2 Corinthians 5
Since God created humans, we are from heaven but were deceived and fell.
V5 "...So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad."
V11 "Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men."
We are preaching a message of reconciliation with God.
The way to be reconciled is through Jesus Christ.
V15 "And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again."
It is when we are reconciled with God in Christ, we are a new creation.
V17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"
As a new creation, we are hopeful to become "the righteousness of God."
To God be the Glory.
