We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.

2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 20.

Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.

Representing Jesus was written and read by Sochal Dixon.

2 Corinthians chapter 5 verses 9 to 10 and 14 to 20

So we make it our goal to please Him whether we are at home in the body or away from it

for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ

so that each of us may receive what is due us

for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

Now picking up at verse 14.

For Christ's love compels us.

Because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.

And he died for all.

That those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised again so from now on

we regard no one from a worldly point of view though we once regarded christ in this way we do so no longer

therefore if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come.

The old has gone. The new is here. All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people'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.

We implore you on Christ's behalf.

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