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Never laugh at your wife's choices.
You’re one of them.
A man once relayed the following story:
I was on a flight the other day and I found I’d been seated next to a beautiful young woman.
As I sat down next to her I said, “Does the airline charge you extra for sitting next to good-looking men?”
She said, “Yes, but I wasn’t prepared to pay.”
I like to show my wife who’s the boss in our house.
I do this by holding a mirror up to her face.
A wife asks her husband, “How would you describe me?”
He replies, “ABCDEFGHIJK.”
The confused wife asks, “What does that mean?”
Her husband replies, “Adorable, beautiful, cute, delightful, elegant, fashionable, gorgeous, and hot.”
The wife says, “Aw, thank you, but what about IJK?”
“I’m just kidding!”
Historical/Cultural Context -
Paul preached the gospel in Corinth in the early 50s AD during his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1–18).
When opposition grew fierce there, the Lord Jesus spoke to him in a vision assuring him that he had ‘many people’ in the city (Acts 18:10).
With this encouragement, Paul stayed on for eighteen months, ‘teaching them the word of God’ (Acts 18:11).
God used Paul’s ministry to bring about the birth and establishment of the church in Corinth.
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Life Principle - Agape Love Is More Important Than Anything For Christians & Will Revolutionize Your Life If You Let It.
Life Point- Love Is The Important Part Of The Christian Experience
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Last week The scripture ended with “Yet I show you a more excellent way to live.”
This week we find Paul writes the more excellent way.
This chapter is often called the Love Chapter.
It fleshes out the importance of Love in the Christian’s life and what that Love looks like.
He starts by says that if he could speak in any language on earth and any angelic language that exists, it would mean nothing without love.
In other words if a church believes themselves to be spiritual people yet they do not show the acts of love there is no reason for that church to exist.
So it might be important that we find out what kind of love the Apostle is writing about here.
Our term love in English is so convoluted, so watered down that it has become to mean anything from out and out lust to a love that is pure and self-sacrificing.
This is especially evident when we look at how the world has redefined the words we use everyday.
I find that the older I get the the more words don’t mean what they used to mean.
For example, and this is just a silly example, I have kids that use the term “say less.”
Now to me, that seems kind of rude.
I am telling a student he needs to do such and such an activity and his immediate response is “Say Less.”
My response to him at the time was “Excuse me?” Come to find out, to them at least, it means you don’t have to say anymore, I got it and I am taking care of it.
So, let’s take a minute and look at the different kinds of love that the ancient Greek language had to offer.
There are 4 word used during this time for love in Greek.
Only three ever appear in scripture.
1) Eros - This is the root word for where we get erotic.
It is a purely physical kind of love
2) Phileo - This is a brotherly or familial kind of love.
This is the root for the Philadelphia which means The city of brotherly love.
You could say this is the I love you because you love me kind of love.
3) Agape - This is the God kind of love.
This says I love you with no conditions.
I love you just because.
When Paul writes love here, he is referring to God’s kind of love.
It is Agape that is used.
to have love for someone or something, based on sincere appreciation and high regard—‘to love, to regard with affection, loving concern, love
This term is used in john 13:34:
Agape, this kind of love is missing in today’s churches.
love is not considered to be something to be strived for, sought after, or put into practice.
Agape is not something that should be overlooked.
Churches have plenty of activities, plenty of programs, plenty of music but they lack the one thing that God calls for His people to demonstrate.
That is agape.
The love that is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
With this in mind let’s look at our main text again.
now go back and insert the term agape for every time you see love and you will find this text expands itself in your mind, if not convicts us all of our sin of not walking in Agape Love.
Only you know if Agape is missing from your life toward God and your fellow Christians.
If it is missing, today is a good day to repent and ask God to supernaturally shed this love all over your inner being so that you may serve Him more faithfully and with more passion that you ever have before.
Life Point - Agape Love Will Revolutionize Your Life
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Sometimes Love is lacking in our lives.
There is a good test there to see if your walk with Christ is what it should be.
There is no person in the church who should not be truly pricked in the heart by these words.
Every Christian upon self-examination will find a need for repentance in this section.
replace the word love in verse 4-7 with your name:
1 Corinthians 13:4–7 (NLT)
Joe is patient and kind.
Joe is not jealous or boastful or proud
or rude.
Joe does not demand his own way.
Joe is not irritable, Joe keeps no record of being wronged.
Joe does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Joe never gives up, Joe never loses faith, Joe always hopeful, and Joe endures through every circumstance.
Take this verse by verse with your name and examine your life through each verse.
You know what you will find?
You’re not where you should be in your dealings with Christ or your dealings with other people.
You will find a need to repent.
You will find a need to make sure your life is genuine and genuinely lived before God and others.
Yes folks this is what is missing from modern Christianity.
Jesus was and is all of these things, but those that swear by His name have become fake.
Today it is more about the music and the emotional manipulation of people than it is about serving God and Others.
Today churches spend ungodly amounts of money on lighting, instruments, and fog machines to put on a show, rather than loving each other.
Let this charge never be brought against First Baptist Church of Minneola.
Don’t get me wrong, it is nice to have music to worship God.
This is not the problem.
The problem is when that becomes more important than Love.
The problem is that is where all your money is going to put on a show and not worshipping God in Spirit and in Truth.
Now remember Paul is talking to a church that isn’t caught up in God’s love.
They are caught up in the spiritual gifts.
They have become unloving and seeking the wrong thing.
So he writes:
This scripture is often used to say that the Gifts of the Spirit have ceased.
Why?
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