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New Beginnings

September 3, 2023 • Glenn Greiner • John 6:44, Romans 2:4, 2 Corinthians 7:10–11, 2 Corinthians 5:14–21, 1 Timothy 2:4

2 Corinthians 5:14-21


1. You have a new kind of love.


God wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 2:4


No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 6:44


2. You are a new creation.


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

2 Corinthians 5:17


Or do you have no regard for the wealth of His kindness and tolerance and patience [in withholding His wrath]? Are you [actually] unaware or ignorant [of the fact] that God’s kindness leads you to repentance [that is, to change your inner self, your old way of thinking—seek His purpose for your life]?

Romans 2:4 Amplified Bible


Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done.

2 Corinthians 7:10-11


There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:1


3. You have a new purpose.


When your life belongs to Jesus you no longer exist for yourself.  


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. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.

2 Corinthians 5:18-20


4. You have a new hope. 


We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.

Romans 8:22-23


The Apostles Creed