Day 38 10/01/2016: What's on earth am I here for?

WE ARE AMBASSADORS

Rick Warren

“We are Christ's ambassadors” 2 Cor. 5:20 (NLT)

Ambassadors - Representative sent out on a mission in order to build relationship.

 

MY ROLE AS AN AMBASSADOR

1.  REPRESENTATIVE OF JESUS

Different career and calling. 
Calling have to do with your voice.

      “Be sure that you live in a way that brings honor to the Good News of Christ.”

      Phil. 1:27 (NCV)

Remember who you represent...

      “Live a life worthy of the calling you have received.”   Eph. 4:1 (NIV)

2. I HAVE BEEN GIVEN A MISSION

Call as a permanent mission. Be his Ambassadors.
Important mission - get people to know God.


   “I don't care about my own life. The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me—to tell people the Good News about God's grace.”

      Acts 20:24 (NCV)

3. I HAVE BEEN GIVEN AUTHORITY TO SPEAK. 

      Jesus said, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore go to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always…”  Matt. 28:18-20 (TEV)

Every christian (believer) is a authorize minister.

4. I SERVE IN A FOREIGN CULTURE.

  
Don't too comfortable in this world, it just a temporary.
   “If you call God your Father, live your time as temporary residents on earth…”

      1 Peter 1:17 (GW)

      “… all that other people think about is life here on earth. But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives.”  Phil. 3:19-20 (NLT) 

MY RESPONSIBILITIES

1.   I MUST BE AN EXAMPLE.

Help people to know what God is like by being an example of this characteristics. Love, Joy, Peace, Patience...
      “People who do not believe are living all around you and might say you are doing wrong.  So live such good lives that they will see the good things you do and will give glory to God…” 1 Peter 2:12 (NCV) 
Live such good life and the unbeliever will see good thing in you do and give glory to God. 
Every ambassador never off duty.
 

2.   I MUST SHARE THE MESSAGE.

     “Anyone who is joined to Christ becomes a new person; the old is gone… All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also. Our message is that God was making all human beings his friends through Christ. God did not keep an account of their sins, and he has given us the message which tells how he makes them his friends.”  2 Cor. 5:17-19 (TEV)

1. Jesus offer everyone a new life.
2. Jesus in a war with God until you make peace with him. - Because everyone wanna be God and run my life. 
3. Jesus bring salvation
 

      “God was in Christ, making peace between the world and himself. In Christ, God did not hold the world guilty of its sins. And he gave us this message of peace. So we have been sent to speak for Christ. It is as if God is calling to you through us. We speak for Christ when we beg you to be at peace with God. Christ had no sin, but God made him become sin so that in Christ we could become right with God. We are workers together with God.”

       2 Cor. 5:19-6:1 (NCV)

3.   I MUST SHOW LOVE TO EVERYBODY.

GOD IS LOVE.

• Using my life to meet others need. 

Practical help. 

      “We loved you so much that we gave you not only God's Good News but our own lives, too.”      1 Thess. 2:8 (NLT)

• By giving respect to everyone.

God valued every people. 
 
      “Be ready at all times to answer anyone who asks you to explain the hope you have in you, but do it with gentleness and respect.”     1 Peter 3:15-16 (TEV)

Be ready at all time to answer anyone who ask you to explain the hope you have in you, but do it with gentleness and respect.
Forbidden to fight back as we are the ambassador of Christ 

• I must show love by building bridges.

      “Whatever a person is like, I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ and let Christ save him. I do this to get the Good News to them and also for the blessing I myself receive when I see them come to Christ.”  1 Cor. 9:22b-23 (LB) 
 

MY REWARD

      “Whatever you do, always work at it with all your heart, as though you were working for the Lord and not for people. Remember that the Lord will give you as a reward the inheritance he has kept for his people. For Christ is the real Master you serve!”  Col. 3:23-24 (TEV)