Gospel 101: Part 4 - The Prescription - Reconciliation

hi there once again this is Phil Carlson

with a quick message for your personal

professional and spiritual growth now of

course I say a quick message and I

realize the last video ran a little long

so I'm not sure how quick it's going to

be but it's going to be as quick as I

can make it this is video four part four

of the nine part series I'm doing on the

gospel gospel 101 we have so far talked

about the four categories and we've gone

through the first two categories which

were the premise and the problem and now

that we've just finished talking about

the problem we're going to now get to

the prescription which is reconciliation

with God this is how the problem of sin

needs to be addressed there are numerous

aspects of how this issue of

reconciliation is dealt with there are

many ways of talking about it one and in

fact it's not just ways of talking about

it it's aspects of the reconciliation

process

reconciliation comes through

justification

which is actually where our sins are

brought to Justice

and yet we ourselves are able to be

separated from the punishment that we

deserve for those sins then there's

regeneration whereas we become New

Creations we actually have to become

what we were not before we need to be

brought alive in God because before we

were spiritually dead that's part of the

problem

and then also we need to be adopted into

the family of God because we have lived

as orphans we were alienated from God

through our sins and now in

reconciliation we are brought back into

the family of God that comes with

benefits and it comes with a new nature

of our relationship with God in fact it

comes with so much I won't be able to

get to it in the video I cover it up

and then the next thing that I want to

make sure we talk about is

sanctification this is another element

of that process of reconciliation with

sanctification we actually live

according to the new identity that we

have in God

but to do that requires being involved

in a battle with our flesh our physical

bodies are still imbued with sin

those are going to be replaced to one

day in the future but until that time

until we die of a physical death or we

end up going to be with the Lord without

dying because Jesus returns in our

lifetimes

then we are going to continue to be

battling sin until that point

so

let's talk about reconciliation today

and of course there's one more aspect of

that reconciliation that I'm going to

leave to the last video which is

glorification and we'll we'll get into

that at that point but

and that's the future Prospect

but first today reconciliation

so let's take a look at a chapter where

reconciliation is brought up a lot in

the Bible and this is second Corinthians

chapter five and we're going to look

specifically at Verse 18 yeah Verse 18

of chapter 5 through verse 21. now all

these things are from God now these

things he's talking about are benefits

of salvation

reconciliation now all these things are

from God who reconciled us to himself

through Christ and gave us the ministry

of reconciliation namely that God was in

Christ reconciling the world to himself

not counting their trespasses against

them and he has committed to us the word

of reconciliation

therefore we are ambassadors for Christ

as though God were making an appeal

through us we beg you on behalf of

Christ be reconciled to God he made him

Jesus who knew no sin to be sin on our

behalf so that we might become the

righteousness of God in him

that is what this is about Jesus took

our place so that we might take his that

we would actually experience fellowship

with the father as Jesus has experienced

for eternity past and will continue to

experience for eternity future

this is where a place has been made for

us in the family of God

everyone who has repented of their sins

everyone who has come to Faith In Jesus

is given a reconciled relationship with

The God Who

was it he who rejected us no we rejected

him how through our Disobedience through

sin through the sin nature and once Adam

and Eve opened that door to treasonous

Rebellion against God which we read

about in our previous video involving

the problem

everyone got swept into it from before

they were born it actually talks about

this in a number of Psalms where it's

even while

before we were born we were in this sin

nature so let's talk about one more

scripture involving reconciliation and

that will be the end of this video

and that is First John chapter 4 verse

10. it just so happens this is my

favorite verse in the whole Bible in

this is love not that we loved God but

that he loved us

and sent his son to be the propitiation

for our sins

what does that mean

the propitiation for our sins I'll get

into that in the next video but the key

idea here

is that it is not about whether or not

we have affection for God or whether or

not we feel good things towards God or

we like God that isn't the issue

God's love for us is defined by action

as well as affection and our love if it

is to be true if it is to be real must

be defined not merely by affection but

by action and not just one or two

actions or a few actions or or many

actions

it's defined by a lifestyle of seeking

to be in alignment with God's word and

God's purposes on the earth as we talked

about in our second video regarding the

premise we remember Humanity was created

for God and for the pleasure of God we

were not created for our own pleasure we

get pleasure through coming into

obedience to God we get pleasure and Joy

from being in right relationship with

God that's how God set things up that is

a byproduct of the Prime product which

is being in right relationship with God

and so the way I demonstrate my love for

God Is by doing his commands Jesus

actually talked about this in the Gospel

of John if you want to show that you

love God

do what he's telling you to do if you

fail along the way that's one thing

that is something where you can still be

consistent with being a Christian

but if you're actively still just trying

to live life on your own terms and you

just fit God in where you can that isn't

the way of a lot of a lifestyle of

reconciliation

that's a life of rebellion that wants to

look as though it's reconciled without

actually having the fact of a reconciled

intimate relationship with God

so this is the beginning of what's now

going to be four videos talking about

what God does in our Salvation he

justifies us he regenerates us he adopts

us and he sanctifies us and then the

future Prospect we'll get to later but

God bless you and I hope you enjoyed

this video and have a great day