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1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stephen Caswell © 2000
Charming Compassion
 
I read recently of a teaching hospital that found out one of its young resident students had a marvelous effect on children.
They responded to him with delight.
They would do things for him and yield to his ministrations in a way that they wouldn't do for any other person on the staff.
They assigned a nurse to discover what the secret of this young resident was.
It wasn't until the second week when she was on night turn that she found out the secret.
It was simply this: Every night on his last round he would kiss, and hug, and tuck in every one of the children.
It was in that act of compassion, you see, in that act of sympathy, that he made his contact.
Love is the vital ingredient that makes ministry effective.
Introduction
 
Two weeks ago we saw how God gave spiritual gifts to build up the body of Christ.
The Church is like the human body containing many members.
There is a wonderful unity in the diversity of spiritual gifts.
God has given different gifts to His people so that the entire body might benefit and grow.
Unfortunately the Corinthians used their spiritual gifts as toys to play with and weapons to fight with rather than tools to build with.
So Paul had to teach them the importance of love when exercising spiritual gifts.
Unfortunately many people today take 1 Corinthians 13 out of its context and make it a hymn to love.
However Paul is still dealing  with the matter of spiritual gifts.
*1 Corinthians 12:31 *introduces chapter 13. /But earnestly desire the best gifts.
And yet I show you a more excellent way./
In the original language this verse can be translated as either a fact or a command.
/Now you selfishly strive after the better gifts and yet I show you a more excellent way./
Paul went on to speak of the away of love.
He listed three important facts about love in chapter 13.
 
I.
Love Is Essential            II.
Love Is Effectual            III.
Love Is Eternal
 
*13:1-3* /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./
To show how important love is Paul describes the ministry of five gifts without love.
These gifts are /tongues/ which were being greatly misused.
Then /prophecy, knowledge, faith/ to work miracles, and /giving./
J.B.
Phillips paraphrase of these three verses is as follows.
In verse 1 he says/ I produce nothing of value/, in verse 2 he says /I am nothing of value/ and verse 3 says that /I gain nothing of value/.
Notice how Paul takes up some of the spiritual gifts of 1 Corinthians 12:8–10 and shows their emptiness apart from love.
Paul describes these gifts being exercised to their fullest capacity to make his point.
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Tongues Of Men And Angels/
 
On the day of Pentecost when God poured out the Holy Spirit on His Church they spoke with other tongues.
This gift enabled unbelieving Jews from foreign lands to hear the good news in their own language.
These tongues were not babble but real languages listed out for us.
In Acts 2:6 & 8 the word*/ tongue/* in the KJV is dialekto" which literally means*/ language/* or */dialect.
/*They were languages known in the region as can be seen by the response of the people present [verses 6-12].
Some say that tongues is a special prayer language used by angels quoting 1 Corinthians 13:1 and Romans 8:26.
To start with men cannot speak with the tongues of angels.
Paul is saying that even if I could speak with the tongues of men and angels without love I simply make a loud noise for a moment.
*2 Corinthians 12:3-4* says this: /And I know such a man whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows - How he was caught up into Paradise and hear inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for man to utter./
So firstly men cannot speak with angelic tongues.
And secondly tongues without love are simply noise, like a clanging cymbal.
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Prophecy and Knowledge/
 
Prophecy was a gift of the Holy Spirit that enabled someone to give new revelation from God.
The Lord spoke through prophets to establish His Church on solid teaching.
But prophecy without love makes the prophet nothing.
This application can also be made to knowledge which is spiritual insight given immediately by the Holy Spirit.
Again Paul is taking this example to extreme measures, because no one has ever understood all mysteries or all knowledge.
But if some one could, without love they are still nothing.
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Faith/
 
Stephen and Barnabas were said to be full of faith and the Holy Spirit.
Stephen was able to work miracles and wonders as he exercised his faith.
Jesus said that if someone exercised faith they could command mountains to be moved.
However no one has ever done this.
Paul is not minimizing these gifts; he is simply saying that they will have no good effect on the individual or on the church unless love is manifested in the life of the Christian when they exercise of their gifts.
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Giving/
 
Next Paul describes giving away all of one's possessions to feed the poor.
Yet this too is fruit less.
*Matthew 6:1-2* /Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them.
Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.
Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men.
Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
/Only love enables believers gifts to truly help people./
/Christians who love the poor will not embarrass them to promote themselves.
Even if we go so far as to sacrifice our body, but apart from love, this act would amount to nothing.
Paul is probably speaking of martyrdom.
Therefore Love is the measure of all things.
It is evident that the Corinthians were using their spiritual gifts and offices with an attitude of competition and not of love.
The church was divided, and the situation was getting worse because the very spiritual gifts that were supposed to build the church were doing more harm than good!
Preaching without love is just so much noise.
Praying without love becomes an empty speech.
Giving without love is just a ceremony.
Is it any wonder that when Christ commissioned Peter he asked him, /Do you love me?/* /What is your motive for service?
Do you exercise your spiritual gifts with love?
Does your ministry accomplish something or nothing?/*
/Secondly/  Love Is Effectual
 
*1 Corinthians 13:4-7* /Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 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; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things./
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Spiritual gifts have no spiritual effect on the life of the church if there is no love, for it is love that the Spirit uses to build the church.
*1 Corinthians 8:1b* /Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
/In all three of the body passages in Paul’s letters, there is an emphasis on love.
[Romans 12; Ephesians 4; 1 Corinthians 12:-13:].
The main evidence of maturity in the Christian life is a growing love for God and for God’s people, as well as a love for lost souls.
It has well been said that love is the /circulatory system/ of the body of Christ.
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Love is patient and kind /
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