We are looking at Romans 5 for our word reconciliation which is not a word that is commonly used in everyday language although it is occasionally used. In the biblical terminology, we are looking at reconciliation with God.
Our great need ultimately is to be reconciled with God. If you think of the whole picture of salvation, our problem is that because we are sinners we are alienated from a righteous God. That is our major problem and all the teaching in scripture is dealing with how a sinner can be righteous before God. How can we be reconciled to Him? We are alienated and separated from Him, and we need reconciliation.
Romans 5:10 talks about reconciliation, “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.” This is a great passage in scripture. I encourage you to read Romans 5. As Paul is teaching, he is closing his teaching of how to be saved and all about justification and so forth. He is pulling a lot of that together before he springs into Romans 6-8 talking about sanctification, or spiritual maturity and growth. As he does so, he is looking at the factors that have kept us from being right with God. Our spiritual alienation, or separation. Here in this passage, he calls us sinners, ungodly, and even the enemy of God. Most of us don’t like to think of ourselves as the enemy of God, but we like to think that at our very worst we were noncommittal. To think that we are enemies of God is a horrible thing to consider. If there is a true God and you want to be an enemy of that God, you are certainly on the wrong side of things, right? We do not want to be that way, but that is what the Lord says . . .
