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"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." 1 Timothy 2:5. (ESV here and throughout.)
Why a mediator? It's very simple. God alone is holy (Revelation 15:4) and we are all sinners. Romans 3:10-18, 23. Accordingly, we need a mediator through whom we can be heard by God.
Under the Old Covenant the mediator between God and man was the high priest who wore on his turban a plate of pure gold engraved with "Holy to the LORD". Exodus 28:36-38. Once a year, on the Day of Atonement, he made sin offerings for himself, his family and the people, so that they would be "clean before the LORD from all [their] sins." Leviticus 16:30. See Leviticus 16:1-34 for more detail.
Under the New Covenant our high priest is Jesus. Hebrews 4:14. We read of this New Covenant at Jeremiah 31:31-34. "Behold the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers … my covenant that they broke … . I will put my law within them and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. … [They] shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."
This forgiveness for sins under the New Covenant comes through Jesus who "entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. … Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them … ." Hebrews 9:12, 15a. See too verses 24-26; 10:11-14.
The "once for all" at verse 12 is once for all time replacing the yearly (and daily) sacrifices under the Old Covenant. The "called" at verse 15 rules out interpreting the "all" to mean all people. See Romans 8:30 where Paul addresses "called" as being only those predestined by God.
Under the Old Covenant the high priest had to offer the sacrifice for his own sins before he could do so for the people. His sin had to be dealt with first. But Jesus had "no need like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people." Hebrews 7:27a. This was because he was (and is) "holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners." vs. 26b.
That Jesus was and is sinless means that he is different from all other human beings. He is thereby separate/holy. As such, and because he and the Father are one, everything he did and does is in agreement with the God the Father who alone is holy. John 10:30. See too, John 5:19-20a, 30.
God's plan from before the universe was created was that the people whose names are in the Lamb's book of life would live in eternity with him. Revelation 13:8; 21:3,27. That plan required a mediator between the holy God and sinful humans. Jesus is that mediator. It is through Jesus that we are able to "with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need." Hebrews 4:16.
We need no other mediator. He is at the right hand of God interceding for us. Romans 8:34.
No one is in a better position to help us. He knows what human life is like because he is fully human. He is at the Father's right hand. Why would we go to anyone else when we can go directly to him?
Through Jesus we have access to the Father since he "has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom of priests to his God and Father." Revelation 1:5-6; 5:10. See too 1 Peter 2:9.
Returning to the Jeremiah 31 text, note the condition under the New Covenant: all shall know the Lord "from the least to the greatest". vs. 34. No one is better than anyone else. Under the New Covenant all those in God's kingdom know him and all have equal access as a priest in his "kingdom of priests." For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. With confidence draw near to the throne of grace with Jesus as your mediator.
If your faith is in Jesus, i.e., you trust and accept that he is the mediator between God and men, then you have the same access to God the Father as every other believer. No one has more or better access, not a preacher, teacher, pastor, priest, deacon, elder, nor a "saint". No one has better access than you.
Trust Jesus and pray to the Father. "For through him we … have access in one Spirit to the Father." Ephesians 2:18.
P.S. Emphasizing above that Jesus is fully human in no way means that he is not fully God. As the Second Person of the Trinity, he "though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." Philippians 2:6-8.