Roger shares a profound reflection on the significance of our salvation and the divine act of reconciliation through Jesus Christ. He begins by emphasizing how God's Word can unexpectedly leap off the page, revealing truths that transform our understanding. Using 1 Corinthians 2, Roger highlights that only the Spirit of God knows the deep things of God, and that believers have received this Spirit to understand the blessings given by God. The core focus is on Colossians 1:22, which speaks of Christ reconciling believers in His fleshly body through His death, removing enmity and making peace with God. Roger explains reconciliation as a divine turning—God turning toward us through Christ’s sacrifice, enabling us to be presented holy, blameless, and beyond reproach before the Father. He underscores that this presentation is not future-only but occurs at the moment of salvation, with Christ as our perfect representative and elder brother, who introduces us to the Father. This divine act results in believers being declared righteous and accepted, with heaven rejoicing at our reconciliation. Roger concludes by urging believers to remain steadfast in faith, warning against being moved away from the hope of the gospel, and affirms that Christ is able to keep us faultless and secure in His love forever.
13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 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. 21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23 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;
10 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.
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;
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.