Part 4 | Captive Thoughts, Clear Vision

From 2 Corinthians 5:11-21

1. Captive Thoughts .

📖  2 Corinthians 5:11-15 ESV Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. 12 We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.  14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

📖  2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

📖  1 Peter 1:15-16 ESV but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,  16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

📖  Romans 14:12 ESV So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

📖  2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died…

2. Captive Thoughts .

📖  2 Corinthians 5:16 ESV From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.

📖 Colossians 3:2 ESV Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

3. Captive Thoughts .

📖 2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

***Old Creation* → In Christ → *New Creation***

4. Captive Thoughts

📖 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 ESV All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 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.

Remember which side of the cross you are on!

📖 Psalms 139:21-22 ESV Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 22 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.

📖 Deuteronomy 30:7 ESV And the Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.

📖 Joshua 11:20 ESV For it was the Lord's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed.

📖 Matthew 5:43-45 ESV You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

📖 Deuteronomy 28:24 ESV The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

📖 Luke 23:34 ESV Forgive them father for they know not what they do

📖 Acts 7:60 ESV Lord, do not hold this sin against them.

📖 Luke 19:10 ESV For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

📖 1 John 4:16-17 ESV So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.