Love Over

Love is Essential

Love is not simply a feeling in your chest or an emotion. Love is an exercise of the will to build up the other, even to the expense of yourself. It is the way beyond comparison as Paul has stated because LOVE is what enables the church to fulfill God’s commands to us!!

The Bible Knowledge Commentary 13:2

Paul was not depreciating those gifts but was appreciating love by showing it to be incomparable.

The Bible Knowledge Commentary 13:1

Some have suggested that this “hymn to love” (chap. 13) was composed by Paul on a previous occasion (under the Spirit’s inspiration, of course) and inserted in the letter at this point (under the Spirit’s direction) because of its telling appropriateness.

The Corinthians were using the spiritual gifts or charismata for they’re own benefit and not for the growth of the church or the individual members one on one

Marriage is not the result of love- it is created from the delusion that this other person isn’t a train wreck

Love is dynamite

here we have love that according to the word’s of Jesus opens the door to live the great command

Agape love opens the door for others to confess sins, ask for forgiveness, grant healing, pray in the Spirit for one another..............It BLOWS THE DOORS OFF traditional church and religiouosity

13:1 Eloquence without love is positively grating. A cymbal is an important instrument, but its beauty is ruined by unwise use, and its clanging can turn into a great annoyance.

v 1 without love you are offensive to others

like the cymbal or the recorders when you were kids

Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament Greatness of Love (13:1–3)

13:2 Prophecy, knowledge of mysteries, and mountain-moving faith are all highly regarded, and people who have these gifts are thought to be great. But Paul explains that a person who has such gifts is nothing if he does not have love. God sees the lack of love as a fatal flaw that despoils all other purported virtues. Love is the greatest commandment (Matt 22:37–39), and therefore the lack of love is the greatest sin.

without love I am nothing-without love there is nothing of real value in your ministry, even if you get results or are well liked and admired even applauded-as far as God is concerned that will be the only reward

1 John 4:7–11 ESV

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:20 LEB

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen is not able to love God whom he has not seen.

Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament Greatness of Love (13:1–3)

13:3 Giving away everything one owns and allowing oneself to be burned as a martyr might seem to be the quintessence of love for God, and yet these actions can be done without love, Paul explains. If they are done so, they are not to be considered fruit and will not be rewarded by God. Doing such deeds is no gain at all. Motive is everything when it comes to the eternal value of a person’s deeds (see 3:12–13; Matt 6:1–6; 23:25–28).

“I thought sacrifice for others was love” Not if you are the end result for the sacrifice

Love will proceed from the nature of the lover not the merit of the beloved=the way you treat others is a direct expression of who you love!!!

The Lexham English Bible Chapter 22

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.

John 17 tells us that Jesus prayed and asked the Father to grant us unity and love

Love will proceed from the nature of the lover not the merit of the beloved=the way you treat others is a direct expression of who you love!!!

return to your first love-Revelation 2:1-5

Love is not simply a feeling in your chest or an emotion. Love is an exercise of the will to build up the other, even to the expense of yourself. It is the way beyond comparison as Paul has stated because LOVE is what enables the church to fulfill God’s commands to us!!