Sound Doctrine Reconciliation and Justification

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Sound DoctrineReconciliation and Justification

• Bible Series
• Christ Emmanuel Christian Fellowship

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Reconciliation

• Justification

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The veil of the temple was rent in twain from top
to bottom Matthew 2751
 

• On the other side of the veil was RECONCILIATION
  AND JUSTIFICATION

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Look at how Reconciliation came about

•   Now when these things were thus ordained, the
  priests went always into the first tabernacle,
  accomplishing the service of God.
•  But into the second went the high priest alone
  once every year, not without blood, which he
  offered for himself, and for the errors of the
  people

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Reconciliation came by

• The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way
  into the holiest of all was not yet made
  manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet
  standing Hebrews 96-8

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How Reconciliation came

• Prior to this dispensation there was
• only access to an earthly replica of the Holy
  of Holies
• It was limited to only one man (the high
  priest)
• It was limited to (chronos ) time (enough time
  to offer up the sin offering)
• It would bring death (if the priest entered
  with out performing the sanctification rituals )

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The Mercy Seat

• A part of the
• Ark of the Covenant,
• The only object in the Holy of Holies, the
  sacred ark that contained
• the two tablets with the Ten Commandments,
• the rod of Aaron that blossomed
• the pot of manna. 

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The Mercy Seat
The ark was covered by the "mercy seat" on
which the high priest sprinkled the blood of the
goat seven times on the Day of Atonement.  The
ark represented the footstool of God's throne
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The Mercy Seat

• The number seven means completion
• When Jesus hung on the cross HE said it is
  finished, meaning it is a done deal
• We who have been washed in the blood are
  forever reconciled the father covered by the
  mercy seat.
• Total deity has us covered in mercy.

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The Mercy Seat

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• Psalm 236
• Surely or only goodness, mercy, and unfailing
  love shall follow me all the days of my life, and
  through the length of my days the house of the
  Lord and His presence shall be my dwelling
  place.

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The Mercy Seat

• Psalm 8613
• For great is Your mercy and loving-kindness
  toward me and You have delivered me from the
  depths of Sheol from the exceeding depths of
  affliction.

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THE MERCY SEAT

• The ark of the covenant was made of shittim wood
  overlaid with gold
• which represents humanity rapped in deity in the
  person of Jesus Christ
• However, the mercy seat was made of solid gold
  because only pure deity could offer saving mercy
• This is the meeting of
• truth and mercy

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The Mercy Seat

• It is the representation of a sealed covenant
  regarding reconciliation.
• Mercy springs up as everlasting water renewed
  fresh for me each day.
• It speaks to my heart that HE will never give up
  on me.

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Reconciliation

•  Seeing then that we have a great high priest,
  that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of
  God, let us hold fast our profession.
•  For we have not an high priest which cannot be
  touched with the feeling of our infirmities but
  was in all points tempted like as we are, yet
  without sin.
•  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne
  of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find
  grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 414-16
• GRACE the birth of our reconciliation

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What is Reconciliation

• Dictionary defines it as
• 1. To reestablish a close relationship
  between.
• 2. To settle or resolve.
• 3. To make compatible or consistent reconcile
  my way of thinking with yours.
• 4. To reestablish a close relationship, as in
  marriage The estranged couple reconciled to
  become compatible or consistent after a year.

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What is Reconciliation

• Dwight Pentecost defines
• Reconciling- bringing into conformity to a
  standard
• Conformity-action in accordance with some
  specified standard or authority
• Standard-a means of determining what a thing
  should be. A test of the authenticity or value of
  something intangible

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What is Reconciliation

• God is presenting me i.e. my outer man as proof
  to the world that He is alive in me. He is taking
  the intangible i.e. my spirit man and causing
  this flesh to present it self as an ambassador to
  Christ.
• Representing him in a foreign land

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What is Reconciliation

• e.g. Reconciling your bank account
• When you adjust your balance to conform to the
  statement furnished you by your bank.
• God is adjusting our lives to measure up to
  himself.
• He is rearranging the way we think so that we
  think like him.

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Purpose of Reconciliation

• God is reconciling us back to himself
•  Much more then, being now justified by his
  blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
•  For if, when we were enemies, we were
  reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much
  more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his
  life. Roman 59-10

 
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Purpose of Reconciliation

• Because the worlds systems are totally out of
  sync with Gods system
• He is bringing us from conformity to this
  world system into the likeness and image of
  Jesus.
•  For whom he did fore know, he also did
  predestinate to be conformed to the image of his
  Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
  brethren. Roman 829

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Purpose of Reconciliation

• Ephesians 214-16 (Amplified Bible)
• 14 For He is Himself our peace (our bond of
  unity and harmony). He has made us both Jew and
  Gentile one body, and has broken down
  (destroyed, abolished) the hostile dividing wall
  between us,
•  15 By abolishing in His own crucified
  flesh the enmity caused by the Law with its
  decrees and ordinances which He annulled that
  He from the two might create in Himself one new
  man one new quality of humanity out of the two,
  so making peace.

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Purpose of Reconciliation

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• 16 And He designed to reconcile to God both
  Jew and Gentile, united in a single body by
  means of His cross, thereby killing the mutual
  enmity and bringing the feud to an end.

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Purpose of Reconciliation

• 2 Corinthians 519-21 (Amplified Bible)
• 19 It was God personally present in Christ,
  reconciling and restoring the world to favor with
  Himself, not counting up and holding against
  men their trespasses but cancelling them, and
  committing to us the message of reconciliation
  (of the restoration to favor).

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Purpose of Reconciliation

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• 20. So we are Christ's ambassadors, God
  making His appeal as it were through us. We as
  Christ's personal representatives beg you for
  His sake to lay hold of the divine favor now
  offered you and be reconciled to God.

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Purpose of Reconciliation

• 21. For our sake He made Christ virtually
  to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through
  Him we might become endued with, viewed as being
  in, and examples of the righteousness of God
  what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and
  in right relationship with Him, by His goodness.

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The purpose of Reconciliation

• 2 Corinthians 518
• And all things are of God, who hath reconciled
  us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to
  us the ministry of reconciliation
• In order that we would reproduce Him in the
  earth.

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Faith, the birth of Justification

• Romans 4 1-3 (amplified bible)
•  1 BUT IF so, what shall we say about
  Abraham, our forefather humanly speaking--what
  did he find out? How does this affect his
  position, and what was gained by him?

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Faith, the birth of Justification

•    2 For if Abraham was justified (established
  as just by acquittal from guilt) by good works
  that he did, then he has grounds for boasting.
  But not before God!
•     3 For what does the Scripture say? Abraham
  believed in (trusted in) God, and it was credited
  to his account as righteousness (right living and
  right standing with God

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Abraham and his seed

• Romans 420-24 (Amplified Bible)
• 20. No unbelief or distrust made him waver
  (doubtingly question) concerning the promise of
  God, but he grew strong and was empowered by
  faith as he gave praise and glory to God,
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•   21. Fully satisfied and assured that God was
  able and mighty to keep His word and to do what
  He had promised.
•     22. That is why his faith was credited to him
  as righteousness (right standing with God).
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Being justified as Abrahams seed

•     23. But the words, it was credited to him,
  were written not for his sake alone,
•     24. But they were written for our sakes
  too. Righteousness, standing acceptable to God
  will be granted and credited to us also who
  believe in (trust in, adhere to, and rely on)
  God, Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

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Abraham and his seed

• Galatians 316
• Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises
  made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many but
  as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

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Abraham and his seed

• Galatians 329
• And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's
  seed, and heirs according to the promise.

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Justification

• Justification
• Vindication,
• the act , process or state of being
  justified.
• Vindication to set free to deliver

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Why do I have to be justified?

• Romans 310 (Amplified Bible)
• 10 As it is written, None is righteous, just
  and truthful and upright and conscientious, no,
  not one

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Does Faith in Justification excuse my sin acts

• Romans 615
• What then? shall we sin, because we are not
  under the law, but under grace?
• God forbid.

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Benefits of Justification

• Romans 51 (Amplified Bible)
•  1. THEREFORE, SINCE we are justified
  (aacquitted, declared righteous, and given a
  right standing with God) through faith, let us
  grasp the fact that we have the peace of
  reconciliation to hold and to
• benjoy peace with God through our Lord
  Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

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Benefits of Justification

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• 9. Therefore, since we are now justified
  (acquitted, made righteous, and brought into
  right relationship with God) by Christ's blood,
  how much more certain is it that we shall be
  saved by Him from the indignation and wrath of
  God.
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Benefits of Justification

• Titus 37 (Amplified Bible)
• 7. And He did it in order that we might be
  justified by His grace (by His favor, wholly
  undeserved), that we might be acknowledged and
  counted as conformed to the divine will in
  purpose, thought, and action, and that we might
  become heirs of eternal life according to our
  hope.