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Roderick
Ramchand
October 3, 2019
2
Corinthians 5:18 KJV
"... And
all things are of God, who HATH reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and
hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation."
If
God HATH reconciled you to Himself (eternally) already by the sacrifice of
Jesus Christ, what else do we need to do to be reconciled (eternally)? Ans:
NONE.
There's
nothing left for us to do to be reconciled to God - Christ did it all.
We
don't proclaim the Gospel to reconcile people again (in an eternal sense). We
proclaim, by the Gospel, that they (the intended audience) have already been
reconciled, and so beg them to be reconciled to God (in a temporal sense).
That's what the "ministry of reconciliation" is about - to temporally
reconcile the eternally reconciled.. the purpose of the Gospel is to locate and
educate the regenerates.
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The author aptly expresses a gospel truth. I hope you appreciate the truth of reconciliations taught in the Bible. But not a few are so disagreeable to such an obvious truth stated.
I left this comment:
Roderick,
you have rightly divided the truth and stated it precisely as well as
concisely.
The first reconciliation is prior to and independent of the latter, as well as making the latter possible through the gospel ministry.
The former is completely by the free grace of God and is perfected once executed; the latter is a long process to bring a child of God to ALIGN with the truth and will of God.
Thank
you.
p/s
'Temporal'
is not to be understood as temporary;
- the latter means not permanent, lasting
for a limited period of time,
- the former means related to the realm of time
instead of the realm of eternity.
Temporal versus eternal, temporary versus permanent.