WHATS LOVE LOVE ALL ABOUT 1 Corinthian 13:1-13
INTRODUCTION
Oftentimes we hear people talk about love as a feeling. I don’t feel love or I feel like he or she loves me. Love is not a noun, it is a verb, an action word.
A noun is a person, place or thing. Love is how we respond to someone or
Something.
The movies are full of love stories that are based on looks, feeling and lust of the flesh. That kind of surface, selfish love never lasts. It's based on circumstances that change from moment to moment. True love sees each individual as a child of God who needs our affection, sympathy, empathy
And help if needed,
In April we celebrated the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus truly loved us that He gave His life as a payment for our sins. The question is how do we respond to His love. I Corinthians 13:1-7 tells us what love is not. Verses 4-7 tells us how we respond to love and how we should love one another.
THE IMPORTANCES OF LOVE
1 Cor 13:1-7
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn't love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
THE STATE OF NOTHINGLESS
We can have faith and utilize all our spiritual gifts but not have love and gain nothing. We can be a great show for the world, but not pleasing to God.
God has given every believer spiritual gifts to use for good works He prepared for us. He expects spiritual fruits from our work. Without Love
There is no way for the fruits of the spirit to work. The work we do on earth stores up treasures in heaven. It is the work we do in the name of Jesus out of love that benefits those around us. Ourwork with out love is like a
Drummer out of tune. Without love a state of nothingness exists in our relationship with the LOrd
WHAT LOVE IS
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
1 Cor 13:13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
Love is patient and kind
Love tolerates people. Love does not care if others have a different opinion or a different idea than. Love does not care if you want to do things a different way.
Love says that I may not have all the answers. Love sometimes considers that the ideas of others may be better. Love allows you to learn something from someone different from you.
I believe Jesus was extremely kind. He had been tried and convicted as the worst kind of criminal. He was innocent. He had been beaten beyond recognition . His own people rejected Him. As He looked down from The cross He said Father forgive them they don’t know what they are doing
He had the power to forgive , yet He was kind enough to ask His Father to forgive them. Jesus was sympathetic toward his murders.
He saw the enemy not as a threat but as an object of HIS love.
Love does not envy
Envy is defined as a painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage.
If I am envious of what someone else has, I am not satisfied or not grateful for what God has given me.
If I am envious of what someone has I cannot express joy for what God has done for them. Been envious blind one to those who God blesses according to His will
Being envious is a state of insecurity, It can lead to stress, depression and anxiety. It devalues oneself and makes one hostile toward others. It is a destructive attitude.
Love does not boast.
We have nothing to boast about, because every accomplishment, gain or possession we have comes from God.
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
If you boast in what the Lord has done, do it so others may be uplifted
Love is not proud
God hates the proud. Proud is a deep satisfaction in one's achievements, qualities or possessions. To be proud is to disregard
The work of God in your life. To be proud is to take credit for what you could not do without God.
Love is not rude. Rude is offensive, impolite or ill-mannered
Believers must be careful how we think about others and how we talk to others.
Love is not self seeking It is defined as having concern for one own welfare and interest before those of others. If it is all about me, others don’t count. I cannot see the value others bring to me if
My mind is not focused on them in love.
Love is not easily angered. An angry person is his own demise, You cannot be joyful or peaceful when you are angry. God is not telling us not to get angry. We must control our anger. Like God told Cain, control your anger because sin is knocking at the door.
Jesus got angry when He went into the temple and saw the temple being used as a supermarket of greed, but He was in control,
Because after He cleaned out the Temple, He taught the Word.
Love keeps no account of wrongs. It is difficult to love a person when you have a list of hurts done to you by them. You can like them, but you want love them.The Lord set the example for us;
Ps 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Since Jesus forgave us, we must show forgiveness for others. Forget about the pass, you cannot change it.
Love takes no pleasure in evil but rejoices in truth.
This is an area we all can use improvement. Have you ever been glad to see someone get even with another person? Have you ever
Felt good about giving some one the finger? How about the unmarried sex scenes in the movies. Do they cause you to delete that movie?
There used to be a time in the movies where the bad guys were always caught, Not anymore. The Bad guys win and the story ends. Today the bad guys win and they are the heroes. We are led to believe wrong is right and being right does not matter.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things endures all things.
Love believes the best about others,
Love hopes the best for every one
Love endures persecution and mistreatment by others. It
submits to the will of God to allow evil work for our good
Love never fails
How does the Greek text define love
In John 3:16 the Greeks word for Love is agape translated as love feast.
Jesus sacrificed Himself for our sins on the cross, It was a love
Feast for all believers. He took our place on the cross.
The love feast never ends. The love feast never fails to be
for you. The feast is a continuation for you,
Love is eternal. It does not originate with man, It is the essence of God because He is love. Man likes, but he cannot love without God. You and I cannot fully understand the magnitude of God’s love
OUR RESPONSE TO GOD’S DIVINE LOVE
(1) God is love; but that love differs in its forms of expression with the different relations of its exercise.
(2) WHAT DOES LOVE LOOK LIKE IN OUR LIVES?
Love, in relation to God's majesty is adoration and worship;
Love in relation to His will is submission;
Love in relation to His command is obedience;
Love in relation to His superiority is humility;
Love in relation to His grace and declarations is faith
Love in relation to his good works for us is gratitude.
Love in relation to human need, is beneficence;
Love in relation to injury is meekness;
Love in relation to trials is patience;
Love in relation to the want and the woe of a lost world for which Christ died, is the pity
(from The Biblical Illustrator
THE GREATEST GIVE TO MANKIND IS GODS LOVE
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