This lesson also includes Romans 8:20-25

In a continuation of our study of the sufficiency of Christ, we learn more about the implications of "in all things" with the Doctrine of Reconciliation. But what does reconciliation really mean? And why was it necessary at the cross? This doctrine is so often confusing, misrepresented, and misstated. There is no sense of it in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, Paul is the only author who addresses it. View this lesson and find out what it really means for a Christian to be "at peace with God".

Romans 5 is a transition from the foundation of justification to the working out of our salvation which Paul is using more in terms of spiritual growth. The barriers between God and man are legal (a penalty required), spiritual death as the consequence of that legal condemnation and man’s works of unrighteousness. How has this legal problem been solved? Is personal sin an issue in our salvation? What is the issue in our salvation? How did sin and death spread to the entire world? What is personal sin? If it doesn’t figure into salvation, how is it dealt with it in our lifetime? If we mistreat someone, why is confession directed to our legal authority and not all about that person we mistreated?

Why did the Lord Jesus Christ become a human being? Listen to this lesson to learn our Redeemer had to be related to us in order to release us from our slavery to sin. Hear the story of the book of Ruth and find out how a kinsman-redeemer transformed the lives of Ruth and Naomi as a picture of Christ paying the price for us. Find out five basic characteristics of the kinsman-redeemer and how they apply to Christ. Learn that in Isaiah 40–66, Christ is portrayed as the Kinsman-Redeemer.