Ministry of Reconciliation

We see how reconciliation has played a great impact into the gentiles who believe on the name of Jesus Christ. Now, we get to share in the ministry of reconciliation, which is part of our reasonable act of service. God has given the gentiles a gospel through our Apostle Paul which is the Gospel of reconciliation. When we rightly divide the word of God and see that the completed work of Jesus Christ has done all that we need to be able to go out and preach, we can see that the power of salvation is in our preaching this gospel. We sit back and wonder how we can bring people to salvation or we sit and pray for peoples salvation day in and day out. One teacher said that “Praying to God for someone’s salvation is like taking a basketball and passing it to God, God looks at us and says why are you passing this to me, My Son has done the work, sin has been dealt with and the ball is yours to pass to all those around you!!!” We simply have to share “our” gospel and allow God to grant the increase. Reconciliation is not only the way we came to God, it’s also our mission to spread in the power of the Holy Spirit!!! Now will you preach it, are you unashamed??? Have a wonderful life of reconciliation on purpose!!!!!

2 Corinthians 5

Assurance of the Resurrection
1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
The Judgment Seat of Christ
9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 11 Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.
Be Reconciled to God
12 For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you opportunity to boast on our behalf, that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart. 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. 16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.