Amen. You know, God loves us. And the incredible thing is there’s no reason for that. We don’t give him any real reason to love us. We are sinful creatures.
We don’t do the things that we should do, and we do the things we shouldn’t do, but yet God still loves us. That’s just incredible to me. It’s one of those things that as you go through each and every day, it’s just an amazing thought that God loves us. I I don’t know why if it were me trying to love somebody else, I would have already given up, I’m sure, on myself. But God doesn’t do that, And so I am thankful for that.
Today, I wanna talk about, being ambassadors for Christ. So you can go ahead and turn with me to second Corinthians chapter five second Corinthians chapter five, and we’ll start there in just a moment. In our study in Genesis, we were reminded that God made Adam and Eve to serve him. That last part’s important. A lot of people will believe God made Adam and Eve, but they don’t think about why.
Understand, God made Adam and Eve. He didn’t make Adam and Eve little babies. He made Adam and Eve grown people. When they were created, they were already grown. And when he created them, he gave them instructions.
He told them what they needed to do, and he told them to multiply. He told them to take care of the garden. They were there to serve him. They had a job the moment they were created. He already had something for them.
Too many times, we don’t think about it that way. We we look at our lives and we think about it the other way around. We think that God made Adam and Eve to serve self, and that God was to serve Adam and Eve. Right? God’s there for me.
Oh, I get in trouble, I call on God. I need something, I call on God. I I have, you know, something I can’t figure out, I call on God. But otherwise, you know, it’s all about me. But that’s not true, and that’s not how God created us in the first place.
And as we go back to Genesis in our Wednesday night study, we’re learning more and more about how God created Adam and Eve to serve him, and how when he put them here, he put them here for that purpose. Not their own purpose, but for his purpose. See, we wanna keep that straight. Today, most people want to put themselves first. It’s all about me.
Right? What do I want? How do I want to do things? How how or or I’m gonna get something out of this. If I do this, what will I get out of it?
Everything’s about me. I wanna make sure that my life is as simple as possible. I wanna make sure that all the needs that I think I have, that that they’re covered. Even my wants, I wanna make sure that’s taken care of. I wanna make sure that I’m good, that I’m happy, that I’m taken care of, that I have all these things that I want, and it’s all about me.
And, oh, yeah. If I have some time left after that, then I’ll try to serve God too. You know, I’ll I’ll go to church once a week, you know, just one hour though. Don’t ask me to do more than that. I’ll go one hour.
I’ll I’ll make my token visit. I’ll, you know, I’ll I’ll, you know, I might praise God some. And and if somebody asked me specifically, I’ll probably tell them about God. But, you know, I gotta make sure all my priorities are met first. That’s how people today want to live.
Me first. It’s absolutely backwards. God wants to be the center of your life. He wants to be what you are revolving around, not him revolving around you. And so God wants you to put him as the center of your life.
He put you here to serve him. What if we changed our mentality and put God first? Just think about that for a minute. What if instead of worrying about me and everything I want and all the things I wanna do and the places I wanna go and all of the money I wanna spend and the food I wanna eat and everything I wanna do, instead of putting I first, what if God was put first in our lives? What if each day we woke up and said, God, what do I need to do for you today?
How do you want me to serve you today? What if we did that? We like to say as Christians, oh, yes. We put God first. But if we were put on trial for that, would there be enough evidence to convict us?
You see, most of the time we say that, but that’s not how we live. What if we live that way? What if we truly put God first? Well, you know, I got I I have to go to work. Yeah.
You do. You have to go to work. You have to pay your bills. Those are things that by living in this world, we have to do. We understand that.
Those are things that have to be done. But what if we did them with God in first place? What if going to work, we did it with God first in our life so that when we got to work, we were somebody who was an ambassador for God? What if we shared Christ with other people as an ambassador for God, the one that we put first in our life? And we said, let me tell you about this.
Why why are you happy today? I’m glad you asked. Let me tell you about the time I had with the Lord this morning before I came to work. What if we absolutely put God first? Can you imagine how much different this world would be if God’s people put him first?
If God’s people put him first. I’m not talking about lost people, I’m talking about God’s people. If God’s people put him first, how much different would this world be? You see, because we don’t put him first in so many ways, we allow other things to happen. And when we allow these other things to happen, and take over our lives, we’re not sharing as we need to be.
When we’re not sharing as we need to be, then we lose our focus of what we are supposed to do. What if we changed our mentality and put God first? Look with me to second Corinthians chapter five. We’re gonna read verses 17 through 21. Second Corinthians chapter five seventeen through 21.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he’s a new creature. The old things passed away. Behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. Namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ. As though God were making an appeal through us, we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Verse 17 says, if we are in Christ, we are a new creation. If we are in Christ, we are a new creation.
So what does that really mean? I give my life to Christ. I’ve accepted him as my Lord and savior. I said, I want you to come in and forgive me of all of the sins that I’ve committed in my life. I want you to be my lord and savior.
I wanna put you first. I want to be this new creation. If the old person is gone and a new person exists, then what we’ve got to do is not to try to serve the old person. What? Let me break it down like this.
If I am a brand new person, why would I try to go back and do what the old person used to do? Why would I try to go back and bring in all those things from the past and serve them instead of the God that made me the new creation, instead of the one that changed all things for me. If we are in Christ, we are a new creation, brand new. That means we’ve gotta put God first. That means instead of putting self first as we did in the old days, we need to put God first as he requires us to.
We’re a new creation. We’re not the same as we once were. We are brand new in Christ. We don’t go back and try to pull up all the old things. We don’t go back and pull up all the old sins and, say, well, I can’t possibly be a good person because of all these old things that happened in my life.
You’re a new creation. Why are you going back and dwelling on sins that God has cast as far as the East is from the West? Why are you going back and looking at your past failures instead of looking at how God wants to use you today? Why are you going back and trying to serve that old self instead of serving the God that made you new in the first place? If we are in Christ, we are a new creation.
The old self serving person is gone. Why are you serving self? You’re supposed to be serving God. That old self serving person is now gone. He’s now gone.
In my little tiny brain, you know, I kinda wish that when God made you new, that you literally would step out of the old body, look back at it, and go, yeah, that’s gone. And now I’m a brand new creation. That you could physically do that. Right? You could look back at that and go, yeah, that’s not me anymore.
I’m this new person. That’s not me. I don’t even wanna see that person anymore because I’m not that that person anymore. We can’t physically do that. But spiritually, we can.
Spiritually, we can look back at that old person and the way that person was walking, the things that person did, and say, thank you God for saving me from that life. And now what do you want me to do? How do you want me to live? Where do you want me to go? What do you want me to say?
Who do you want me to talk to? God, there’s something you have for me. That’s why you made me a new creation. If you didn’t have something for me, why would you make me a new creation in the first place? You have something for me.
You created me for a purpose. What is that purpose? Instead of just saying, wow. I’m so glad I got my ticket to heaven now, And then just go on about what you used to do. Makes no sense.
You’re a new creation. Why would you live like the old self serving person? The new Christ serving person is present. The old self serving person is gone. The new Christ serving person is the one that’s present.
Pardon me. That’s the one that you need to concentrate on. That’s the one that wants to serve God every day. That’s the one that says, I haven’t done enough for the Lord. I I I’ve not put God first.
That’s the one that seeks him every single day. And how do you want me to move this day? If you buy a new car, right, go get a brand new car, you don’t take that brand new car, pull it into the garage, take off the brand new tires, and put the old worn out tires on it, do you? That would just be crazy. Why would you do that?
Well, if you’re a brand new creation, why would you go back and grab the attributes for the old creation and try to pull them in and put them on the new model? It’s a new model. It’s brand new. There’s nothing old about it. It’s not worn out.
It’s exactly as God wants it to be. Why would you go back and pull those old attributes and try to hang on to them? Because you’re a new creation. Stop. Stop doing that.
As a believer in Christ, someone who has been made fresh and new you know when we have baptism like we will next week, we say buried with him in baptism, risen to walk in a new life. A new life in Christ. The old is gone and passed away. The new has risen in a new life. Grasp hold of that new life.
Leave the old behind. Well, I didn’t do that, and so, yeah, I’m still struggling with some of this old stuff. Well, guess what? It’s never too late to kick it to the curb. It’s never too late to get rid of that.
All you gotta do is bring it to the Lord and say, god, I’m still holding on to this. I wanna turn it over to you. Please take it away. And he’s faithful to do just that. He’s faithful to do just that.
So if we are made new and fresh in Christ and we are a new creation, then when we are a new creation, we need to live that way. Verse 18 says, we have been given the ministry of reconciliation. We’ve been given the ministry of reconciliation. So we had a pop quiz with the children earlier and said, hey, what is ambassador? They didn’t quite know.
They hadn’t learned that. I hope that you’ve learned what reconciliation is. Reconciliation is taking something that’s broken and repairing it. We’ve been given the ministry of reconciliation. A reconciliation with our life to Christ.
God looked upon a sinful self and he said, I can’t have a relationship with you because you’re full of sin. But through him, he gave the ministry of reconciliation. He reconciled us to himself through Christ and his blood. And now if we’ve accepted him when God looks at us, what he sees is the new person, and he says, okay. Now you were broken, but now you’re fixed.
Now through Christ, you have come to a place where we can be one. And I’m giving you that ministry of reconciliation. Well, what does that mean? Well, that means that there are people around you, all around you in life that are lost. There are people that need to know about Jesus Christ.
There are people that maybe you’ve had personal issues with. Maybe they’ve had issues with you. Maybe you’ve had a problem with them, and so, therefore, you’ve never had any kind of relationship. The Ministry of Reconciliation says, God forgave you. You forgive them.
You show them how they can be reconciled to Christ through him. We go out and we share that. Instead of putting up walls and tearing down, we should be reconciling together with people. We should be bringing people in. You know, the average Christian, when they get saved, here’s what happens.
They get saved and they say, I am so glad. I am saved. I’m now a brand new creation in Christ. And they’re up here. And then they look down at those people they used to hang out with or people that act like they used to, and they say, those poor old sad sinners.
I’m glad I’m not one of them. Now they take themselves and put them up here and everybody else that they’re down here. So they stand up on the pedestal, they look down and they say, I’m glad I’m not one of them. The Ministry of Reconciliation says, help them become saved. Change their life.
You now reconcile together with them and show them how they can be reconciled to God. We’re not better than them. Five minutes ago, we were in the same shape. We were doing the same things. We were sinning and walking away from God, yet we were reconciled to him through Christ.
Now our ministry is to help others be reconciled. Our ministry is to help others be reconciled. God created man, mankind to serve him. Always. Not just sometimes.
Always. And when God created mankind to serve him, that means we’re to serve him every day. That means that we do tough things sometimes. You know, that person treated me really bad. Yeah.
How bad did you treat God before you got saved? God forgave you. You need to forgive them. But you just don’t know what they did. It doesn’t matter.
As long as you hold it against them, you know who you’re hurting yourself because you’re harboring something that shouldn’t be there. If you’re gonna serve God, you have to reconcile. And then when you reconcile with that person and show them the love of God, they can be reconciled to God because they saw what you did. They see that love that you showed them, which is the same love God showed you. Verse 18 says, we have been given the ministry of reconciliation.
We were reconciled to Christ. Our past was cast away, and we have been forgiven. We’ve been forgiven. Forgiveness we didn’t earn, but we’re still reconciled to Christ. Forgiveness we didn’t earn.
Well, they gotta show me they wanna give forgiven. They gotta show me their change. They’re not gonna change if they don’t know Jesus. You wouldn’t change until you knew Jesus. We didn’t earn that reconciliation with Christ.
Christ gave it to us. God gave us reconciliation through the blood of his son, Jesus Christ. We did not earn one little bit of it. The truth be told, every single person that has ever lived or ever will live deserves to spend an eternity in a devil’s hell. That’s what we deserve because we’ve all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
But because God so loved the world, he gave his only son that we might have life and have it abundantly. He gave his only son that we would be able to be reconciled through him because he paid the price. Because he paid the price. It’s through forgiveness that we didn’t earn that we are reconciled. We can have a relationship with him because of Christ.
Our mission is to show other people they too can have that same relationship, that they can have the same relationship. One of the things I’ve discovered in this world is when you start getting to know people, most people are dealing with a lot of heavy stuff. They’re dealing with heavy stuff. Many of them are dealing with grief that they just can’t seem to get past. They can’t get past something that happened.
It might not be grief of a lost loved one. It could be grief of a lost job. It could be grief of a lost, the way they used to be. It could be a grief of a lot of things. But a lot of people are dealing with grief and they’re having a hard time.
There are a lot of people who have been hurt, and because of being hurt, they just don’t trust anybody else. They don’t wanna talk to anybody else. They don’t wanna con or con, confide in somebody else. They don’t wanna do those things because they’ve been hurt. There are people that feel like they’ve been done wrong by family, by friends, by employers, by whomever.
And if you start talking to people, you’ll find out that most people that you talk to are dealing with really heavy stuff. The thing is, if they’re trying to deal with it all on their own, what hope do they have? But when they talk with you and you say, you know, I was dealing with a lot of stuff, but I realized that God gave his son Jesus to take care of all those problems if I would just give my life to him and be reconciled to God. And now I’ve done that, and all that heavy weight is lifted off. Now I still have problems, but I give them to God.
I still struggle with things, but I give it to God. I’m not dragging all that weight around anymore. How many people suddenly realize, wow. What a difference. I gave their self to the Lord and that weight is lifted off, but before that, it was awful.
Our mission is to show people that they can have that same reconciliation that you have, that God will lift their burdens, that he will take care of them, that he will give them the forgiveness that they so desperately need. He will share with them the love that they may have never felt, and that because of that, they too can be a child of the king. That’s our mission. We hold things against people when God doesn’t hold it against us. Does that make sense?
Does that make any sense? We hold things against people when God doesn’t even hold it against us. We say, well, they don’t deserve it. Neither did I. But I’m glad somebody shared it with me anyway.
Well, you know, they they’re not good people. God Bible says there’s not one good. There’s no such thing as a good person. Well, they just they’re they’re they’re they’re mean or they’re they’re this or that. Okay.
Why? Why are they that way? Did you ever stop to try to figure out why? Or you just stopped at that point? What if God stopped there?
We try to hold things against people that God doesn’t even hold against us. We have to live in reconciliation. We have to live it out. We have to show people that you can’t just tell people about it. Let me tell you, you can be reconciled to God.
Okay. What does that mean? You know, sounds good. No. Live it out.
Show people that reconciliation. Not only did God bring you to himself, but you wanna bring them in too. You wanna live that way. Well, how can you possibly forgive me for that? Because God forgave me.
That’s how. That’s reconciliation. You have to live it. You have to show people. They have to know.
They have to see it in you. You know, you can you can talk a good game, but if you’re not living it, people know. They realize that you are not living what you say. You know, you’re two faced. Right?
You say one thing and you do something else. Oh, those Christians, they go to church on Sunday morning and they sing about God and they do all that. But I’ve seen them same people in the bar on Friday night hanging out with some woman that’s not their wife. I’ve seen them over there, you know, so drunk they couldn’t hardly get to their car. I I’ve seen them be so mean to somebody that you just couldn’t even stand it, and then they wanna talk about how they know Jesus as Lord and savior.
We gotta live it. We can’t just say it. It’s gotta be lived. We’ve gotta live it out in everything that we do. In the way that we speak to people, the way that we treat people, the things that we do, we have to live it out.
It doesn’t matter what someone has done. We still have to be able to forgive as Christ forgave us. Yeah. I know. People do some really nasty things to one another, but we have to be able to forgive just like Christ forgives us.
It’s the only way that we can show them what reconciliation looks like. We can talk about it all day long, but until we show them, they’re never gonna see it. I don’t know about you guys, but sometimes my wife will start to explain something to me, and she’ll tell me about something. And she’s trying to tell me, and she’s trying to draw this visual picture for me, and I don’t know what she’s trying to say. She sees it perfectly in her mind, but I don’t see it until she pulls out whatever it is and says, see.
This is what I’m talking about. Oh, now I get it. It’s kinda the same way. When we’re trying to tell people about reconciliation, but they can’t see it with their own eyes, they don’t understand it. They don’t understand how they can be forgiven if they don’t see it.
They don’t understand how God can forgive them until they see how God forgave you. They don’t see that. We hold all these things against people, and instead, we should be forgiving people just like God forgave us. It’s the only way they’re gonna see that God forgives is when we mirror what God has done for us. Look at verse 19.
Verse 19 says this, namely that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed to us the word of reconciliation. God forgives, so we must forgive others. God forgives, so we must forgive and show others they can be forgiven. That’s what it’s talking about there. We have to do that.
We can’t just leave it or say it or just use words. Verse 20 says this, therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ. As though God were making an appeal through us, we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. We’re ambassadors. How can they see God if we don’t show them?
Therefore I love when it’s when a phrase starts with that word. Therefore. Everybody knows when you say therefore, you’re supposed to ask the question, what’s it there for? What’s it there for? Why is that word there for?
What is it there for? Everything we’ve talked about up to this point leads to that verse. Because of verses 17 through 19, we have to understand that verse 20 is imperative. And all the things that God has talked about in 17 through 19, therefore, because of all those things, we are ambassadors for Christ. We’re called to be the one that shows the world who he is.
Just as much as an ambassador for The United States goes to a foreign country and represents The United States, we as believers in Jesus Christ, those who know him as Lord and savior, represent him to others that have never met him. We represent him. Now here’s the tricky part. You represent him even when you’re not living right. Woah.
Woah. Woah. Wait a minute now. Wait a minute. I I I I’m I’m not trying to represent him if I’m not doing the right thing.
Yes. But your his name is on you. You’re represented just as surely as if we wore a uniform. We put on a uniform like the military every morning that said soldier of God, And we went out and did things that weren’t representative of God. We’re still representing God.
We’re wearing his uniform. And people see that. If they know that you are a believer in Christ and you are walking in a way that’s not pleasing to God, you’re representing God in a negative light to people that don’t know. You are an ambassador for Christ if you know him as Lord and savior. Are you taking those duties responsibly?
Are you literally understanding that when you’re doing things, other people are looking at you because you are an ambassador for Christ? I don’t think that the bulk of God’s people in this world today do take that seriously. And I say that because if they did, why would the world be in the mess that it’s in right now? Why would we have church buildings all across The United States that are empty or almost empty? Why would we have people that don’t ever consider spending time with God if God’s people were truly being genuine ambassadors for him and everyone could see God in them.
I absolutely believe if we really truly were ambassadors and put things first, that if we did that, that people would change, that we would start seeing a a revival across the land of people giving themselves to God. We are ambassadors for Christ. We represent a loving reconciling savior to a lost world. That’s the only way they’re gonna see him is through us. Understand this, that someone who’s lost on their own accord do not seek out God.
What do you mean? They’re lost. Why aren’t they seeking God? They don’t believe there is one. They don’t have any desire to follow that.
On their own, they would never seek God. When the Holy Spirit begins to put it on their heart, they start looking around. When they look around, what do they need to see? The ambassadors for Christ. They need to see the ones in their life and around them that can point them in the right direction.
They need to see that. We need to be living that life in that way. We need to be mentoring younger Christians to help them also be ambassadors. And then all of us need to be ambassadors to a lost world. We need to be ambassadors for Christ.
Every single one of us. It’s the only way that others that don’t know Jesus would see it. It’s the only way they’re going to see him is through us. We speak to people. Now hold on.
We speak to people with authority. The authority of God. What do you mean? If you’re a child of God, when you speak to people, you have the authority that God has bestowed upon you to be his ambassador. You understand that an ambassador for United States can enter into a treaty with another country.
He has the authority to do that that The United States has given them. They have the authority to make that decision. We, as ambassadors for Christ, we speak with authority based on the knowledge we have of Christ, the relationship we have with Christ, and knowing God’s word as we share that with people, we speak with that authority. We don’t need to be timid. We don’t need to be concerned that we might not say the right thing.
We have been given the authority of God to speak on his behalf to show other people how they too can come to know him. That’s that’s powerful when you think about that you have been given the authority of God to speak to other people. You’ve been given that. Others can see Jesus through us if we truly represent the one whom we call father. Others will see Jesus if we truly live our lives representing him.
Representing him. Verse 21 says this, he made him, being Christ, who knew no sin, to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Wow. Think about that. The reason that we must serve is that God made Jesus the only true and perfect person that never sinned, he made him to be sin.
My sin. Your sin. Every other person’s sin. God put every bit of it on Jesus Christ. That he would pay the price, the penalty for all of our sin.
This is the reason we must serve him as an ambassador because he took all of our sin and put it on Christ. He gave every bit of it to him. He turned away from his son, Jesus, as he became sin and punished him for your sin. God’s perfect son that never sinned. And yet my sin and your sin was heaped upon him to such a degree that the scripture says God couldn’t even look at him.
That he turned away because he can’t look on that sin. His only son, he couldn’t even look at him. He punished him with death because of your sin and mine. He gave his son for that very purpose. Scripture says we’ve all sinned, and there is no way we can actually get rid of that sin on our own.
We can’t buy it. We can’t earn forgiveness. We can’t throw it out. The only thing we can do is accept that gift that Jesus Christ gave us. The payment that he gave for that sin.
That’s the only thing that we can do. He put all of that sin on Jesus and punished him for our sin so that we might become his righteousness. Meaning, we would reflect him. We would become children of God, and we could reflect God in all that we do. That we could become his children.
This is an incredible thought that even though I don’t deserve it, God gave it to me. Not only did he give it to me, but he used his son to pay the price in order that I might be saved. Read a story once of a man was out fishing with his son and a friend of his son. There was an accident, and the two boys couldn’t swim. They fell in the water.
And they’re both fighting drastically to to get out of the water. The man had one life preserver. That was all that was in the boat. He couldn’t swim. He couldn’t get in the water and pull him out, so he had to make a choice.
Who was he gonna try to save? He looked at his son with tears in his eyes and told him he loved him and he threw the life preserver to the other boy. His son drowned, the other boy was saved. They asked him, how could you possibly do that? He said, well you see, as much as I love my son, I know that my son knows Jesus.
And that when he his life ended on this earth, he was going to walk in glory with God, but his friend did not know Jesus. And if he were to drown and die right there on that day, he would spend an eternity in hell. So I sacrificed my son to save this boy that he might have a chance at reconciliation with God. As far as I know that’s not a true story, but it is an example of how God sacrificed his son that we might have a chance at salvation. There’s no promise that that boy was gonna ever receive Christ, but he now has a chance.
There’s no promise that you would ever receive Christ. He paid the price that you might have the opportunity for salvation, but you and only you can receive it. Nobody else can receive it for you. If Jesus paid the price, he made us a new creation if we accept him. Brand new.
The old has passed away. We’re brand new if we gave our life to him. We must take our position as ambassador seriously. It it’s not just a title that we wear. We don’t just walk around saying Christian, but doing nothing.
It’s not a title that entitles us to be lifted up higher than other people. It’s a label that is put on us as a reflection of the righteousness of God, and we’re to live our lives in his righteousness, for his righteousness, that others might see that and be saved. We have a job to do. He created us for a purpose. He wants us to be his ambassadors, to reach other people, instead of walking around as if we are better than everybody else.
As a new appointee in the cabinet of God, we must serve him every day. Just like as a new administration comes in, they appoint new leaders in the cabinet. Those leaders are there to serve the one that appointed them by doing things that are supposed to be right for the country. God created a position for you. He appointed you as an ambassador for him.
He appointed you to be an ambassador for him if you have called him lord and savior. So the question is, have you become a new creation? Have you ever become a new creation? Have you ever given your life to Christ? And if you have, are you an ambassador for him?
Are you ready to serve him every day? Are you absolutely want people to see Jesus in you? Here’s the thing. So many people say this, do what I say, not what I do. As a child, did that work for you?
When your parents said, do what I tell you, not what I do. No. If it’s good enough for you, it’s okay for me. It doesn’t work for lost people either. When you say do what I say, not what I do, I fail, but but do this instead.
No. They’re looking at you. They want you to be that ambassador. They wanna see in you, how do I do it? How do I do that?
If God saved you, he created you as a new creation. Your job is to serve him and serve him by being an ambassador for him that others would see Jesus in you. Each and every day, we have opportunities to be a good ambassador for Christ or a bad ambassador for Christ. Christ. Every day we have those opportunities.
What do you mean every day? I mean, I I’ve been listen. If you go out of your home and come in touch with other people, you have an opportunity. It might be a good, it might be bad. How are you gonna react?
And even if you don’t, if you live in a home with someone else, you have an opportunity every day to be an ambassador for Christ. How do you handle things? What do you do? The key is the only way we can truly be a good ambassador for Christ is if we flip the script. Instead of putting self first, if we put God first.
And that has to be something we do every single day. It’s not a one time deal. It’s not a one time deal. Why? Because we’re flesh, and we tend to serve self.
But every day, if we make a conscious effort to put God first, then every day we can be a good ambassador for Christ. Today, if you’ve never given your life to Christ, you don’t know him, you’ve never become a new creation, I’d love to invite you to come today and talk to me about it. Perhaps you have given your life to him, but you’re thinking about it now and you’re thinking, you know, I I’m I’m not been the best person for others to see Jesus in me. Well, it’s not too late to make that change today. You can make that change today and continue to make it every day.
Maybe you say, I think I do pretty good at that, and and I I would like to help others. I want to mentor other people. Listen, that’s a fabulous thing. And so if that’s the case, then seek out who God would put you to mentor. Today, please, if you know Jesus Christ, accept your responsibility as an ambassador and live every day for him.
Let’s pray.
