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We Are Ambassadors of Christ

10/30/2015

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God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.
– 2 Corinthians 5:19-20
 
What does it mean to be reconciled to God? It is very similar to the idea of two people who have been estranged and who finally resolve their issues. Sometimes we hear of a married couple who are estranged and separated, but then at a later time we hear that they have reconciled and are now together.
The message of being reconciled to God is that we who were estranged from Him have now made peace with Him. Paul writes in Romans, “The sinful mind is hostile to God,” and that is our natural state. We have been cut off from all the good things God makes available because we have become hostile toward Him and have rejected His offer of peace. But through faith in Christ we have been reconciled to God.
Paul writes in Ephesians, “You who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ” (Ephesians 2:13). It is through faith in Christ that our differences with God have been settled and now we have been reconciled to Him. It is that relationship with God which gives us hope for the future.
As Paul writes in our scripture for today that we have been given the message of reconciliation. That means we who have been reconciled to God have the responsibility to show others how they may too be reconciled to God. All believers have been made ambassadors of Christ and we are to take the message of being made right with God to the world.
The only vehicle God has for getting his appeal to the world is those of us who have tasted the gift of salvation. He has no other voice. We are his hope for reaching those who have not been reached by the gospel.
Paul calls us ambassadors and I ask what kind of ambassador are you? That is something to think about.
 
Prayer: Lord, help me to be an effective ambassador for Christ.
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Destroying Strongholds - Destroying Arguments and Pretensions

10/15/2015

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Daily God Walk - Destroying Strongholds

10/15/2015

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Destroying Arguments and Pretentions

The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. – 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
 
A fact which is often missed by believers is that we are in a war. It is not the kind of war the world wages, but it is a war in the spirit realm. It is the war of the Spirit of God against the spirit of evil (the Devil) and the spirit of the world (man’s soulish nature). Paul tells us in this passage that we have divine power to wage this war and we can demolish strongholds of evil by demolishing arguments against the nature and truth of God.
From the time we are infants we hear arguments against the truth of God and that keeps us from pursuing the knowledge of God. Those God defying arguments are pretentiously set up as the rule and the knowledge of God is denied.
The Greek word translated in the NIV as “arguments” is an interesting word. It is logismos and has the same base meaning as our word “logic.” It is reasoning or thought which becomes “argument,” or position of belief. The world in which we live today is filled with God denying thought processes.
These God denying thought processes are set up as the truth and are juxtaposed against the knowledge of God. Hupsoma is the Greek word used here and means an elevated place or thing, a barrier and by implication a high thing which cannot be crossed, or at least is very difficult to be crossed over.
These arguments, which are held in esteem above the knowledge of God, are many and they are reinforced in our lives from the time we are infants. They are strongholds which keep us from realizing God’s fullness in our lives.
Just as the kings of old were commanded to tear down the high places of false worship so we must destroy every argument and pretentious thought which stands against the knowledge of God and replace them with God thoughts.
Prayer: Lord, help me to destroy the strongholds in my life. Amen.


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Daily God Walk - Destroying Strongholds

10/10/2015

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We Are Accepted Into the Beloved

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. – Ephesians 1:5-6 (KJV)
 
The church was in the mind of God from before creation (verse 4). He had a plan because he knew that when he created man he would be created with the potential to succumb to the temptation of the evil one. I find it amusing that Satan thought he got the best of God when he enticed Adam and Eve to sin, but he didn’t know that he was playing right into God’s plan.
From the beginning God had predetermined a way by which man could be restored to the person he had originally intended him to be. When mankind fell from grace in the garden he became a man of the earth. That was his condition until Christ came as the ultimate sacrifice to atone for the sins of man.
Now, because of what God has done through Christ, we have the opportunity to be adopted into the family of God. We literally, at least in the Spirit realm, become children of God when we receive Christ into our lives. This is the good pleasure of God.
We who have received Christ become as the returned prodigal. Our sonship is affirmed and we are fully accepted into the beloved (which is Christ). What this means to us is that what we were does not affect what we are in Christ. When we received Christ we were received by God and we literally became a part of the body of Christ who is the beloved of the Father. That means we are now the beloved of God.
Whatever you and I might have been in the past is totally wiped away and now all that God sees in us is that we are his beloved. I have a friend who is plagued with self doubts and fear that he will do something wrong and go to hell. I constantly encourage him that he is the beloved of God and that God’s only intention for him is for him to have eternal life.
My friend, I want to encourage you that you are accepted into the beloved, you are accepted into Christ. God looks past what we have been and looks to what we are becoming in the beloved.
 
Prayer: Lord, I thank you for accepting me into the beloved.


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