Paul Declares these Colossian Believers Reconciled to
God in Christ Part 2 (The Cause)
Colossians
1:22 In the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and
unblameable and unreproveable in His sight: KJVIn the last verse, we were told by the Apostle Paul of the reconciliation back to God of these Colossian Gentile sinners, now Paul declares to these reconciled believers in Christ in Colosse the one and only cause of their reconciliation with these words, “In the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight:” (Colossian 1:22) (KJV). It was/is only by the Power of God that any sinner can ever be redeemed and reconciled back to Him, therefore, God had to shed His Blood and die to redeem sinful humanity. Wait, but it is impossible for God to die, yes that is correct, therefore, He (God) had to take on human flesh and blood while at the same time still being God, for His Divine Nature could never suffer even pain let alone death. This is exactly what Paul means here by the ‘body of His flesh through death’, because God was and is Jesus Christ, then God could bleed and die for the sins of these Colossians and for our sins as Paul declared in another place with these words recorded for us by Dr. Luke, “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the Church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood.” (Acts 20:28) (KJV).
The Man Christ Jesus died on the Cross (Hebrews 2:14), but God/YAHWEH/Jehovah/Elohim was in the Man Christ Jesus thereby making Him not only Man, but also the Everlasting God and only through His death are these Colossian Gentiles and we Gentiles today and in every generation redeemed, reborn, and reconciled back from our fallen sinful nature/humanity back to God the Father forever, never can this reunion be broken, not by the devil, not by other wicked men/women, not by anything or anyone as Paul declared to the Roman believers with these words, “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the Right Hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:33-39) (KJV).
Note: “It is the Body of Jesus Christ that died and shed blood that can reconcile sinners back to God, therefore, when anyone speaks of ‘God’ without declaring Jesus Christ to be ‘God’ they are speaking of, they are devoid, destitute, and deprived of any knowledge, relationship, love, comfort, or care from the Only True God, because to say one knows ‘God’ without personal love for and love to Jesus Christ is like someone saying a dog or a cat can understand opera as does a human being, it is literally impossible to know ‘God’ unless you know Jesus as we wrote in a recent study/commentary these words spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ to the Apostle Philip we will declare them yet once again that there be no confusion or mix-up as to who ‘God’ truly is, “Philip saith unto Him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, ‘Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works’ sake.’” (John 14:8-11) (KJV).”
When these Colossian Gentiles were born again and we today were born again, our Lord Jesus Christ will ‘present’ us to God the Father as a love offering to Him and this English word ‘present’ is translated by two Greek words paristemi paristano meaning to stand beside, that is, (transitively) to exhibit, proffer (Present for acceptance), (specifically) recommend, (figuratively) substantiate. In other words, we are accepted by God the Father only through our Lord Jesus Christ bringing us to Him free from our sin and the contamination which sin yields (having made us holy or consecrated to the Father by His Blood) as the Apostle Peter declared with these words, “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:” (1 Peter 3:18) (KJV). The second (2nd) result of our Lord Jesus Christ ‘presenting’ us to God the Father is that we are ‘unblameable’ and this English word is translated by the Greek word amomos meaning unblemished (literally or figuratively): - without blame or faultless. In other words, because these Colossian believers and we believers today are ‘in Christ’ and ‘in Christ’ God the Father is well-pleased because He (Christ) was and is sinless, pure, holy, righteous, and separate from sin, then so are we who belong to Him as Paul wrote to the Hebrew believers with these words speaking of Christ our Great High Priest, “Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for His own sins, and then for the people’s: for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.” (Hebrews 7:25-27) (KJV).
Thirdly, this reconciliation back to God through the death of Christ Body and His shedding of His Blood allows these Colossian believers and we believers today to be ‘unreproveable’ and this English word is translated by the Greek word anegkletos which means unaccused, that is, (by implication) irreproachable: In other words, the accuser of the brethren (the devil) can never accuse these reconciled Colossian believers and we believers today and of every generation with success because we are free of guilt and without further blame before our Heavenly Father because we are ‘in Christ’ and as the Apostle John writes that our Lord Jesus Christ is our Defense Attorney for us, “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:” (1 John 2:1) (KJV). Note: “The word ‘advocate’ means lawyer.” It is in God the Father’s sight that we are without blemish or without a trace or spot of all our sins, as Paul declared with these words when he opened his letter to the Ephesian believers saying, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:” (Ephesians 1:3-4) (KJV).
“There was such a value in the Blood of Christ that, on account of Christ’s shedding it, God was willing to deal with men upon new terms to bring them under a covenant of grace, and for His sake, and in consideration of His death upon the Cross, to pardon and accept to favour all who comply with them.” Matthew Henry
“There will be none to accuse them before God; or they will be free from all accusation. The law will not accuse them - for the death of their Redeemer has done as much to honor it as their own punishment would have done; God will not accuse them - for He has freely forgiven them; their consciences will not accuse them - for their sins will all have been taken away, and they will enjoy the favor of God as if they had not sinned; holy angels will not accuse them - for they will welcome them to their society; and even Satan will not accuse them, for he will have seen that their piety is sincere, and that they are truly what they profess to be.” Albert Barnes
If you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ and His amazing healing power, pray this from your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ (you speaking directly to Him), Dear Lord Jesus, I confess to You that I am a sinner and I need Your forgiveness. I believe You shed Your Blood and died for my sins. I believe that You rose from the dead proving that You alone are God. I repent of my sins. I want to turn from my sins. I ask You Dear Lord Jesus to come into my heart and take control of my life. I want You to be my Lord, Savior, and my God. Amen...
Sincerely in Christ,
Clifford D. Tate, Sr.
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