Thank you, Dave and Gloria and all of you for welcoming us to your city.

I hope you have a Bible, either in print or on your phone, and I invite you to open it to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5, or it's printed in the bulletin on page 8 if you want to follow along.

That would be nifty because you could actually mark it up.

And there are a few of these phrases I will want you to mark up for the sake of your memory as we focus on them.

2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 20. And I'm going to read through chapter 6 verse 13 the title of the message that I gave them weeks ago was what the world needs from Redeemer Church of Dubai. And by world, I mean all unbelievers, the ones in this room

and the ones in this city and the ones who will watch this church in the years to come from other

places. 2 Corinthians 520.

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ,

God making his appeal through us.

We implore you.

On behalf of Christ,

be reconciled to God.

For our sake he made Him to be sin who knew no sin.

So that's God made Christ to be sin who knew no sin so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Working together with Him then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

For he says, in a favorable time, I listen to you,

and in a day of salvation, I have helped you.

Behold, now is the favorable time.

Behold, now is the day of salvation.

I think that's as true at this moment as it was 2,000 years ago.

Listen to it that way.

Verse 3.

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