Ambassador for Christ Now then we are ambassadors for Christ.... - 2 Corinthians 5:20 You are an ambassador for Christ! If you have made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life, you have been sent to act as a representative for Him in this world. Just as nations send ambassadors to represent their interests in other countries, youve been sent here to look after the interests of the kingdom of God. Think about that. Everywhere you go you are representing the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Thats a very high honor. It may also seem like a rather tall bill to fill. But God has equipped you to do it. Hes given you His Name and the power of His Word. Hes even put His very own Spirit inside you. And Hes given you the ability to hear and obey the directions of that Spirit. I heard a prophecy years ago that said there would come a time when men on the earth would walk and talk and act like God. Theyd be motivated by His power and His Spirit so strongly that people would say of them, Look at those believers. They think theyre God. No, the Holy Spirit said, they are not God. They are agents of God, children of God, ambassadors of God, sent to do the works of God. I believe were living in the day and hour that prophecy was talking about. Were seeing that army of light begin to grow. This is no time to be half-consecrated and half-dedicated. This is the time to go all the way with God, to give Him your whole life. If youll do that, Hell give you back such anointing and such power and such glory and goodness that youll shine for Him, as Philippians 2:15 says, as lights in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Begin to think about yourself today, not as just another ordinary man or woman but as an ambassador of Almighty God. Let the interests of His kingdom be foremost in your mind and heart. Submit yourself to Him and say, Lord, show me how to be Your representative in everything I do. You are an ambassador for Christ. Begin to live like it today. SCRIPTURE READING: 2 Corinthians 5:10-21 By Gloria Copeland 2 Corinthians 5:10-21 New Living Translation (NLT) 10 For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body. We Are God’s Ambassadors 11 Because we understand our fearful responsibility to the Lord, we work hard to persuade others. God knows we are sincere, and I hope you know this, too. 12 Are we commending ourselves to you again? No, we are giving you a reason to be proud of us,[a] so you can answer those who brag about having a spectacular ministry rather than having a sincere heart. 13 If it seems we are crazy, it is to bring glory to God. And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit. 14 Either way, Christ’s love controls us.[b] Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.[c] 15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. 16 So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! 17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 18 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. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin,[d] so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
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