KNOW YOUR REAL MISSION

Sunday, April 22, 2012

KNOW YOUR REAL MISSION

By: Bro. Albert Gran

2 Corinthians 5:17-25

King James Version (KJV)

 ¹⁷Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

 ¹⁸And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

 ¹⁹To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

 ²⁰Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

 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.

If you are swayed by the real essence of our ambassadorship role in Christ considering the fact that you’re too tied by some religious affairs which you thought your real mission, then start to go back to the right track and embrace the thought how God chose you to be part of His mission for the Body of Christ and not anymore to a man-made established institution where the sect’s name and an identity in whatever local affiliation were much hailed and being sacrificed for.

Most of the believers’ objectives today were much focused to build up buildings (material façade) instead of building up quality believers who are nourished up in God’s word and those who are established in the faith.

Indeed no one would deny that fact how Christ wills that ‘ALL WILL BE SAVED’ however, it’s not only that because each person who was saved must needs to ‘KNOW THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH’. There’s a need for every workman of God to attain to reading and exhortation in order to find out God’s exact purpose in His life and that in much time if possible, a workman of God should found establishment in word and in doctrine that has nothing to be ashamed of before him. His goal was merely not to be detracted by the man-made religious goals where its inspiration was motivated by selfish motives of material gain instead of gaining wisdom from God.

If we are indeed motivated by the real essence of our mission in accordance to Christ’s intent then understand that no religious affiliation or entity could cause you to spread out the truth how a sinner could be reconciled back to God in effect of the true gospel which is the message of the grace of God in light with the mystery program. It’s your understanding of His plan and through your response that Christ used every member of the Body of Christ to let the lost back to Him (being His ambassador) through the message of grace and not the church building, Christian music and selfish testimonies by the supposed miraculous physical intervention of God. These couldn’t be our main motivating factor to inspire a person to join local fellowships. Instead, the real cause for their restoration is to simply communicate the truth of salvation and simply aid them (as workmen) to be established in the faith (set of doctrines) through the gospel that the apostle Paul preached since he’s the apostle to the Gentiles. 

     

Consider how religion nowadays designed the traditional ways as they supposed God used them and their mechanics thought to be well pleasing before God. However, the manifestation of their hearts’ intents declared that their goals and plans were not really motivated by voluntary service for God but with behind tracks of covetousness, religious authorities and powers, e.g. by which it only sums up to have focused on earthly treasures instead of having affection to heavenly things.    

This kind of fleshly motivation, as I believed, obviously is out of God’s will. Substantial chaotic realities or real happenings in the society of the so called Christian religion itself emerged as the most ungodly principle of propagating Christ’s name. The name of God and His doctrines are blasphemed by the pagans because of the Christian religious man-made systems supposedly using the word of God and yet denying its power. 

We all know that God established a true church (the called out ones) which is the BODY OF CHRIST whose head is Christ and yet religion tried to compete the established church as planned by God with another church with its independent names and entities where most Christians fought for and declared that their local church (its names and identities) are the true church.

Know therefore beloved what church are you building for? Are you building up the church as in accord to the plan of God before the foundation of the world? or Are you building and profound the man-made church based from religion?  

Let’s go back to the real mission and that is to reconcile the lost back to Christ and be part of the church the Body of Christ not anymore to the man-made church. Let’s all function as an ambassadors of Christ not to be hindered by whatever man-made religious affairs.