2021 Good Friday Meditation #4 — Reconciliation

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. Romans 5:10

When we think about the Cross of Christ one of the motifs that we find is the idea of “reconciliation.” Reconciliation is the idea that two parties being at war with one another need to be reconciled to one another. However, we tend to think of reconciliation in terms of man being reconciled to God. And of course, in order for man to be right with God sinful fallen man must be reconciled to God. HOWEVER, reconciliation is not first and foremost about sinful fallen man being reconciled to God but rather reconciliation is first and foremost about a just and holy God who is our enemy because of sin being reconciled to fallen sinful man. The problem that the Cross resolves in terms of reconciliation is not so much man’s need to be reconciled to God as it is the work to reconcile God to man.

The Cross of Jesus Christ answers both of these necessary reconciliations. The death of Christ reconciles God’s enmity towards the elect and the death of Christ reconciles man’s enmity towards God. The death of Christ satisfies the Father so that He is approachable again for elect repentant sinners and the death of Christ works to melt the hardness of men whose minds heretofore had been at enmity with God. So, because of the finished work of Jesus Christ, we can have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Reconciliation is knowing that God has been reconciled to the Elect in the death of Jesus Christ so that the elect can sue for peace with God and so discover that they have been reconciled to God in the work of Christ.

There is a reason they call it GOOD FRIDAY.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him. View all posts by jetbrane