Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.
Ministers are ambassadors for Christ, sent to do what He would do were He personally present. We are to explain and enforce the terms on which God is willing to be reconciled to men, the very terms God has proposed, not new ones of our own devising.
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We must regard no person for carnal ends or outward gain; the world must be under our feet. Even those who saw Christ in the flesh should not dote upon that bodily presence, we live by His spiritual presence, not by images or fleshly remembrance of Him.
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Commenting on 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Christ was made sin by imputation, not by any act of His own, but by His Father's act: the sins of all His people were transferred onto Him, laid upon Him, and placed to His account, so He was treated by God's justice as if He were not merely a sinner but sin itself. Yet He did not become a sinner in Himself, for to be made sin is His Father's doing, not His.
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