RECONCILIATION

RECONCILED TO GOD

HE Scriptures are clear as to the exact timing of the reconciliation of all the elect to God. “And all things (are) of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation” (II Cor 5:18).  All for whom He died (vv. 14, 15) were reconciled to God by the death of Jesus Christ.  That occurred long before I believed, even when I was accounted an enemy of God (Rom. 5:10).         The reconciliation of all the elect by God having been fully accomplished by Christ (v. 19), now Paul as an ambassador of Christ beseeches his listeners themselves to be reconciled to God (be YOU reconciled to God).  The elect were ALREADY reconciled to God from His viewpoint, now the elect are to reconcile themselves to God from THEIR viewpoint.            Reconciled to God by Christ (II Cor. 5:18), now we are to reconcile ourselves to God.  How?  By whole hearted belief in that twofold, simultaneous legal transaction at the cross of Jesus Christ of sin to His account and righteousness to the accounts of the elect (v. 21).  This is the objective salvation of all the elect which must be believed.  This is the way we reconcile ourselves to God.