RECONCILED BY CHRIST’S DEATH
Pastor J. C. O’Hair
The doctrine of RECONCILIATION IS rather a profound study, the strong meat of Hebrews 5:14, for those Christians who are no longer children tossed to and fro. (Ephesians 4:14).
There is nothing too difficult for even the babe in Christ in Romans 5:10 and Colossians 1:21 and 22: “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.” “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He RECONCILED, in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight.”
God’s Word is very dogmatic and clear, that believing sinners are reconciled to God by the death of God’s Son, by the work that Christ did on the cross: “And having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to RECONCILE all things unto Himself; by Him I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.” Colossians 1:20.
Note that reconciliation was for the purpose of getting believing Gentiles and believing Jews into the Body of Christ. “And that He might RECONCILE both unto God in one Body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.” (Ephesians 2:16 and 17).
When Christians go to sinners as Christ’s ambassadors, as every Christian should, they go with the ministry and word of reconciliation. (II Corinthians 5:18 to 20). They beseech sinners to be reconciled to God by believing II Corinthians 5:21: “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” II Corinthians 5:21.
The full meaning of the statement that Christ was made sin, we may never really comprehend until the ages to come when God will show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Ephesians 2:7). But “KATALLASSO” translated “RECONCILE” is “ALLASSO” - “Change” or “different”. “KATALLASSO” has the thought of “a mutual change” or “an adjustment.”
The word translated “atonement,” in Romans 5:11, is the same Greek word translated in other verses “reconciliation.” It is more than atonement. Our sins are not covered over, but forever put away.
But let us understand the significance of this reading in Romans 5:11 and 12 - By Christ the reconciliation; wherefore as by Adam sin and death entered into the world.
“Reconciliation” - “Wherefore Adam and his deadly work.”
The sinner, in Adam, by Adam, is alienated from the life of God (Ephesians 4:18 - Colossians 1:21): and is condemned, dead in trespasses and sins, the child of wrath (Ephesians 2:1 to 3 - Romans 5:18) because of Adam. The ministry of the Twelve did not go back to Adam, but to circumcised Abraham. RECONCILIATION was Paul’s message.
The believing sinner is a new creation in Christ Jesus; is reconciled; is not condemned; is alive from the dead; is righteous and has eternal life. (Romans 8:1 - John 3:18 - Colossians 1:21 - Ephesians 2:5 and 6 - Romans 6:23).
The Divine reason and process is told in Romans 5:21 and in Ephesians 2:8 to 19.
But note carefully Romans 11:15: “For if the casting away of them (Israel) be the RECONCILING of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?” Read this with Romans 11:11 and Romans 11:30 and Acts 13:46 and Acts 28:28.
The Gentiles obtained mercy for two reasons; because of Christ’s propitiation and because of Israel’s unbelief (I John 2:2 - Romans 11:30). The Gentiles were reconciled to God for two reasons, because of reconciliation by the death of Christ and the casting-away of Israel some years after Christ was raised from the dead (Romans 5:10 - Colossians 1:21 and 22 - Ephesians 2:16 and Romans 11:15).
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