The Best Christmas Gift of 2023
From 2 Corinthians 5:11-21
1. Reconciliation when to be reconciled.
📖 2 Corinthians 5:18 ESV “All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to Himself”
📖 2 Corinthians 5:18 NLT “And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ.”
I reconciliation in .
📖 Romans 5:10 ESV “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by His life.”
📖 Ephesians 2:1-3 ESV “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.”
2. Reconciliation is .
📖 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 NLT “And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And He gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.”
I reconciliation .
📖 Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
3. me through reconciliation.
📖 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 ESV “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.”
My in reconciliation: it with .
📖 Philippians 2:3-4 NLT “Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. 4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.”
Final Thought:
The best gift is to be to God! I can Jesus’s reconciliation and I am to His reconciliation with .
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