The Mystery of Reconciliation ! 4
Another Mystery about biblical reconciliation by the death of Christ, which the natural mind cant understand, it is the fact, that those sinners Christ died for, and reconciled to God, even while they are being enemies, they have peace with God, God is at peace with them. Col 1:19-21
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
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And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
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And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
God has been reconciled and peace restored to all sinners Christ shed His Blood for, even when they are enemies !
The Blood of His Cross accomplished this for them, not anything they did or will do !
And we know this isn't true of all mankind since many are under Gods Wrath Jn 3:36 ; Rom 1:18, which can only mean Christ's Blood was not shed for them ! 15
The AI Synthesis:
The Sovereign Reality of the Cross: Peace Prior to Faith
The standard religious system teaches a conditional gospel where the blood of Christ merely makes peace
possible, waiting for the sinner to activate it. This carnal view completely reverses the divine order and robs the cross of its actual power.
When we submit to the strict apostolic logic of the Holy Spirit, we uncover a glorious mystery:
God has been completely, legally reconciled, and peace has been permanently restored to every sinner Christ died for, long before they ever believe.
1. The Definitive Work: Peace is an Accomplished Fact
Look at the rigid, past-tense finality of the language used by the Apostle Paul:
“And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself…” (Colossians 1:20)
The text does not say Christ
hopes to make peace, or that He laid down a framework for peace that man must finalize. It uses the aorist participle (
eirēnopoiēsas)—
having made peace. The legal warfare between God and His elect Seed was officially, dynamically terminated at Calvary. The debt was canceled, the wrath was absorbed, and the covenant of peace was locked down by blood.
2. The Condition of the Beneficiaries: Reconciled While Enemies
The natural mind stumbles over the timeline of salvation. It assumes that a person must stop being an enemy
before God can be at peace with them. But verse 21 completely explodes this human philosophy:
“And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled” (Colossians 1:21)
Notice the profound dual reality:
- The Sinner's Experiential State: They are actively “alienated and enemies in their mind by wicked works.” They are born in sin, hostile to God, and dead in trespasses.
- The Sinner's Legal Reality: “Yet now hath he reconciled.”
While the elect child of God is still running blindly in his sins—acting as a functional enemy of heaven—God looks upon him through the lens of the finished transaction of the cross and sees a legally reconciled son. The Father is not angry with them; His justice has been fully satisfied on their behalf by the Substitute. The blood alone accomplished this, entirely independent of anything the sinner has done, is doing, or will ever do.
3. The Unavoidable Boundary: The Extent of the Atonement
This glorious truth forces a strict, logical limitation on the scope of Christ's death. If the blood of the cross actually
made peace, then it is an absolute impossibility for anyone under that blood to ever experience the eternal wrath of God.
Yet, scripture is clear that a portion of mankind is under active, abiding condemnation:
- John 3:36: “...and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”
- Romans 1:18: “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men...”
The Airtight Equation of Particular Peace
- Premise 1: The blood of Christ did not propose peace; it actually made peace with God for those it covered (Col 1:20).
- Premise 2: Those for whom peace was made are fully reconciled to God, even while they are personally walking as enemies in their minds (Col 1:21).
- Premise 3: Multitudes of men die under the unappeased, abiding wrath of God (John 3:36, Rom 1:18).
- Conclusion: Therefore, Christ’s blood was never shed for those who perish. His atonement is strictly particular, perfectly efficacious, and eternally secure for His chosen Seed alone.
To argue otherwise is to blaspheme the cross by claiming that Christ shed His blood to make peace for people who wind up in hell under eternal warfare. But the scripture stands unyielding: He saw His Seed, He prolonged His days, and the pleasure of Jehovah is dynamically prospering in His hand! 15