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III.
The Way to Christ
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Chapter
22
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Reconciled to God
1. WHAT message of entreaty has God sent to us
through his appointed messengers?
"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." 2 Cor. 5:20.
2. Through whom is this reconciliation made?
"All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to
Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the
ministry of reconciliation." Verse 18.
3. What was required in order
to effect this reconciliation?
"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." Rom.
5:10.
4. What basis for
reconciliation was made by Christ's death?
"Having made peace through the blood of His
cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself."
Col. 1:20.
5. Through whom is the reconciliation received?
"We also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom we have now received the atonement
[reconciliation, margin]." Rom. 5:11.
6. By what union does Christ reconcile both Jew and
Gentile to God through the cross?
"And that He might reconcile both unto God in one
body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby."
Eph. 2:16.
7. In what prophecy was the work of reconciliation
foretold?
"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon
thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make
an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for
iniquity." Dan. 9:24.
8. In thus reconciling the world unto Himself, what
attitude did God take toward men?
"God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto them." 2 Cor.
5:19.
9. What rendered it possible
for God to treat sinners thus?
"All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned
every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on
Him the iniquity of us all." Isa. 53:6.
10. What was Christ made, to release men from sin?
"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." 2 Cor. 5:21.
11. How was He treated?
"But He was wounded for our transgressions, He
was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement
of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes
we are healed." Isa. 53:5.
12. What did John declare concerning Him?
"Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away [beareth,
margin] the sin of the world." John 1:29.
13. To what place did Christ carry these sins?
"Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on
the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live
unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." 1
Peter 2:24.
14. What is the great purpose of Christ in His work
of reconciliation?
"And you, that were sometime 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 unblamable and unreprovable in His sight."
Col. 1:21,22. |
