2 - THE PERSUASIVE POWER OF THE LOVE OF CHRIST: DRAWING - PULLING - URGING

THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS THAT HE WAS PERSUADED. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN ?

Persuasion is a gift often used by people who want to motivate others to action. Persuasive speech is meant to influence the opinions, attitudes, beliefs and values of audiences and/or their behavior by appealing to a combination of their needs, desires, interests, and even fears. When a person speaks persuasively, he or she wants to cause some shift in the audience’s emotions and reasoning about an issue—to arouse interest and perhaps motivate action for an issue or cause, or to strengthen (or weaken) beliefs about a certain controversy. 

SOMETHING SPOKE TO PAUL AND APPEALED TO HIM

Persuasion - the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination. To urge reasons for or against something; It means to convince; PAUL WAS CONVINCED – PAUL WAS PERSUADED

WHAT PERSUADED PAUL THAT NOTHING COULD SEPARATE HIM OR US FROM THE LOVE OF CHRIST ? WHAT WAS IT THAT CONVINCED PAUL ?

 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. (John 12:32) 
  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him... (John 6:44)
...therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. (Jeremiah 31:3)

THE MAGNETIC LOVE OF GOD THE FATHER AND OF CHRIST PERSUADED PAUL

 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: (2 Corinthians 5:14)

CONSTRAIN MEANS -  

to press; urge; to drive; to exert force, physical or moral, either in urging to action or in restraining it.

The love of Christ was the actuating principle of Paul’s conduct; it was his motive power.

 

WHAT IS LOVE ? WHAT IS THE LOVE OF CHRIST ?

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