Luke 2:13-14
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
In the past two messages that I have brought to you, I believe they have been incredible truths that have brought awesome insight to you concerning the word of God.
Once again let’s look at 2 Cor 5:18-19
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
To 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.
The word of God reveals the intentions of God towards us His creation
He is not angry, He does not want vengeance, He is not imputing our trespasses towards us and He is not holding our sins to our account, He is reconciling the world unto Himself and has given to us, His children the ministry of reconciliation.
Here is the message that the church should be preaching, this is the good news that should be brought to the multitudes
The wrath of God is not upon this earth nor have the judgments of God descended upon mankind,
September 11 or 9-11 is not a judgment of God nor is Katrina or any of the rest of the hurricanes that have brought devastation to our world, the tsunamis in the Philippines, the fires in California, the draughts in the mid-west, the countless tornadoes that have brought destruction, none of these are the judgments of God
The wrath of God is not upon this earth, the wrath of God was upon his Son and his wrath has been appeased
I guarantee you that there is coming a time when the church age, the dispensation of grace is going to be over and it is at that time when the wrath of God is going to be poured out upon this earth and to those who have accepted him will be received up with joy and to those who have rejected him will experience that wrath on this earth, but right now the earth is in the dispensation of grace and God is reconciling the world unto himself and the message ought to be the good news of the gospel,
The power of God unto salvation
The message that we ought to be proclaiming to the world is the same message that the angels were proclaiming
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Look at,
2 Cor 5:20
Now 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.
We are the ambassadors for Christ
What is an Ambassador?
It is a representative, a diplomat, an emissary.
It is some one who brings the message of goodwill, a message of reconciliation.
We are the representation of God
God was reconciling the world to himself through Jesus Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation and God in Jesus did not impute mans sin unto them.
We are His ambassadors and we are supposed to bring forth his message, the message of reconciliation.
Not the message of man, not the message of religion, not the message of the wayward church.
For multitudes of years the message of the church has been about the wrath of God, the vengeance of God, the message that God is a jealous God, a God who does not wink at ignorance, a God of natural destructions and devastation against mankind, a God bent on the destruction of evil man.
The message has been you must live a holy life or you will not be healed, God will not answer your prayers if there is sin in your life, you are a sinner and you will never be worthy of so great a salvation.
We have tied the ability and the grace of God to our worthiness, to our goodness, to our performance, to our righteousness and that is the reason that very few of Gods people are doing the exploits of God.
Satan has done well to perpetrate the lie
The message of the Godhead is the reconciliation of man and He has given unto us the ministry of reconciliation
When Christ came he came not imputing our sins to us, the good news that He brought was that we were not going to receive what we deserved, the conflict is over and the wrath of God has been appeased and the only thing that is required of you is to believe to receive and confess that He is your Lord.
And if you are reading this and you have feelings that you have messed up so badly that God is no longer interested in you, you have believed the lie of Satan.
You need to have revelation of how much that God loves you and to have understanding of that which has been appointed for you
Eph 3:17-19
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
If you have understanding concerning the love of God for you, if you understand His love to the breadeth, length, depth and height,
If you understood that His love passes knowledge and that it fills you with the fullness of God,
If you understand that the revelation of His love is what allows the faith inside of you to work.
Gal 5:6
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
If you really understood His love for you then you would be using the full measure of your faith.
God is not disappointed in you, He is not upset with you and He is not grieved with you for if he was then he would be disappointed and grieved in His Son.
He loves you.
You are the Apple of His eye.
Ps 17:8
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
We need to read it again
2 Cor 5:20
Now 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.
Be ye reconciled to God
Are you going to reconcile yourself to God, are you going to accept the gift that has been given unto you and accept the revelation of the message that he has brought forth to the earth.
He has already reconciled himself to you through his Son
VERSE 21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Let me make this clear,
When the word of God says that he came not imputing their sins unto them
It is not implying that there was no debt to be paid.
Christ paid the debt.
Your sins were not imputed to you but they were imputed unto Him, who knew no sin,
He paid the price so that you would not have to
And not only did he pay the debt of your sins but he also made you the Righteousness of God
So have understanding, all of your iniquities, all of your sins, all of your transgressions that were inside of you, He took them from you and gave you what was on the inside of him.
He took what was inside of Him which was righteousness and placed it within you and then took what was inside of you which was transgressions and sin and placed it on the inside of Him.
You are not a sinner saved by grace
You was a sinner who needed to be saved by grace but now you are the righteousness of God,
Your sins are gone
They have been cast into the sea of forgetfulness.
Ps 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
God is not looking at your sins; He is not dealing with his creation based upon the sacrifice of bulls and goats, based upon the conditions of the law, His wrath has been satisfied through his Son.
Hear the message that John the Baptist received in the desert
Hear His words concerning the coming of Christ to the Nation of Israel,,
Isa 40:1-5
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Hear the message.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.