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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 | 163823 | ||
Addition... Here is what John Wesley said of this verse: "2Co 5:20 - Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ - we beseech you in Christ's stead - Herein the apostle might appear to some "transported beyond himself." In general he uses a more calm, sedate kind of exhortation, as in the beginning of the next chapter. What unparalleled condescension and divinely tender mercies are displayed in this verse! Did the judge ever beseech a condemned criminal to accept of pardon? Does the creditor ever beseech a ruined debtor to receive an acquittance in full? Yet our almighty Lord, and our eternal Judge, not only vouchsafes to offer these blessings, but invites us, entreats us, and, with the most tender importunity, solicits us, not to reject them." Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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