Morning Sharing: "Begging and Pleading as Ambassadors"

This: 

20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (II Corinthians 5)

follows what I shared yesterday about the church (through the foundation laid for us by the apostles) has both “the ministry of reconciliation” and “the message of reconciliation”, so we as the church are as much “ambassadors for Christ” as the apostles were. 

NOTE: this is NOT an appeal to lost sinners (although it can be so applied). It is an appeal to the Corinthian Christians who have been lured away from their “sincere and pure devotion to Christ” by the not-true teachings of the “super apostles”. 

First application: are we presently fully reconciled to God so that we are experiencing and enjoying everything Jesus has given us for walking in “the newness of life” in this present age? 

Second application: are we (as the body of Christ together) surrendering to God “making his appeal through us”, calling sinful and deceived Christians to “be reconciled to God”? 

Third application: is our church identified by our activity in “the ministry of reconciliation” and our proclamation of “the message of reconciliation” as “peacemakers” to the world around us so that we are finding the lost sheep of God to bring into the salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ?

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