Transcript COMPELLED 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then.

COMPELLED
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
14 For the love of Christ compels us,
because we judge thus: that if One died for
all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that
those who live should live no longer for
themselves, but for Him who died for them
and rose again.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
• Compel – to control, to restrain
– Love is why we…
1. Pray for the persecuted
2. Endure affliction
3. Stand for the Unborn
4. Share the Gospel
• Compel – to control, to restrain
– Love is why we…
5. Vote Biblical Values
6. Give
7. Serve in the Church
a. We because of love live for others
• Love –
– Love in the Greek language
1. Eros
2. Storge
3. Phileo
4. Agape
• Agape
a. God is “Agape” (1 John 4:16)
b. God demonstrated His “Agape”
toward us through the death of His
Son. (Romans 5:8)
c. Everyone who “Agape’s” is born of
God (1 John 4:7)
d. The fruit of the Spirit is “Agape”
“The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear,
O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is
one. 30 And you shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart, with all your soul,
with all your mind, and with all your…
Mark 12:29-31
…strength.’ This is the first commandment.
31 And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall
love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no
other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:29-31
Owe no one anything except to love one
another, for he who loves another has fulfilled
the law. 9 For the commandments, "You shall
not commit adultery," "You shall not murder,"
"You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false
witness," "You shall not covet," and if there is
any other commandment, are all…
Romans 13:8-10
…summed up in this saying, namely, "You
shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love
does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is
the fulfillment of the law.”
Romans 13:8-10
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in
this: "You shall love your neighbor as
yourself." 15 But if you bite and devour one
another, beware lest you be consumed by
one another!
Galatians 5:14-14
If you really fulfill the royal law according to
the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor
as yourself," you do well; 9 but if you show
partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted
by the law as transgressors.
James 2:8-10
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall
love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
Matthew 5:43
You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any
grudge against the children of your people,
but you shall love your neighbor as
yourself: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:18
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless
those who curse you, do good to those who
hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use
you and persecute you,
Matthew 5:44
Blessed are you when they revile and
persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against
you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be
exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in
heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets
who were before you.
Matthew 5:11-12
If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he
is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so
doing you will heap coals of fire on his
head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil,
but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:20-21
that you may be sons of your Father in
heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the
evil and on the good, and sends rain on
the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you
love those who love you, what reward
have you? Do not…
Matthew 5:45-48
…even the tax collectors do the same? 47
And if you greet your brethren only, what
do you do more than others? Do not even
the tax collectors do so? 48 Therefore you
shall be perfect, just as your Father in
heaven is perfect.
Matthew 5:45-48
But God demonstrates His own love
toward us, in that while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
Greater love has no one than this, than to
lay down one’s life for his friends.
John 15:13
For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
Him should not perish but have everlasting
life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the
world to condemn the world, but that the
world through Him might be saved.
John 3:16-17
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that
He loved us and sent His Son to be the
propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10
A new commandment I give to you, that you
love one another; as I have loved you, that
you also love one another. 35 By this all will
know that you are My disciples, if you have
love for one another.
John 13:34-35
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of
God; and everyone who loves is born of God
and knows God. 8 He who does not love does
not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the
love of God was manifested toward us, that
God has sent His only begotten…
1 John 4:7-11
…Son into the world, that we might live
through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we
loved God, but that He loved us and sent
His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also
ought to love one another.
1 John 4:7-11
Pursue love
1 Corinthians 14:1
Let all that you do be done with love.
1 Corinthians 16:14
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love
anything, and your heart will certainly be
wrung and possibly be broken. If you want
to make sure of keeping it intact, you must
give your heart to no one, not even to an
animal. Wrap it carefully round with…
- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, Harcourt, Brace & World,
Inc., 1960, p.169.
…hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all
entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket
or coffin or your selfishness. But in that
casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will
change. It will not be broken; it will become…
- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, Harcourt, Brace & World,
Inc., 1960, p.169.
...unbreakable, impenetrable,
irredeemable...The only place outside
Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from
all the dangers...of love is Hell.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, Harcourt, Brace & World,
Inc., 1960, p.169.