The Believer is Reconciled

1. The Believer is Reconciled • Reconciled By God • Reconciled To God

2. Reconciled • Greek: καταλλάσσω Aorist Passive • To change, exchange • To reconcile • To return to favor with • To receive one into favor

3. Reconciled • Aorist Passive God History Action Ongoing Results Eternity Past

4. Insert Earthly Story Here

5. Earthly Stories Lack the Dynamic of the Heavenly Story of Reconciliation.

6. Federal Headship

7. Federal Headship • Federal Headship is the principle that ancestors have an impact on their descendants • Adam is the federal head of the human race (Romans 5:12-19) • We had to have Christ as our Federal Head for God to have a relationship with us. We had to change our type

8. Reconciled By God

9. God Reconciles the Believer • The passive nature of reconciliation with God is critical to understanding the nature of God verses the nature of Mankind

10. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 • Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himselfthrough Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

11. Reconciliation Through Christ • The reconciliation is a result of Christ’s work on the cross and not of ourselves

12. We Have a Ministry of Reconciliation • Our job as believers is to preach ‘the word’ of reconciliation! • When we preach the gospel we preach the reconciliation by God to Himself • Christ’s reconciliatory work was effective for the whole world • Christ’s reconciliatory work causes sin to not be counted against a believer

13. Colossians 1:20 • …and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross;...

14. Reconciliation By God • The reconciliation through Christ, by God, brought peace with God • Man cannot bring peace with God about of his own will

15. Reconciled To God

16. Romans 5:10-11 • For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

17. We Were Enemies • Being God’s enemy clearly removes any neutrality from the non-believer. Agnostics attempt to claim neutrality, but instead they are the enemy • When the lost soul rejects God through suppression (Rom. 1:18) they declare their enemy state

18. The Death of Christ was Required • The death of Christ on the cross was required to meet the demands of God’s righteous requirement • God’s Holiness could not tolerate the imputation of sin from Adam and instead required that we be imputed with Christ’s righteousness

19. The Reconciliation Brings Joy • Christ’s Life brings us Joy, Exultation • Prior to this sin caused us temporary moments of happiness, but we could not have the Joy that comes from His wellspring of life

20. 2 Corinthians 5:20 • Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

21. Ambassadors of Reconciliation • As ambassadors we have the responsibility to be representing Christ’s reconciliation • We live out the Life that brings us Joy • We speak with reconciliation on our lips • Our restored relationship should dominate our thought life

22. Practical Principles • What are some areas that we can practically live out this doctrine? • Reconciliation between a husband and wife • Reconciliation between believers • Reconciliation preached to the lost