061823- “Before & After”...Colossians 1:21-23

2 Corinthians 5:17...“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.”

Sermon In A Sentence:For everyone who has genuine faith in Christ, there is a before, an after, and a future.

Colossians 1:21-23...“Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions. But now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him— if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it”

From The Moment You Put Your Faith In Jesus & His Gospel:
-Your alienation from God becomes your past
-Your reconciliation with God becomes your present
-Your sanctification through God prepares your future

Romans 1:28...“Because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.”

Romans 8:7...“For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God”

Romans 1:29-30...“They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil…”

Colossians 1:19-20...“For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile everything to Himself by making peace through the blood of His cross…”

To Define “Reconcile”:
-Typically means— to resolve conflict
-Transliterated “apokatallássō” from the original Greek:
        -To reconcile completely
        -To reconcile back again
        -To bring back to a former state of harmony

Ephesians 2:11-13...“Remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh… At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah”

2 Corinthians 5:18-19...“All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to Himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 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.”

1 John 3:2...“Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is”

Ephesians 2:8-10...“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them”

1 Corinthians 6:9-11...“Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality, no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom. And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God”

From The Moment You Put Your Faith In Jesus & His Gospel:
-Your alienation from God becomes your past
-Your reconciliation with God becomes your present
-Your sanctification through God prepares your future

Sermon In A Sentence:For everyone who has genuine faith in Christ, there is a before, an after, and a future.