Here are two differences in being an ambassador for Jesus the King and an ambassador for Hussein the Joker.
1- Jesus will never send you into the enemy's camp to make deals with the devil, though Hussein seems to have sent his ambassador to Benghazi to partner with the Jihadists (perpetrators of unholy war).
2- Jesus will never abandon, leave, forsake, deny His ambassadors, though Hussein stripped his ambassador of protection and denied his other representatives in time of need.
PASSAGE and Notes...
PASSAGE and Notes...
concerning God's Ambassadors
2 Corinthians 5:17-20
(17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
(18) And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
(19) To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
(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.
DLG notes...
(17) In the New Birth we not only have our citizenship in heaven, we become new creatures (creations). Yes, we were born as sinful creatures, but we are transformed into righteous, we were children of darkness and disobedience, but we have become children of light and obedience.
(18) God has taken the initiative to reconcile us to Himself, through Christ, through faith in Christ, and through faith in Christ alone. As new creations, as His ambassadors, as those who have been returned, reconciled to God, we have been enlisted as His representatives, reconciling the lost to Christ.
(19) God gave His Son to reconcile the entire world, whosoever will believe on Him shall be saved. Reconciliation is the removal of our trespasses and imparting of God's nature. Now we who are totally delivered from sin in this present evil world have been given the word of reconciliation for the lost.
(20) We are God's voice in a world of chaos. We are the messengers, the emissaries, agents of God, to offer terms of peace with the enemies of God. No compromise, no deals. Reconciliation through faith in Christ alone. God reaches the lost through the redeemed. If you are redeemed, you should be moved in body and soul to reach the lost, just as God wants to reach the lost.
