LOVE - 1 Corinthians 13
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INTRO —
welcome!
STORY - middle school dudes cussing + pastor bragging on them!
how do you identify someone as a Christian?
is it the verse in your IG bio / verse tattoo / that you come to church / go to FCA / pray / read the Bible??
a lot of times we think someones a Christian by what they don’t do:
don’t cuss / party / make the wrong jokes / hang out with bad people
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
religions (other ways to say this would be “the most important thing about ___ is ____ )
Hinduism produces liberty/freedom
Islam produces submission (“islam” means peace and submission to Allah)
Judaism produces faithfulness (to the law)
Christianity produces love
one of my favorite pastors said this: “LOVE IS THE CHRISTIAN’S UNIFORM”
apple trees produce apples / Christians produce love!
LOVE + NOTHING = EVERYTHING / EVERYTHING W/OUT LOVE = NOTHING
LOVE + NOTHING = EVERYTHING / EVERYTHING W/OUT LOVE = NOTHING
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
in the chapters before and after this chapter, Paul is talking about spiritual gifts
context —> whatever gifts God has given you, love is the point of them!
WHAT GIFTS HAVE GOD GIVEN YOU?
you should use those to serve and build up the church! give glory to God!
if done without love - it doesn’t matter!
in the rest of the Bible, we know that LOVE is really the most emphasized thing —
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
the two most important things to do in life: love God & love people.
Love, and do what you will.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
love and do whatever you want
how can he say this?
LOVE BUILDS UP
LOVE BUILDS UP
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
when I was younger // I fought with my sister a lot //
9th grade - I started actually following Jesus - getting in the Word, fasting, meeting with my small group, serving the church
I started becoming a person of love - I unintentionally just stopped fighting with my sister
LOVE IS ETERNAL
LOVE IS ETERNAL
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
if you want to invest in thing eternal, invest in love!
what are temporary things we invest in?
What is love?
What is love?
this is hard because we read about Jesus love / we say I love you to our moms & also boyfriends that we break up with the next week / we say “I love poptarts”
the word gets watered down
In the Bible - “agape”
chat GPT - *read on the screen*
Romans 5:8 “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
How to become a person of love?
How to become a person of love?
Receive God’s Love Everyday
We love because he first loved us.
2. Grow your love for God
Love of God is the root, love of our neighbor the fruit of the Tree of Life. Neither can exist without the other, but the one is cause and the other effect.
William Temple (bishop)
3. Act!
