La Vida Juntos, Impulsado por el Amor de Cristo

The love of Christ for him displayed in Christ actually dying for him. When someone takes your place and dies for you, it transforms you.

In the closing scene of the movie Saving Private Ryan, James Ryan is an old man standing with his wife and family.

James Ryan is an old man standing with his family. Looking at one Captain Miller's gravestone.

Looking at the lamp of Captain Miller's grave. Captain Miller was a man tasked with leading three other soldiers to bring Private Ryan back home.

Captain Miller was one of the people who was assigned to bring Ryan back home. He had already lost multiple brothers to World War II.

He had lost many brothers due to the Second World War. And the army decided that it would be wrong for him to die and his mother lose all her sons.

The movie portrays how difficult it was for these four men to find and retrieve Ryan.

The movie portrays how difficult it was for Ryan to find and return to his family. It was so difficult that all four men died trying to get him home.

It was so difficult that the four men who went to find and retrieve him died in the attempt. Now as Private Ryan, as an old man, stands at this captain's grave.

Now Ryan, as an old man, stands at this captain's grave. He is reflecting on what these men sacrificed so that he might survive.

But he was still exploring what these men sacrificed so that he might survive. The men sacrificed so that he could survive. Ryan feels the weight of their sacrifice.

Ryan was experiencing the sacrifice of their lives. it compelled him to live for the sake of those who died for him lo constriño lo empujo a vivir y a morir por ellos this hints at the kind of thought that Paul had in regard to Christ esto nos da una idea de lo que Pablo pensaba acerca del sacrificio de Cristo por el as Christ gave himself for Paul he was moved to live for Christ en la medida en que Cristo se dio a si mismo por Pablo el fue compelido impulsado a darse a si mismo por Cristo are you compelled to live for Christ te sientes tu forzado impulsado a vivir por Cristo if someone has died for you in your place you cannot live for yourself si alguien ha muerto por ti en tu lugar tu no puedes vivir para ti mismo you must live for the one who's taken your place tu debes vivir para aquel que tomo tu lugar your own life only able to live your life because someone else has forfeited theirs tu estás vivo únicamente porque alguien tomo tu lugar that is exactly what has happened for every person who has trusted Christ y eso es lo que exactamente ha pasado en cada persona que ha confiado y puesto su fe en Cristo

Jesus sacrificed his life so that you can live Cristo sacrificó su vida para que tu puedas vivir and it wasn't just a man like Captain Miller or even three men like these other guys y no fue un hombre simplemente como el Capitán Miller o como los otros tres soldados this was the son of God Cristo era el hijo es el hijo de Dios God having taken on flesh Dios encarnado a man who never ever once did anything wrong un hombre que nunca jamás cometió pecado and one who did absolutely everything pleasing in God's sight y que hizo absolutamente todo lo que era agradable a los ojos de Dios that's just part of what the one who has died for you has done eso es solamente parte de lo que ha hecho aquel que murió por ti and so

I'll ask again are you compelled to live for Christ así que te pregunto de nuevo está tú impulsado te sientes constreñido a vivir por Cristo to be anything less than compelled to service by a life sacrificed by your life sacrificed for him is a life of unthankfulness and disrespect to the one who gave his life for you vivir en algo que sea menos que sacrificar tu vida para vivir por él es una traición a Cristo we touched on six different areas as we went through this series and pointed to the idea of how each of these areas is a reaction to the death of Christ for you membership membership is compelled by the love of Christ for us in the first message of the series we spoke of how the gospel makes the church a people not a crowd in the first message of the series we saw how the gospel makes the believer a people not a multitude if you know

Christ as Savior God has not had you come to be individuals who just sit in this room and go out without any connection to each other Christ has loved you and died for you and called you to be a part of something that ministers to itself Christ has loved and died for you and called to be part of this group and minister to if you have trusted Christ have you been willing to be recognized as part of the body God called you to serve in here have you seen your need to take your place in the body God has called you to serve in have you seen the need to take your place in the body the second message dealt with service service is compelled by the love of

Christ in the second message we spoke the service in the second message we spoke of how the gospel makes the church a body with interdependent members who are to serve one another God put us in a body so that when one is discouraged the other of us can encourage them God put us in a body so that one of us gets caught in sin another one of us exhorts that person to come from that sin Christ himself

Christ humbled himself to serve us we should serve one another! Christ God put us in a body with responsibilities to love one another to be unified to be mutually edifying and to watch over one another God God has put in a body so that we are of mutual!

one to other! God is one one! God has been shown mercy and the name of Christ do you see this group of people you sit with as people you are to serve in la forma en que Cristo te ha mostrado misericordia sirves tú al pueblo que está aquí mostrando misericordia y el mismo amor does your attitude towards those around you reflect the attitude that Christ has shown for you la actitud tuya acerca de lo que están alrededor en la iglesia muestra la actitud que Cristo ha mostrado para contigo el tercer mensaje spoke of commitment compelled by the love of Christ for us in this third message we spoke of how the gospel calls

Christians to be committed to the body the church this sounds a lot like the first message but we're making a bit of a turn here for friends who don't mean much to us something happens and we can walk away but people who are committed to each other stick together and work things out but the people who are committed to each other remain together and try to work with the situation that is present Jesus was committed to provide salvation although he faced the most extreme suffering that any man could face he died to save a people who are to be committed to him and to one another commitment to the body means maintaining unity it means working together in the ministry of the gospel it means staying together through difficult circumstances working through differences and loving those who are hard to love are you committed to those you sit with this afternoon do you see those you sit with as fellow sinners for whom

Christ gave his life they were no better than you and yet he gave his life for them they received the same undeserved grace that you did do you know that they are as loved and precious to the savior as you are are you committed to them no matter what you may need to go through the fourth message involved giving giving is compelled by the love of Christ in fourth message we spoke of how the gospel calls us to give of what

God has given to us to carry on the work of the gospel in all of scripture God's people have shown their worship and thankfulness in setting aside a percentage of what God provides as an offering for God in all scripture vemos como el pueblo de Dios muestra gratitud al poner aparte una porción de lo que Dios le da y ofrendarlo a él en gratitud And the only motivation in both the Old and New Testament for this has been the fact that is a response to God's provision and goodness to them news flash

God is not poor noticia difícil de creer Dios no es pobre but he does depend on you giving out of thankfulness and worship to the Lord for the work of the ministry here as one who's known the grace of God to save you do you in thankfulness and worship give back to him a planned portion to carry on the work of the ministry the fifth message spoke about worship worship is compelled by the love of

Christ for us worship is a response to greatness we worship because of who God is and what he's done ador if someone died for you would you tell people about that we're compelled to worship as we see the love of Christ for us we like Paul we're compelled to worship as we see the love of Christ for us we were sinners and haters of God the son of

God took on flesh to live for us and then die for us that we might be forgiven and pleasing in God's sight we don't deserve what he has done as one who has experienced the grace of God are you not compelled by the love of Christ like you have experienced the love of Christ you are you forced to force to worship God corporately as a body and privately as individual people adorar a Christ de manera corporativa como un cuerpo e individualmente tu separado in our last message we talked about attention to the word of

God attention to the word of God is compelled by the love of Christ the gospel causes us to need and want to be under the ministry of the word of Christ a person whose life has been provided by the death of another wants to be equipped for the work of service to be mature and more and more like Christ to be reminded often of what Christ has done for them that's what the word of God does for us as we sit under it as one who has experienced the grace of

God do you see your responsibility as one God has redeemed to be under the preaching and teaching of the word of God does the love of Christ compel you to follow Christ in these ways maybe in the past you've been hurt or offended by a situation of the church and you say I don't want to commit as a member I don't want to invest in people's lives as one who's seen the grace of God that's not the reaction you should have and if you're stuck and don't know how to get past that talk to one of the elders and if you're feeling that you're at you're at in a situation like come and talk with one of the old!

let them listen and help you see how God would have you trust him even in your situation does the love of Christ compel you to follow him maybe you have forgotten just how much grace God has demonstrated to save you Paul or Peter rather deals with that in 2nd Peter chapter 1 and verse 9 talking about some of them had forgotten that they were washed from their former sins do you see the love of

Christ and what he's done for you ask the Lord to remind you of what he's done read and listen to the word preach to hear again what Christ has done for you and maybe you've been here through all of this that I've mentioned and you've said that doesn't quite fit me maybe you've never understood that Christ did give his life for you maybe you're not yet trusting in the work that he's done for you maybe you even still consider yourself an enemy of

God there's good news Paul in Romans 5 says for while we were still weak at the right time Christ died for the ungodly for one scarcely will die for a righteous person though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die but God shows his love for us and that while we were still sinners Christ died for us because Pablo tells us in Romans chapter 5 chapter 6 8 because Christ when we were weak at his time died for the imp certainly only will be for a just with all it could be that some will die for the good but God shows his love for us in that being even sinners!

Christ died for us! Let's pray! you would be with us who know you may we never get over the wonder of what Christ has done and may a knowledge of what Christ has done compel us like Paul to serve you and one another and I pray that today those who don't know you would know that Christ has loved even his enemies and has been willing to die for them that they might come to know him draw those ones to yourself today and draw us to you who know you that we might be compelled to serve you we pray in

Jesus name amen amen amen Amen.