Easter – God’s Solution To Our Biggest Problems 2 Corinthians 5:

1. ____________ - He took my ___________. Replacement punishment

“God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of His blood – to be received by faith.

He did this to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished.” (Romans 3:25/NIV)

“God sent Christ Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to end all God’s anger against us.” (Romans 3:25/LB)

“God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21/NIV)

2. ___________ - He bought my ________. Redemption freedom

“He gave His life to purchase freedom for everyone. This is the message God gave to the world at just the right time.” (1 Timothy 2:6/NLT)

“They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity – for ‘people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.’” (2 Peter 2:19/NIV)

“Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life, for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice,

that he should live on forever and never see the pit.” (Psalm 49:7-9/ESV)

3._______________ - He restored my _____________ with God. Reconciliation relationship

“For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by His life.” (Romans 5:10/ESV)

“And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him.

For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them.” (2 Corinthians 5:18 & 19/NLT)

4. _________ - He gave me a new _________. Rebirth identity

“But – ‘When God our Savior revealed His kindness and love, He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy.

He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit.’” (Titus 3:4 & 5/NLT)

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold the new has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17/ESV)

“Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death,

in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.” (Romans 6:3 & 4/ESV)

5. ____________ - He destroyed ______ and the ______. Repudiation death devil

“Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning.

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.” (1 John 3:8/ESV)

“And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.” (Colossians 2:15/NIV)

“Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity so that by His death He might break the power of him who holds the power of death –

that is, the devil – and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.” (Hebrews 2:14 & 15/NIV)

Easter – God’s Solution To Our Biggest Problems 2 Corinthians 5: