The Never-ending Love

In the 1960’s the Shirelles became the first all-girl group to reach #1 on the Billboard charts with their hit song, “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” You may have heard it, or maybe not depending on your age. The song ends with these lines:

“I’d like to know that your love is love I can be sure of, so tell me now and I won’t ask again, will you still love me tomorrow?” And, even though the singer has just promised that she would not ask again, the song fades away with her asking three more times, “Will you still love me tomorrow?”

The hearer gets the feeling that even though the song has ended and the music has faded, she’s still asking.

Isn’t that what everyone is asking.

Last week we joined the music group Foreigner in our “Want to Know What Love Is,” and we saw the nature of love in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a.

Today, we join the Shirelles in asking “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?”

We began this study with

The Need for Love

Here we read

1 Corinthians 13:1–3 CSB

1 If I speak human or angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

and discovered that we need love. Without love, we may have the greatest of all spiritual gifts (other than love), and we are but a noisy nuisance, we are nothing and we gain or profit nothing. We need love!

Last week we saw

The Nature of Love

when we continued with

1 Corinthians 13:4–8 CSB

4 Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant, 5 is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs. 6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

Here we saw what love is, what love does not do and what love does do. We ended last week with the beginning of this week when we said that love endures all things and love never ends.

This morning we ask the question “Will you still love me tomorrow?” as we see God’s answer and promise to us in

The Never-ending Love

Let us pick up where we left off and notice two major ideas concerning this never-ending love.

1 Corinthians 13:8–13 CSB

8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known. 13 Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love—but the greatest of these is love.

Paul’s first attention is given to a comparison of love to

Things that pass away

Things that are permanent

Faith looks back to Calvary

Hope looks forward to His coming

Love is for now! Love is forever! Love is what God is!