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