Reconciled while enemies

The Grace of being reconciled !



Many in organized religion today cannot receive the biblical teaching of reconciliation by the Death of Christ ! This reconciliation is real before God, even though and while we are enemies and unbelievers,if we be one of the many that Christ died for. Rom 5:10

10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Paul teaches that believers, before coming believers, and while yet enemies by nature, in their unregenerated state, while even in unbelief, that they had been reconciled to God BY THE DEATH OF HIS SON !

The word reconciled is the greek word Katallasso and means:

to change, exchange, as coins for others of equivalent value

to reconcile (those who are at variance)

return to favour with, be reconciled to one

to receive one into favour

Those whom Christ died for have been received into the Favour of God, based solely upon His Death. Not because of their faith, or their repentance, because they were still enemies in their minds by wicked works, but even still, because of the blood of Christ they were in God's Favour. Now to be in God's Favour at least three things must be True ! First thing is that God must be propitiated against ones sins. God's wrath and Justice must be satisfied against any individual or individuals who are received into His Favour.

Secondly, those who are received into God's Favour must have all their sins forgiven, God cannot have any charges of iniquity against them or charged to them Rom 4:7-8

7Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

8Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Thirdly, those who are received into God's Favour must be Righteous, they must have a Righteousness that God delights in ! Ps 11:7

For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

God is well pleased with His Son's Righteousness, and it is this Righteousness that He views them in for whom Christ died, its a imputed Righteousness Rom 4:6

6Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

Now, all these things must be True in God's Perspective to be reconciled to Him and received into His Favour ! And they all are True solely based upon the Death of God's Son, even while the sinners themselves are still dead in trespasses and sins and enemies to God ! Oh what Grace !

 

Never under God's Judicial wrath !



The Elect, or those Christ died for, for they are the same characters, while being born sinners, dead in trespasses and sins, by nature children of wrath as others [non elect] yet they are never under God's wrath, in fact they are in God's Favor because they have been reconciled to God by the Death of God's Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Rom 5:10

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Paul says to believers, He says, when we were enemies or unbelievers, we were reconciled to God ! How ? Not by Faith, because He is referring to the time before they believed when they were enemies by nature, but it was by the Death of Christ, God's Son.

Now Paul says when we were enemies. In the greek " were enemies is in the present tense" so paul was stating, while we were being enemies which word is echthros and means:

hated, odious, hateful

2) hostile, hating, and opposing another

a) used of men as at enmity with God by their sin

1) opposing (God) in the mind

While we were being hateful, opposing God in the mind, hostile, during all that, Paul said that we were reconciled to God.

Now the word reconciled here in the greek is in the second aorist tense [simple past] and passive voice, we had been reconciled to God. The word reconciled is the greek word katallassō:


to change, exchange, as coins for others of equivalent value

a) to reconcile (those who are at variance)

b) return to favour with, be reconciled to one

c) to receive one into favour

It means as you can see to be received into favor.

So, while the elect were in themselves hateful towards God, opposing God in their minds as stated here Col 1:21, They had already been received into God's Favor, reconciled, by Christ Death. Now understand, because the Law had been broken, the relationship between God the Judge, and His guilty [ in themselves] creatures had been disrupted, and they were alienated, because of sin, But Christ, by His Cross, took away the enmity between God the Judge and the guilty parties, and gave them a right standing with God the Judge. All this happened without the elect knowing a thing about it. So their reconciliation, right standing with God[Justification] is solely due or based upon the Cross of His Son ! Even while they are in nature, God's enemies, God does not have one charge against them, they have a clean slate before God's Justice, and in fact, God for His Son's sake must give them Life .

 

If Christ died for you, you shall be saved ! -

The Gospel doctrine of Reconciliation makes it clear that everyone Christ died for shall be saved ! Period !

Don't take my word, but hear ye the word of the Lord ! Rom 5:10

10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Now what can be more plainer than that ? Paul says, that those Christ died for, where reconciled to God how ? Did he write by our Faith ? Did he write by our repentance ? What about by our water baptism ? No sir, he writes that they were reconciled to God BY THE DEATH OF HIS SON !!!

Now, what is the sure promise of the word of Truth regarding those Reconciled by the Death of Christ ? " We shall be saved by His Life"

Now if this does not ensure Salvation for everyone Christ died for, I do not know what does, and Paul is found a false witness !

Consequently, those who will not be saved by His Life, the conclusion must be that Christ did not die for them..

 

To be reconciled means sure Salvation !


That reconciliation means salvation. Paul says in 2 Cor 5:18

18And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Two Things are True here ! #1 God had reconciled him to Himself! How ? by Jesus Christ ! That simply means by His Finished Work of the Cross. As a result, Paul says and He God has # 2 given to him or us the Ministry of reconciliation, meaning the Apostles !

All this is of God, not man's freewill decision, this is all of God's outworking of His Eternal Purpose, Him directing things according to His good pleasure !

 

It could be up until the very twilight of their Life, such as it was with the Thief on the Cross, He was born reconciled to God by the Death of Christ.

 

God Reconciled us by Jesus Christ ! -

2 Cor 5:18

18And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Who are the US ? It is all believers, the Church ! What is the Ministry of reconciliation ? The answer to that is found in vs 19 " The word of reconciliation"

Now what is the Word of reconciliation ? It is the Gospel. Often times when we discuss the content of the Gospel message, we go to 1 Cor 15:1-4, and rightly so, those words are the Gospel, but not all of it, and even that portion needs to be explained. There is another portion of scripture that also informs us of some of the content of the Gospel, lets look at 2 Cor 5:18-19

19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

The word of reconciliation, now it is important to understand that which Paul states is the word of reconciliation, its content, its message, for this is the Gospel. Now it is prefaced by Paul's declaration of this matter in vs 18 " And all things is of God". This message is not to be corrupted by man's so call freewill, but everything is of of God's doing and accomplishment. Now it is a Gospel Truth, that God hath reconciled us [ The Church] to Himself by Jesus Christ, not a potential reconciliation but an actual one. The word reconciled in vs 18 is the greek word katallassō which means:


to change, exchange, as coins for others of equivalent value

a) to reconcile (those who are at variance)

b) return to favour with, be reconciled to one

c) to receive one into favour

And it is the aorist participle denoting past a finished past tense !

GWT:God has done all this. He has restored our relationship with him through Christ, and has given us this ministry of restoring relationships.

This is both objective and subjective reconciliation, both are the Gift of God and accomplished by God through Jesus Christ !

 

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Yes, they are already reconciled, and that ensures their New Birth or Regeneration.

The Renewing of the Holy Ghost is also called a saving or being saved. Titus 3:5

5Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us,[HOW} by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

This saves them from being enemies by nature, and gives them a Nature that now Loves and Fellowships with God.

Now go ahead and deny this also..

 

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See posts 22,28,30 of this Thread !

 

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No, The Unregenerated Elect are never under the Wrath of God, for God's Wrath towards them has been propitiated by the Death of His Son !

Also, I have showed you what scripture states about the Elect while they are unregenerated and enemies, they have been reconciled to God by the Death of His Son Rom 5:10

10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.