2 Corinthians 5:17-21 KJV
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 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.
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.
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.

Believing in Christ for righteousness seems like going against God's first command. We all perhaps deal with this thought when dealing with the Old Testament more then New Testament. If we believe only in Christ and not God are we saved? Without God there is no Christ. It is coming to the point of realizing the sonship role of Christ to be the process of reconciliation to God but also the role of Christ becoming sin for us, who himself knew no sin, that through him we might be made righteous of God in him. Confusing, not if you been a believer for so many of years and you are a student of God's word, but you give that information to a baby Christian, he will understand the job of reconciliation being to win people to Christ and stop right there in his understanding. There is a lot to grasp.

As new christians I do not think we always grasp all the ends and outs of faith, because to grasp it gives one a lot of responsibility to sharing Christ with others. It is easy to become dormant in our faith without meaning too. Take one day off will you still be sharing tomorrow the salvation story, trying to bring people to church or just bringing them to the knowledge of why they need Jesus and then to salvation through Christ Jesus.

To understand some basic principals of faith belief without obedience, faith might as well be dead. If Adam and Eve had understood they would be kicked out of heaven would they have eaten the fruit? Would Eve listen to the serpent, or would she have told him to leave her alone. If she knew she would have pain in child birth, would she had eaten of the forbidden fruit? I think in reality we fail to see Adam and Eve received two punishment for sin, the second being cast out of heaven. Eve home was heaven, the only home she knew, where Adam was placed in the garden of Eden.

Why is any of this past even important, the earthly home, a place to learn to obey God and learn the consequences of disobedience. Paradise is not where we learn about obedience to God. If you are sinning against God on earth you will not be learning how to stop in heaven. Why are we striving to allow God to make us perfect? What is God's perfection, to be like minded in faith with other believers, not only like minded but like minded with God by his Spirit to perform his will not only in personal life, but in the world round you. Our perfection is not necessarily perfection in man's eyes, in regards to be in accordance to the will of people, but only the will of God.

When we strive for the perfection of faith we striving to obey God. To be ambassadors we need to work on ourselves to be in obedience to God and to walk in his perfection by his Spirit. A man that knew if he drank one glass of wine, would lead to many glasses, chose to stop at the first temptation of drunkness by not even drinking the first glass of wine. Yet the man who thought that he could stop with the first glass and could not, learned quickly why he no longer drank, when people took snap shot of him being drunk and showed him video and picture later.

Why is did others point out his nakeness of drunkness, because the sinner is trying to entrap the man to believing he failed God with no hope of salvation, because he failed to follow God's word. Yet his sin only proved his humanity, not his failing with God? He only fail God but loosing control of his humanity. Alcohol,drunkness will cause you not to be able to function fully as who you really are. Can you obey traffic laws when drunk, maybe some laws, but not all of them ask the person hit by drunk driver, if the driver that was drunk at fault to the point he was way out of control of being able to drive on the right side of the road or in England the left? When we live in our sinfulness as believers, we are as a drunk driver, driving for Jesus without him holding the steering wheel of our car. Instead our sin is holding the steer wheel of the car, with no clear direction but to swerve missing the straight and narrow pathway God has provide completely. If God's pathway is the only road to heaven, then our actions are effecting what path we are suppose to be driving on.

Are you driving with Christ as your co pilot, or are you taking the wheel and going where you want to go. Are you in control of your body, your mind enough to know the pathway God's has created for you to follow is the safest route to heaven? God has given man a choice of two routes, one of his own choosing and will and one that follows in the footsteps of Jesus. If you find a treasure map, without it, you can not find the buried treasure, you can put the map on a shelf and display it, but unless you take it with you, your not going to find the gold at the x the marks the spot of where the treasure is.

To walk in perfection of God is to surrender your ways to him and to follow his pathway and direction. Jesus is the prophetic word that came in the flesh, then is he not also the prophetic word today in spiritual and physical world today. Yet we also know he is physical not just spiritual in regards to our faith, for him to return in the physical he is already in the physical in his incorruptible form waiting on God to send him back to those on earth. Jesus is also spiritual truth by being the word of prophesy. When we share Christ we sharing both the knowledge of Christ in the physical and Christ word being something to follow and obeyed. God's word became flesh, His word became believable in the physical manifestation of his son and the word bringing forth hope if we obey it. God says to believe his word, we better do that first and live like we believe it and not just consume the words of faith and have no action behind it, walking in the perfection of the will of God. To teach and to preach about Jesus both physical and spiritual in regards to his relationship to our Heavenly Father, and when we do we are then able to be part of the process in someone's life of seeing the benefits of following Jesus. That is one thing that helps reconcile people to Jesus, but also knowing he forgives us of our sin, that while we working toward perfection and obedience to God, when we fail, he still loving and forgiving us for our mistakes. That we have to learn to walk in the perfection God has called us too. Christ himself became sin for us. Meaning he took on the fleshly nature of man, to teach us to walk perfectly before God even laying his life down for our sin, to demonstrate his love and compassion for us, willing to forgive as we strive to work toward that perfection of faith. People see the change God makes in our life they want to know Jesus too.

That confidence of faith in believing in Jesus because of who he is, who he represents and how he came to save us. Walking through the cross despite the error of man that sent him to the cross. Jesus taking on the responsibility of sin for man. God claiming his responsibility of our sin and redeeming us through his Son. God's salvation demonstrated in the physical realm for you and me.

Dear Heavenly Father, help us to be people of reconciliation to your will and ways, for they protect, guide and give us hope of better life then in the world of corruption. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Romans 12:1-3 KJV
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.