Reconciled to God while enemies !

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Question: According to this scripture Rom 5:10 can anyone Christ died for , and reconciled to God, can they ever be lost and go hell ?

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

 

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Be ye reconciled to God !

2 Cor 5:20

20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

Those who are bidden here in this verse " be ye reconciled to God", are the Spiritually born who were previously already reconciled to God by His Son's Death while they were enemies Rom 5:10, but they are now in the Spirit, because if they were not already, they would be yet still in the flesh and with a carnal mind and at enmity with God Rom 8:7-8

7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Until one is born again of the Spirit, and now have new life, they do but only abide in death by nature 1 Jn 3:14

14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Also when in a unregenerate state, we as men abide in darkness and are darkness Jn 12:46

I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

Eph 5:8

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

And while we are darkness, we cannot comprehend the Light Jn 1:5

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

comprehend[katalambanó] here means :

a) I seize tight hold of, arrest, catch, capture, appropriate, (b) I overtake, (c) mid. aor: I perceived, comprehended.

The darkness, which we all are by nature, does not appropriate the Light, does not capture it, cannot receive it,

Cannot receive the Light of the Truth or the Gospel.

And God will not call darkness to Himself, nor welcome it to Himself for Fellowship, darkness is never reconciled to God, not even possible it should be. It is not possible to walk in unregenerate darkness and yet have Fellowship with God 1 Jn 1:6

6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

So we must discard any notion that the Imperative in 2 Cor 5:20 "Be ye reconciled to God " is an call or appeal to the unregenerate. Light does not call darkness, and God is Light 1 Jn 1:5

5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Light does not call darkness into Fellowship, but seeks Fellowship with Light ! 5

 

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More on the Reconciliation of Christ's death !

More on the Reconciliation that Christ's Death accomplished for all whom He died. First of all, Christ's death did reconcile sinful sinners to Himself, not that He did not Love them and needed to be reconciled in that regard, but in that their sins forbade Him to be in personal fellowship and communion with them. It is an alienation of His Life of Fellowship like the prodigal son experienced with his Father Lk 15:12-13

12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

What the wayward son lost was fellowship with his Father but not His Father's Heart of Love .

But not only that, its strictly by the reconciliation in Christ's death, that those He died for, that God reconciles them [subjectively] to Himself, in other words it deals with the sinners personal alienation from God in his own mind, the issue being in the sinner and not in God. The enmity is in the sinners mind against God, not in God's Mind towards the sinner, as stated here Col 1:21-22

21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

That word reconcile in Vs 21 is the word apokatallassō and means:

to reconcile completely

to reconcile back again

bring back a former state of harmony

Notice again who Paul states that was alienated and enemies in their minds in Vs 21, not God, but You writes Paul.

But Christ's Death and it alone effects the change of mind in the sinner, in the sinner Christ died for. Yes, Christ's death is responsible for the reconciling of sinners in their minds back to God. In other words, when the prodigal son experienced a change of mind as here Lk 15:17-20

17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

What all this pictures is the effects of the Death of Christ bringing back an wayward sinner back to God, for he no longer has any enmity and hostility in his mind towards his Father and returns, and his doing that is to be credited to the praise of the Death of Christ, its effects, and nothing else; for that was one of the Great and Splendid purposes of His Death, as Peter says here 1 Pet 3:18

18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that[purpose] he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Which He did succeed in doing. In other words, Christ's death is 100 % responsible for any sinner's true conversion to God in Faith and Repentance, and no man Preaches the Word of reconciliation aright as Per 2 Cor 5:19-20 without understanding that ! For the word of reconciliation is preached to produce, bring to light the blessed effects of the reconciling death of Christ !

 

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Reconciliation is Salvation ! 3

We know that the scripture teaches that Reconciliation is Salvation when we consider its use in its contrast with national israel rejection and the reconciling of the Gentiles / World here Rom 11:15

15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

And Paul makes the same exact contrast earlier in Vs 11 Rom 11:11

11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

Through their fall, corresponding to their being cast away in Vs 15

Salvation is come to the Gentiles , corresponding to Reconciliation in Vs 15

Salvation is also the Riches that come upon the Gentiles Vs 12 Rom 11:12

12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

Its the riches of His Grace upon them as Per Eph 1:7

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Eph 2:7

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

Eph 3:8

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; 5

 

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Shall be saved by His/ their Life !cont 4


Shall be saved by His Life ! Who shall be saved by His Life ? All those who were by His Death reconciled to God while they were enemies Rom 5:10

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

The words much more denotes , now even better , being reconciled, we shall be saved His Life ! One of the things this means is this, all for whom Christ died, and now has been raised again for their Justification [Rom 4:25], after for them having satisfied God's Law and Justice, He now lives to make evident the success of His Redeeming Death, to apply the benefits of His Vicarious Obedience to all for whom He died and reconciled to God, which is the Church that He Loved Eph 5:25, or His Sheep Jn 10, or God's Elect Rom 8, by the efficacious Grace of His Spirit !

 

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Reconciliation is Justification for the simple fact its acceptance, reception, approval with God ! Its the greek word katallassō:

I.to change, exchange, as coins for others of equivalent value
A.
to reconcile (those who are at variance)

B.
return to favour with, be reconciled to one

C.
to receive one into favour

In God's Favor they are in a state of being approved !

We are approved of God by Christ's Death Rom 5:10. Remember what God said to cain here Gen 4:7

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

God is telling him , if thou do what ir right,do thoroughly and thou wilt be approved, received into favor, lifted up !

Now God told him that knowing that none doeth well or right ! Ps 14:1

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Rom 3:12

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

However God's People, the Seed of the Women, are accepted with Him by the Seed of the Women Rev 12 doing well, and so we are reconciled [received into favor] by the Death of His Son + nothing ! which pleased Him for us, Isa 53:10

10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

Rom 5:10

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

God told cain that if he did well he would be received/accepted, but the Holy Seed, its if Christ doeth well that we should be accepted, See the difference ? Those who base their acceptance with God by them doing well, that's the way of cain Jude 1:11

11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

Seeking acceptance with God in themselves doing well ! And Acceptance with God is Our Justification ! 5

 

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Reconciled to God by His Death Alone!

Romans 5:10 declares an absolute, finished legal reality: “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”

An individual for whom Christ died does not have to first become a believer in order for His death to reconcile them to God. Scripture is plain: they are reconciled while they are still enemies and unbelievers. God is 100% completely reconciled to all for whom His Son died, because His death effectively redeemed them from the curse of the Law: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us...” (Galatians 3:13).

It was not the believer's faith or repentance that accomplished this legal rescue. It was solely the objective fact that Christ died and was made a curse in their place. That substitutionary act is what legally reconciled them and placed them into God's absolute favor.

The word "reconciled" in Romans 5:10 is the Greek verb katallassō, which literally means to change or exchange (as coins for others of equivalent value), to return to favor, or to receive one into absolute favor. This is why the Bible in Basic English (BBE) captures the verse so clearly: “For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life.”

Because of this complete exchange at the cross, God’s Law and Justice can never charge the elect—nor their Surety—with law-breaking or sin ever again. All that they owed to the bar of God's justice was finalized when Jesus bowed His head and cried: “It is finished” (John 19:30).

The Greek word for "finished" here is tetelestai (from teleō). In the New Testament, this exact root word means to pay a debt or tribute, as seen in Matthew 17:24 (“Doth not your master pay tribute?”) and Romans 13:6 (“for this cause pay ye tribute also”). Christ paid in full everything that was due to God's Law and Justice regarding the debts of His people. Nothing else can ever be owed, charged, or imputed to those He redeemed.

Furthermore, tetelestai is written in the perfect tense. In Greek, the perfect tense indicates an action that was once-and-for-all completed in the past, yet its finished results carry on irreversibly into the present. Therefore, while the elect are born into this world as natural sinners and ungodly in themselves, they are born into time already legally sin-debt free and covenantally reconciled into God’s eternal peace and favor by the blood of the cross alone. 6

 

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Reconciled by His Death Means Justification! [1]

The Word of God reveals that objective Reconciliation and legal Justification are two sides of the exact same finished transaction at the cross. As the Apostle Paul declares in Romans 5:10: “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” [1, 2]

Consider the ironclad legal mechanics of this text: Every single soul for whom Christ died was objectively reconciled to God while they were still enemies. If this is true, they had to be completely justified at that exact moment.

Reconciliation covenantally guarantees that they have been placed into a right legal standing and received into God's absolute favor. The inspired Greek word for reconciliation is καταλλάσσω (katallassō), which means to change or exchange (as coins for others of equivalent value), to return to favor, or to receive one into favor. [1, 2]

To be received into God’s favor denotes being fully approved, accepted, and cleared by Him. It mirrors the glorious reality of Ephesians 1:6: “To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted [highly favored] in the beloved.” [1]

For a holy and just God to look upon the elect with absolute favor and acceptance while they are still unborn or living as ungodly enemies in time, they must be legally justified from all sin. Divine justice cannot favor a guilty criminal.

Therefore, because Christ died for them, all of their sins were legally imputed to Him, and His perfect righteousness was legally imputed to them. This exchange left them completely free from any charge of sin before the heavenly tribunal, which is the literal definition of Justification: “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.” (Romans 8:33). [1, 2]

Because 'justified by His blood' (Rom 5:9) and 'reconciled by His death' (Rom 5:10) are completely synonymous expressions of the same forensic exchange, Romans 5:10 can be read with perfect theological safety: “For if, when we were enemies, we were Justified before God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” [1, 2]

No harm is done to the text; rather, it completely exposes the error of conditional salvation. The elect do not believe to trigger a verdict; they are justified from birth by a ransom price paid in full at Calvary "+ nothing." Faith is simply the gift that allows the regenerated soul to enjoy the peace of a courtroom victory that was already finalized by the death of their Savior.

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The false teaching of one sided Reconciliation !

Many today in organized, apostate false religion, whether from church going folk or folk who have separated themselves from organized religion unto their own form of apostasy, they are liars when they tell us that Christ's Death that effects Reconciliation to God for those He died for Rom 5:10, that its only one sided ! For the Truth of the matter is that His Death effects both, for it reconciles God to man and man to God, because man by nature are at enmity to God, yet it reconciles them to God from their estrangement causing them a return to God, much like what happened with the prodigal son when he said Lk 15 :18,20

18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

And he arose , and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off , his father saw him, and had compassion , and ran , and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Now his returning back to his Father is a beautiful picture of what the Death of Christ alone accomplished and effected upon all those He died for 1 Pet 2:24-25

24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

The word returned epistrephō is in the passive voice[caused to turn back or bring back], which means the subject is being acted upon, hence being returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of their soul.

This is the fruitful effect of Christ having bare their sins, and healing them thereby, effecting a reconciliation back to God. 6

 

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The false teaching of one sided Reconciliation !2

Now 1 Pet 2:24-25 , this passage shows us if we have eyes to see, how that the death of Christ in Vs 24, called there His Stripes, how that it caused them He took the stripes for, or died for, to return to the Bishop and Shepherd of their Souls in Vs 25 because His Stripes healed them 1 Pet 2:24-25

24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

The proof or evidence of the Healing is their return to God, which is also reconciliation of them to Him. The word returned here in the greek is epistrephó and means:

I turn (back) to (towards), (b) intrans: I turn (back) (to [towards]); I come to myself. However its an aorist indicative passive, meaning the person who is turning or returning is being turned, acted upon, its the efficaciousness of the Stripes of Christ that causes the person to turn, who was once gone astray ! Thats the end desired and purposed by God for the death of Christ, to return the lost sheep back to Him, and it was very successful !

The proof of the healing is the sinners being returned to God as exemplified here in the prodigal son Lk 15:18, 20

18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

This is evidence from the scripture that Christ's Death also reconciles those gone astray , estranged men and women who are His Sheep, they are brought back to God or again as the Apostle Peter writes 1 Pet 3:18

18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

That's reconciliation also ! His suffering for our sins, was for the purpose of bringing us back to God if indeed we were of His Sheep or Elect ! 7

 

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The Anti-Christian Myth of 'One-Sided' Reconciliation 3

The hallmark of synergistic free-will theology is the false, bi-lateral teaching of a 'one-sided' reconciliation. They teach that Christ's death merely made God 'appeasable,' but left the sinner's actual estrangement and enmity completely untouched until man activates the cross via free-will faith. The Apostle Paul completely dismantles this error in Colossians 1:20-22:

“And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself... And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.”

Look at the absolute, unbending mechanics of Paul's Gospel: He attributes the complete reconciliation of those who were 'sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works' entirely to a single historic event—Christ's physical death on the cross.

Paul states this was accomplished through (dia) death. In this context, the preposition denotes the absolute causative basis. Christ's death is the sole driving force that legally obliterates our estrangement and guarantees our experiential conversion.

Furthermore, the inspired Greek verb for reconcile here is ἀποκαταλλάσσω (apokatallassō), which literally means to reconcile completely, thoroughly, and exhaustively; to change from one state of feeling to another. It is the restoration of perfect harmony, reinstating the elect into absolute divine favor on an even higher level through the spiritual life given in the New Birth.

Think through the ironclad legal consequences of this text: If Christ’s death completely reconciled the elect world while they were still living as ungodly enemies, then reconciliation cannot be an incomplete, one-sided proposal hanging in mid-air.

The direct, unpreventable objective of this blood-bought reconciliation is to present the elect 'holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.' This is a finished courtroom verdict. Before the bar of God's perfect justice, an unblameable soul cannot be charged with sin, and an unreproveable soul cannot be condemned.

Therefore, whosoever among us teaches that Christ's death alone does not effectively secure the complete salvation of the ones He died for, or that the cross only accomplished an ineffective, 'one-sided' reconciliation waiting for a human 'trigger,' is a liar who denies the finished work of the Son of God. Christ did not build a halfway bridge; He completely conquered the enmity of His elect sheep, paid their debt in full, and His irresistible grace ensures they will be sovereignly quickened to enjoy that peace '+ nothing.' 7

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More on Reconciliation

2 Cor 5:19

19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

The world here in this scripture cannot possibly mean everyone without exception, or every individual without exception as the False teachers tell us , simply because this world is comprised of all individuals who do not have any sins imputed or charged to them ! Everyone in this world meets the criteria of being this Man Rom 4:8

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. And that equates to reconciliation according to 2 Cor 5:19;

But we know this blessing does not apply to all without exception, because by other scripture we are informed of those who do have their sins charged to them Jn 8:24

24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

Which makes it impossible for any of those to be any of that World in 2 Cor 5:19, who had no sins charged or imputed to them, how is it therefore even remotely possible for them to die in their sins ? To be more clear on this matter, the reconciled world in 2 Cor 5:19 is a Saved World because its reconciled Rom 11:11-12,15

11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

The reconciling of the world here in Vs 15 is the same as "Salvation is come to the Gentiles" in Vs 11 !

It actually means it [Salvation has come in the application of it] by the Spirit.

Reconciliation by Christ is Twofold, it Reconciled God to man and it reconciles man to God !

So the World in 2 Cor 5:19 is a Saved, reconciled world and 2 Cor 5:20 is a Call to Faith in the Truth of what has already occurred ! Faith cometh by Hearing the Word of Truth, and everyone who has been Reconciled to God, will hear the Truth of it, the Gospel of their Salvation !

So there is no way possible to equate the World in 2 Cor 5:19 with the Unbelievers and them who shall die in their sins Jn 8:24 ! 8

 

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Receiving the atonement or reconciliation !

Rom 5:10-11

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

Many today in organized apostate religion, ignorant are they to the Merits of Christ Saving / Atoning Death, but yet would tell us that they do believe in Christ's Saving, Atoning, Reconciling Death, but then will tell us that millions for whom Christ died, reconciled to God, will yet some how die in Unbelief and in their sins Jn 8:24 and spend eternity in separation from God, so much for Christ's Atoning Death wouldn't you say ?

This scripture is very informative, because it makes a declaration, and that is, those reconciled to God by the Death of His Son in the previous verse Rom 5:10 while they were being enemies, they also BY HIM, the prep DIA is used, receive the Reconciliation or Atonement !

The word atonement in the greek is the word katallagē :

I.
exchange
A.
of the business of money changers, exchanging equivalent values


II.
adjustment of a difference, reconciliation, restoration to favour

Its translated reconciliation

Now Christ causes them to receive it, He bestows it upon them, or He quickens them into an vital and living experience of it, its being saved by His Life.

You see, if Christ's death is an atoning death, it must atone both parties to one another. If His Death reconciled God to them, but yet left them unreconciled to God, then His Death was not an Atoning Death, if He only reconciled God to man, and neglected to reconcile man to God, what good is that ? Was His work perfect and complete ? No it would not have been, but He did also reconcile men to God, men who were enemies to Him in their mind by wicked works, He reconciled them to God Col 1:21-22


And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Thats how they received it BY HIM, not by their freewill, but through Christ ! 8

 

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Romans 5:10 Reconciled as Enemies !

Rom 5:10

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Yes Paul is speaking as a Believer to other believers, but it is instructive as to what he writes accordingly, he writes that they were or had been reconciled to God, while they were enemies, unbelievers, by His Son's Death !

How can and are sinners, who by nature, and while being active enemies to God, hating Him and at enmity with Him in their minds by wicked works Col 1:21

21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

How could they nevertheless have been at that time reconciled to a Holy God ?

The scripture tells us, it was by the Death of His Son, Rom 5:10, which means His Death alone, while they were being enemies, had legally removed their guilt before God's Law and Justice, their slate had been wiped clean,and except for that men, cannot be legally reconciled to God and be guilt and condemnation free !

Now this applies only to believers , when they were not yet believers !

All others, while unbelievers and enemies are yet condemned already Jn 3:18 and under God's wrath without hope of ever seeing life Jn 3:36 ! 8

 

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Reconciled unto blamelessness !


All for whom Christ died, by His death alone, even while they were enemies, unbelievers, by nature children of wrath, they even then were by His death reconciled to God Rom 5:10

10 For if, when we[believers] were enemies[unbelievers], we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Now, being reconciled to God while enemies, they had the promise of being saved by His Life.

Also they have another promise to look forward to Col 1:21-22

21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

22 In the body of his flesh through death[Rom 5:10], to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

All those Christ's death alone reconciled to God while they were enemies, they shall all be by that be presented Holy, and Unblameable, and unreprovable in His sight !

If this does not happen to all for whom He died, then His death was an utter failure ! 8

 

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Those reconciled while enemies shall be saved by His life !


Rom 5:10

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

The antichrist folks attempt to distort this blessed Truth of this verse, however they shall be proven liars and inconsistent everytime. The Truths here are most gracious, and cannot be received by the natural mind of man, to give credence to 1 Cor 2:14

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

This verse condemns all who falsely believes that Jesus Christ died for all men without exception, the only way that could be true according to the Truth in this verse, one would have to become an Universalist, which is also a condemned belief !

Now here's how and why. Paul here is writing to believers, however he states of them, including himself, that even while they were enemies, unbelievers, they were reconciled to God by the death of His Son ! Now to be reconciled to God is to be saved from the penalty of your sins, and to be received into the favor of God. Its the word katallassō and means:

I.to change, exchange, as coins for others of equivalent value
A.
to reconcile (those who are at variance)

B.
return to favour with, be reconciled to one

C.
to receive one into favour

They are not now in a condemned state before God, but yet they are still enemies !

Now, what is said / promised of those who are reconciled while yet being enemies according to this verse : Notice Rom 5:10

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled [while enemies], we shall be saved by his life.

Understand, those already reconciled while being enemies, much more being reconciled, the Promise to them is that they shall be saved by His Life !

There it is, if Christ died for all without exception, and they were reconciled, then the promise of scripture is that they shall be [ A Divine Promise] saved by His Life !

Now, does the bible teach anywhere that all without exception shall be saved by Christ's Life ? The answer is absolutely no ! 8

 

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The legal work was done by his death, but Paul wouldn't have appealed to people to be reconciled to God if they already were

For of Christ then we are ambassadors, as of God appealing through us; we beseech for Christ -- be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:20​

He couldn't have meant there is a human works component to our salvation. Otherwise he would be contradicting himself in 1Corinthians 2.

 

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Those reconciled while enemies shall be saved by His life ! 2

Now what exactly is that which they shall be saved from if they are already, by being reconciled, saved from the penalty of their sins ? They shall be saved by His Life from being enemies, for remember they are already saved from the penalty of their sins by Christ's death, but still remaining enemies , this they shall be saved from as well. Here is a verse of scripture that is instructive here Lk 1:71-74

71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;

72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

As unbelievers and enemies we are being held bondage to the enemy of our soul the devil, for it is he that holds us in unbelief the prison, so that we may not believe and be saved as Per Lk 8:12

12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

Yes, the devil is the Strong man that binds us in a state of nature, thats why it is written Matt 12:29

29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

This means that by nature we are the devils goods, and his ownership is known by our enmity and disobedience and unbelief against God !

We need to be delivered from this strong man the devil, saved from him as implied i Lk 1:71,74,75

71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;

That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

While we are in unbelief we are in the hand of our enemy the devil. Now, to those who are reconciled to God by His Sons death, while they are enemies, hence being so reconciled, they shall be saved from all their Spiritual enemies by His Life, so that they can serve without fear

75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

So if we erroneously teach that Christ died for all without exception, then the consequences of that if we are consistent with the Truth of Rom 5:10 will be Lk 1:74-75

74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. 8

 

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By whom we received the Atonement !

Rom 5:10-11

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

Those Christ died for, they did absolutely nothing to receive reconciliation with God, in fact, they by His death alone had been reconciled to Him even while they were enemies / unbelievers Rom 5:10 ! Christ's death did not just make reconciliation possible, and now its up to the sinners He died for to accept it, or repent, or even believe, so that it becomes a fact, no, the reconciliation took place even while they were enemies. When Christ was raised from the dead as their Head, He was reconciled to God, for because of their sins being imputed to Him, He experienced the Father forsaking Him Matt 27:46

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

However upon Christ's resurrection from the dead, it was a evidence that that God had been reconciled to Him and not only Him, but those whom sins He died for, and so by Him alone those He died for receive the reconciliation, it was applied to them !

 

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Saved by Grace through reconciliation while enemies !

Rom 5:10

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

When the Apostle writes to believers here these words, He is teaching by and large what it means to be saved by Grace . Grace means the favor of God, and all for whom Christ died, even while they are enemies, and before they believe, and while yet being disobedient, they are saved into a state of reconciliation and Favor , which is Grace, with God, in fact they stand in a state of Grace Rom 5:2

2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

The word stand here , the greek word its in the perfect tense, and its an established and fixed station whereby we stand safe, and this is before Faith !

We are in this fixed state of Grace while unbelievers because while unbelievers we have been reconciled to God by Christ's Death, and that word reconciled katallassō means:

B.
return to favour with, be reconciled to one

C.
to receive one into favour or Grace

God for Christ's sake alone, has received into Favor, a state of Grace, while those He died for are enemies, unbelievers and disobedient ! Now thats what it means to be saved by Grace, as by the Gift of God. See this way Grace the more shines forth, for God to have us in His Divine Favor, once and for all, while we are disobedient sinners and the ungodly, this magnifies the Grace of God because we did nothing to deserve it, but at the same time we are doing everything and more to forfeit it. 9