I wrote this after reading the Scripture verses provided below:
Not only is this so, but we also rejoice
in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have now received
reconciliation (Romans 5:11 NIV-1984)
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is
a new creation; the old has gone, the
new has come!
18 All this is from God, who reconciled us
to himself through Christ and gave us
the ministry of reconciliation:
19 that God was reconciling the world to
himself in Christ, not counting men's
sins against them. And he has
committed to us the message of
reconciliation.
20 We are therefore Christ's
ambassadors, as though God were
making his appeal through us. We
implore you on Christ's behalf: Be
reconciled to God. (2 Cor 5:17-20 NIV-1984)
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* Galatians 5:22-23
** Matthew 5:17. "Torah", meaning the Scriptures. We are freed from the
entanglement with errant and abusive teachings, ones that take and twist
the meaning and intent of the Old and New Covenants.
What! Live it up?
Rather, we shall live it out.
Emotions handcuffed, discarded? Hardly.
There are more stirrings where service shouts!
The "new man", in us, seeks to move through sinews that bend
to fulfill God's call: reconciliation.
Therefore, "against such there is no law",*
of the misled civic, self-centered,
or misplaced Torah-kind,**
to restrain the Spirit in us.
Heaven sent, in human lives bent on
reconciliation.
Rather, we shall live it out.
Emotions handcuffed, discarded? Hardly.
There are more stirrings where service shouts!
The "new man", in us, seeks to move through sinews that bend
to fulfill God's call: reconciliation.
Therefore, "against such there is no law",*
of the misled civic, self-centered,
or misplaced Torah-kind,**
to restrain the Spirit in us.
Heaven sent, in human lives bent on
reconciliation.
Not only is this so, but we also rejoice
in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have now received
reconciliation (Romans 5:11 NIV-1984)
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is
a new creation; the old has gone, the
new has come!
18 All this is from God, who reconciled us
to himself through Christ and gave us
the ministry of reconciliation:
19 that God was reconciling the world to
himself in Christ, not counting men's
sins against them. And he has
committed to us the message of
reconciliation.
20 We are therefore Christ's
ambassadors, as though God were
making his appeal through us. We
implore you on Christ's behalf: Be
reconciled to God. (2 Cor 5:17-20 NIV-1984)
____________
* Galatians 5:22-23
** Matthew 5:17. "Torah", meaning the Scriptures. We are freed from the
entanglement with errant and abusive teachings, ones that take and twist
the meaning and intent of the Old and New Covenants.
