Jesus Reconciled Us To God Through His Blood

 

“For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.” - 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝟭:𝟭𝟵-𝟮𝟬

Christ came to bring peace between God and mankind. This idea in itself is marvelous! Christ’s job was to restore harmony between us. What sin disrupted, Jesus restored.

"All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. (𝗜𝗜 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝟱:𝟭𝟴-𝟮𝟬)

Everything that needed to be done has been finished. Christ took care of that. However, we still have a part to play: we must personally be reconciled to God. We must choose to accept this gift, to willingly sign the contract of peace offered to us in Jesus. The word reconcile means to "bring back a former state of harmony."

The basis of our reconciliation is that peace was made through Christ’s 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗗 shed on the cross for us.

In the sacrificial system, forgiveness could not happen without a blood sacrifice. (𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗨𝗦 𝟭𝟳:𝟭𝟭; 𝗛𝗘𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗪𝗦 𝟵:𝟮𝟮). This means Jesus’ perfect BLOOD was given as a sacrifice so we could be forgiven.

The BLOOD didn't just "cover" sins, It obliterated them and anything that accuses us because of them.

"When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ." He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; He took it away, nailing it to the cross. (𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝟮:𝟭𝟯-𝟭𝟰).