The Lord's Day Bible Message Outlines
May 2, 2010
Pastor Dana Johnson
"For it pleased the
Father...by Him to reconcile all things to
himself...."
-Colossians
1:19-20
For it pleased the Father that in
Him all the fullness should dwell, 20and by Him
to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him,
whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made
peace through the blood of His
cross.
1. The sovereign God
was pleased to design a gracious plan of reconciliation for
sinful humanity. Consider humanity's need:
Colossians
1:21 - And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your
mind by wicked works, yet now He has
reconciled
a. We are
alienated from God.
b. We are enemies
in our mind.
2. It pleased the
Father to make the eternal Son of His love a Man to be the
mediator of reconciliation. He alone can be Mediator
because:
a. He must be
a Man so that He could suffer the penalty of our
sins.
b. He must be God
so that He could satisfy all God's holy demands and grant
to us His righteousness.
3. Consider the method
of reconciliation:
a.
God does
it-- He doesn't merely make it possible for us to do
it.
b. God uses the
redeeming sacrifice of Christ's body and blood.
Colossians
1:20, 22 - And by Him to reconcile all things to Himself,
by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven,
having made peace through the blood of His cross.
22...in the body of His flesh through death,
to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in
His sight.
c. God exchanges
our sin with the righteousness of Christ.
2
Corinthians 5:21 - For He made Him who knew no sin to be
sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God
in Him.
4. Consider the object
of reconciliation: all things in heaven and on
earth.
a. It doesn't
mean merely that God establishes harmony between things
in Heaven and things in earth.
b. It doesn't mean
that God makes an actual reconciliation for all people
without exception-- that would be
universalism.
c. Comparing
Scripture with Scripture we can observe that the "all
things" is the same as those who were predestined to be
gathered together in Christ.
Ephesians
1:10 - That in the dispensation of the fullness of the
times He might gather together in one all things in
Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth;
in Him.
d. They are the
whole family of God-- His people of past generations who
are now in Heaven: and those still on the earth.
Ephesians
3:15 - From whom the whole family in heaven and earth is
named.
5. Consider the
results of reconciliation:
a. Peace with
God.
Colossians
1:20 - And by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by
Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having
made peace through the blood of His cross.
b. Presented to God
as holy and blameless.
Colossians
1:22 - In the body of His flesh through death, to present
you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His
sight.
(All
Scripture quoted is from the New King James
Version)
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