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Peace with God

Colossians 1:19&20
"19 For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven."

Jesus was BOTH the priest and the sacrifice! In God's plan the Sacrifice does NOT stay dead, but comes back to LIFE and SAVES everyone who will believe in Him!!! He is the Living GOD! When John the Baptizer introduced Jesus to the world he humbly said "BEHOLD the LAMB of GOD, which taketh AWAY the SIN of the WORLD." John is introducing GOD'S Sacrifice to the people who will benefit from this action. The LAMB is the Sacrifice. 

This "LAMB of GOD" is the priceless sacrifice. The cost of your and my forgiveness is beyond measure. We get to bask in they Glory of God only because of the sacrifice of the Son. And, when we are really blessed the Holy Ghost gives us FAITH to believe in our risen Savior!

For reassuring these promises we turn to one of the Pauline Epistles, Colossians chapter one, in verse nineteen we read that Jesus is ruler over everything; "For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell; And, having made PEACE THROUGH the BLOOD of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven." 

The fancy word for "PEACE THROUGH the BLOOD" is reconciliation. That's because we all fall away from God's teaching and we insist on doing our own thing. Which is sin. This is a deep disagreement between God and people. The disagreement that the Son settled once and for all on the cross. The Lamb of God, the priceless sacrifice. And, as Paul points out in the rest of today's verse not merely all humanity, but “all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven.” This is, indeed, only a fuller exposition of the truth that God was in Christ reconciling the world, or as the Greeks would express it; the KOSMOS! 
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