Flawless

2 Corinthians 5:17, 21

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

• It is a new year, and we love to see this as a time to start fresh

• Start over, do better, be stronger

• And what that does is makes us look at and focus on what we have been doing wrong

• New Year’s resolutions are about what we have messed up

• I think this mindset leads us to forget what we already have

• We forget how awesome God is

• We forget all that He has done for us

• We get too focused on the world around us

• The everyday things that take up our time

• We get caught up in all of our shortcomings and failures

• Yes, we should feel guilty when we sin, when we fall short

• But that guilt needs to drive us to Him, asking for forgiveness

• Not wallowing in our sorrows

• But we also get caught up in our flaws

• I’m not good enough, I’m not strong enough

• I have this disability, I have this “insert problem” slowing me down

• I am a failure

• The fact is, we have put on the righteousness of God

• As it says in verse 21

• We become the righteousness of God in Him

• God no longer sees us as we were

• We are a new creature

• God sees us through the blood of Jesus Christ

• He doesn’t see our sin

• He sees the Christ’s righteousness

• He sees us through the filter of the cross

• We are flawless in His eyes, because He looks at us through the blood of Christ

• Thank goodness God uses flawed people to do His will

• Just think of the apostles

• Smelly fishermen

• Hated tax collector

• And then there was Paul, occupation, Christian killer

• It’s the grace, His amazing grace that makes us flawless

• Makes us flawless in His eyes

• Not perfect

• When the Bible uses the word perfect it means complete

• We won’t be complete until we are with Him

• But flawless

• He doesn’t see our sins

• He doesn’t see our disabilities

• He doesn’t see our weaknesses

• He doesn’t see us as others see us either

• He made you flawless

• This song by Mercy Me, Flawless starts out covered in filth and muck

• Starts out with how we see ourselves and how we see others

• But finishes with how God sees us