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*2 Corinthians 5:16-21*
*INTRODUCTION*
Today we are going to talk about God’s gift of purpose.
· “Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
· Shakespeare, life is “Much Ado About Nothing”?
Purpose seems to be in question in modern society.
· Living life with intention and direction escapes the masses.
· Popular beliefs perceive life as having no direction, and is only occasionally influenced by the ancient Greet gods of Luck and Fate, e.g.
· “She was lucky to have won the lottery,” or “He made a fateful decision.”
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*Let’s look at what scriptures says*
*2 Corinthians 5:16-21*
* 16* Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know /Him/ /in this way /no longer.
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, /he is/ a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
18 Now all /these /things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,
19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
*20* Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
21 He made Him who knew no sin /to be /sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Pray
! I. SAVED
!! A. The apostle Paul certainly takes issue with Shakespeare, as do all of the Biblical authors
!!! 1.
The Bible and the Christian gospel is diametrically opposed to the popular, common view of society that life is chance and has no purpose other than self
!!! 2. God’s will is a thread that runs through all of life, and each of us is intimately and dynamically connected to God’s will
!!! 3. It is in God’s will that we find our purpose.
!! B. Paul boldly writes in his letter to the Corinthian Christians that in God’s scheme of things
!! C. Our purpose is not seen in what we do in life, but rather in what God has done and in who we are
!!! 1.
He highlights the very center of the Christian gospel that God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world to Himself and saving us.
!!! 2. We hear the question, “Are you saved?”
!!! 3. When the question is directed at us, we say, “Yes,” and rejoice that Jesus has saved us from hell and damnation
!! D. Paul has a different slant on salvation
!!! 1.
He writes to the Corinthians that Jesus died so that we no longer need to live for ourselves
!!!! a) We are saved from ourselves
!!!! b) We are saved from the bondage of self-centeredness and selfishness
!!!! c) We are saved to live for Jesus
!!!! d) The validity of our salvation is not in the fact that we were baptized, or that we know the time and date when we received Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior
!!!! e) It demonstrated in how we live with our attention focused not on ourselves but on serving God and serving others
!!! 2. Salvation gives us a new purpose in life, and that new purpose transforms our lives
!
II.
We are a NEW CREATION
* 16* Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know /Him/ /in this way /no longer.
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, /he is/ a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
!! A. The transforming power of a new purpose in life can be seen in the lives of the disciples
!!! 1. Peter, James and John were transformed from fishermen to leaders of Christ’s church
!!! 2. Matthew turned from a tax collector to a follower of Jesus
!!! 3. Their lives were never the same because the discovered their real purpose in life
!! B. Believers should not evaluate Christ or anyone else according to the flesh, that is, the way people typically evaluate each other
!!! 1. From now on we do not judge men in a carnal, earthly way, according to appearances, human credentials, or national origin
!!!! a) We see them as precious souls for whom Christ died
!!!! b) Not He was a tax collector
!!!! c) Not He was a fisherman
!!!! d) But AS …..They turned the world upside down
!! C. Know Christ according to the flesh
!!! 1.
It was one thing to know Jesus as a next-door neighbor
!!!! a) In the village of Nazareth
!!!! b) Or even as an earthly messiah
!!!! c) How about as God
!!!!! (1) Who knocks you off your hoarse, blinds you, speaks to you audibly, and directs you to your supposed enemies, and changes your life completely
!!! 2. Paul did not have to walk with him hear on earth to know Him
!!! 3. It is quite another thing to know the glorified Christ who is at the right hand of God at this present time
!!!! a) Paul tells his readers that they are a new creation—the old has past away and the new has come
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, /he is/ a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
!!! 4. The future has become the present
!!!! a) The Christian hope is that one-day Jesus will come again and when he does he will bring a new heaven and a new earth
!!!! b) We have a foretaste of that new creation that Jesus will bring in our lives today
!!! 5. The Holy Spirit is constantly moving in our lives to mold us into the image of God and to make us new
!!! 6. Growth, maturity, spiritual transformation should be a common, normal part of our lives
!!!! a) Listeners are apt to think that when a man is saved, old habits, evil thoughts, and lusts are forever done away, and everything becomes literally new in a person’s life
!!! 7. The verse does not describe a believer’s practice but rather his position
!!!! a) Notice it says that if anyone is in Christ.
!!!! b) The words in Christ are the key to the passage
!!!!! (1) In Christ, old things have passed away and all things have become new
!!!! c) Unfortunately, “in me” not all this is true as yet!
!!!! d) But as I progress in the Christian life, I desire that my practice may increasingly correspond to my position
!!!! e) One day, when the Lord Jesus returns, the two will be in perfect agreement
!!! 8.
Only God is the same, yesterday, today and forever
!!!! a) We are always to be changing and growing—
!!!!! (1) Allowing our new purpose in life to have its full effect on us
!!!! b) All things have become new:
!!!!! (1) A believer’s life should change, because he or she is being transformed into the likeness of Christ
!!!! c) Instead of living for oneself, a believer lives for Christ (v.
15).
!!!! d) Instead of evaluating others with the values of the world, a believer looks at this world through the eyes of faith (v.
16).
! III.
We are RECONCILERS
18 Now all /these /things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,
19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
!! A. 1st who ……was reconciled ……and to whom?
!!! 1.
To Himself
!!! 2. All things are of God
!!! 3.
He is the Source and Author of them all
!!! 4. There is no ground for human boasting
!!! 5. It is God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation
!! B. Jesus died so that we might be reconciled with God
!!! 1. Reconciliation /Katalasso/ means to restore to harmony
!!! 2. That means to be returned to a right relationship with God
!!! 3. God has done everything needed in Christ to bring us into harmony with Him (positionally)
!!! 4. But believers must choose to bring daily life and our attitudes into harmony (experientially)
!! C. God does not need to be reconciled to man
!!! 1. Man does need to be reconciled to God
!!! 2. Man must lay down his arms of rebellion, must cease his stubborn revolt, and must be reconciled to God
!!! 3. We are the ones that declared war on God by our collective disobedience
!!!! a) We disobey when we walk our own way according to our own purpose
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