“A New Beginning That Is Greater Than You Think”

Pastor Doug Heisel – January 5, 2025

The Significance of God’s Power and Promises:

2 Peter 1:3-4 — (God’s) divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.

Our Undeniable Problem:

Psalm 127:1 — Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.

John 15:5 — (Jesus said) “Apart from me you can do nothing.”

God’s Incredible Promise:

2 Corinthians 5:17-21 — Therefore, whoever is in Christ

is a new creation;

the old has gone, the new has come!

All this is from God,

who reconciled us to himself through Christ...not counting people’s sins against them...

God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God