Ask ten people at Timmie’s what they believe about God, and you’re likely to get ten very different answers. To say that our world is syncretistic is an understatement. The trend toward individual belief and subjective morality have undermined all religious systems and established doctrine. People are now much more likely to claim “my truth” over THE truth. But, as someone said, the majority, or even the loudest, do not dictate what is true. God does.

As we continue our three-message Made for More series, we’ll be looking at Colossians 1:19-22 and the "Salus Dei," the salvation of God. This is the only means by which we may be made right with God. It isn’t subject to anyone’s opinion or reasoning. It is an objective truth rooted in who God is and the offer he’s made for humanity to be reconciled with him. Sunday will be a no-holds-barred presentation of the gospel that saves us. I’m hoping you can join us in person or online.

Series: Made for More
Message: 2 – Salus Dei: Made Right by God
Text: Colossians 1:19-22
Todd Dugard
Harvest Bible Chapel
October 19, 2025

Religion is man seeking God. Christianity is God seeking man.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christ is the only means by which I am made right with God, and so…

…I acknowledge him as God (v. 19)

Jesus had to be a man so that he could identify with us, suffering in our place and sympathizing with us in our weakness. Jesus had to be truly God so that he could satisfy God’s wrath and secure for us true righteousness and life.
- Erik Raymond

Ecclesiastes 3:11

There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.
- Pascal, Pensées

Genesis 2:7

…I accept his offer of reconciliation and peace (v. 20a)

Although the human heart cries for feelings of peace, the deep need is for a relationship of peace. When relationships are correct, feelings follow.
- Richard Melick

1 Timothy 2:5

…I come to the cross on which he died (v. 20b)

The 5 kinds of people not yet reconciled to God:
Deniers – know the gospel but reject it
Opposers – know the gospel but fight against it
Ignorant – don’t know it; maybe don’t want to
Deceived – have bought into something else
Seeking – interested but not yet there

Hebrews 9:22 b

…I confess my desperate need (v. 21)

1 John 4:19

Romans 3:10 –12

…I rest in my new standing before him (v. 22)

simul justus et peccator – both saint and sinner

The glory of Christian redemption is that it is in union with Jesus that we are given back our true selves. We finally begin becoming who we were truly created to be.
- Dane Ortlund, Deeper

--- RESOURCES ---

Why Must Jesus Be Both Human and Divine? by Erik Raymond
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/erik-raymond/must-jesus-human-divine/

Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners by Dane Ortlund
https://a.co/d/6ai0FSb

"The Life" Podcast
https://www.harvestbible.ca/storylines/