Reconciliation comes means to change from enmity to friendship – from a state of enmity and fragmentation to one of harmony and fellowship, to reconcile.

Reconciliation involves a change in the relationship between God and man or man and man. It assumes there has been a breakdown in the relationship.

Reconciliation is restoration as the result of Christ exchanging His righteousness (through His blood) for our guilt.

When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Romans ‭5:6‬

Yes, God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

9. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

10. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
‭‭Romans‬ ‭5:8-10‬ ‬


Because of Christ exchanging his righteousness for our sin and guilt; we are reconciled and become new creatures altogether:

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" ( 2 Cor 5:17 ).
Thus, we are no longer enemies, ungodly, sinners, or powerless. Instead, the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit whom God has given to us ( Rom 5:5 ).

Reconciliation is something done by the one who offers it; it is not just something that happens to the estranged people.

It is the cross of Christ that reconciles both Jew and Gentile. They are brought near by the blood of Christ. Because of this, Jew and Gentile have access to the Father by one spirit. They are no longer foreigners and aliens but fellow citizens with God and members of the same household ( Eph 2:11-22 ). Gentile and Jewish believers are reconciled to God and the middle wall of partition is broken down; both are brought near by the blood of Christ.

This message of reconciliation is the measge of salvation that has come from God through Christ has been passed on to us. For God had given us the ministry of reconciliation" ( 2 Cor 5:18 ); "he has committed to us the message of reconciliation" (v. 19).

The ultimate aim is that we are not only justified, but that we might become the righteousness of God (v. 21).

The whole message of reconciliation is centered around the love of God and the death of Christ. The Holy Spirit reminds us that "God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" ( Rom 5:8 ).

This brings peace with God, access to God through Christ, rejoicing in the hope of the glory of God, making us rejoice in suffering, and having the love of God poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit ( Rom 5:1-5 ). We rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation ( Rom 5:11 ).

Therefore, to restore man’s fellowship God had to take the initiative to reconcile man back to himself.

God being so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved man.(Ephesians 2:4)

He chose instead to reconcile man back to Himself (that is, to make it possible for God and man to one again live in fellowship and harmony) which only God could accomplish.

God purposed that through the service, the intervention of the Son all things should be completely reconciled back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through Him, the Father made peace by means of the blood of His cross. And although you at one time were estranged and alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude of mind in your wicked activities, Yet now Christ, has reconciled you to God in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in the Father's presence. Colossians ‭1:19-22‬