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Boyd Allen (no login)
Posted Feb 11, 2009 8:44 AM
Restoration is a theme as well, but for humanity itself, reconciliation has to come first. Restoration is the result of reconciliation. We are reconciled for restoration (taking broken humanity and restoring it through reconciliation)
If you restored a city to it's former glory, but have not reconciled to the people of that city, it is just patching the world, but not the relationships. War will continue, and the city will be destroyed again.
Reconciliation is about relationship. Restoration is the result of good reconciliation.
1Cor. 13:1-3 "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains (restore cities), but have not love (reconciliation), I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames (to works), but have not love, I gain nothing."
1 John 4:20 "If anyone says, 'I love God,' yet hates his brother (not willing to reconcile), he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen."
*(parenthesis are my additions for subject clarity)*
Jesus in the garden was a sign of restoration of all things, which is true, but reconciliation came first from the moment the holy spirit took Mary and impregnated her, then the garden.
Everything Jesus did was an act of reconciliation, thus restoration. "God with us" (Restoration) or "Emanuel" is the result of the act reconciliation.
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