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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Any true definition of preaching must say that that man is there to deliver the message of God, a message from God to those people. If you prefer the language of Paul, he is ';an ambassador for Christ.' That is what he is. He has been sent, he is a commissioned person, and he is standing there as the mouthpiece of God and of Christ to address these people.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones