Colossians 1:21-23: And you, that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; Reconciliation is the act whereby God, through Christs atonement, brings men who are at odds with Him back into a peaceful, proper relationship with Himself. In the body of his flesh through death (or by His fleshly body through death): The Colossian heretics may have argued that Jesus humanity and death indicate His inferiority to the angelic beings in the universe. Paul turns this argument against them, showing that His death points to His superiority; for His death is the divine means of achieving reconciliation to God. To present you holy..in his sight (or to bring you holy.. into His presence) This expresses the ultimate purpose of reconciliation: it is to eventually usher the believer, made perfectly holy, into the heavenly presence of God.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:32:00 +0000
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