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Easter – God’s Solution To Our
Biggest Problems
2 Corinthians 5:14 - 21
1. ____________ - He took my ___________.
Replacementpunishment
“God presented Christ asa sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of
His blood – to be receivedby faith.
He did this to demonstrate His righteousness, becausein His forbearance He had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished.” (Romans 3:25/NIV)
“God sent Christ Jesus to take the punishment for our
sins and to end all God’s anger against us.”
(Romans 3:25/LB)
“God made Him who hadno sin to be sin for us, so
that in Him we might become the righteousness
of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21/NIV)
2. ___________ - He bought my ________.
Redemptionfreedom
“He gave His life topurchase freedom for everyone. This is the
message God gave to the world at just the right time.”
(1 Timothy 2:6/NLT)
“They promise them freedom, while they
themselves are slaves of depravity – for ‘people are
slaves to whatever has mastered them.’”
(2 Peter 2:19/NIV)
“Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the
price of his life, for the ransom of their life is
costly and can never suffice,
that he should live on forever and never see the pit.”
(Psalm 49:7-9/ESV)
3. _______________ - He restored my _____________
with God.
Reconciliation
relationship
“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.”
(Romans 5:10/ESV)
“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.
For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to
Himself, no longer counting people’s sins
against them.” (2 Corinthians 5:18 & 19/NLT)
4. _________ - He gave me a new _________.
Rebirthidentity
“But – ‘When God our Savior revealed His
kindness and love, Hesaved us, not because of
the righteous things we had done, but because of His
mercy.
He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy
Spirit.’” (Titus 3:4 & 5/NLT)
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation. The old has passed away; behold the
new has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17/ESV)
“Do you not know that all of us who have been
baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His
death? 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.”
(Romans 6:3 & 4/ESV)
5. ____________ - He destroyed ______ and the ______.
Repudiationdeath
devil
“Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of
the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the
beginning.
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of
the devil.” (1 John 3:8/ESV)
“And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of
them, triumphing over them by the cross.”
(Colossians 2:15/NIV)
“Since the children have flesh and blood, He too
shared in their humanity so that by His death He
might break the power of him who holds the power
of death –
that is, the devil – and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by
their fear of death.” (Hebrews 2:14 & 15/NIV)
Easter – God’s Solution To Our
Biggest Problems
2 Corinthians 5:14 - 21