Date: 1/4/2009
Text: 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
Speaker: David Cranford
14For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
What motivates us to be the people of God and to follow Christ?
We are compelled...
1. ...by the love of Christ. (v. 14)
John 15:13 shows God's love for us.
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us.
2. ...by the end of ourselves. (v. 14)
He never got to the end of his love for us.
3. ...to share his love. (v. 15)
Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
4. ...by his second-coming.
2 Corinthians 6:2 For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you."[a] I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.
Footnotes:
1. 2 Corinthians 6:2 Isaiah 49:8
Scripture from www.biblegateway.com
Sunday, January 4, 2009
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