New Year New You

2 Corinthians 5:20-21

INTRODUCTION Jesus can change your life.  Has Jesus changed your life? How? SCRIPTURE 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.  1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that…

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

INTRODUCTION Jesus can change your life.  Has Jesus changed your life? How? SCRIPTURE 2 Corinthians 5:16-19 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and…

2 Corinthians 5:11-15

INTRODUCTION Jesus can change your life.  Where do you tend to look for your identity? What are some ways that you can find your identity in Jesus Christ? SCRIPTURE  2 Corinthians 5:11-15 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. 12 We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you…

2 Corinthians 5:5-10

INTRODUCTION Jesus can change your life.  Where do you tend to look for your identity? What are some ways that you can find your identity in Jesus Christ? SCRIPTURE  2 Corinthians 5:6-10 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the…

2 Corinthians 5:1-4

INTRODUCTION Jesus can change your life.  Where do you tend to look for your identity? What are some ways that you can find your identity in Jesus Christ? SCRIPTURE 2 Corinthians 5:1-5 1 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 if indeed by putting it on we may not be found…