THE OVERMASTERING MAJESTY OF PERSONAL POWER
For the love of Christ constraineth us.
2 Corinthians 5:14
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Paul says he is overruled, overmastered, held as in a vice, by the
love of Christ. Very few of us know what it means to be held in a
grip by the love of God; we are held by the constraint of our
experience only. The one thing that held Paul, until there was
nothing else on his horizon, was the love of God. "The love of Christ
constraineth us" - when you hear that note in a man or woman, you can
never mistake it. You know that the Spirit of God is getting
unhindered way in that life.
When we are born again of the Spirit of God, the note of testimony is
on what God has done for us, and rightly so. But the baptism of the
Holy Ghost obliterates that for ever, and we begin to realize what
Jesus meant when He said - "Ye shall be witnesses unto Me." Not
witnesses to what Jesus can do - that is an elementary witness - but
"witnesses unto Me." We will take everything that happens as
happening to Him, whether it be praise or blame, persecution or
commendation. No one can stand like that for Jesus Christ who is not
constrained by the majesty of His personal power. It is the only
thing that matters, and the strange thing is that it is the last
thing realized by the Christian worker. Paul says he is gripped by
the love of God, that is why he acts as he does. Men may call him mad
or sober, but he does not care; there is only one thing he is living
for, and that is to persuade men of the judgment seat of God, and of
the love of Christ. This abandon to the love of Christ is the one
thing that bears fruit in the life, and it will always leave the
impression of the holiness and of the power of God, never of our
personal holiness.
For the love of Christ constraineth us.
2 Corinthians 5:14
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=2co+5:14&sr=1
Paul says he is overruled, overmastered, held as in a vice, by the
love of Christ. Very few of us know what it means to be held in a
grip by the love of God; we are held by the constraint of our
experience only. The one thing that held Paul, until there was
nothing else on his horizon, was the love of God. "The love of Christ
constraineth us" - when you hear that note in a man or woman, you can
never mistake it. You know that the Spirit of God is getting
unhindered way in that life.
When we are born again of the Spirit of God, the note of testimony is
on what God has done for us, and rightly so. But the baptism of the
Holy Ghost obliterates that for ever, and we begin to realize what
Jesus meant when He said - "Ye shall be witnesses unto Me." Not
witnesses to what Jesus can do - that is an elementary witness - but
"witnesses unto Me." We will take everything that happens as
happening to Him, whether it be praise or blame, persecution or
commendation. No one can stand like that for Jesus Christ who is not
constrained by the majesty of His personal power. It is the only
thing that matters, and the strange thing is that it is the last
thing realized by the Christian worker. Paul says he is gripped by
the love of God, that is why he acts as he does. Men may call him mad
or sober, but he does not care; there is only one thing he is living
for, and that is to persuade men of the judgment seat of God, and of
the love of Christ. This abandon to the love of Christ is the one
thing that bears fruit in the life, and it will always leave the
impression of the holiness and of the power of God, never of our
personal holiness.
Control the Mind
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