Reconciling The World Unto Himself

The word reconciliation is wonderful to the fact that to be reconciled to something or some one , it means there was a time when they were in that place of unity.  And they lost their unity like marriage or friendships etc,  so there is a need for reconciliation  .
      Reconciliation   Greek: katallage

Atonement:
translated "atonement" in the AV of Rom 5:11, signifies, not "atonement," but "reconciliation," as in the RV. See also Rom 11:15; 2Cr 5:18, 19. So with the corresponding verb katallasso, See under RECONCILE. "Atonement" (the explanation of this English word as being "at-one-ment" is entirely fanciful) is frequently found in the OT. See, for instance, Leviticus, chapters 16 and 17. The corresponding NT words are hilasmos, "propitiation," 1Jo 2:2; 4:10, and hilasterion, Rom 3:25; Hbr 9:5, "mercy-seat," the covering of the ark of the covenant. These describe the means (in and through the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His death on the Cross by the shedding of His blood in His vicarious sacrifice for sin) by which God shows mercy to sinners.


2Cr 5:19 ASV - to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.  Now Adam and Eve were created perfect they were perfectly created and the garden was also perfect ,  the trees in the garden were for food all but one . Gen 2:9 ASV - And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Gen 2:17 ASV - but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
The tree of knowledge of good and evil , but right next to it was the tree of Life.  And of course the flesh wants to feed the carnal nature.  Adam and Eve were given the ability to choose and they chose the way of death . My question is why not life everlasting to choose the tree of life and live. 
Gen 1:27 ASV - And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  This is not speaking of your flesh God is a spirit so to be made in his image is to be a spiritual man . This is speaking of a spiritual image,   who God is his very nature and his character all that God is .  Can we see what Adam lost by his fall in the garden.
 Col 1:13 ASV - who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;
Col 1:14 ASV - in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins:
Col 1:15 ASV - who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
Jesus said he came in his fathers name and we know that the word name in Greek is the
character ,nature and authority of God ,he came in his fathers image  . And now we must come in the very image of who Christ is. Jesus came to show us the father .
Gal 2:20 ASV - I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Jesus said if you see me you see the father I and the father are one.



Jhn 14:16 ASV - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,
Jhn 14:17 ASV - even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.

2Cr 3:18 ASV - But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
   I tell you that there is a perfection in Christ Jesus that the father requires of his children .  Adam was perfect in his creation , but by choice he failed and so the curse came to all mankind born after Adam .    Rom 5-14  Still, everyone died—from the time of Adam to the time of Moses—even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did. Now Adam is a symbol, a representation of Christ, who was yet to come.     1Cr 15:45 ASV - So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.    Adam gave us our flesh body but Jesus came to restore what Adam lost ,   Life everlasting.  So we are reconciled back to God through Christ and his blood is our redeeming grace .    Christ came to bring many sons unto God ,  as I said we have our own cross to bear also.   Jesus took our sin nature and nailed it to the cross We die to our carnal nature our flesh man so that Christ may be glorified in us.   In the end Christ was glorified and his body was glorified .   So according to 1 Cor 15 we shall be glorified also.    1Cr 15:52 ASV - in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.   There it is      1Cr 15:50 ASV - Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1Cr 15:53 ASV - For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.   What this is saying is the nature and the character of Christ in you the hope of glory is what we will be like .  It is the fruit of righteousness that we obtain through Christ eating his flesh the word of God and drinking his blood which is his very nature .  The father is coming for the fruit of his son in us.   But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.   1Jo 4:9 ASV - Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.    Col 1:26 ASV - even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,
Col 1:27 ASV - to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Rom 8:23 ASV - And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
1Cr 15:23 ASV - But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then they that are Christ's, at his coming.

1Cr 15:54 ASV - But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.     Col 2:13 ASV - And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say, did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;
Col 2:14 ASV - having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross;
Col 2:15 ASV - having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
1Cr 15:49 ASV - And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1Cr 15:50 ASV - Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.     We must understand that there has to be a change in our minds a renewing of our minds according to Romans 12 -2   Rom 12:2 ASV - And be not fashioned according to this world:   but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Fashioned   Greek: suschematizo

Conformed, Conformable:
"to fashion or shape one thing like another," is translated "conformed" in Rom 12:2, AV; RV, "fashioned;" "fashioning" in 1Pe 1:14. This verb has more especial reference to that which is transitory, changeable, unstable; summorphizo, to that which is essential in character and thus complete or durable, not merely a form or outline. Suschematizo could not be used of inward transformation.

 Transformed              Greek: metamorphoo
of believers, Rom 12:2, "be ye transformed," the obligation being to undergo a complete change which, under the power of God, will find expression in character and conduct; morphe lays stress on the inward change, schema (see the preceding verb in that verse, suschematizo) lays stress on the outward (see FASHION, No. 3, FORM, No. 2); the present continuous tenses indicate a process; 2Cr 3:18 describes believers as being "transformed (RV) into the same image" (i.e., of Christ in all His moral excellencies), the change being effected by the Holy Spirit.

Renewing    Greek: anakainosis

Renew, Renewing (Verb and Noun):
akin to A, No. 1, "a renewal," is used in Rom 12:2, "the renewing (of your mind)," i.e., the adjustment of the moral and spiritual vision and thinking to the mind of God, which is designed to have a transforming effect upon the life; in Tts 3:5, where "the renewing of the Holy Spirit" is not a fresh bestowment of the Spirit, but a revival of His power, developing the Christian life; this passage stresses the continual operation of the indwelling Spirit of God; the Romans passage stresses the willing response on the part of the believer.

Mind     Greek: nous              the new nature, which belongs to the believer by reason of the new birth, Rom 7:23, 25, where it is contrasted with "the flesh," the principle of evil which dominates fallen man. Under (b) may come 2Th 2:2, where it stands for the determination to be steadfast amidst afflictions, through the confident expectation of the day of rest and recompense mentioned in the first chapter.
The word of God has come to renew your mind , what does the scripture say of his word
Hbr 4:12 ASV - For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.  This word if you obey will save you Spirit ,Soul and Body.


Jesus is the reconciliation between you and the father ,  He said I must go away for you to receive the promise of the father
Act 1:4 ASV - and, being assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, ye heard from me:
Luk 24:49 ASV - And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high.
Act 2:33 ASV - Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear.
Act 2:39 ASV - For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.  Lord God SHALL CALL.        Even to the ends of the earth.

Jhn 1:12 ASV - But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Jhn 1:13 ASV - who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.    You must be born again   Jhn 3:5 ASV - Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God!     The spirit is the power of God in you and the water is the word of God that washes us and cleanses us of all defilement .    Eph 5:26 ASV - that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Jhn 1:14 ASV - And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.


Rom 8:6 ASV - For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:
Rom 8:7 ASV - because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
Rom 8:5 ASV - For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

1Jo 2:14 ASV - I have written unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the evil one.
1Jo 2:15 ASV - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jo 2:16 ASV - For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jo 2:17 ASV - And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.


Rev 22:14 ASV - Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the Tree of Life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
I see this tree of life metaphorically being our cross , and the only way to enter the gates of that city is to bear that cross , and lose this carnal life and take up the very ZOE of God life everlasting.

      Tree    Greek: xulon

Staff, Staves:
"wood," then, "anything made of wood," e.g., "a cudgel" or "staff," is rendered "staves" in Mat 26:47, 55 and parallel passages.
See STOCKS, TREE, WOOD.

LIFE   Greek: zoe

Life, Living, Lifetime, Life-Giving:
(Eng., "zoo," "zoology") is used in the NT "of life as a principle, life in the absolute sense, life as God has it, that which the Father has in Himself, and which He gave to the Incarnate Son to have in Himself, Jhn 5:26, and which the Son manifested in the world, 1Jo 1:2. From this life man has become alienated in consequence of the Fall, Eph 4:18, and of this life men become partakers through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Jhn 3:15, who becomes its Author to all such as trust in Him, Act 3:15, and who is therefore said to be 'the life' of the believer, Col 3:4, for the life that He gives He maintains, Jhn 6:35, 63. Eternal life is the present actual possession of the believer because of his relationship with Christ, Jhn 5:24; 1Jo 3:14, and that it will one day extend its domain to the sphere of the body is assured by the Resurrection of Christ