![]() The whole message of reconciliation is centered around the love of God and the death of Christ. The ultimate aim is that we are not only justified, but that we might become the righteousness of God (v. "God gave us the ministry of reconciliation" ( 2 Cor 5:18 ) "he has committed to us the message of reconciliation" (v. This message of reconciliation or salvation that has come from God through Christ has been passed on to us. This is made possible by the cross of Christ, but only appropriated when we make the cross and the death of Christ applicable to our life or our relationships. They are all built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ as the Chief Cornerstone. Gentile and Jewish believers are reconciled to God and the middle wall of partition is broken down both are brought near by the blood of Christ. They are no longer foreigners and aliens but fellow citizens with God and members of the same household ( Eph 2:11-22 ). Because of this, Jew and Gentile have access to the Father by one spirit. They are brought near by the blood of Christ. It is the cross of Christ that reconciles both Jew and Gentile. Reconciliation is something done by the one who offers it it is not just something that happens to the estranged people. ![]() If a person is about to offer a gift at the altar and remembers that he has something against his brother he should leave his gift and be reconciled first to his brother and then come and offer his gift. It is a relationship that comes between man and wife as well as Jew and Gentile. Reconciliation is also subjective in that the sinner is spoken of as being reconciled. It is related to justification in Romans 5. ![]() God has reconciled the world, not counting people's sins against them. Reconciliation is also related to justification. Thus, it is Christ through the cross who has made reconciliation possible, for "God made him to be sin for us" ( 2 Cor 5:21 ). But it is also a subjective relationship: "Be reconciled to God" ( 2 Cor 5:20 ). Reconciliation is the objective work of God through Christ ( 2 Cor 5:19 ). It is a change in the total state of our lives. Instead, the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit whom he has given to us ( Rom 5:5 ). Thus, we are no longer enemies, ungodly, sinners, or powerless. Second Corinthians 5:18 says that "God reconciled us to himself through Christ." God reconciles us to himself through the death of his Son ( Rom 5:1 ). Reconciliation takes place through the cross of Christ or the death of Christ. God reconciles the world to himself ( 2 Cor 5:18 ). Reconciliation has to do with the relationships between God and man or man and man. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation the old has gone, the new has come!" ( 2 Cor 5:17 ). Because of change or reconciliation we become new creatures. In Romans 5:6-11, Paul says that before reconciliation we were powerless, ungodly, sinners, and enemies we were under God's wrath (v. It assumes there has been a breakdown in the relationship, but now there has been a change from a state of enmity and fragmentation to one of harmony and fellowship. The meaning common to this word group is "change" or "exchange." Reconciliation involves a change in the relationship between God and man or man and man. Reconciliation comes from the Greek family of words that has its roots in allasso. ![]()
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