Sermon Tone Analysis

, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.

The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.

And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Peter ends the chapters saying if you are saved, then love others.

Not to just be nice or kind.

He is not just asking us to be patient or consider ate, but to love.

And Love is a term that has been muddied in our world.

Love does the things I just mentioned but just doing them could be self-serving.

Another New Testament writer, the Apostle Paul speak of love as well.

He has one of the most well known text on love.

(KJV 1900) — 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

To love sincerely is anupókritos, which means “genuine” or “without hypocrisy.”

It is unfeigned love which is without pretense or without acting a part.

To love sincerely is to love authentically.

This to love like our Lord Himself loves.