God’s Complete Salvation: refs. include Watchman Nee and Witness Lee

The two aspects of God’s complete salvation

The five items of the judicial redemption

Reconciliation to God

Key verse: Romans 5:10a
“For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son”

Propitiation—the satisfying of God’s demand to appease the relationship between God and man—and forgiveness of sins are adequate for a sinner, but not for an enemy. We were not only sinners, but also enemies of God (Col. 1:21). An enemy needs reconciliation (Rom. 5:11), which includes propitiation and forgiveness but also goes further, to the extent of resolving the conflict between the two parties. Because we were sinners, we needed to be redeemed by God. Because we were also enemies of God, we needed to be reconciled to God as well (Recovery Version, footnote 1 of Colossians 1:21). Reconciliation is the spontaneous result of justification by virtue of our faith in Christ. Thus, our reconciliation to God through Christ’s death has been accomplished once for all.

Forgiveness of sins | Washing away of sins
Justification by God | Reconciliation to God
Positional sanctification