PASSION AND POWER IN THE CALLING TO SALVATION

PASSION AND POWER IN THE CALLING TO SALVATION 

"As though God were entreating by us; we beseech" 2 Cor. 5:20

What URGENCY breathes through these words! The subject is that of the reconciliation made possible between man and God, because "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself." That word of reconciliation is committed to those called to serve Christ. They are ambassadors on behalf of Christ, therefore the URGENCY. They must deliver their message in a way worthy of the One Who sends them: "As though God were pleading by us; we beseech." That was Paul's conception of the way to preach Christ; and it is manifest in all the records we have of his journeying’s, his spoken messages, as well as in his letters. The marvel and the glory of the Divine provision, and the terror and peril of human need, were such as to make anything in the nature of indifference to, results, or coolness in presentation, impossible. Every call was a PLEADING. Moreover he dared to say that in this attitude he was representing God; and every soul who knows anything of the real meaning of the Cross, knows that this is a true word. God does not treat human salvation as a matter about which He can be indifferent or careless. The Cross is His PASSION, His EARNESTNESS; may we not dare to say, that by which He entreats men to be reconciled. In face of that, what can be worse than to declare His message as though it were not a message vital, tremendous, DEMANDING ALL PASSION AND POWER IN ITS DELIVERY? All this makes us think! And perhaps the thinking is better done alone!