Questions From Heaven: What’s That in Your Hand? Exodus 3, 4
We Have a Word and Ministry of Reconciliation! 2 Corinthians 5:17-21
The Moses Context: Exodus 4:2 The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A Staff.” 3 Then He said Throw it on the ground!
From the Rod of Moses to the Rod of God, Signifying
A New Assignment, A New Power, A New Life:
The Excuses: Who am I, Who Are You?
What God Calls You to, He Equips and Empowers You for It!
The 2022 Church Context: What’s That In Your Hand?
2 Corinthians 5:17-21: We Have a Word and Ministry of Reconciliation!
1st Who Am I? We are New Creations, The Reconciled Children of God! V17
In Christ – A New Creation:
Old Things have passed away, Behold New things have come!
Reconciled to God through Christ!
2nd Who Are You? He is The One True God Who Called You and Reconciled You to Himself.
Who Became Flesh and Dwelt among us! John 1:1-5, 14
Who Gives Good Gifts to His Children! Luke 11:9-13
Who Reconciled Us to Himself Through Christ! 2 Cor. 5:18
What is Reconciliation?
1st Reconciliation Implies Separation, No Peace, No oneness!
The Reflection of Oneness – Triune God:
Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face fro you so that He does not hear!
Oneness in Marriage and Families:
Matthew 19:5 and said, For this reasons a man shall leave His father and mother and be joined to His wife and the two shall become one flesh! 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.
Malachi 4:5-6 God Restores the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that He will not come and smite the land with a curse
The Oneness of the Body of Christ! John 17:11;20-21
2nd Reconciliation is Bringing Back together what is Intended to Be One!
Colossians 1:19-23
What’s That in Your Hand? It’s a Word and Ministry of Reconciliation!
3rd The Ministry of Reconciliation! V18-20
We Never Count their Trespasses Against God or Us!
Irreconcilable Difference No Fault Divorce!
He Literally Placed inside Us the Word of Reconciliation!
Which is the Gospel!
Which Makes Us Ambassadors For Christ!
Romans 5:6-11 – God and His Enemies!
Becoming the Righteousness of God in Him! V 22
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