A NEW YEAR’S REMINDER 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Outline Renewal through Regeneration Reconciliation Righteous Reversal

Big Idea Spiritual renewal in Christ comes through the ministry of reconciliation that God has given to the renewed.

RENEWAL THROUGH REGENERATION

Ezekiel 36:25-27 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

Colossians 3:3-4 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Colossians 3:5-7 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.

Colossians 3:8-10 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. .

Ephesians 4:20-24 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

RECONCILIATION

Isaiah 59:1-2 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Ephesians 2:1-2 …you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience…

Ephesians 4:18 …alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

1 John 1:5-6 …God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

John 1:12-13 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

RIGHTEOUS REVERSAL

You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Genesis 17:1 the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,

He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 1 Peter 2:22 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.

…in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15 …in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Isaiah 53:4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Colossians 2:13-14 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

…the righteous shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2:4 …the righteous shall live by his faith.

Philippians 3:9 …not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.