Rick Snodgrass Mary John 19:25-27 & 2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Passion = Suffering

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.

John 19:25-26 Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother, His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw His mother there, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to her, “Woman, here is your son,”…

Passion = Suffering 1. When I get who Jesus is, I have to embrace a transformed relationship with Him.

John 19:27 …and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

1. When I get who Jesus is, I have to embrace a transformed relationship with Him. 2. Jesus’ work demands a transformed relationship with others.

2 Corinthians 5:14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.

2. Jesus’ work demands a transformed relationship with others. 3. The death of Jesus means becoming dead in Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:15 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.

3. The death of Jesus means becoming dead in Christ. 4. The death of Christ means coming alive for Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:16 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.

4. The death of Christ means coming alive for Christ. 5. The death of me means that I stop measuring people from the outside.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

5. The death of me means that I stop measuring people from the outside. 6. The death of me means that Jesus can change me from the inside.

2 Corinthians 5:18-19 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

6. The death of me means that Jesus can change me from the inside. 7. Reconciliation means getting everything right.

2 Corinthians 5:20-21 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. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

7. Reconciliation means getting everything right. 8. God can’t rebuild my relationships unless I get right with Him.