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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Reconciliation

Bible Questions Answered:
“... I haven't talked with my sister for almost 20 years. We jointly had started and run a business together. Her husbands job moved to another state, so she had to sell out to me her share of the business. So I bought her out, she said I robbed her blind, but I gave her an honest amount, for her share. All these years there's been bad blood between us....”
Sharon/ Columbus, Ohio United States

Bible Answer:

Our Lord, spoke on the subject of “reconciliation,” and its importance!

Matthew 5:23,24 NLT
23 “...if you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the Temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you,
24 leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God.

This old pastor remembers well, how that churches used to have what were called “reconciliation services.”­

Yes, it was just as you think. These meetings were worship services, where no message was given, instead, men and women, stood, to tell everyone... “Mr. Swanson, I am asking The Lord, and you to forgive me, because I have said some bad things that I know were not true about you, please forgive me.” So Mr. Anderson confessed, and oft, and as should be, the individual, in the church would walk right over to the person and give their confession.

Did you think this happened just between grown men, then think again, for many were the times, women weeping real sobs of regret before The Lord, openly and honestly confessed the wrongs they had done to another present at the meeting, and with real sorrow begged for their forgiveness.

This all dear friends, regrettably, is now, a world away. Oh how the wiley one has deceived and robbed the church of the precious Lord Jesus Christ, of its spiritual power and victory!

What days of cleansing and spiritual victory those days were, they brought people together, and we all knew one thing for sure, we needed The Lord, all of us.

Reconciliation, yes, Jesus said it was more important to get that settled than to bring an offering to the house of The Lord!

I John 3:18-22 NLT
18 Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show The Truth by our actions.
19 Our actions will show that we belong to The Truth, so we will be confident when we stand before God.
20 Even if we feel guilty, God is greater than our feelings, and He knows everything.
21 Dear friends, if we don’t feel guilty, we can come to God with bold confidence.
22 And we will receive from Him whatever we ask because we obey Him and do the things that please Him.

Dissension, can "block," our prayer life!

Matthew 18:15-17 NLT
15 “If another believer sins against you, go privately and point out the offense. If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back.
16 But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses.
17 If the person still refuses to listen, take your case to the church. Then if he or she won’t accept the church’s decision, treat that person as a pagan or a corrupt tax collector.

Philippians 2:3 KJV
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

II Timothy 2:24 KJV
And the servant of The Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men..."

Our wonderful living God, praise His name, believed and believes in reconciliation!

Romans 5:10,11 NLT
10 For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of His Son while we were still His enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of His Son.
11 So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.

II Corinthians 5:18-21 NLT
18 And all of this is A Gift From God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him.
19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And He gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making His appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

Colossians 1:19-22 NLT
19 For God in all His fullness was pleased to live in Christ,
20 and through Him God reconciled everything to Himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.
21 This includes you who were once far away from God. You were His enemies, separated from Him by your evil thoughts and actions.
22 Yet now He has reconciled you to Himself through the death of Christ in His physical body. As a result, He has brought you into His own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before Him without a single fault.

Hebrews 2:17 KJV
Wherefore in all things it behoved Him (The Lord Jesus Christ) to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a Merciful and Faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

Do you know this Wonderful Savior, who made it possible for us to be reconciled to God?

Acts 4:12 KJV

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.