MADE NEW
Memory
Verse: 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV) Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away;
behold, all things have become new.
Text:
2 Corinthians 5:12-18
INTRODCUTION:
Mark 2:22; Gal 1:1; 1 Sam16:7; Mat 7:1–2; 1 Cor 15:9; Gal 1:13–15; 2 Cor
5:16; Romans 14:8–12; 1 Cor 1:26–27; 2 Cor 5:17
1. “In Christ”—New Position
John 15:19; 2 Corinthians 5:17
2. “New Creation”—Transformation
2 Corinthians 3:16, ; 4:16–17
“United
to the risen Lord, the believer participates in the new creation of which
Christ is the fount and the life.”--Beasley-Murray
3. “The Old has gone”--FREEDOM
2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:1; 1 Corinthians
7:31; Romans 6:11
“The
past was dead to him, as dead as Christ on his cross, all its ideas, all its
hopes, all its ambitions were dead in Christ, he was another man in another
universe.”-- J. Denney
4. “The New has come”—Made New
2 Cor 5:17; John 3:3; Isaiah 65:17; 1 Cor 6:9–11; Prov 26:11
CONCLUSION:
ILLUSTRATION:
AS SHARED BY WARREN WIERSBE
Hymn by Frances Ridley Havergal, 1858
I gave My life for thee,
My precious blood I shed,
That thou might’st ransomed be,
And quickened from the dead;
I gave, I gave My life for thee,
What hast thou given for Me?
