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Grace Place Atlanta COGBF
4700 Mitchell Street
Forest Park, GA 30297
Website: atlantacogbf.org
Email: info@atlantacogbf.org
Phone: (404) 241-6781
Wayne D. Mack, Pastor
Elder Jonathan Lonon Sermon Notes
May 1, 2022
“Unselfish Love”
Song: Hymn 1070 or 265 - Love Lifted Me
1 Corinthians 13:1–13 (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.
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.
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.
Faith, Hope, and Charity are three long-lasting virtues that carry us to new heights and even
deeper depths in Christ.
We’ll leave hope in the basket for another day - the Creme of the Oreo - and focus on the two
chocolate ends: Faith and Love.
Faith is for right now and throughout life, but because love is
God personified, it never ends and will be our portion in glory.
So it’s good to rewind to a time
before the crucifixion to learn a lesson about faith in God from the author and finisher of our
faith.
We can then fast forward to these times after the resurrection on the power of love to
continue its trek of unfathomable graciousness in our lives.
Greater love has no man than this, than to lay down His life, AND to still share that life with us
after we willfully participate in putting Him to shame over and over again!
On this Lord’s Day, the Sunday eve of Mother’s Day we, like Jesus, exhibit the love He had on
the cross to pass our mothers on to another caretaker - Christ Himself - to care for her like no
one else can.
Happy early Mother’s Day in Jesus’ name - we give you into the loving arms of Jesus to carry
you forward safely and lovingly, just as He did His mother.
He will help us carry out that
loving task.
But let’s start with Faith before we get to this unselfish love.
In fact Faith brings to the fore both hope and love as we use it to access His graces.
However,
we must first learn some lessons about faith and how God responds to it and measures it.
In Matthew 8:23-27 (NLT) we see one of many instances where Jesus works a miracle that
astounds the onlookers - in this case He calms the raging storm.
Matthew 8:23–27 (NLT):
Jesus Calms the Storm 23 Then Jesus got into the boat and started across the lake with his
disciples.
24 Suddenly, a fierce storm struck the lake, with waves breaking into the boat.
But
Jesus was sleeping.
25 The disciples went and woke him up, shouting, “Lord, save us!
We’re
going to drown!” 26 Jesus responded, “Why are you afraid?
You have so little faith!”
Then he
got up and rebuked the wind and waves, and suddenly there was a great calm.
27 The
disciples were amazed.
“Who is this man?” they asked.
“Even the winds and waves obey
him!”
Notice that the sudden calm was for the fearful disciples, not Jesus, who was already quite calm
since they needed to shout to awaken Him during the raging tempest!
The lesson is that sudden calm is automatic to those strong in faith for they know that nothing
can harm them while in the bosom of the Lord!
{Freelance on each segment of these verses here - see underlined phrases above.}
Now, let’s return to wrap up the other side of this Oreo cookie, Love.
This love was shown long before He died and rose as He challenged the faith of the disciples
with a sternness that was not intended to tear them down, but to build their spiritual muscle.
Many of these lessons about faith and hope and love would come clear to them after being
endowed by the Holy Spirit of God and growing even more as they worked the work of God
themselves, now being empowered to speak to the elements and the people with that same
sternness.
Finally realizing that it was not by power, nor by might (or their own works of the
flesh), but by His Spirit that their faith was effective.
On heels of Easter, it is good to do as the disciples and close followers of Christ must have done
- we reminisce and question Why.
Why die?
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