Simple Christianity –Reconciliation

2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
 
Jesus Christ’s became the Propitiation for our sin which removed our liability for punishment.  But what about our guilt?  A thief can pay his debt to society by serving a jail sentence, but he still has a record as a thief.  His record remains on file and therefore his guilt.  But Jesus Christ did more than just take on our liability for punishment when He died on that Cross.  Check out what God revealed to the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 5. 
  
2 Corinthians 5:18-19 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
 
Reconciliation means our record has been brought into balance with God.  What Dr. Crichton, the president of the college I attended, called being worthy of blame, in other words guilt.   Jesus Christ was also erasing our record of sin while on the cross by taking on our guilt.  God no longer imputes our sins to us.  Impute means to charge or assign to one’s record.  Think of it as a credit charge statement.  The statement is a record of all the purchases you made using the card.  If the credit company decided to not impute the charges to your account, nothing would show up on your statement.  You would have a zero balance. 
 
In the case of our final destiny, we have what I’ll call a righteousness account.  A statement of how good or bad we have been.  If you have not believed in Jesus Christ for everlasting life you have a zero balance in your righteousness account and likely did not know that.  Jesus Christ has removed your liability for punishment and the record of your guilt for you.  But that is still not enough to get you into Heaven when you die. 
 
You still need everlasting life.  John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  Believe that Jesus Christ is the giver of everlasting life and that He gives it to everyone who believes Him for that life.  Because that is what brings the final step which is called justification.  

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