1. A True Regard for Christ – 5:16 – “we don’t understand anyone from a world perspective…even we no longer understand him [Christ] in this way”

     a. World’s perspective – 16a

     b. Christ’s perspective – 16b

2. The Old Has Gone, The New Has Come – 5:17 – “a new creation…old things have passed”

     a. A new creation – 17a

     b. Old things have passed – 17b

3. God and Sinners Reconciled – 5:18-19a - God reconciled to us to himself…not reckoning their transgressions against them”

     a. All this is from God – v18

     b. God was in Christ reconciling the world – v19a

4. Our Mission Today – 5:19b – “having placed in us the word of reconciliation”

      a. God put into us a message – 19b

      b. The message if reconciliation – 19b

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

 

v16So, from this point on, we don’t understand anyone from a worldly perspective. ⌜Even if⌝ we have understood Christ from a worldly perspective, now we no longer understand him in this way.

v17So if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away, behold ⌜new things⌝ have come into being.

v18Now all this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation;

v19—that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning their transgressions against them—and having placed in us ⌜the word⌝ of reconciliation.