1:20
So far the focus has been on who God is, more specifically who Christ is. Now we come to our relationship with God, and we start from a very bad place, for we have sinned against God and are by nature objects of wrath. The good news is that God was pleased to reconcile us with Himself through Christ. Again, it is extremely presumptuous of anyone to suggest that we need to add something to this. And it wasn’t just us that was reconciled, it is all things. Now what does this mean? How is creation involved in this? Well creation does not function as intended because of our sin, but when we are reconciled through Christ, and we live in faith and obedience creation will start to function as it should. Christ is the person through whom all this is achieved, the means that it is achieved is by Christ’s blood shed on the cross.
1:21
Once we were enemies of God, once we were alienated from Him. We were hostile to God in our minds because of our evil behaviour. Man does not like being told that he is guilty, that he is wrong. So instead of trying to correct our behaviour we try and pretend that God does not exist. This was once true of us, and we see it in the lives of other people. We also need to remember that when atheists or other sceptics argue against God their prime motivation is not the truth, but to avoid having to admit their evil behaviour. Intellectual arguments are fine, but at the root is a spiritual problem.
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