| Atonement Many refer to the atonement as a limited atonement. However, we don’t believe that God is limited in any area. So we believe that the atonement is a definite atonement. It is the sacrifice of Christ that made atonement by His blood , for all those who shall be brought by God to faith in the blood of Christ. We believe that Christ obtained eternal redemption for all those who shall be brought to faith in Christ. Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Hebrews 2:17 Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. There are those who will never be interested in the atonement. However, there are those who will be brought by God to desire and thirst for forgiveness and these are those that Christ made the atonement for. In the new birth one comes to be convicted of his sins and to see that atonement of Christ as his very own atonement. This bears record to that which Jesus spoke in John 17 1 and 2. Verse 1 – These words spake Jesus, and lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. Verse 2 - As thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as thou hat given him. Verse 3 - And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. In the atonement, God has reconciled a people unto Himself. II Cor. 5 – 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. Verse 19 to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. God hath reconciled unto Himself, by Jesus, all those that He gave to Christ, and those God will call into faith in this reconciliation, that Christ performed when He gave Himself for sinners. In this reconciliation, our trespasses are not imputed or charged against us anymore. Because Christ satisfied God for that which was against us. In the new birth, God brings sinners to know and believe this reconciliation as their very own reconciliation. In verse 19, the world is speaking of those that God will call out of the world into faith in Christ’s atonement. It is God that has committed unto us the word of reconciliation. God declares that he is reconciled in what Christ has done for sinners effective unto those who believe, Verse 20 – Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. God does beseech sinners by those he sends out preaching and by His church for sinners to be reconciled to God by faith in this reconciliation. Verse 21 For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. May those who desire and thirst for Christ as their Saviour, be reconciled to God through believing what God is, reconciled in, the finished work of Christ. |
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