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Δ Interact Okolona Christian Church Contagious Ambassadors Bob Russell July 23, 2023 View This Week’s Note View All Past Notes View This Note w/o Blanks Main Scripture Reference(s) 2 Corinthians 5:20 Contagious Ambassadors July 23, 2023 / Bob Russell / 2 Corinthians 5:20 Sign up to help our local schools! Be apart of SCHOOL BLITZ! https://www.Okolonacc.org/blitz/ Contagious Ambassadors 2 Corinthians 5:20 (NIV) We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. An ambassador is: – A representative of his home country living in a foreign nation. – A diplomat who attends social functions with the intent of smoothing out relationships between nations. – An emissary, communicating the message that the state department wants to convey. – A guardian protecting his country’s interest in the host nation. 1. 2 Corinthians 5:11 (NIV) Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 2 Corinthians 4:2 (NIV), 2 Corinthians 4:5 (NIV) 2 Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. 5 For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 2. 2 Corinthians 5:13-14 (NIV) 13 If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. Hosea 9:7 (NIV) Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired person a maniac. 3. 2 Corinthians 5:16-17 (NIV) 16 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. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 4. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 (NIV) 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. Contagious Ambassadors 2 Corinthians 5:20 (NIV) We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. Extra Notes: What part of the service impacted you the most? 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