CHRIST'S AMBASSADORS - We Are Ambassadors for Christ ( 2 Corinthians 5:17-21) - (with Hymn, Commentary & Sermons)

I. RECONCILIATION

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1. RECONCILE; RECONCILIATION

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2. AMBASSADOR

am-bas'-a-dor (mal'akh, "messenger"; 'luts, "interpreter"; tsir, "to go"; hence a messenger; presbeuo, "to act as an ambassador," literally, to be older): An ambassador is an official representative of a king or government, as of Pharaoh (Isaiah 30:4); of the princes of Babylon (2 Chronicles 32:31); of Neco, king of Egypt (2 Chronicles 35:21); of the messengers of peace sent by Hezekiah, king of Judah, to Sennacherib, king of Assyria (Isaiah 33:7). The same Hebrew term is used of the messengers sent by Jacob to Esau (Genesis 32:3); by Moses to the king of Edom (Numbers 20:14). For abundant illustration consult "Messenger" (mal'akh) in any concordance. See CONCORDANCE . The inhabitants of Gibeon made themselves pretended ambassadors to Joshua in order to secure by deceit the protection of a treaty ("covenant") (Joshua 9:4).

In the New Testament the term is used in a figurative sense. As the imprisoned representative of Christ at Rome Paul calls himself "an ambassador in chains" (Ephesians 6:20); and in 2 Corinthians 5:20 includes, with himself, all ministers of the gospel, as "ambassadors .... on behalf of Christ," commissioned by Him as their sovereign Lord, with the ministry of reconciling the world to God. The Bible contains no finer characterization of the exalted and spiritual nature of the minister's vocation as the representative of Jesus Christ, the King of kings, and Saviour of the world.

Dwight M. Pratt

II. BE RECONCILED

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2.1 The Ministry of Reconciliation

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CHRIST'S AMBASSADORS

"Make Me a Channel of Blessing"

1. English 

 

1) http://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn.php/h/928

2) http://www.hymnpod.com/2011/06/26/make-me-a-channel-of-blessing/

  

1. Is your life a channel of blessing?

Is the love of God flowing through you?

Are you telling the lost of the Savior?

Are you ready His service to do?

Refrain

Make me a channel of blessing today,

Make me a channel of blessing, I pray;

My life possessing, my service blessing,

Make me a channel of blessing today.

2. Is your life a channel of blessing?

Are you burdened for those that are lost?

Have you urged upon those who are straying,

The Savior who died on the cross?

3. Is your life a channel of blessing?

Is it a daily telling for Him?

Have you spoken the word of salvation

To those who are dying in sin?

4. We cannot be channels of blessing

If our lives are not free from known sin;

We will barriers be and a hindrance

To those we are trying to win.

 

2. Português

 1. Quero ser um vaso de bênção,

sim, um vaso escolhido por Deus,

para as novas levar aos perdidos,

boas novas que vêm lá dos céus.

Refrão

Tudo consagro-te agora, Senhor;

vou proclamar a mensagem de amor.

Meu compromisso no teu serviço

é ser um vaso de bênção, Senhor.

2. Quero ser um vaso de bênção.

Cada dia desejo fazer

todo aquele que vive culpado

o perdão por Jesus conhecer.

3. Para ser um vaso de bênção,

é preciso ser sempre leal,

é preciso ter fé e pureza,

que nos vêm do poder divinal.

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