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God’s Desire to be reconciled to you
Learning: How does my salvation affect God’s love for me?
Growing: How does sin affect God’s love for me?
The last lesson we the truth of the cross. God loves us so much that He sent his God to die for foe for us. The result for us when we believe is Him and put our trust in Him is that we are transformed into a newness of life that is eternal life.
When we believe in Jesus as our Lord we are fully reconciled to God. Our sin nature is transformed, and we move from a state of being a sinner to a state of being forgiven. Our reconciliation to God is total and complete.
What does it mean to be reconciled? Look at what Paul wrote to the Colossians.
12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.
13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
Paul makes it clear that our forgiveness puts into a different status, a different kingdom. He then went on to say something about Jesus.
19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,
20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.
21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled
22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—
23 if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.
Four things that stand out in these verses about reconciliation:
1. Our salvation is complete:
2. Our salvation brings peace with God:
3. Our salvation makes us holy, blameless, and above reproach in God’s sight:
4. We are to seek daily forgiveness for our sins as we follow Jesus our Lord.
Salvation is complete
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Fullness refers to our spiritual wholeness, Look at 2:9-10
Because of salvation, we move from one state to another. We are no longer in darkness, sin, shame, quilt, and condemnation. Now, we live in light, righteousness, joy, and forgiveness. The transformation is total and complete. We are either in one or the other.
Salvation is complete and full. It does not come in stages and steps. When we receive Jesus we are fully saves, fully reconciled to the father, fully forgiven.
We are not the ones who bring about this reconciliation. God does this work in us. And what God does is always perfect, whole, and complete.
24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
What does it mean to pass from death unto life?
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Salvation brings peace with God
One of the greatest marks of reconciliation in all relationships id genuine spiritual peace. When a person accepts Jesus as their Lord and savior, they enter a profound state of peace with God.
Peace and fear do not coexist. Our peace with God means we no longer fear the consequences of our old sin nature.
We can stand before the Father with perfect peace, knowing that all pf God’s intentions toward us are for our eternal good.
1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Salvation changes our identity before God
When we accept God’s forgiveness, we have a new identity in Christ. The “old man” disappears; we are new creatures.
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Holy: Means set part, or separate. We are no longer of the world; we are of God’s kingdom. We are no longer subject to the devil but subjects to Jesus.
Unblameable: (Blameless): There is nothing held against us: the slates of our lives have been wiped clean.
Unreproveable: (Above reproach) There is nothing the devil can point to and say “that warrants eternal death.
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
We Are to Seek God’s Forgiveness Daily
None of walk in perfect holiness and righteousness all the days of our lives. We continue to make mistakes and sin. Some of our daily sins is in knowing what we should have done and didn’t do. Some sin may be willful acts. These sins do not damage our salvation.
The damage is not to our salvation but to two aspects of our walk with the Lord.
1. The degree of intimacy that we experience with the Lord is damaged,
2 The extent to which we are able to experience the blessings of the Lord is damaged.
Disobedience does not produce God’s rewards, it can keep us from receiving God’s blessings.
A friendship can be damaged because of one person’s sin or mistake, it can damage the feeling of closeness.
The same thing can happen in our relationship with God. Sin can hinder our relationship with Him. It can cause an obstacle to our feeling God’s presence and power.
It can keep us from feeling totally free in the Lords presences. Sin will made want to run and hide. Gen 3:8
8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
We all sin, so what do you do when you sin. By confessing our sins quickly. Our immediate confession of sin, bring immediate forgiveness. I John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.