WE SERVE THE GREATEST KING, WE HAVE THE BEST MESSAGE, WE HAVE THE BEST MOTIVE!

2 Corinthians 5:20

“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.

In light of Pastor Andy’s sermon concerning the reality that we are ambassadors of Jesus Christ, my heart is still burning with this question, “What can I do for Jesus?” The truth is that we are ambassadors of the King in everything we do. Whether it is going to the grocery store or preaching the gospel in a hostile environment we are on a mission for the King of Glory!

Randy Alcorn said,

“It would upset us, but would we think it unloving if a doctor told us we had a potentially fatal cancer? And would the doctor not tell us if the cancer could be eradicated? Why then do we not tell unsaved people about the cancer of sin and evil and how the inevitable penalty of eternal destruction can be avoided by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ?”

Do we really believe that sinners are perishing? We, as servants of Christ, WE SERVE THE GREATEST KING, WE HAVE THE BEST MESSAGE, WE HAVE THE BEST MOTIVE!

We serve the greatest King! Our service for Him is not about us or our gifts, our aspirations, our faithfulness. We proclaim Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Jesus is our anthem, Jesus is our hope, and we ought to joyfully stand and proclaim this good news! He is our Captain and with Him there is no danger of being shipwrecked! There is no greater privilege, for he stood in our place! Yes! Even on the housetops we cry Jesus is the great King, there is no one like the Lord our God!

We have the greatest message! The message is that God has provided a way for sinners to be reconciled! Jesus loves to save wretched, hell-bent, ruined sinners. The worst of the worst are those that He loves to make into trophies of grace! 1 Timothy 1:15 ¹⁵ This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. ”Our sins have separated us from God and we desperately need a Savior, and the bottom line is that God has provided the best, His only begotten Son. Romans 5:6-9 "For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.”

We have the greatest motive, the King’s work and workers cannot fail. The cross was not a fool’s errand. For all that Jesus shed His blood for will never perish! When Jesus said it was finished, indeed it was! John 10:28 “I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one."

And what makes the redeeming mercies of God so beautiful is that he wants to use those who have tasted of His sweet grace as instruments to reconcile others to His Son! We are like brands plucked from the fire! Oh, what beautiful motive! The gates of Hell cannot prevail, the adversary is a defeated foe, the machinations of man are of no avail because we serve the victor and no weapon formed against us can stand!

May our hearts burn with Spurgeon’s as we consider the hopeless plight of the lost.

“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and un-prayed for.”

Let us today, friends, enter into the King’s service with joy! For indeed we serve the risen King!!!

May these words from the Bishop Liverpool fuel our hearts as we serve King Jesus today!

“Let us strive to know more and more, every year we live, our need of a mediator between ourselves and God. Let us seek more and more to realize that without a mediator our thoughts of God can never be comfortable, and the more clearly we see God the more uncomfortable we must feel. Above all, let us be thankful that we have in Jesus the very Mediator whose help our souls require, and that through Him we may draw near to God with boldness, and cast fear away. Out of Christ, God is a consuming fire. In Christ, He is a reconciled Father.”

Thank you pastor Andy for this reminder!

Made Willing In The Day of His Power!

Casey Kirkman