Friday | 06 November 2026
The trespass offering ministers the power, the privilege, and the love of the sin offering to those who accept the word of the cross which calls us back to God – that is, to be reconciled to God. 2Co 5:20. Through the trespass offering, we are delivered from our sin and iniquities, and to the life and fellowship that belongs to our predestination as sons of God. This is what it means to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in the light. We are partakers of this inheritance, having been delivered from the power of darkness and conveyed into the kingdom of the Son, ‘in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins’. Col 1:12‑14. This is the implication of propitiation.
In order to avail ourselves of this outcome of Christ’s sin and trespass offerings, we must be a believer. The evidence of believing as a son of God who has been established in the kingdom of light is that we walk obediently in the light of the word, and have fellowship with one another. If this is not the way in which we live and walk, we remain in darkness and under the condemnation that belongs to Satan and his kingdom.
Jesus explained, ‘He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God [i.e. they name themselves]. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practising evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.’ Joh 3:18‑21.
Further Study:
Colossians 1
References:
2Co 5:20
Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.
Col 1:12-14
Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
Joh 3:18-21
He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practising evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.