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Be An Ambassador - A legacy worth leaving
Introduction:
Introduction:
We are closing out the Legacy series.
Haven’t you loved this series.
It was been challenging and called us to a higher level.
I want to continue with that same way of thinking.
We live in a culture where everyone is right and no one is right at the same time.
I cannot imaging a more confusing time because everyone has a voice and there are so many views on how to live.
Most of the best sellers are self-help books and they all promise that you can live a life of significance.
You just have to follow 10 steps or 5 principles.
Success, riches, and influence are sure to follow.
There is one thing for sure, that we all have a desire to be significant in whatever sphere you find important.
God has built it into us to be part of something greater than ourselves and to leave a legacy greater than we inherited.
Jesus also left a legacy.
He had one message and one mission.
“Repent because the Kingdom is here.”
I have heard it said this way, “The Church Doesn’t have a mission, Jesus’ mission has a church to carry it out.”
God sent Jesus into human existence to rescue them, so that they could continually point people back to him.
Kingdom
To understand what God is doing and where we fit, we have to take a step back.
Jesus did not come to bring a religion, but a kingdom.
A kingdom a collection of tribes or groups that are in one family.
Kingdom is used 160 times in the New Testament.
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Royal bloodline.
In the garden of Eden, God was extending his kingdom from heaven to Earth by placing his citizens there.
When Adam and Even rebelled against God and sinned, they were, in effect, deposed from the throne.
Ambassadors
Ambassadors are placed in a foreign country.
Carry the official message of the King to foreign territories.
Ambassadors all have the same message, but they use different methods depending on the people around them.
Their purpose is to spread the message of the head of state.
Example of the background of an ambassador.
· Example of the background of an ambassador.
I want to make the case today that we need to focus our lives around being an Ambassador for Jesus.
· I want to make the case today that we need to focus our lives around being an Ambassador for Jesus.
Some of you may or may not have experience or understanding with the idea of an ambassador.
During my time as a Marine, there were several missions that we supported dealt with protection of U.S. Ambassadors.
An ambassador does not have to have noteworthy expertise or be a charismatic likable figure, but he or she is able to influence heads of state.
o Some of you may or may not have experience or understanding with the idea of an ambassador.
During my time as a Marine, there were several missions that we supported dealt with protection of U.S. Ambassadors.
An ambassador does not have to have noteworthy expertise or be a charismatic likable figure, but he or she is able to influence heads of state.
Undercover Boss show:
· Undercover Boss show:
Two types of people are shown: Outwardly seems effective, then one that works hard to reflect the core values of the CEO.
Not Behavioral modification
· Not Behavioral modification
o People in the show that would try and change their behavior when they thought the boss was looking or they would do things that they new would make them look good.
People in the show that would try and change their behavior when they thought the boss was looking or they would do things that they new would make them look good.
In the New Testament timeframe, Jesus ran into people like this a lot too.
Ironically, the people that were the most broken on the inside where the people who just adjusted things of their outward appearance.
o In the New Testament timeframe, Jesus ran into people like this a lot too.
Ironically, the people that were the most broken on the inside where the people who just adjusted things of their outward appearance.
Jesus wasn’t so “nice” to these people.
There is a misconception that Christians are to be a version of “nice” that doesn’t call out, doesn’t confront, and doesn’t hold their ground.
This doesn’t mean that Jesus was disrespectful or unloving.
Often the most loving thing to do is to lovingly confront.
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NIV “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.”
o Colossians 2 and 3
God is telling us that the things culture offers will not lead us to our purpose of leaving a legacy.
“Do not handle!
Do not taste!
Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.
23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
“21 Do not handle!
Do not taste!
Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.
23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
NIV
“1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your[a] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
NIV
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your[a] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[b]
7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.
8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[b]
7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.
8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices NIV
10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
NIV
God has called us to be Ambassadors
· God has called us to be Ambassadors
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Theme Verse: 2 Corinthians 5:16-20 “…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!
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.
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