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The Glorious Power of the Cross - Reconciliation

    Feb 28, 2016

    Passage:Romans 5:1-11

    Preacher: Rick Blackwell

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    The Glorious Power of the Cross – Reconciliation

    Romans 5:1-11

    5:1  Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

    2  Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

    3  Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

    4  and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

    5  and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

    6  For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

    7  For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—

    8  but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

    9  Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

    10  For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

    11  More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

    2 Corinthians 5:18-20

    18  All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

    19  that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

    20  Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

    Colossians 1:15-23

    15  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

    16  For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

    17  And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

    18  And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

    19  For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,

    20  and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

    21  And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

    22  he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

    23  if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.