The main reason God sent Jesus was so that through his sacrifice we could be reconciled to God his Father. Jesus in the beginning was a Spirit like his Father (John 4:24), but He became human to be able to pay the price of dying for us, so that we would be freed from the power of sin and the fear of death (John 1:14; Hebrews 2:14-15).
Once we turn to God, and are baptized in water into Christ Jesus, and receive the Holy Spirit, we are then set free from sin (John 3:1-8; Acts 2:37-39). And therefore our friendship with God the Father is restored, and we have fellowship with Him and with his Son, through the Spirit and Word of God (John 4:23 -24; Luke 10:38-42; 1 John 1:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14; Jude 1:20-21).
And the ultimate goal of receiving the Holy Spirit is so that we can obey the GREAT TASK of reconciling others to God the Father through the Spirit of Christ in us (Galatians 2:20; 4:6; 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 ).
Some Scriptures on Reconciliation
"God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God."
Romans 5:8 - 11
"Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
"This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
"And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this Task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful Message of Reconciliation.
"So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin by making him sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ."
2 Corinthians 5:14 - 15 ,17 - 21
"All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.
"Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.
"So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son. He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding."
Ephesians 1:3-8
"For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross."
Colossians 1:19-20
"Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders. You were called “uncircumcised heathens” by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope. But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ.
"For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups.
"Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death.
"He brought this Good News of peace to you Gentiles who were far away from him, and peace to the Jews who were near. Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us."
Ephesians 2:11-18
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