Aug 12, 2018 |Thread

Compelled

08.12.18 | Thread

Compelled

2 Corinthians

Certain people and experiences are almost magnetic in their draw; we can’t help but be attracted to them and tell all our friends about them. What is your response to the truth of Christ’s sacrificial work on the cross? TJ Auten shares that the life of a Christ follower ought to be compelled by Christ’s love. As we experience the love and joy of a right relationship with God through Jesus, we become ambassadors of the Gospel.

2 Corinthians 5:11-21

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Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your consciences.

2 Corinthians 5:11 CSB

 

We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in outward appearance rather than in the heart. For if we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

2 Corinthians 5:12-13 CSB

 

For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: If one died for all, then all died.

2 Corinthians 5:14 CSB

 

And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

2 Corinthians 5:15 CSB

 

From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!

2 Corinthians 5:16-17 CSB

 

Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

2 Corinthians 5:18-19 CSB

 

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf: “Be reconciled to God.” He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 5:20-21 CSB

 

For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: If one died for all, then all died.

2 Corinthians 5:14 CSB

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