AMBASSADORSHIP

 

AMBASSADORSHIP

 

2Corinthians [GW] 5:14-21  Clearly, Christ's love guides us. We are convinced of the fact that one man has died for all people. Therefore, all people have died. He died for all people so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for the man who died and was brought back to life for them. So from now on we don't think of anyone from a human point of view. If we did think of Christ from a human point of view, we don't anymore. Whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creation. The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence. God has done all this. He has restored our relationship with him through Christ, and has given us this ministry of restoring relationships. In other words, God was using Christ to restore his relationship with humanity. He didn't hold people's faults against them, and he has given us this message of restored relationships [KJV etc. “ambassadors”] to tell others. Therefore, we are Christ's representatives, and through us God is calling you. We beg you on behalf of Christ to become reunited with God. God had Christ, who was sinless, take our sin so that we might receive God's approval through him. 

 

  Want to know what the life of an ambassador for Christ can be like? Take a look at Paul, a man the Author, God, chose as one of His penman.

  Though I’ve never encountered the level of Paul’s experiences, I have faced acceptance and rejection as I’ve shared the Word of God.

  From the moment I trusted Lord Jesus Christ personally (Jn.3:3) I took the privilege and responsibility of God’s ambassador seriously. My very first morning as a born-again believer I immediately went and shared the good news with my years long next-door best friend. He immediately became irate, ushered me out, and did not speak to me for 40+ years. As I exited his home he said that I had presumptuously insulted God. He was not, nor will be, the last to react thusly.

  And there are the wonderful stories of those trusting Jesus and living hereafter in blessed assurance and the service of the King.

  Let us not grow weary in ambassadorship’s privilege and responsibility.

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