2 Cor 5: 19
God was reconciling the
world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has
committed to us the message of reconciliation.
Paul expounds in this chapter the love of God through the act
of sending His Son to bring the gospel of salvation so that He can reconcile
all men back to Him. When sin entered the world through Adam, the judgement of
sin as pronounced and all men were condemned to a spiritual death.
But God started immediately His plan of salvation even in the
Garden of Eden where he said in Gen 3: 15 And
I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her
seed; it shall bruise they head and thou shall bruise his heel. This was
the prophecy of God’s plan of redemption for the world.
Jesus would come as the sacrificial Lamb of God that takes
away the sins of the world. Through this act of obedience on His part, the
precious blood of Jesus would be shed to wash away all our sins and anyone who
receive Jesus as their personal Saviour would have their sins cleansed by His
blood.
This is the reconciliation plan of God to bring all sinners
back to Himself. There is no other way that can satisfy God except through the
sacrifice of the perfect sacrificial lamb which is His Son who is pure and
holy, perfect and sinless. Only the sacrifice of Jesus can fulfill the demands
of God.
Today, we who are sinners are saved because of the total
obedience and sacrifice of Jesus who came, suffered and died on the Cross so
that our sins are forgiven and we are reconciled back to the Father.
Praise be to God for His love and reconciliation, now we have
the gift of eternal life through Him.
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