Pastor Jack Peters
April 30, 2023 at 10:30 AM
2 Corinthians 5:1-10
TOGETHER IN CHRIST!!
WHAT TO KNOW!
KNOW THE REALITY OF GOD’S EXISTENCE
Deuteronomy 4:39 (NKJV) - Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
KNOW THE RELIABILITY OF GOD’S WORD
2 Peter 1:20–21 - 20knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, 21for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
KNOW THE REALITY OF SIN
Romans 7:18–20 - 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
KNOW THE REALITY OF CHRIST’S PAYMENT FOR YOUR SIN
1 Corinthians 15:3–4 - 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
KNOW THE REALITY OF ETERNAL LIFE
1 John 5:11–13 - 11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life…
KNOW THE REALITY OF RESURRECTION
Job 19:25–27 - 25For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;
26And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God,
27Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
KNOW THE REALITY OF FELLOWSHIP WITH JESUS
Philippians 3:10 (NKJV) - 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
KNOW THE REALITY OF FREEDOM
Romans 6:6–7 - 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. (All Scriptures are in the New King James Version)
