This ministry of reconciliation says that even though your past is one of separation from God, your new life in Christ is one of reunion with God! Your old life of the flesh is dead, your new life in Christ is a life of the Spirit. You no longer have to walk around with guilt and condemnation, but – through Jesus Christ – you walk in righteousness (right standing with God).
When Jesus met with Nicodemus, he told him, as us today: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3)
In Romans 6:4, Paul reinforces this message when he says:
“We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.”
John 14:5-6 “Thomas saith unto Him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” John 11:25-27 “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life:…
Genesis 22:1-19 “22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for…
Luke 8:45-46 “And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.”
Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Matthew 19:4 “And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,”
Numbers 14:18 “The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.”
Revelation 10:8-11 “And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book.…
Luke 5:17 “And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.”
Matthew 2:1-6 “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When…
Psalms 2:7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Acts 13:37 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this…
