REFRESH – Gaining Perspective, Power and Purpose to live for God’s glory (5 of 5)

Key Verse: Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Main Point: As Christians, we have an awesome opportunity to glorify God as we take the message of reconciliation to a lost world and impact eternity.

2 Corinthians 5:17-21  17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.  18  Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,  19  that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not  [a] imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20  Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.  21  For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

I Can Impact Eternity by:

1. Being reconciled to God (2 Cor 5:17-18) 17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.  18  Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 

2. Being a good ambassador for Jesus Christ (2 Cor 5:20)
20  Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we
implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.

3. Being obedient to God’s call for us to evangelize (2 Cor 5:19)
that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses
to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.