shortlady
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II Corinthians 5:18 - “Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.”
Have you ever heard someone say: “You need to make things ‘right’ with God!”? Although there is a choice that we have to make in order to receive new life in Jesus Christ, it is not up to us to make things “right” between us and God. That is the act of “reconciliation” this verse is talking about when it says that GOD was IN CHRIST, RECONCILING THE WORLD TO HIMSELF.
Reconciliation is the act of making something right that has been broken or disrupted. It is used in the Bible to describe what happens when a husband and a wife come back into a loving relationship, after having been apart (1 Cor. 7:11). It is also used here to describe what God did for us through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In His Grace, He took our place. For all the people on earth, there is now a new birth!
God is the one who has made things right between you and Him. It was not possible for you to do it. You didn’t have “the right stuff”. But, the fact is, God, In Christ, did for you what you could not do. Then when, by the Power of who He is, (the sinless lamb of God), (John 1:29), He could not be held by your sin, He arose from the dead, went straight to the throne room of Heaven, where all things are judged according to God’s standard - the righteous way - and there, in the highest courtroom in all eternity, it was declared by His Blood - the testimony that the job was completed - that what JESUS had done FOR US had made things right!
The word we have been given to tell the world is not that they need to make things right with God, but to receive the one that has made things right between them and God! It was His righteous work that made things right!
Have you ever heard someone say: “You need to make things ‘right’ with God!”? Although there is a choice that we have to make in order to receive new life in Jesus Christ, it is not up to us to make things “right” between us and God. That is the act of “reconciliation” this verse is talking about when it says that GOD was IN CHRIST, RECONCILING THE WORLD TO HIMSELF.
Reconciliation is the act of making something right that has been broken or disrupted. It is used in the Bible to describe what happens when a husband and a wife come back into a loving relationship, after having been apart (1 Cor. 7:11). It is also used here to describe what God did for us through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In His Grace, He took our place. For all the people on earth, there is now a new birth!
God is the one who has made things right between you and Him. It was not possible for you to do it. You didn’t have “the right stuff”. But, the fact is, God, In Christ, did for you what you could not do. Then when, by the Power of who He is, (the sinless lamb of God), (John 1:29), He could not be held by your sin, He arose from the dead, went straight to the throne room of Heaven, where all things are judged according to God’s standard - the righteous way - and there, in the highest courtroom in all eternity, it was declared by His Blood - the testimony that the job was completed - that what JESUS had done FOR US had made things right!
The word we have been given to tell the world is not that they need to make things right with God, but to receive the one that has made things right between them and God! It was His righteous work that made things right!
