August 17, 2025 SERMON: "NEW CREATION, NEW PURPOSE"

SERIES: Transformed Identities

TITLE: "NEW CREATION, NEW PURPOSE"

Main Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

1. NEW NATURE (v. 17)

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!"

2. NEW MINISTRY (vv. 18-19)

"All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation."

3. NEW MISSION (vv. 20-21)

"We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin^[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

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