Reconciled to GOD

1. What is necessary to fellowship?
“Can two walk together, except they be agreed.” Amos 3:3.

2. Why is fallen man separated from God?
“Thou has hid Thy face from us, and has consumed us, because of our iniquities.” Isaiah 64:7.

3. How did God associate Himself with Jesus in seeking to bring about a reconciliation with man?
“To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.” 2 Corinthians 5:19.

4. By what act was reconciliation made possible?
“And you, that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has, He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in His sight.” Colossians 1: 21, 22.

5. On what basis is the sinner received back again into fellowship with God?
“To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He has made us accepted in the Beloved.”
Ephesians 1: 6.

6. What other term is applied to this work of reconciliation?
“And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.” Romans 5:11.

7. Having provided in Christ the Mediator, how has God made known His gracious offer?
“All things are of God, who has reconciled us, to Himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation.” 2 Corinthians 5: 18. (See also verse 19.)

8. What appeal, therefore, does Paul make to his readers?
“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be you reconciled to God.” 2 Corinthians 5:20.

9. Into what close relationship with God does reconciliation bring us?
“I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, said the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians 6: 17, 18.

10. By adoption into the family of God what new relationship obtains between us and Christ?
“For both He that sanctified and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren.” Hebrews 2: 11.

11. To what does Paul compare this fellowship of believers?
“Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.” Ephesians 2: 19.

12. What witness have we that we have been adopted into the family of God?
“The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.” Romans 8: 16.

13. Because the family relationship does not fully suggest the union between Christ and the believer, what further illustration does Paul use?
“Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 6:15. (See also
Ephesians 5: 30.)

14. Being united with God and Christ, what relationship obtains between individual believers?
“We, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.” Romans 12:5. (See also 1 Corinthians 12: 20, 25-27.)

15. What will characterize the life of the reconciled sinner?
“And he that keeps His commandments dwells in Him, and He in him.” 1 John 3: 24.

16. What would belie our fellowship with God?
“If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.” 1 John 1: 6.

17. If we continue faithful, how fully will our union with God and with Christ be made manifest?
“At that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.” John 14: 20.

18. What glorious prospect will then open up to us through son ship?
“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ.” Romans 8:17.