Title: How Are You Doing in Your Role As Ambassador for Christ?
Text:
John 17:18 (ESV)
As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
Observation:
What an awesome privilege it is to represent your country in a foreign land; to be an ambassador for the Government. However, there is a greater privilege for the people of God, and that is to be an ambassador for Christ. That is our mission; that is our calling.
2 Corinthians 5:20 (ESV)
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Jesus has already done the heavy lifting to make it possible for you to fulfill His calling upon your life to be His ambassador.
Ephesians 2:8-10 (ESV)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Notice the people and the environment of our mission field. It's a difficult and sometimes dangerous assignment. However, remember what comes after "but". But God, who is rich in mercy … (Eph 2.4a).
Ephesians 2:1-3 (ESV)
1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Prayer:
Father God, my dear Father, I pray that You would stir the hearts of Your people; convict our hearts until we are willing through faith and obedience learn to lean hard on You so that we can walk in the footsteps of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
1 Peter 2:21 (ESV)
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
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Matthew 4:4 (HCSB)
4 But He answered, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
Psalm 2:8 (HCSB)
8 Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance and the ends of the earth Your possession.
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