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Text: 1 Cor 8:1-13
Title: “ Whats Love Got To Do With It?”
CIT: As believers live in light of their knowledge of the gospel, Paul wanted love to be the driving factor of their actions.
Proposition: As believers live in light of their knowledge of the gospel, God wants to be the driving factor of their actions.
Big Idea: As believers mature in their faith, God desires that their lifestyles would build up other believers.
Big Question: What can mature believers do in order to build up other believers?
I. Knowledge must be supplemented with love (1-3).
EXP: Paul warned of a knowledge without love: a knowledge that is issue oriented and individualistically applied, a knowledge that is not implemented for the glory of God, the benefit of his people.
Love uses knowledge to build up and edify.
(Gal 5:6)
Though Paul agreed that the content of the Gnostic believers’ knowledge was correct, he wanted love to be the foundation of their ethic.
Gnostics believed knowledge gave them the ‘right/freedom’ to act as they wished.
New converts from pagan religions questioned religious practices: “could they meet over lunch with business associates or fellow members of their trade guild, or attend a reception in a temple for a relative’s wedding.”
The real issue was a demonstration of one’s right (or freedom) rather than the love for others.
APP: Knowledge without love inflates one to a level of false security and indifference.
Love takes one beyond themselves to aid another; it builds up.
Believing you know everything about something causes one to rely on their own self-sufficient knowledge (puffs up).
Love forces one to discern the compassionate use of their knowledge.
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God alone determines the way of salvation (4-8).
Shema: Deut 6:4-6
Our purpose in life is to serve him, and not simply to have him meet our needs so that we can pursue our own interests.
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Believers’ actions affect others (9-13).
Conclusion: Because believers understand the love of God shown in the gospel, they should allow their love for others to determine their lifestyle.
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