The Controlling Love of Christ

From 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 – You Will be confronted with Two questions you MUST answer to Honestly evaluate if You are CONSUMED with Christ or Simply CONCERNED with Him.

2 Corinthians 5:14–15 — 14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

ARE YOU CONTROLLED BY THE LOVE OF CHRIST? [VV:14]

J.C. Ryle: “I want all converted people to be missionaries. I do not want them all to go out to foreign lands and preach to the heathen; but I do want all to be of a missionary spirit, and to strive to do good at home. I want them to testify to all around them that the straight gate is the way to happiness, and to persuade them to enter by it”….[he continues]…. “I long to see more zeal to commend the straight gate to all who are yet outside, and more desire to persuade them to enter in and be saved. Happy indeed is that church whose members not only desire to reach heaven themselves, but desire also to take others with them!”

ARE YOU CONQUERED BY THE LOVE OF CHRIST? [VV:15]

“In some people’s lives, Jesus Christ has no place. In every Christian’s life, Jesus does have a place. In many Christians lives, Jesus has a prominent place. But in a few Christians lives, I have found that Jesus Christ has a preeminent place.”