August 10, 2013

2 Cor 5: For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Cor 5:17, “Therefore is anyone if in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone the new has come.”

1. A New Life and Future v. 14, 15

14 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

Gal 2:20 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1.A New Life and Future v. 14, 15 2.A New Identity (new beginning) 16, 17

16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

Eph 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good work which God prepared in advance for us to do!

Eph 1:4-8 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will-- 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace 8 that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

1.I am God’s handiwork, created in Christ to do His work (Eph 2:10) 2.I am the light of the world (Matt 5:14) 3.I am a citizen of heaven with all of God’s family (Gal 6:10) 4.I am a child of God (Jn 1:12) (Eph 2:19)

1.A New Life and Future v. 14, 15 2.A New Identity (new beginning) 16, 17 3.A New Purpose v

18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation : 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

1.A New Life and Future v. 14, 15 2.A New Identity (new beginning) 16, 17 3.A New Purpose v A New Title v

20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

1.A New Life and Future v. 14, 15 2.A New Identity (new beginning) 16, 17 3.A New Purpose v A New Title v