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"Ambassadors of the Gospel" – 2 Corinthians 5:10-21 – Jonny Ardavanis

Four aspects of what it means to be Christ's ambassadors — entrusted with the ministry of reconciliation and pleading with the world on His behalf.

"Ambassadors of the Gospel" – 2 Corinthians 5:10-21 – Jonny Ardavanis

This message walks through 2 Corinthians 5:10–21 and the four aspects of gospel ambassadors. Paul writes of the judgment seat of Christ, the fear of the Lord, and the love of Christ that controls those who have concluded that one died for all.

Out of that comes the commission itself: God has reconciled us to Himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, so that we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us. The sermon closes where Paul does — with the great exchange of verse 21, that God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

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