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What compels you? What drives you to do what you do? What motivates you to act? These questions arise whenever I read 2 Corinthians 5. This passage so captivates me that I plan to write six articles on it in this year\u2019s Bible Advocate<\/em>. It\u2019s compelling, not the least because it begins with Paul saying that Christ\u2019s love compels Christ\u2019s followers to live for something greater than themselves: \u201cFor Christ\u2019s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And 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\u201d (vv. 14, 15).<\/p>\n

What follows is Paul\u2019s impassioned plea for those who have received Christ\u2019s love to share His love with the world, to embrace the ministry and message of reconciliation. Each verse of the passage is pregnant with meaning, some of which will be delivered in coming articles. But let\u2019s begin with this one word: compel<\/em>. In English it communicates the idea of being forced, persuaded, or obliged to do something. These words attempt to express the range of meaning in the Greek word synech<\/em>\u014d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Definitions<\/h2>\n

Throughout the New Testament this word refers to those taken or overcome with sickness or fear, to the men who struck and mocked Jesus, and to the internal impulse that drove Him to the cross despite His suffering. It refers to those who stoned Stephen plugging their own ears, compelling themselves to not hear his words. Luke also uses synech<\/em>\u014d<\/em> to describe Paul\u2019s internal compulsion to share the gospel. Interestingly, Paul uses the word twice. Once in Philippians to express how he is torn between two desires: one to stay alive and minister and the other to die and be with Christ. The other time is here in 2 Corinthians to describe the way in which Christ\u2019s love compels us to live for Him.<\/p>\n

Among the metaphorical uses of compel <\/em>in Greek are these: to be held by, closely occupied with any business, to be afflicted with, to urge. As we read Paul\u2019s entreaty to the Corinthians, we sense each of these meanings. The love of Christ is like a crowd pushing us forward, a boat forced through a strait, a police officer arresting us, a disease that overwhelms our body, a business that monopolizes our ambitions, an urgent need that must be met. The love of Christ compels us. It motivates us. It moves us. It makes us live a certain way.<\/p>\n

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Christ\u2019s love<\/h2>\n

What is this love that captures and compels us to live? Paul simply says it is Christ\u2019s love. Christ\u2019s love that brought Him to the earth and drove Him to the cross. Christ\u2019s love that caused Him to empty Himself of His divine privileges to become like His creation in order to save them from sin and death.<\/p>\n

Jesus said it this way:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him\u201d (John 3:16, 17).<\/p>\n

And the apostle John described it like this:<\/p>\n

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (1 John 4:9, 10).<\/p>\n

This is the love of Christ that lives and dies and rises again to save. It has inspired thousands of poems and songs, like Frederick Martin Lehman\u2019s \u201cThe Love of God,\u201d which describes the breadth and depth of God\u2019s love in its final verse:<\/p>\n

Could we with ink the ocean fill,<\/p>\n

And were the skies of parchment made,<\/p>\n

Were every stalk on earth a quill<\/p>\n

And every man a scribe by\u202ftrade,<\/p>\n

To write the love of God\u202fabove,<\/p>\n

Would drain the ocean\u202fdry.<\/p>\n

Nor could the scroll contain the whole<\/p>\n

Though stretched from sky to sky.<\/p>\n

This love is not a \u201cfancy or a feeling\u201d but an action of self-giving, self-sacrifice, prioritizing the good of the beloved. We love Him because He first loved us. But God\u2019s love is not intended to be simply given to us and returned back to Him. As John continues in his letter, \u201cDear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us\u201d (vv. 11, 12).<\/p>\n

This is divine love \u2014 love that grows and gives and greets the other. This is the love Paul commends in 2 Corinthians 5, love that compels us to live for Christ and for the world that Christ loves. Jesus died for us. As we join Him in death, we rise to new life in Him with new purpose for our lives. No longer do we live for ourselves; now we live for Him who died for us. And we realize He died not only for us but also for the whole world. So we live in love for them on His behalf.<\/p>\n

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Challenge<\/h2>\n

This is where it all begins. Before we discuss the details of what it might look like for us to be messengers and ministers of reconciliation, we begin here with love. Without it, there is no reason, no motivation, no compelling force to make us live for someone other than ourselves. With it, we dare not continue living for ourselves or for anything less than the person and work of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

And here is the incredible challenge of Paul\u2019s impassioned plea in 2 Corinthians 5:14-21. If we are not acting as Christ\u2019s ambassadors, what does that say about us? If we are not practicing the ministry and preaching the message of reconciliation, why aren\u2019t we? If we are not embodying new creation in Christ, what are we doing? Contrary to much of Christian history and our own Christian practice, evangelism is not simply one task of the church or a specialized duty for super Christians. It is not something we must be specifically called to or particularly gifted for. It is the fundamental response of Christ\u2019s followers to God\u2019s love,<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever\u2014 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you\u201d (John 14:15-18).<\/p>\n

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Mission<\/h2>\n

Out of love for Christ we obey His commandments, trusting Him for the presence of the Holy Spirit, who allows Christ himself to live within us. This intimate connection among love, obedience, the Spirit, and being Christ\u2019s messengers is evident here in John 14 and again in John\u2019s version of the Great Commission:<\/p>\n

Again Jesus said, \u201cPeace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.\u201d And with that he breathed on them and said, \u201cReceive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone\u2019s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven\u201d (20:21-23).<\/p>\n

We also see it in Matthew\u2019s Great Commission:<\/p>\n

Then Jesus came to them and said, \u201cAll authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age\u201d (28:18-20).<\/p>\n

And look \u2014 here it is again in Luke\u2019s version: \u201cYou 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\u201d (Acts 1:8).<\/p>\n

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Entrusted<\/h2>\n

Jesus came to this earth with a mission \u2014 the very mission of God \u2014 to redeem and restore all of His creation from the terrible effects of sin and death. Jesus\u2019 time on earth was not the end of this mission but the beginning of the end, an ending He has entrusted to His followers.<\/p>\n

Indwelt by His Spirit and compelled by His love, we share that love with the world, living for the One who died for us. This is the essence of what it means to love God, to obey His commandments, to be filled with His Spirit. The love of Christ compels us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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