*Scripture References Listed Below*
If you have not already, listen to the previous podcasts from this series:
1.) Atonement: Its Function & Impact on Salvation
2.) Forgiveness: Its Function & Impact on Salvation
3.) Righteousness: Its Function & Impact on Salvation
4.) Justification: Its Function & Impact on Salvation
This will be our final installment in this series. Today, we are going to recap what we've already been talking about concerning God's requirements for salvation. But this time, we are going to do it through the lenses of reconciliation. So, well start with the verses from our apostle, Paul, which deal directly with the word of reconciliation - the preaching of the gospel, specifically what happened on the cross and how it pertains to the entire world.
Christ's sacrifice on the cross was the full, totally sufficient, completely satisfying -- Atonement. Not only was He the sacrificial lamb without spot or blemish, our sins were laid upon him just as the scapegoat, he was also the sacrifice for sin offered outside of the camp, he paid the ransom that was owed for our souls, and He is the High Priest who burned the incense, sprinkled His sinless blood upon the horns of the altar, the table of incense, and then he entered into the holy of holies to sprinkle it on the mercy seat. His completed work was so sufficient that the earth shook and the veil of separation in the temple was rent from top to bottom. He was the final atonement for sin. Once and for all. This atonement didn't just appease God and act as a covering for sin, as in time past. God's prescription for the forgiveness of sins was fulfilled PERFECTLY. This atonement took away the sin barrier between God and man. Christ's resurrection is the proof of God's satisfaction and acceptance of His finished crosswork. No bull, lamb, or goat that was offered for atonement has ever resurrected from the dead. That fact alone, should tell the Limited Forgivers something.
Scripture References in this episode:
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
Colossians 1:20
2 Corinthians 5:21
2 Corinthians 5:14-21
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
Romans 5:10-11
Acts 20:28
Romans 4:5
Romans 5:19
Ephesians 2:-8-9
Romans 3:30
Galatians 3:8
Romans 5:18
Titus 3:7
Romans 3:21
Ministers of reconciliation are needed because all the world has not reconciled themselves to God. There are plenty of lost people still out there who haven't heard the good news of how God reconciled the world unto Himself. Obviously, those people have yet to "be ye reconciled", because they don't even know what was done on their behalf.
But to understand this, you have to understand reconciliation. And if you do come to understand reconciliation, you're going to have no choice but to look around and realize that there are more lost people out there than you ever imagined. True ministers of reconciliation will no longer be able to wink at the ignorance of Christendom, even in the so-called "grace camps."
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