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Intro
• Autobiographical
• We will learn about Paul and love
• This chapter emphasizes the right attitude when exercising gifts—12:31 is the springboard (the more excellent attitude is love)
• The structure (and method of teaching): a) The necessity of love, vv.
1-3: The disaster of things if love is absent; b) The character of love, vv.
4-7: Conditions when love is present; c) The permanence of love, vv.
8-12: Comparison; d) The superiority of love, v. 13: Direct statement of fact.
The necessity of love—vv.
1-3
• The pattern—each verse goes through this pattern: a) A condition; b) An absence; c) The result.
Definition of love—It is the mental attitude that demands we do what is best for another in the light of eternity no matter what it costs me.
The character of love—vv.
4-7
Love is patient (passive quality)
• The idea of restraint when one has the right to act in retaliation [Matthew 18:23-30]
• Refers to a pressure of a person (not a circumstance) [Matthew 18:23-30]
• Has to do with the ability to delay a response—opposite of a quick temper [Luke 18:7]
• This attitude is to be extended to everyone [I Thessalonians 5:14; James 5:6-8]
• It involves ability to deal with delay in receiving what is deserved or promised [Hebrews 6:13-15]
• The Lord is the supreme example and the source of patient love [I Peter 3:20, II Peter 3:8-9; Romans 2:2-4; Romans 9:22]
• It is a necessary element in a walk that pleases God [Colossian 1:10; Colossians 3:12; Ephesians 4:1]
Love is kind (active quality)
• Love is not stoic
• Love is active in doing what benefits another
Love is not envious
• Basic meaning—to boil
• In a bad sense—this is envy
• In a good sense—this is zeal
• The idea of envy—I want what you have, AND I don’t like you because you have it.
Love does not vaunt itself
• Basic idea is—love of self-display
• Primary idea—desire to display how much you know
Love is not puffed up (arrogant)
• Noun form—bellow
• In Corinth . . . 1) Arrogance was manifest in contention; 2) . . .
manifest in their attitude toward Paul; 3) . . .
manifest regarding speech [manifested itself in speech]; 4) . . .
manifest regarding casual attitude to sin [manifested itself in casual attitude to sin; 5) . . .
manifest regarding truth [manifested itself in the way they handled truth].
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