Category: 2 Corinthians 5
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Confidence!
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 “Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. For we live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.“ Are you…
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Privileged Ambassadors
2 Corinthians 5:20 – 6:1 “We are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not…
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All Things New
Romans 6:4 “We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” Do…
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Avoiding deceptions
2 Corinthians 5:7 “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” One of the Bible’s most basic messages is that things are very often not as they seem. So many times, things that appear to be very good for us are actually very evil and destructive. We are warned that “even Satan himself masquerades as…
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Too good to be true?
2 Corinthians 5:21 “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Sometimes things seem almost too good to be true. Do you know anything like this? This past Friday night I watched an NCAA tournament basketball game between the 15th seeded…
To Encourage You 