![The Iniquity of the Sanctuary - We Need to Take Heed to How we Build [Picture: Sunset in Montana, USA]](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/iniquity-of-the-sanctuary.jpg?fit=300%2C229&ssl=1)
This week in our morning revival we come to a sobering word, something that we see in picture in Numbers 16-18 and then in teaching and practice in 2 Cor. 3. It is, The Iniquity of the Sanctuary, a particular sin committed by the ones serving God and working for God, something that is against […]
Being Enlarged in Our Heart to Have the Intimate Concern of the Ministering Life
All believers in Christ need to be the ministers of the new covenant – it is our privilege, our right, and our responsibility to not only enjoy the Lord but also minister Him as life to others for the building up of the church. We need to come up to God’s standard and become ministers […]
Having Our Heart Enlarged to Work Together with God by an All-Fitting Life
In 2 Corinthians we see the ministers of the new covenant, their ministry, and how it is produced. We see that all believers in Christ are the ambassadors of God with the ministry of reconciliation, helping others to be reconciled to God further (see 2 Cor. 5). In chapter 6 we see that we are […]
Being Reconciled to God and Working with God to Reconcile Others to God
![Being Reconciled to God and Working with God to Reconcile Others to God [in the picture: nice sunrise!]](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/sunrise-be-reconciled-to-god-further.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1)
All the believers in Christ who are saved and regenerated by Him are qualified to be ambassadors of Christ, those who have the ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18-20). First of all we need to be reconciled to God, and reconciliation is a process that is taking place our whole life. We were initially reconciled […]
Knowing Others Not According to the Flesh but According to the Spirit
The ambassadors of Christ are those who don’t live by their human life but by the divine immortal life in their spirit, and they have the ambition to please God by living to Him and no longer to themselves. Another qualification of an ambassador of Christ is that he no longer knows people according to […]
As Ambassadors of Christ We Desire to Be Well Pleasing to God by Living to Him
![In all the aspects of our daily life, we need to seek to please the Lord - who loves us and constrains us with His love - by living to Him. [Picture: 2 Cor. 5:9]](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2cor5-9-NASB-ambition-be-pleasing-to-god.jpg?fit=300%2C231&ssl=1)
In 2 Cor. 5:9 we see that Paul had an ambition, a strong determination, to gain the honor of being well-pleasing to God. As ambassadors of Christ, we need to seek to be well-pleasing to God by living to Him. On the one hand, we shouldn’t be ambitious persons, especially ambitious for position or glory. […]
Being the Ambassadors of Christ Who Live by the Immortal Life in our Spirit
![Being the Ambassadors of Christ Who Live by the Immortal Life in our Spirit [Picture: 2 Cor. 5:20, we are ambassadors of Christ - be reconciled to God!]](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2cor5-20-we-are-christs-ambassadors.jpg?fit=300%2C125&ssl=1)
In 2 Corinthians we see a particular aspect of the ones who work for God – they are ambassadors of Christ with the ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:20). To be an ambassador is not a small thing – it is the greatest honor to be the ambassador of the King of Kings, to represent […]