The Compulsion of Love: Sermons Preached at Ossining-on-Hudson, N. Y., In the Highland Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Compulsion of Love: Sermons Preached at Ossining-on-Hudson, N. Y., In the Highland Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church

If the question be raised as to whether Christ's love for us is meant, or our love for Him, I answer I believe the meaning in the context is Christ's love for us, and yet both ideas are comprehended in the passage; Christ's love for us first in the order of time, and our love for Him as the reciprocal in fluence of His love upon us. Now in seeking for the principle of agreement between these teach ings, the type of compulsion spoken of in the text must be noted, For the love of Christ constraineth us. It is not the compulsion of superior physical strength, but the compulsion of love. Not a com pulsion wrung from a man's inability to resist, nor one that is granted with even so much as a feeling of protest; but one that a man grants gladly, joy ously, when he comes to a realization of the won derful meaning of the love of Christ.

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Excerpt from The Compulsion of Love: Sermons Preached at Ossining-on-Hudson, N. Y., In the Highland Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church

"For the love of Christ constraineth us." - 2 Cor. v, 14.

In our word constrain is the idea of compulsion. It comes to us from the Latin, and means literally to bind together; to fetter. It is thus defined in the Century Dictionary, "In general, to exert force physical or moral, upon, either in urging to action or in restraining from it. To press, to urge, to drive, - hence to urge with irresistible power; or with a force sufficient to produce the effect; to compel; to necessitate; to oblige."

The word used in the Greek is equally strong. It is the same that the Apostle uses in Philippians i, 23, where he declares, "For I am in a strait betwixt two." He says literally, "The love of Christ nedges me in; encompasses me on every side; binds me tight; forces the current of my life into a certain channel."

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