#790 – Ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Christian, you represent Jesus and have the privilege of calling others to trust in Jesus and become citizens of a heavenly kingdom.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net. |
| 0:04.0 | 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 20 |
| 0:10.0 | therefore we are ambassadors for Christ. |
| 0:13.8 | God making his appeal through us. |
| 0:17.3 | We implore you on behalf of Christ, |
| 0:20.4 | be reconciled to God. |
| 0:23.0 | What an amazing word picture, to describe us as followers of Jesus. |
| 0:31.0 | We are ambassadors for Christ. Think about an ambassador. I was invited |
| 0:36.8 | recently along with others from our church to an embassy by the ambassador of that country. |
| 0:44.7 | So here's a representative of that country who lives in this country, in the United States, |
| 0:51.8 | yet he is from another country and he is a representative |
| 0:56.0 | from that country here. |
| 0:58.3 | In fact, when you go into an embassy, say for example, a U.S. embassy around the world I can go in any US |
| 1:06.0 | embassy and when I walk in that embassy I am on American soil like that land belongs to the United States. That's what an embassy is and the |
| 1:16.3 | ambassador is the one who represents that country there. So now we have this picture |
| 1:21.8 | in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 of us being ambassadors for Christ. |
| 1:28.0 | Meaning, we are representatives of Jesus himself. |
| 1:35.0 | Jesus who is at the right hand of God in heaven |
| 1:38.6 | has sent you and me to represent him wherever we are in this world. |
| 1:46.6 | Like that'll change your perspective |
| 1:48.5 | on where you are like right now. |
| 1:50.4 | Do you realize you, right where you're're serving you are a citizen of a heavenly kingdom and you are a representative of a heavenly king? |
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