2 Corinthians 5 - Brandon Hatmaker "Simply Amazing"
Friday, July 11th, 2008
"So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
What an amazing thing to remember: God did not look at us from a worldy point of view, but instead, from a perspective of grace and love. The He reconciled us to himself. Considering our condition, what a daunting task. Yet He did it, and it cost His only son. And now his request from us is to no longer regard others from a worldly point of view either. To simply offer grace to others as He offered it to us.
How can we say no?
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ReplyDeleteTo truly be in Christ, we have to be "in Him" 100%. That means that we have to believe in what He says even when we can't see it. We have to keep being His ambassadors even when it looks like the entire world is against us. We have to keep loving our neighbor even when that neighbor is our boss that has done wrong by us at our worldly standard. We must live our lives not by what the world says. We can't go by the "I'll get mine" mentality. We have to HAVE TO go by the Jesus first mentality and way of life.