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1 | Have You Been Reconciled? | 2 Cor 5:20 | Morant61 | 163820 | ||
Greetings All! 2 Cor. 5:18-20 has been mentioned in several posts over the last day or so. As I have been studying it, I was interested in the way in which the word 'reconcile' is use throughout it. It is used in three very different ways in this passage. In verse 19, it is a present, active, participle describing what God was doing through Christ. He was reconciling the world to Himself. However, vv. 18 and 20 indicate that people stand in differing relationships to God. Verse 18 uses the aorist, active, participle to describe the past action of God on behalf of those who are in Christ. While verse 20 uses the aorist, passive, imperative to call those who are not currently in Christ to enter into a new relationship, made possible by Christ's death. Where do you stand in relationship to God? If you have not been reconciled, I appeal to you to do so now. What better way to celebrate this Christmas than by receiving God's gift of grace? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | Have You Been Reconciled? | 2 Cor 5:20 | Morant61 | 163824 | ||
Addition... I keep finding neat quotes! :-) Here is part of what Albert Barnes had to say about this verse: "Be ye reconciled to God - This is the sum and burden of the message which the ministers of the gospel bear to their fellow-men; see the note on 2Co_5:19. It implies that man has something to do in this work. He is to be reconciled to God. He is to give up his opposition. He is to submit to the terms of mercy. All the change in the case is to be in him, for God cannot change. God has removed all the obstacles to reconciliation which existed on his part. He has done all that he will do, all that needed to be done, in order to render reconciliation easy as possible. And now it remains that man should lay aside his hostility, abandon his sins, embrace the terms of mercy, and become in fact reconciled to God. And the great object of the ministers of reconciliation is to urge this duty on their fellow-men. They are to do it in the name of Christ. They are to do it as if Christ were himself present, and were himself urging the message. They are to use the arguments which he would use; evince the zeal which he would show; and present the motives which he would present to induce a dying world to become in fact reconciled to God." Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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