2 Corinthians 5:20
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.
What is an Ambassador, I can tell you they are not self-appointed. Ambassadors are appointed by their government to serve a President, Prime Minister, King, and so on. Their government sends them to represent their government to foreign governments.
Ambassadors have no opinion, they speak only for their government. They don't give their ideas on how their government may handle circumstances and situations with other governments.
They know exactly what their government wants, and that is all they speak, nothing more or nothing less.
When you get self-appointed Ambassadors they do not know what their government wants and therefore have to speak and interject their opinion.
In our present Christian world, I think there are too many self-appointed ambassadors who represent a volume of information that they have learned about the King, rather than a relationship with the King.
They have become disconnected from their King and His kingdom.
More often, they represent their own thinking and interpretation of what He is doing rather than who, in truth and reality, He is and what His plan is. In their minds, they have distilled down His plan and purpose to meet their needs and agendas. They are trying to use Him to enhance their kingdom.
The ambassadors who are useable to our Father in Heaven have been broken of their self life. They see themselves (the independent self-life) as dead with Jesus on the cross. They know that they really have no life or faith of their own, and are left here to represent the King by the life of the Son (Jesus Christ) in them and working through them.
They rule over their flesh by Christ in them, as He ruled over His flesh when He walked on the earth. They see the world and its system for what it is, temporary, dying and illusive with all its glitz and appeal toward sin which ends in death.
These ambassadors have peace in the midst of turmoil, they see light shining through the darkness, and have hope while all around them is despair. While living on the earth, they see past the present world system with all of its problems and delusions, to the spiritual realm. That is the realm which they represent and to which they are going. The realm or kingdom that they represent is so far removed from the one they are living in, that what is going on in this present world system has no permanent effect on them other than in the physical realm (that is, how it affects their temporary life on earth).
It has no permanent affect on their spiritual life. They have become (as was the Apostle Paul) transcendent people, i.e. people who—by Christ in them as their only real life—prevail over their earthly limitations. These are people whose lives always bear the dying of Jesus (denying their independent self-life) so that Life (Christ) may be imparted by Him (Christ) in them to others.
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.
What is an Ambassador, I can tell you they are not self-appointed. Ambassadors are appointed by their government to serve a President, Prime Minister, King, and so on. Their government sends them to represent their government to foreign governments.
Ambassadors have no opinion, they speak only for their government. They don't give their ideas on how their government may handle circumstances and situations with other governments.
They know exactly what their government wants, and that is all they speak, nothing more or nothing less.
When you get self-appointed Ambassadors they do not know what their government wants and therefore have to speak and interject their opinion.
In our present Christian world, I think there are too many self-appointed ambassadors who represent a volume of information that they have learned about the King, rather than a relationship with the King.
They have become disconnected from their King and His kingdom.
More often, they represent their own thinking and interpretation of what He is doing rather than who, in truth and reality, He is and what His plan is. In their minds, they have distilled down His plan and purpose to meet their needs and agendas. They are trying to use Him to enhance their kingdom.
The ambassadors who are useable to our Father in Heaven have been broken of their self life. They see themselves (the independent self-life) as dead with Jesus on the cross. They know that they really have no life or faith of their own, and are left here to represent the King by the life of the Son (Jesus Christ) in them and working through them.
They rule over their flesh by Christ in them, as He ruled over His flesh when He walked on the earth. They see the world and its system for what it is, temporary, dying and illusive with all its glitz and appeal toward sin which ends in death.
These ambassadors have peace in the midst of turmoil, they see light shining through the darkness, and have hope while all around them is despair. While living on the earth, they see past the present world system with all of its problems and delusions, to the spiritual realm. That is the realm which they represent and to which they are going. The realm or kingdom that they represent is so far removed from the one they are living in, that what is going on in this present world system has no permanent effect on them other than in the physical realm (that is, how it affects their temporary life on earth).
It has no permanent affect on their spiritual life. They have become (as was the Apostle Paul) transcendent people, i.e. people who—by Christ in them as their only real life—prevail over their earthly limitations. These are people whose lives always bear the dying of Jesus (denying their independent self-life) so that Life (Christ) may be imparted by Him (Christ) in them to others.
