THE BIBLE PRAYER LINE – Bible Questions Answered
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Bible Questions Answered:
“...we are suppose to be witness of the Lord...?”
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Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Yes, we are His ambassadors!
Ambassador:
A diplomatic official of the highest rank, sent by one sovereign or state to another as its resident representative.
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II Corinthians 5:11-21 NLT (We Are God’s Ambassadors)
11 Because we understand our fearful responsibility to The Lord, we work hard to persuade others. God knows we are sincere, and I hope you know this, too.
12 Are we commending ourselves to you again? No, we are giving you a reason to be proud of us, so you can answer those who brag about having a spectacular ministry rather than having a sincere heart.
13 If it seems we are crazy, it is to bring glory to God. And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit.
14 Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.
15 He died for everyone so that those who receive His new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
16 So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know Him now!
17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
18 And all of this is A Gift From God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him.
19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And He gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making His appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
The Apostle Paul, said that he was an ambassador for Christ.
Ephesians 6:19,20 KJV
19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of The Gospel,
20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
The Lord commissions His followers:
Mark 16:15 NLT
15 And then He told them, “Go into all the world and preach The Good News to everyone.
16 Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned.
Acts 1:8 KJV
But ye shall receive power, after that T.he Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Someone special has called us as ambassadors.
I Timothy 6:15 NLT
For, At just the right time Christ will be revealed from heaven by the blessed and only Almighty God, The King of all kings and Lord of all lords.
Revelation 19:16 KJV
And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, King Of kings, And Lord Of lords.
What kind of ambassador are we for The Lord? There is no such thing as a “closet Christian!”
Baptism, was our first confession, but never was it that taught by our Lord, to be our last! We should be ready always to witness of our King of kings and Lord of lords.
I Peter 3:15 KJV
But sanctify The Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Prayer:
Isaiah 58:6,7 NLT
6 “No, this is the kind of fasting I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains that bind people.
7 Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help.
