you see in verse 10, he says, believest thou not that I'm in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you, I'm not speaking of my own initiative or of myself, but the Father who dwells in me, he is doing the work.

He's saying, I as the Son of God do nothing of my own independence, but everything I do is initiated from the Spirit of God. Believe me that I'm in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very works sake, for the fruit of what's coming forth.

And here's our text. Verily, verily, it's from the Hebrew amin, amin, it means steadfast truth, unbreakable truth. Verily, verily, I say to you that he that believes on me, it's a present tense, the one who is believing on me, the works that I do, shall he do also.

And then he adds this part, and greater than these shall he do. So if we stopped there, it might make us think that we're going to be developed to an incredible extent greater than Jesus. But the key is the next phrase, the reason we'll do greater works is because I'm going to the Father.

He's telling them that I'm about to be crucified, I'm going to be buried, I'm going to be raised from the dead, and because I'm going to sit at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, I'm going to be the high priest of the throne room with all authority in heaven and earth.

I will arbitrate to you the promise and the gift of the Father, and by him you will be able to do the same things that I've done. I'm sending you the same way. He says, because I'm with the Father, the body will do greater things.

How could we ever do greater things than Jesus? It's because his life is reproduced all over the globe. It's a cosmic global body of Christ. And then he says, but here's the key ingredient of how he'll do it.

And whatsoever, notice the word and, whatsoever, you shall ask in my name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. What a definition of prayer. It's not to satisfy man or to gratify man, it's to glorify God.

And it's not to get man's will done in heaven, it's to get God's will done on earth. Whatever you ask of the Father, whatever you ask in my name, that I will do, so that, not that you'll be just blessed or prosperous, but so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

And then he says it again, if you ask anything in my name, then I will do it. You see, when speaking of prayer, the Bible uses big words, big words. And we've read them so much that we need to read them like we've never read them before, on our knees with an open heaven.

All prayer is supernatural. Our mistake is, we think we can learn to pray by listening to other people pray. And then we say the same words, and we leave ourselves short of the Spirit's teaching to us on prayer.

All prayer is supernatural. And the reason we give out so quickly when we try to spend time alone with God is because we're trying to enter into that celestial eternal realm in the strength of the old man and in what others have taught us about prayer.

We need to say tonight to him, Lord, teach us to pray. Teach us to pray. And so he says, whatsoever you ask, I will do. But there's a phrase in there that I left out. You know what it is? It's, anything you ask, I will do.

Someone prayed that tonight. What's the phrase I left out? In my name. And oh, what a key there is that he gives to us here in these chapters about praying in his name. You can ask what you will and greater things than you even ask or think, I will do when you ask it in my name.

So the promises to prayer, especially corporate prayer, are mind-boggling. If a billionaire came in here and wrote you a blank check and left it blank to this church, it wouldn't be worth half as much or anything compared to what the Lord's promises are to this body right here to have a vision for coming together and really praying in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The church is to do greater works. It says it right here. And the reason we are is because he's with the Father and he's arbitrating his grace to us. So prayer is set forth in these chapters as the great way, the primary human factor in realizing God's will on earth.

Prayer. That's what he says. It's through prayer that it comes. And so, you see, the book of Acts starts at the ascension. It doesn't start... In fact, it's really the Acts of the Holy Spirit written about what man did as they yielded to him.

And so, you see, in that first chapter of Acts as it goes through, God educating his church about his name. And I want to show you this for a moment because tonight what I want to do is talk about what it really means to pray in Jesus' name.

Because I would submit to you, I think, that 80 of the professing church has never really gone into what it really means. You know, when I always pray with my kids, my youngest is 21, brother. And growing up, we'd always get on our faces with the map of the world.

We'd pray. And they got to where they learned to pray from on a certain level. But kids, when they pray, sometimes they'll pray at the end. They'll say, I ask you in Jesus' name, amen. I say, what? I ask you in Jesus' name, amen.

I say, what did you say in Jesus' name, amen? I say, wait a minute, slow down. That part of what you just prayed is the most important part of your prayer. Don't just sling it on or say, we just thank you.

There's a understanding with an intelligent, consecrated revelation to our heart what it really means to pray in the name of the Lord Jesus. Because he says, whatsoever you ask, not just ask, but in my name, that will I do.

It is possible that people who pray a lot may never ever really even enter into what it really means to pray in Jesus' name. Because I'm going to the Father. Because you see, the Lord Jesus emptied himself of his eternal sonship.

And he took on, as it were, the fashion of a servant before he ever became a man. Then he was found in fashion as a man. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself even unto death, even the death of the cross.

And because of that humbling process, God raised him up from the dead and gave him the name, it says, which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. Things in heaven, that's angels.

Things on the earth, that's all of mankind and who's ever lived. And things under the earth, that's demons that grit their teeth when they hear the name of Jesus. It makes them tremble. So we need to learn about the power of his name.

You see, you see in the Gospels, Jesus dying for our sins, mission on earth accomplished. But you see in the book of Acts, mission begun in heaven. He sends the Spirit into the hearts of his people. He says, you, the first, the only thing he left on this planet when he went to heaven was a praying church.

I will build my church. But let me tell you, when he builds it, it's a pattern like the tabernacle was for the temple. It's a pattern of heaven. He says, I will build my church. My Father's house shall be called a house of, not worship, although we do worship, hallelujah, not just preaching.

Thank God for preaching. But if you wanted to pick something distinctive that the world would say, that's what they do, it'd be known as they're a house of prayer. But you see, the prayer meeting is the stepchild of the church.

You want to know how much people love the Lord, you come to prayer meeting. You want to know how much they love your church, come on Sunday morning maybe. Or your pastor, come on Sunday night. If you want to know how much they love Jesus, come to prayer meeting.

It's amazing, we say we love prayer, we love Jesus, but people don't come to prayer meeting. I guess it's because we think that we're uncomfortable in that realm. I'm believing tonight the Lord will make some of us uncomfortable enough to where we'll really enter in and dare to enter a new place on this matter.

See, he sat down on the right hand, of all the things it says in Hebrews, but here's the sum, we have such a high priest who is set on the right hand of God the Father Almighty. And we have a ministry of preaching the Word and coming out to the world with the gospel.

That's like the prophet of speaking the Word. But we also have a ministry of a priest, a royal priesthood, and that they bring men's needs in before God and lift them and they mediate between heaven and earth.

Paul said, I want to make full proof of my ministry. I wonder tonight if we could say, I'm making full proof of my ministry as a royal priesthood. He's the high priest and I'm in his priesthood like the sons of Aaron were in his.

Anyone who has faith in me, who's believing in me, they will do greater works than I have done because I will be with the Father to arbitrate. So if you ask in my name, I will do. Throughout the whole New Testament, let's look at, keep turning to John 15, and I want you to see there, there's seven times in these chapters he talks about prayer.

In chapter 15, verse 7, he says, if you abide in me, or remain in me, and my rhemas remain in you. See, there's a word for word in the English language that's Logos. It's used a thousand times in the New Testament.

It's God's unchanging, unvariable word. But only 56 times the word rhema is used. It's a translated word, but that means when the Spirit takes this word and speaks it to your heart personally, and it becomes personal.

He says, if my rhemas remain in you, if what I say to you intimately remains in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit.

What kind of fruit is he talking about? Well, look at verse 16. You have not chosen me, but I've chosen you. I've ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that what you, your fruit coming, should remain, that whatsoever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Now, look over at chapter 16, and you see in verse 23. This will blow your mind. He's talking, he says, in that day, he says it a couple of times in here, in that day you shall ask me nothing. In other words, I'm not going to be here.

You're not going to come to me physically and ask me. In that day, what day is he talking about? The day that he goes to be with his Father. He's with his Father. In that day, you won't ask me anything whatsoever.

You shall ask the Father in my name. He will give it to you. And look at this. Up till now, you have asked nothing in my name. Now, they were praying. They were praying people. They saw him praying morning, noon, and night.

But up till now, you've asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. See, joy is a fruit of answered prayer. When you ask something specific, and God answers it, joy comes.

This is why we're living for happiness in the church, instead of joy, because we're so prayerless. We're not seeing the manifest answers of God. Verse 26, at that day, you shall ask in my name. So, he's talking about the day that he, he says, there's coming a time when you won't see me.

Look at verse 16 of that same chapter. In a little while, you shall not see me. He's talking about the crucifixion and burial. And again, a little while, you shall see me, because I go to the Father. He's talking about fellowship and revelation of the risen Lord, and coming and asking in his name, and being a throne room dweller.

I love that song, the first song we sang tonight. The throne room songs that Robin Mark has written, that just take you right into the throne room, and just leave you there. It's, it's an amazing privilege to sing like that.

So, these men must have been astonished. What Jesus is saying is that the resurrection is going to change the way heaven works, the way prayer works. Because up till now, you haven't asked in my name, because the name of Jesus was given to him at the resurrection for the power of answered prayer.

He ascended to the Father, and now he says, you come, if you come by God's condition and ask the way he says, you come boldly to the throne of grace. You come by a new and living way he's made through the blood.

Whatsoever you ask the Father in my name, I will do it. So, this is the great key to the throne room, and it's easy in our day to mistake our togetherness or our unity as the key. It doesn't matter if you've been saved 50 years or one day.

You only and always will ever enter into the presence of the throne room of God by the precious blood of Christ, and through his name. You will never come to that point where you can just rush in and not come in the name of Jesus.

You see, Jesus is saying there's a new beginning, a new dimension, because I'm with the Father. I'm the King of Kings. I'm the High Priest, the heir of all things. In my name you shall ask. Now, we're not talking about a magic formula.

I've heard people say, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, like a medicine man in Africa waving a stick over something. Or the louder we say it, we think that the devil will get scared.

Let me tell you something. The weakest and meekest person in this room, the most impossibly untalented person, when they are lined up correctly, scripturally, with the name of Jesus, and they say to the strongest demon on this planet, in Jesus' name be gone.

That demon has to obey. They have to leave. It's not a matter of getting louder. I was praying once in a delivered situation, and I was saying, in the name of Jesus, and it's like the Lord said, I'm not hard of hearing.

I'm not hard of hearing. And it was like he said, I was waiting for this manifestation of something, and he says, you're gonna walk by faith, you're gonna walk by sight. Paul said to that thing, in the name of Jesus, come out, and he left.

And the same day, he vacated. Because he knew it was a living Word in the name of Jesus. So, you see, the early church, you see in the book of Acts, this is so awesome. The first four chapters, God is teaching the early church, like he needs to teach our corporate gatherings, the power of his name.

That's those whole first chapters of Acts. He's teaching it. Before he ascends, he says, listen, you shall take the gospel in my name to all the earth. You preach forgiveness of sins, and you preach in my name.

And he says to do this, he says, ask in my name. It's all in his name. I want you just to turn, and we're gonna run some quick references in the book of Acts for a moment, and I just want you to see something.

Peter and John had fished together. They had been with the Lord when he did miracles together. They'd fed 5 ,000 together, but the Bible never records they'd prayed together, till right here. They'd done everything else in the universe together, but they hadn't prayed together.

See, I submit you don't really know someone until you really pray with them. You don't really know them. You can do all the things. You can stand by them in the church, and you can worship, but you know someone's heart as you pray together.

And may that call us to that. Well, they're going in to pray together, and they're going in Acts chapter 3, into that beautiful, the temple called beautiful. And there they walk by a man that's been sitting there for 42 years.

Jesus had walked by him time and time again, but this was his divine moment. And it says as they went in, it says here, now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.

That's 3 p .m. And a certain man, laying from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple.

And Peter and John, about to go to the temple, asked for an alms. This man asked them for an alms, and Peter fastened his eyes upon him, because you can do that when you have a clear conscience. And he says to them, in the silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, give I thee.

And then he says, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. And so the man received strength. Peter lifts him up, and this man is praising God for the miracle. And all these thousands of people come, because they knew this man.

He'd been there 42 years. And Peter and John quickly say, do you think that this man stands here whole by some special thing about us? It's the anointing, brother. No. They said, listen, you know that this man stands here before you perfectly saved, or whole it says, because of the name of Jesus.

And he has done this. Verse 16, his name through faith in his name has made this man strong whom you see and you know him. Yes, the faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of y 'all.

It's nothing in us, he's saying. We're not special. We're just we're preaching in his name. And so right away thousands more get saved. Now this makes 3 ,000 at the day of Pentecost, and now 5 ,000 get saved.

There's 8 ,000 people. Up till now in the book of Acts, the word great is not even used, except for the world looks and is greatly wondering when they see the church just cloaked with the power of resurrection life.

That's what this city is waiting to see on this church, the cloaking of the people of God with resurrection life. And that's what will get their attention. It's not the supernatural given, because I've heard there's a spiritist church in this town.

That it's not getting, it's getting people's attention, but in the wrong way. It is the resurrection life of Jesus in my heart, in your heart, that they experience coming forth. It's in reality and power.

And so you see all these people coming, the word great's not even used. So the the Sanhedrin who condemned the Lord Jesus to death summoned these two and bring them, they arrest them, and bring them in before.

In Acts chapter 4, this is stunning, this is stunning. They're brought together and put in the midst after 8 ,000 have been saved. And they say, look at verse 7, when they'd set them in the midst they asked, by what power or by what name have you done this?

You ever seen that before? About what power or about what name? And then Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and he says to them, you rulers of the people and elders of Israel, if you're examining me of the good deed done to this impotent man about what means he's made whole, be it known to you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, they didn't need a dictionary to understand him, and you raised him from the dead, even by him this man stands before you whole.

And look at verse 12, neither is there salvation in any other. There is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. So they could say nothing against it, this Sanhedrin Council.

And they charged them, don't you preach any more in that name. And so they threatened them with strong threatenings. This is awesome. They let them go and Peter and John went back to their own company.

They didn't have to put out a circular saying, meet for this announcement. They found them at the prayer meeting. See, because by this time these 8 ,000 were meeting three times a day. Morning sacrifice, noon sacrifice, and the afternoon.

And in mass they were waiting and praying before God. It's said of James, the first pastor of Jerusalem, that when they embalmed him or put him to his body to rest, he had camel-like knees from spending hours on his knees on the floor of the temple praying.

Cute guy. Cute guy. So he says, verse 17, it must spread no further among the people. Let us threaten them that they speak henceforth to no man in his name. And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all or teach in the name of Jesus.

And they went back to their own company and they find them. Look in verse 23, being let go, Acts 4, 23, they went to their own company. And they reported all the chief priests and elders had said to them.

And when they, the people of God, heard that, look what they did. See prayer is not just each person saying their own individual prayer. There's a time for that. But there's a bigger dimension to it than that.

There's six times in the book of Acts, seven times, I'm wrong, six, seven times, that it says they were in one accord. And every time it was, it broke through barriers. The race barrier, the religion barrier, the region barrier, all broken by spiritual oneness in prayer.

Every time. Before, when they were together in one accord, God appointed deacons. It'd be nice if we prayed all night like they did before they appointed deacons or elders. So they went to their own and they heard and they lifted up their voice to God with one accord and they said this.

They're quoting Scripture. They're praying by the Word of God. They quote Exodus chapter 20, verse 11. They say, oh Lord God, you've made heaven and earth and the sea and all that's in them. And they've been meditating in Psalm 2.

Because, you see, that's the Psalm that says, ask of me and I will give you the uttermost parts of the world and the nations for an inheritance. He just told them to go to the uttermost and surely they're meditating when they hear a word like that.

And here's what they said. They're praying. This is, now I want to say, this is the first recorded prayer of the church in the New Testament. And it's a corporate prayer. And it ought to be a model for us.

And they lifted up. They prayed Scripture. Their hearts were one. You see, we don't come to prayer meeting so we'll feel better about each other, so we can leave feeling one. We pay the price for forgiveness and being right of one of heart before we come to prayer meeting so that we can have this abundant entrance together.

And with one accord, we lift God's Word back to him. And look what they said. Verse 25, who by the mouth of your servant David, meaning in Psalm 2, has said these words, why do the nations rage and the people imagine vain things?

Quoting Psalm 2. The kings of the earth stand up. The rulers gather together against the Lord and against his Christ. Lord, what's happening here is what the Word of God says. And this we recognize and discern.

And then they apply it. For of a truth against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, Herod and Pontius Pilate and the Gentiles and the people of Israel gather together, but they're just doing whatever your counsel had determined beforehand for to be done.

And now, Lord, behold their threatenings. And they didn't pray, give us the power to preach, give us the freedom to preach the gospel. No. You have the freedom to preach. You do. Nobody can take that from you.

They didn't pray, keep us safe. When we pray, give us the freedom to preach the gospel. What we mean is without consequence. What they said was, behold their threatenings and give your servants with all boldness they may speak your word.

Stretch forth your hand to heal that signs and wonders may be done. And here they've got it. By the name of your holy child Jesus. This is awesome. And it says, and when they had prayed, not before, prayer opened the door you see.

The place was shaken where they were assembled. It breaks down what's normally not shaken in the church. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Not just talk about being filled, but really be filled.

And it says they spoke the Word of God with boldness. And now this oneness was amplified. And look at verse 33. And with great power, there's that word great. Jesus said, greater works than I've done.

Same word. Not used in acts until after the corporate first prayer in the scripture. It brought them into a new dimension. With great power. The Apostles gave witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

And great grace was upon them all. In the next chapter you see, and great fear came upon the church. And then there was a great increase. And then in the next chapter, great growth, great wonders, great multiplication, great wonders and miracles, great persecution, and great joy.

It's like you're just saying, great, great, great. Jeremiah said it, call upon me. The Lord said it through Jeremiah, and I will answer you and show you great. But you have not, because you ask not. And sometimes I see churches, I mean, and I'm not just saying this, I've been in 47 countries, and I've seen red and yellow, black and white, and big churches, small churches, good churches, terrible churches.

And sometimes we act like the priests of Baal, jumping on the altar, thinking the more we jump that we can get God. You don't have to twist God's arm. We just have to draw him by getting our heart in the right place, the place his Word says to do.

And he will move in a way that boggles and blows your and my mind. You see, propelled into the realm of the great realm, the supernaturally, abundantly above realm. And this is what the world is waiting to see.

But you see, it'll never come apart from real united prayer. I think this is what the Lord is saying to the church across the globe in our day, that my church must humble herself, and pray, and seek my face, not just for her own benefit, but for the world revival, to get on your face, because there's a great harvest coming, and the latter rain is to fill out the harvest.

It's to fill it out and make it full, and rich, and abundant. When Jesus built his church, he said my Father's house will be called a house of prayer. And prayer meeting was the heartbeat in the body, and without the heartbeat, it's just a corpse.

You see, we don't have a real life unless there's real prayer and laying hold of God. Call upon me. Put me in remembrance. Tell me what to do. Ask of me. Demand as you do. He says, let us reason together.

Take his word and lift it to him, praying in his name. So if I were to say to you tonight, I'm gonna hurry here, brother, but I want to talk to you about what it means to pray in Jesus' name, because all these promises are to the man or woman who prays in the name of Jesus.

Is it possible to tack on, in the name of Jesus, at the end of your prayer and not really be praying in his name, but you rather take the name of the Lord in vain, and not really have that as your audience?

You see, listen to what Zechariah says about asking. They shall call upon my name, and I will hear them. I will say, it's my people, and they will say, he is the Lord our God. He anticipated this. He prepared the world for 4 ,000 years to be given the gift of praying in his name.

Every promise is yes and amen in his name. Every promise of God is open. It's amazing. There's 8 ,400 and something promises in the Word of God, and every one of them is ours. Caleb lived for 40 years on one of them, and all of these are at the church's, the corporate one-heartedness of the church's prayer life, calling upon the Lord.

What It Means to Pray in Jesus' Name

What does it mean to pray in Jesus' name? When he set the Lord Jesus high above every other name and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, who is his body? The fullness of him who fills all in it all, and he wants us to reign in life and to fill up that which remains behind of the suffering of Christ, and to really be responsive to the impulses of the head.

When do you hear him talking to you like that? Well, the way the church really comes together is in prayer. What does it mean to pray in his name? I'd write these down if I were you, if you have a piece of paper, and check it out.

Take inventory when you get home. Now, don't worry, I'm not going to think anything of you if you don't write them down. I mean, I can almost hear somebody say, I don't feel like taking notes, and that's okay.

It's okay. Maybe the Lord will write it down in your heart and mind anyway. Well, first of all, when you are going to pray in his name, it means this. It means that you acknowledge your need of a mediator.

When you say at the end of your praying, I'm praying in Jesus name, it says, I have a need of a mediator. And I'm thinking of that scripture in 1 Timothy chapter 2, where it says in verse 5, there is one God and one mediator between God and man.