What does it mean that believers are ambassadors of reconciliation in 2 Corinthians 5?
Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5 that believers are ambassadors, and that is exactly what they are to be. They are to carry the tremendous message of reconciliation. No one can excuse himself before God by claiming he never had a chance, because the door is open at ground level to whosoever will.
Les explains that when Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5 that we are ambassadors, that is exactly what he wants us to be. We are to be ambassadors of the tremendous message of reconciliation. Les connects this to human accountability: no sinner will stand before the great white throne and successfully say God is unfair, "I never had a chance," or "I didn't know." God will say, "Depart from me, I never knew you, ye workers of iniquity," although they had a certain amount of understanding. Les says the unsaved person does not need to fret over election or God's foreknowledge, because the "whosoever will" invitation is always open. He illustrates this from John 10's shepherd and sheepfold: no one enters the sheepfold except by the door; the door is ground level, not on a cliff, across a raging river, or beyond an impossible mountain range. It is in front of every person, and all they must do is choose to go through it. If they refuse, it is not God's fault.