Ministry of Reconciliation - 2 Cor 5:16-6:2

Ministry of Reconciliation - 2 Cor 5:16-6:2Series: Special TopicPreacher: Jonny GrantDate: 24th September 2017Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:16-6:2-------------------Ministry of Reconciliation\r\n- 2 Corinthians 5v16-6v2\r\n\r\nRestored Relationship\r\nReconcile: Restoring a relationship that is broken\r\n\r\nGod\'s desire for all people to be reconciled 5v16-17\r\n- New Perspective \r\n- New Creation \r\n\r\nGod has made it possible to be reconciled 5v18-19a\r\n- All of God \r\n- Through Christ \r\n\r\nGod has entrusted to us the ministry of reconciliation 5v19b-21\r\n- Ambassadors\r\n- The Message\r\n‘Christ bears all the sins of all Men in his body – \r\nnot that he is guilty of any, but that he received them being \r\ncommitted or done by us, and laid them upon his own body...\r\nWe must known Christ to be wrapped in our sins, \r\nin our curse, in our death, and in all our evils as he \r\nhis wrapped in our flesh and blood. \r\nWhat ever sins I, you, or we all have done, or shall do here after, \r\nthey are Christ’s own sins, or else I would perish forever...\r\nIf Christ be made guilty of all the sins which we all have committed, \r\nthen we are delivered from all sins, but not by ourselves, \r\nnot by our own works and merits, but by Him.’\r\nMartin Luther\r\n\r\nGod urges us not to waste our reconciliation 6v1-2\r\n- Grace Received\r\n- Day of Grace