"And all these things are of God." All new things are of God as we read in V. 17 of II Cor. 5th chapter. "All things are become new." "Who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ." "Because we thus judge, if one died for all then were all dead." We judge that all Jesus died for were dead and all He died for were reconciled to God or to Himself. All that Jesus died for were His sheep or people. "The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." John 10:11 "And I lay down my life for the sheep." V. 15. "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish." 28. "And that He died for all, [his sheep] that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again.

Sinners were reconciled to God by the death of Jesus Christ. "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." Paul said, "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 word reconciliation and the ministry of reconciliation mean the same thing.

The gospel ministry proclaims that sinners were reconciled by the death of His Son. The preaching of the gospel is to reconcile those previously reconciled to God by the death of His son and saved by His life to God doctrinally and practically as taught in V. 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.