Seeking Jesus First Oct. 11, 2024

What is an ambassador? He is an envoy sent to other nations on special occasions, to congratulate, solicit favors, make alliances, or protest against wrongs. In the following passage, an ambassador is sent to reconcile the relationship of a foreign people to God in Heaven, The King of kings. Reconcile means to restore friendly relations between those who were in a state of enmity, and to make the relationship compatible by removing the thing that made them incompatible.

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:17–21, NKJV)

We are restored to God by being made into new creations in The Anointing. We received His Holy Spirit and we are now compatible to be in a friendly relationship with God. The enmity of sin has been removed as an incompatible substance that separated us from God. God no longer imputes our trespasses to us. Instead He imputes His righteousness to us. He has reconciled us to Himself. There is no longer a mathematical difference between God and those who are in Christ.

Now, to be ambassadors, we must say what God has given us to say. When our words have no mathematical difference from God’s words, we are ambassadors. “Be imitators of God as dear children and walk in love…”