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Life Verses
Good morning, I am so glad to be able to talk with you this morning.
As we hang out I want to talk about this journey that I have been on for such a long time, but I don’t think it is just my journey, I am hoping that you will also find yourself along this same journey.
As I was trying to think of a title for what I wanted to talk about, the title to a song flashed in my mind.
Whats love got to do with it?
I apologize ahead of time if it puts a tune in your head, but the worship team will fix it with our last song today.
The song starts like this; You must understand, though the touch of your hand makes my pulse react.
That is only the thrill of boy meeting girl, opposites attract.
It is physical, only logical, you must try to ignore that it means more than that.
Oh-oh, whats love got to do with it?
Whats love but a second hand emotion?
Whats love got to do with it?
Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?
When you read it you can almost hear Tina Turners voice as she sang it.
Most of us can all sing the words rather than just reading the lines.
But what a twisted song it is from God’s perspective, because for Him, love is the very reason we exist.
Remember Jesus words when He was asked what the greatest commandment was?
Mathew 22:37-40
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
It sounds much different than the words to the song doesn’t it.
Whether we want to admit it or not, our hearts' are involved in the decisions we make, the part we must decide is who takes first place in that love?
My life verses are played out in the book of 1 Corinthians but before we go there won’t you pray with me.
Pray
I want to give you a little of the back story behind why Paul wrote this letter to the church in Corinth.
The city of Corinth was situated at the crossroads of many trade routes, much like the airport in Seattle.
People come from all around the world to Seattle not as a destination but as a hub to connect to wherever it is they are going.
With that comes many different cultures and people groups and ways of thinking.
There is a church in the city of Corinth, or many small churches that met in many different houses.
What happens when you get many different people together from different backgrounds and ways of thinking and doing things?
It is more than likely that eventually there will be some kind of a disagreement, that if let run it’s course would create a major conflict.
I don’t know about you but I can have that argument all by myself depending on who’s love I let be in charge, my twisted sense of love or Gods perfect love.
As Paul is writing this letter, he is addressing many different conflicts within the church.
For instance;
there are Jews and Gentiles, wealthy and poor people, there are well schooled or wise people and some not so wise.
There were even arguments over what leader was best.
As you read through the chapters Paul talks about all of these arguments and how the church is to deal with them.
From sexual immorality in the church, people suing each other, to who is the most gifted and talented.
As we arrive to chapter 12, Paul starts dealing with Spiritual gifts and that everyone has spiritual gifts in the church but they are all supposed to work together to create a healthy body.
1 Corinthians 12:25-26
25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
Did you catch that?
Let me say it again
25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
So why is it that what is supposed to bring us together, to create unity, causes the greatest conflicts?
Or how about jealousy?
People being perceived as more important because of the gift that they have?
In a dating relationship, it is often that the opposite things that attract us to someone else, become the very things we don’t like or want to change in the other person later on?
Could it be the very same difference between the song I read from and Gods viewpoint on love?
The song says go thru the motions but don’t let your heart get involved, and God says let your love for others be shown as an overflow of the love that I have for you!
I suffered from this for years.
When Stacy and I met we had both just gone thru terrible divorces.
In a very desperate place in life I had made a vow that I would never let anyone that far into my heart ever again for fear of it getting broken.
I wouldn’t even tell her I loved her for the first year we were together.
She made a joke out of it by saying, “I know you don’t want to hear this but I love you.”
It wasn’t until God reminded me about that vow as we were praying together one day, and when I repented and asked her to forgive me, something in my heart came fully alive.
I felt like the grinch
It was like when David came to the place when he asked God to create in him a clean heart and renew a right spirit in him.
And here we arrive at my life verse and then the application of how it gets played out in our lives.
1 Corinthians 12:31
31 But earnestly desire the higher gifts.
And I will show you a still more excellent way.
The Amplified Bible says it this way:
But earnestly desire and strive for the greater gifts [if acquiring them is going to be your goal].
And yet I will show you still a more excellent way [one of the choicest graces and the highest of them all: unselfish love].
The NLT
So you should earnestly desire the most helpful gifts.
But now let me show you a way of life that is best of all.
There can be so much conflict in this verse or maybe a better word is tension.
You have gifts in one hand
and a more excellent way, unselfish love, and a way of life that is best of all in the other
Will we allow them to live in tension with one another creating unity, or let them be a battle of conflict that destroys our life?
For so much of my Christian life I sought after gifts.
You can take a deeper look at them in chapter 14 of this letter.
The church spends quite a bit of time focusing on gifts, we all have some and we learn how to use those as our part in the body of Christ.
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But what about the second half of this verse, The best way to live?
Chapter 13 gives us the solution that we are looking for.
We must remember that the reason that Paul wrote this letter, was instruction or correction is because it wasn’t happening in the church.
1 Corinthians 13:1–8 (ESV)
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
5 or rude.
It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends.
As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
The first 3 verses put spiritual gifts in the right perspective.
If I speak in tongues…have prophetic powers…understand mysteries…knowledge…faith to move mountains
Without love we are just noise makers, we are nothing, and we gain nothing
Then verses 4-7 gives us the description of how love operates.
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