Sunday, February 18, 2018

Heaven's Ambassadors.


2Co 5:20  Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 
2Co 5:21  For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 

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We have been given the word of reconciliation. We ARE ambassadors for CHRIST. We are reconciled to GOD.

When a person is given an ambassadorship what does that mean? In my understanding that person NOW represents those who gave them the ambassadorship to others. We understand it in terms of our country having an ambassador to another country. They represent us to that other country. So if we are ambassadors for Christ then we are a part of Christ's country and representatives of Christ's country, which is heaven. We are ambassadors of heaven to all those living upon the earth. Heaven has a lot of ambassadors but truthfully there are a lot more people who are of the earth than there are those who are truly of heaven. This world isn't the world we want to belong to.

Jesus said this--

Joh_8:23  And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

Joh_12:31  Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

Joh_14:30  Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

Joh_16:11  Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

Joh_18:36  Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence

And Paul said this--

Eph_6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

This world is NOT our world and if this world is NOT our world, but we are truly ambassadors of heaven we need to be representing heaven right here and now to all who can see us, to all that can know us. Heaven is our home, we are here on this earth for an ambassadorship that may last into our 70's, our 80s, our 90's and so on. Our ambassadorship may last several decades but it will forever be an ambassadorship as long as God is our Father, Christ is our Savior, and heaven our true home.  We are kept here as active ambassadors for as long as our Lord needs us to be and then we sleep death's sleep until our Savior returns and that last trump sounds and we are called from our graves and taken to heaven!  Our sleep death will not even claim us as belonging to earth, our sleep death is temporary until our Savior wakes us and finally calls us to our home, our ambassadorship over.

All praise, glory and honor, all thanksgiving unto our Father in Heaven, all through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, by the Holy Spirit now and forever!!!!!!!

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