Lesson 3 Ambassadors For Christ

     We sometimes forget to understand that the Kingdom of God is exactly that;  it is a kingdom.  God is the King and in a kingdom there is no vote.  We don't have the authority to change the rules (laws) that govern heaven.  We must learn to live by His word because that's how the kingdom works.  As ambassadors, we don't make up our own rules, but walk in what has already been established.  Our attempt to make things work the way we want has been a complete failure for mankind.  We have what I call "faith accidents" when we (mostly by mistake) do something by the Kingdom rule and it works.  Because we didn't do it by understanding, we don't duplicate it.  We have religious rules that we made up and that have nothing to do with what God accepts as rule.

     Out of pride or foolishness we still refuse to believe we are wrong and thus continue teaching and using our own rule instead of the Kingdom rule.  In a kingdom, the King is sovereign and His rules (or laws) are not debatable.  We don't vote on how things are done.  We view Jesus as an anomaly instead of as a pattern for us to follow.

      Jesus was and still is the way that all of the Father's children are supposed to function.  He could perform miracles because He understood how to do what the Kingdom authorized.   John 3:34 (Amplified) says "for since He whom God has sent speaks the words of God (proclaims God's own message), God doesn't give Him His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless is the gift God makes of His Spirit."

      We read in the Gospel of John 14:10-12 (Amplified)  where Jesus made some statements that if anyone else had made then I wouldn't have believed them.  Even now, knowing that it was Jesus saying it, I am still overwhelmed by the magnitude of what He spoke.  verse 12 "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in me, he will himself be able to do the things I do, and he will do even greater things that I do, and he will do even greater things than these because I go to the Father."   The same chapter of John 14:26 (Amplified) reads "But the Comforter (counselor, helper, intercessor,advocate, strengthener, stand-by), the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name (in my place, to represent me and act on my behalf), He will teach you all things, and He will choose you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything that I have told you."

     We sometimes forget that if Jesus was the Son of God (and you know He is), and that according to the Word, we are Sons of God (and you know we are), then where does the difference come in?  If one apple seed will grow an apple tree and all fruit on the tree is an apple, we know that each one is not the same apple but each one is exactly the same.  If Jesus was an ambassador from God to show forth God's Kingdom, then we as ambassadors have the same calling.  In  John 17:14-23 (Amplified)  Jesus said that we were not of this world anymore than He is and that He sent us forth as the Father sent Him forth.  He even said  in verse 22 (Amplified)  that He has "given us the same glory and honor that the Father gave Him."

     John 18:36-37 (Amplified)  shows us how Jesus stood in the presence of Pilate and declared that He is a King and He had Kingly power from His Kingdom."  These powers that Jesus walked in were higher than the laws, rules or powers of this earthly realm.

     As ambassadors of Christ, we represent a Kingdom and a King that is high above this realm.  There are rules that govern that Kingdom that only the Holy Spirit can reveal to us from the word of God.  God's Kingdom is ruled by His Word, and that word is forever settled.  His Kingdom is always by His Word.  If we will come to the place where we will listen to what God says, then we will be more successful in our deeds.  We need to understand that if Jesus and the Father are one (and they are) and if we are one as they are one (John 17:21 (Amplified)  then what Jesus was and did is what we are and do.  You are not Jesus, but you are like Jesus.  You are not the Messiah, but you are of the same seed.  The Holy Spirit will show us the way of the Kingdom so that we can walk above things that satan has governed us by for so very long.  

     Jesus had rule over all of the things of the enemy and has given Himself as an example for us to walk by  John 3:3-6 (Amplified)  says that "unless a man is born again (anew, from above) he cannot ever se  (know, be acquainted with and experience the Kingdom of God)."