"Paul explains God's initiative through Christ to move His church from reprobation to reconciliation to relationship and ultimately to ambassadorship."
Recorded on: Sunday, 03/22/2026 at 10:00 AM
Description:
Delivered during the Sunday Morning Worship Service, 3/22/2026. As our short series on who we are as the church of Jesus Christ continues, we will return to the fifth chapter of Paul's second letter to the Corinthians where Paul defends his ministry and apostolic authority; and at the same time continues to help us define who we are as a church. We will add two designations this morning. First, that we are the church of the reconciled-- reconciled to God through Christ. We will discuss in great detail what it means to be reconciled and the incredible process whereby a reprobate at enmity with God is granted intimate relationship with Him. And then, we will explore the amazing result of reconciliation when the very people who are reconciled become the ambassadors of reconciliation. We will find in this short passage a compressed version of the battle plan for the expansion of the Kingdom of God, and the preservation of the invisible church in all generations. We will celebrate God's glorious plan of reconciliation, whereby a group of reprobates are made righteous in order to be reconciled and restored and ultimately to have relationship with God-- and then sent into the darkest corners of this world as ambassadors of reconciliation.
