It is John 3:16 that is the most preached about and spoken about and displayed scripture of all time. But what does not get displayed is John 3:17 That God sent His Son not to condemn but to save the world.  This is over looked. It was the purpose of God the Father to send His Son to reconcile all things to himself through Jesus Christ. And He did. “It is finished “. Paul said that “God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world to himself and has given us this message of reconciliation”. He reconciled the earth already. He was the propitiation, the covering for the whole world past present and future by the one act. 1 John 2.1

So any gospel message that stops short of this purpose is not a full gospel message. Reconciled to what Adam lost. A one on one relationship with God with all the curses removed. That “in Christ” the earth and creation operate flawlessly, as designed from the beginning. To have things back to when God said of His works that “they are good, very good.

So here are some things we need to understand about the broken relationship between God and man before we can understand the reconciliation. God never left man. Man left God. And he left not by walking away but by his mental association. He disassociated and became a self. God never separated from man. God covered him in the beginning. God did not condemn men. Man needed to be protected from his own actions promoted by wrong thinking. And because men departed from God, God did not want man to eat of the Tree of Life and live forever in a fallen state. If he lived forever in a fallen state he would be condemned to an eternal Fallen death. To preserve Fallen man from an eternal death, He protected and guarded the Tree of Life “lest they eat of it and live forever”. Because the natural consequence is that they would have to die forever and a loving God would never do this to His image. They lost the Spirit of God and we’re left to their carnal state saying “For dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return”.

The departure from God happened by man. God did everything he could do from the beginning. You see this when He covered Adam after the fig leaf. He pleaded through the law and the prophets to bring man back. The failure of the law and the prophets showed that reconciliation to the father is impossible by our Adamic endeavor. Hence a replacement for Adam was necessary. Deity knowing this said Whom Shall go and whom shall I send for us. One of Them had to become a man to do this. Someone had to erase what Adam did. What Adam could not fix and what none of Adam’s predecessors could do, because they were all born from his likeness, God did by sending His Son to become one of us, to undo what Adam did.

The whole human race had fallen. God sent his son into the world not to condemn the world because mankind was already in that state of condemnation saying “he who beleiveth not in the Son is condemned already”. “but that through Him the world would be saved”. This new man Jesus, did not have to bandage our knees or fix broken bones to reverse the fall. And he did not have to show by cataclysmic displays of earthquakes and thundering either. For redemption He did have to show the way of a renewed spirit and a renewed mind. This is the reconciliation and the restoration. In the spirit the mind houses.

So let us show you the main obstacle for Humanity today. Adam and Eve first showed lack of trust and believing in God by eating of the forbidden fruit and the result was they were left fending for themselves with fig trees and excuses. The guilt and condemnation that they received was by themselves and in themselves and they were ashamed. Condemnation was self-generated. Feeling empty they are now experiencing the reward of their works of faithlessness. When God asked them “where are you” He knew where they were. He wanted them to check their mental disposition. They knew they were naked but not by anything God said. And they only knew of their nakedness when they put off faith. The stepped out of protection and in this way saw that they needed covered, hence they were naked. To this the gospel re-clothes us and we call it clothed in righteousness, meaning right standing with God, clothed with His invisible provision. And to this Christ restored saying (1 John 2.1) He is the covering not for us only, but for the whole world”.

You see God never cursed man or denied man or did anything against men. Even today the message is “Peace and goodwill towards man”. Man cursed himself. God protected man. He covered them. He made propitiation from the beginning. (Gen 3..) The Tree of Life would have been detrimental to the whole human race. The fruits of man’s departure was to be short-lived by returning by faith. This is our invisible response to our invisible fall that took place in the recesses of our mind and spirit that we cannot see.

So let’s look at some more of the departures man took from God. Cain departed from God when he slew the image of God seen in his brother Abel. This was hatred towards God and hatred towards Humanity. Cain said that it was more than he could bear. He said that he would be avenged seven times for his sin. But God never said that. God covered him by saying “therefor if anyone tries to kill Cain he shall be avenged 7 fold”. Then he put a mark on Cain as proof. Then again with Cain’s son Lamech who said “surely if God Avenged my father seven times for his sin, I shall be Avenged 70 times. But God didn’t say that either. This is the product of the fallen sin based conscience that is enmity against God. The “accusing and excusing one another”. This is the self-inflicted judgment of each human in themselves. It is personal condemnation. Some call this karma. But God sent his son into the world not to condemn the world but to save the world. And it was stupid thinking that man had to be saved from. To be saved from himself. This is the way the world needed to be saved. Mans conscious needed to be cleansed from self imposed condemnation. And Christ does this saying “for the worshipers once purged should have no consciousness of sin.” Hebrews 10

So it is the personal judgment each one puts on themselves, then by making up excuses and blaming and trying to bury it, or cover it, we hide. Adam where are you? God knew where he was but wanted him to come clean, to confess. This Adam did not do. John said “If our hearts condemn ourselves we shall receive nothing from God. Like a cup turned upside down cannot receive water. God is Not condemning. God is not throwing people in hell. These concepts are the fruit of the Fallen broken spirit. But the father stands with open arms and wants you to come clean. He showed himself in His Son at the cross, arms wide open, bearing our curse of thorns for us to exchange to partake of His righteousness, His crown of glory. We “come to the light to see clearly that what is required of us is done in God “. This is the gift. “By His stripes we are healed ”  He was stricken for us”. And “to as many as received him, to them he gives power to become his children”. He gives them the ability to depart from the self inflicted curse of personal condemnation. This broken mind sees wickedness in everybody because creation mirrors back to you your own perspective.

This broke-ness grows to where the whole world looks damned and broken, but it is not. For “God sent His son into the world not for condemnation but to save the world” and “God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world to Himself and has committed to us this message of reconciliation”.  Everyone who receives this saving sees things in a new way “all things become new” because God is not out of control that He need to re-perform another reconciliation or a 2nd saving because He does not repeat Himself or have to do something over as though He overlooked something and was caught off guard. His creation from the beginning is perfectly capable of containing the wicked and honoring the righteous simultaneously.This is why the man Jesus said “Father don’t take them out of the world, but keep them from evil”. This you have if you learn to trust God in this way. He’s got it covered. His Son is the propitiation for the whole world. (1 John 2.1)

It wasn’t the world that fell and changed its disposition towards man. It was man changed his disposition towards God. And Earth is part of the package deal.

So there are religious sectors that do not believe condemnation has been dealt with that profits off of condemnation and sin with constantly confessing acts of sins. They act as the mediator between God and man by imposing confessionals and washing’s and religious duties and personal sacrifices for one to find peace with God for yet another week. In this way they keep people in their sin at the cross in condemnation for profit and financial gain and for their own personal self worth and covering themselves in this way deny the very God they think they represent.

“But we have an anointing from the Holy One and need not that any man teach us”. We need no go-between. If we did, reconciliation would not be complete. But now “there is one mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus”. If we allow the saving of God to take place in us “apart from the law” away from religious institutions, like John the baptist in the desert, we learn to see “here comes the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world”. And He does this in our understanding. We receive the reconciliation, the propitiation, and Gods covering, His perfect sacrifice for our sin laden conscience so that it can be said of you too “for the worshipers once purged would have no more consciousness of sin”. We loose and discard the broken conscience that is forever wrapped up into trying to please God. For “we come to the light to clearly see that what is required by us is done by God”. (John 3.-)

So God drove man out of Eden not to punish, but to save him and return him. It is as we learn to live our life “In Christ” and not “in Adam”. “The last Adam became a life giving spirit”. This was the Word who became flesh. This is our exchange old for new in the place of the fall. The mind. A clear conscience so you can understand this too “Titus 1:15