Are You on a Mission?

"Mission"- A body of persons sent to establish relations with a foreign country." Mission comes from the Latin 'missio' meaning to send. The Greek word is ä-po-ste'l-lō' (An apostle in the New Testament was a 'sent one').

God has always gone to great lengths to send us His light, His truth, His Spirit, and His Word:

Oh, send out Your light and Your truth!(Psa 43:3)
You send forth Your Spirit . . . And You renew the face of the earth. (Psa 104:30)
He sent Moses His servant, And Aaron whom He had chosen. (Psa 105:26)
He sends out His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly . . . He sends out His word and melts them;
(Psa 147:15-17)

God then sent the embodiment of His light, His truth, His Spirit, and His Word through Jesus Christ. And now we are His ambassadors, His mission, if you will.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 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. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2Co 5:17-21)

We, the church of Jesus Christ, are God's embassy here on earth. We are to plead with people that are alienated from God by sin to establish relationship with Him through repentance and faith in Christ. God is holy and righteous, and is a consuming fire that will judge and take vengeance on wickedness. But through the blood of the Lamb that covers and takes away our sin we can wear the white robe of the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus through faith. Calling all sinners, run for the embassy where you can find refuge from the wrath to come.

Are you on a Mission?

Yours in Him,
Pastor B.