Under New Management

Stores or restaurant in under new management

You’ll see signs (they want a do over)

Things will be different

Some times good, other times not so good.

Our message is always a do over

Christians can say, I am under new management

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

“If any” - open and available to anyone outside of Christ

Requirement

Result

Rational

I. REQUIREMENT

If any one is in Christ - This is Locative

Romans 3:24 ESV

and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Redemption = Ransom

So if you are not in Christ there is no redemption and the payment has not been appropriated to pay the dept and the ransom is unpaid.

Ephesians 1:3 ESV

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

2 Timothy 2:10 ESV

Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Romans 8:1 ESV

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

No need to live in a cloud of uncertainty

Means to Get In

Galatians 3:27 ESV

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Romans 6:3–4 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.

II. RESULT

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

If - the Condition

Result - Is New Creation

Do know how badly you’ve mess up your life and you are seeking a do over

The God that created this universe in is grand order, beauty and complexity

The same God CAN recreate you spiritually THAT’S THE RESULT

WHY??

Still sinning -yes

Because God said so

Who’s perspective does it matter any way? (Does matter how you feel or what others may say)

Luke 9:23 ESV

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

1 Corinthians 6:9–11 ESV

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

III. RATIONAL

2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;

Jesus died in my place - Jesus was my substitute

2 Corinthians 5:15 ESV

and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.