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The Love that Motives Our Service (2 Corinthians 5:9-21)

I. The fear of God (2 Corinthians 5:9-13)

  1. “We labour” (2 Corinthians 5:9; Galatians 1:10; Romans 12:1; Romans 14:13, 18; Ephesians 5:7-8, 10; Colossians 3:20; Hebrews 13:20-21; Romans 15:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:11)
  2. “We must all appear” (2 Corinthians 5:10; Romans 14:8-10; 1 John 2:28; Acts 18:12; Revelations 20:11-15; John 5:24; Romans 8:1; 1 Corinthians 3:13; 1 Corinthians 4:5; Romans 14:10-12; I Corinthians 3:10-15; 1 Corinthians 4:1-6)
  3. “We persuade men” (2 Corinthians 5:11-13; 1 Peter 4:18; Colossians 3:23-25; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Corinthians 11:18; Acts 26:11, 24; Mark 3:21)

II. The love of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:14-17)

  1. He died that we might die to self (2 Corinthians 5:14; Galatians 2:20)
  2. He died that we might live unto Christ (2 Corinthians 5:15-17; Romans 7:4; 1 John 4:9; Hebrews 5:7; 1 Corinthians 15:45)

III. The commission of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:18-21)

  1. Christ’s work of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18, 19)
  2. Reconciliation is based on imputationo (2 Corinthians 5:20, 21; Psalm 32:1-2; Psalm 4:18; Philemon 17; 2 Corinthians 5:18-19; John 20:21; 2 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:3-10)