Introduction:  Imagine for a moment that the President of the United States of America called you to the White House and said, “I need you to represent the United States of America as an ambassador”.  What an honour!  As he gives you the list of responsibilities, you begin to think of them as a small price to pay to be an ambassador of the United States of America.  Though you will probably never receive that call, you have already received one much greater and that is the call to be an ambassador for Christ.

1. THE COMMISSIONING OF THE AMBASSADOR
1. An Ambassador is Sent by Under the Authority of His Own Country
2. As Ambassadors We Have Been Sent Forth by Christ (John 20:21Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
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2. THE FIELD OF THE AMBASSADOR
1. A Country Other Than That of His Citizenship
1. Our Conversation is in Heaven (Philippians 3:20
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2. Our Home is in Heaven
3. Our Citizenship is Among the Household of God (Ephesians 2:19Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
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2. A Strange Country (Hebrews 11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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1. A people of a different language
2. A people of a different culture
3. A people of a different appearance
3. THE REPRESENTATION OF THE AMBASSADOR
1. The Ambassador Should Represent the Leader From His Own Country
2. Christ as the Ambassador of the Father was a Perfect Representation of the Father (John 14:9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
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3. We Ought to Represent or Manifest the King of Our Country
1. We are to love as He loved (John 13:34-35 [34] A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. [35] By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
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2. We are to be holy as He is holy (1 Peter 1:13-16 [13] Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; [14] As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: [15] But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; [16] Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
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3. We are to serve as He served (John 13:12-17 [12] So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? [13] Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. [14] If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. [15] For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. [16] Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. [17] If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
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4. THE WORK OF THE AMBASSADOR
1. To Offer Peace
1. Enmity from Heaven (Psalm 7:11God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
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2. Reconciliation available (Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
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2. To Offer Trade (2 Corinthians 5:21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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1. Your sin
2. Christ’s righteousness
3. To Offer Assistance
1. To those who are in bondage among their own countrymen
2. To those who are citizens of the country of the ambassador
5. THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE AMBASSADOR
1. The Ambassador is Accountable to His Own Country
2. The Ambassador is Responsible to the Country of His Service
3. We Will Stand Before Christ to Give Account of Our Service (2 Corinthians 5:10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
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4. As Ambassadors We are Debtors to this World (Romans 1:14I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
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Conclusion:  What kind of an ambassador have you been up to this point?  How will you fair when it is time to give an account to the one who commissioned you as an ambassador?