1 Corinthians 13
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I) Context
I) Context
Context
The Church at Corinth Had Many Problems
Choosing Favorite Preachers- 1-4
Not Withdrawing From the Unruly- 5
Suing One Another- 6
Problems With Marriage Between Believer and Unbeliever- 7
Eating of Meats Offered to Idols- 8-10
Abusing the Lord’s Supper- 11
Boasting Over Spiritual Gifts- 12-14
Controversy Surrounding the Resurrection- 15
is In the Midst of Dealing With Problems Concerning Spiritual
Was Written to Show the Corinthians There Are Things More Important and Longer Lasting Than Spiritual Gifts
II) Text
II) Text
Condition Without Love (vv.1-3)
Description of Love (vv.4-7)
Spiritual Gifts Will End, but Love Never Ends (vv.8ff)
III) Lessons Learned
III) Lessons Learned
The Importance of Love
1. Without Love I Am Nothing-
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 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, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
1. Without Love I Am Nothing-
2. “The Greatest of These Is Love"-
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
3. On love Bases All the Law and the Prophets- ;
(iii)On love Bases All the Law and the Prophets- ;
The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him, saying: “Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother. Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh. Last of all the woman died also. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.”
Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven. But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
What Love Is-
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
What Love Does Not Do-
does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
What Love Does-
does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love Never Fails-
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
Spiritual Gifts Will Cease
1. Spiritual Gifts Would End When the “Perfect” Had Come-
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
1. Spiritual Gifts Would End When the “Perfect” Had Come-
2. The “Perfect” is the Faith “Which Was Once For All Handed Down to the Saints”-
Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
