Sermons on 2 Corinthians 12:15

not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless indeed you fail to meet the test, I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test. This is the word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God. Thanks be to God indeed. You may be seated. In the early hours of June 6, 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower gathered his top commanders into a room and he issued one of the most important military commands ever given. Operation Overlord was a go. D-Day, as we now call it, would go down as the largest amphibious invasion in human history. The stakes that early morning could not have been higher. Tens of thousands of lives were on the line. And if D-Day failed, Operation Overlord failed, then war, the war could drag on for years. Literally the future of Europe and by extension, the future of the world hung in the balance. You would expect Eisenhower's instructions in those moments to be stirring, eloquent, maybe even poetic, the kind of thing that you would memorize in school one day. …

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… In 2 Corinthians 12 and verse 15, the Bible says, I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls. This is the Apostle Paul who said this. I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved. I thought about that verse strongly when I thought about what happened to Charlie Kirk. He was willing to spend and be spent and be despised for what he believed and what he said. The freedom of speech. Speech that you have the right to believe and say what you want to say and do it in a civil way, not in a violent or threatening or dominating way that overwhelms and says, silence every other voice. Acts 13 and verse 36 said, And David served his generation. I love that. He served his generation by the will of God and then fell asleep. And that is a description of this Christian leader, Charlie Kirk. He served his generation in the will of God and instantly he died. …

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6. The godly may take great comfort in this, that Christ has as their high priest offered up such strong cries to God. You that have good evidence of your being believers in Christ, and his true followers and servants, may comfort yourselves in this, that Christ Jesus is your high priest, that that blood, which Christ shed in his agony, fell down to the ground for you, and that those earnest cries were sent up to God for you, for the success of his labours and sufferings in all that good you stood in need of in this world, and in your everlasting happiness in the world to come. This may be a comfort to you in all losses, and under all difficulties, that you may encourage your faith, and strengthen your hope, and cause you greatly to rejoice. If you were under any remarkable difficulties, it would be a great comfort to you to have the prayers of some man that you looked upon to be a man of eminent piety, and one that had a great interest at the throne of grace, and especially if you knew that he was very earnest and greatly engaged in prayer for you. But how much more may you be comforted in it, that you have an interest in the prayers and cries of the only-begotten and infinitely worthy Son of God, and that he was so earnest in his prayers for you, as you have heard! 7. Hence we may learn how earnest Christians ought to be in their prayers and endeavours for the salvation of others. Christians are the followers of Christ, and they should follow him in this. We see from what we have heard, how great the labour and travail of Christ’s soul was for others’ salvation, and what earnest and strong cries to God accompanied his labours. Here he hath set us an example. Herein he hath set an example for ministers, who should as co-workers with Christ travail in birth with them till Christ be found in them. Gal. iv. 19. “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you.” They should be willing to spend and be spent for them. They should not only labour for them, and pray earnestly for them, but should, if occasion required, be ready to suffer for them, and to spend not only their strength, but their blood for them. 2 Cor. xii. 15. “And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.” Here is an example for parents, showing how they ought to labour and cry to God for the spiritual good of their children. You see how Christ laboured and strove and cried to God for the salvation of his spiritual children; and will not you earnestly seek and cry to God for your natural children? …

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