Ministers of Reconciliation

“From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ,  be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

(2 Corinthians 5:16-21 ESV)

I see an army of young people raw and surging with a violent passion for Abba. They have the gentleness of a lamb toward the people they serve and minister the gospel of reconciliation too, but they are as fierce as a lion when confronting the powers of darkness that enslave and possesses the minds of the people they have been in trusted with by Abba. They carry within themselves a ministry of reconciliation.

  You know, I was pondering this reconciliation Paul spoke of and it filled my heart with joy. God has made a way for you, change the way you think about him because he has reconciled you to himself through his son’s finish work on the cross. Jesus Christ came in the flesh and through his crucifixion you to where crucified with him, and through his burial you where buried with him, and through his resurrection you were resurrected with him, and through his ascension, he made a way for you to be in the presence of almighty God unashamed and accepted as a child of God. Believe it today and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

  We have reduced salvation to a get out of hell free card when it is so much more than that, it’s being reconciled to the Father. We are participating in a union with our Heavenly Father. A Devine adventure with limitless potential and wonders beyond our imagination.

We must remember it is the spirit of the anti-Christ that says Christ did not come in the flesh. 

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.

(1 John 4:2-3 ESV)

   This is true because to deny the flesh of Christ is to deny the means by which we have been reconciled to Abba. Christ being both God and man is the force unifying man to God. Christ ascended in a flesh and bone body so that means he went to a physical place. This is how we are settled with him in heavenly places. We are flesh of his flesh bone of his bone, we are his bride. Christ incarnation came under the curse of the first Adam, he died as that curse and resurrected victorious as the last Adam. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:22)

To be in Christ, is to be free from the curse. This is why Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life, and that is why we say with conviction “Oh, death where is your sting, Oh, grave where is your victory?” This is the power of the gospel and the mystery of the resurrection. To experience it is to understand it. The best way I can describe it is through a weak analogy, that falls apart the further you take it, but taken at face value, expresses some truth. Here it is, you are as much apart of God as a baby to their mother, in the womb. To couch this in simpler terms Jesus not only died for you he died as you. He took on himself humanity so that he could die as humanity, and be buried, resurrected, ascend and be enthroned as humanity. We have only a part of these reality now, but one day it will be as it is written:

“For we will discard our mortal “clothes” and slip into a body that is imperishable. What is mortal now will be exchanged for immortality.”

(1 Corinthians 15:53 TPT)

   These gospel message is to good to keep to yourself. Make it burn in our bones and let no one quench it or stop its spread. Let it be like a wild fire consuming us completely. Those who carry the ministry of reconciliation proclaim to the darkest corners of a cold unforgiving world, Abba loves you and he sent his only begotten son to make a way for relationship with himself. It is a beautiful honor to be trusted with the message of reconciliation