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From:
Continual Burnt Offering
By:
Henry Allan Ironside
2 Corinthians 5:20
“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God”—
2 Corinthians 5:20
20
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:20)
.
“AMBASSADORS for Christ.” This is the title Paul gives to those who seek to carry out our Lord’s instruction as to evangelizing the nations. While our Saviour Himself is personally in Heaven, seated on the right hand of the divine Majesty (
Heb. 1:3
3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (Hebrews 1:3)
), we are called to represent Him in this world, going to rebels against the authority of the God of Heaven and earth, and pleading with them to be reconciled to Him who sent His Son in grace that all men might through Him have life and peace. We are unfaithful representatives indeed if we fail to respond to the command laid upon us, and allow our fellowmen to perish in their sins unwarned and knowing not the way of life.
This is the first great business of every member of the Church of the living God. All are called to be witnesses, according to their measure. It is ours to “go” (vs. 19), to “pray” (
Matt. 9:38
38
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. (Matthew 9:38)
), and to help send forth (
Acts 13:3
3
And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. (Acts 13:3)
) and sustain those who are able to leave home and friends as they hasten forth into distant lands to carry the gospel to the regions beyond (
3 John 6-8
6
Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
7
Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.
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We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth. (3 John 6‑8)
).
“From the glory and the gladness,
From His secret place;
From the rapture of His Presence
From the radiance of His face—
Christ the Son of God hath sent me
Through the midnight lands;
Mine, the mighty ordination
Of the pierced Hands.”
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