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Week 1: Comfort for the hurting
Week 2: Dealing with painful relationships
Week 3: The fragrance of God
Week 4: Confident and competent Christians
Today: Living as a Reconciler

3. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Don’t just see the human side of people. Ask the most important question: “Are they reconciled with God?”
Tell others that they need to be and can be made right with God (reconciled).

4. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
5:16 Look at people “spiritually,” not physically.
From now on, then, we do not know (look at) anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way. (2 Corinthians 5:16)

8. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
5:16 Look at people “spiritually,” not physically.
From now on, then, we do not know (look at) anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way. (2 Corinthians 5:16)

9. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
5:16 Look at people “spiritually,” not physically.
5:17 Our greatest need – spiritual reconciliation with God – is solved by Christ! Anyone who is “in” Christ is a new creation!
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. (5:17)

10. God reconciled us to Him
5:18 Through Christ,
God reconciled us to Him
and told us to tell others they can be reconciled….
5:19 Through Christ,
God reconciles the world to Himself
and we should tell others….
5:20 We are ambassadors for Christ
and God is appealing to the world to be reconciled through us!
Everything is from God who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. (5:18)
That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us. (5:19)
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, certain that God is appealing through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God. (5:20)

11. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
5:21 God reconciles us to Himself through Jesus: He made the sinless Jesus to be our sin (and die) so we could be made righteous and right with Him.
God made Jesus who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

12. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Don’t just see the human side of people. Ask the most important question: “Are they reconciled with God?”

13. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Don’t just see the human side of people. Ask the most important question: Are they reconciled with God?”
When Jesus saw the crowds, He felt compassion for them, because they were weary and worn out, like sheep without a shepherd. (Matthew 9:36)

14. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Don’t just see the human side of people. Ask the most important question: “Are they reconciled with God?”
Tell others that they need to be and can be made right with God (reconciled).
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, certain that God is appealing through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.” (5:20)

15. God wants everyone to be saved.
Jesus is the only way.
God wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and humanity.
1 Timothy 2:4-5

16. God wants everyone to be saved.
Jesus is the only way.
I speak the truth in Christ –
I am not lying;
my conscience is testifying to me with the Holy Spirit
that I have intense sorrow and continual anguish in my heart.
For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.
Romans 9:1-3