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ETS: The Apostle Paul discusses the need for real love in the believer’s life.

ETS: The Apostle Paul discusses the need for real love in the believer’s life.

ESS: Walking in the pathway of real love is an absolute necessity for each and every believer in Jesus Christ.

ESS: Walking in the pathway of real love is an absolute necessity for each and every believer in Jesus Christ.

OSS: Believers will repent of not walking in the pathway of real love.

OSS: Believers will repent of not walking in the pathway of real love.

PQ: What must I do in order to walk in the pathway of real love?

PQ: What must I do in order to walk in the pathway of real love?

UW: steps

UW: steps

TITLE: "Following The Pathway Of Real Love"

TITLE: "Following The Pathway Of Real Love"

INTRODUCTION:

INTRODUCTION:

I.

I MUST RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF WALKING IN TRUE LOVE ().

LOVE (VS.

1-3).

LOVE (VS.

1-3).

A. Without love, talk becomes empty (VS.

1).

A. Without love, talk becomes empty ().

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.”

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.”

(SBLGNT) Ἐὰν ταῖς γλώσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, γέγονα χαλκὸς ἠχῶν ἢ κύμβαλον ἀλαλάζον.

1.

What kind of talk?

1.

What kind of talk?

Ἐὰν ταῖς γλώσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, γέγονα χαλκὸς ἠχῶν ἢ κύμβαλον ἀλαλάζον.

1.

What kind of talk?

1.

What kind of talk?

a. Worldly talk (Men)

a. Worldly talk (Men)

b.

Heavenly talk (Angels)

b.

Heavenly talk (Angels)

2. The analogy:

2. The analogy:

a. “Sounding brass”= hcew calkov = brass, money

a. “Sounding brass”= χαλκὸς ἠχῶν= echoing brass (like a gong)

b. “Clanging cymbal” = alalzw kumbalon = a cymbal, (a hollow basin of brass, producing when struck together a musical sound)

b. “Clanging cymbal” = κυμβαλον ἀλαλαζον = a cymbal, (a hollow basin of brass, producing when struck together a musical sound)

b. “Clanging cymbal” = κυμβαλον ἀλαλαζον = a cymbal, (a hollow basin of brass, producing when struck together a musical sound)

κυμβαλον ἀλαλαζον = a cymbal, (a hollow basin of brass, producing when struck together a musical sound)

B. Without love, life becomes worthless (VS.

2).

B. Without love, life becomes worthless ().

” And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.”

(SBLGNT) “καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω προφητείαν καὶ εἰδῶ τὰ μυστήρια πάντα καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γνῶσιν, καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω πᾶσαν τὴν πίστιν ὥστε ὄρη μεθιστάναι, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐθέν εἰμι.”

1.

Great ability or giftedness does not produce a worthwhile life.

1.

Great ability or giftedness does not produce a worthwhile life.

2 καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω προφητείαν καὶ εἰδῶ τὰ μυστήρια πάντα καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γνῶσιν, καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω πᾶσαν τὴν πίστιν ὥστε ὄρη μεθιστάναι, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐθέν εἰμι.

1.

Great ability or giftedness does not produce a worthwhile life.

a.

Note the giftedness discussed:

a.

Note the giftedness discussed:

1) Prophecy: the ability to communicate the message of God.

1) Prophecy: the ability to communicate the message of God.

2) Understanding of great mysteries

2) Understanding of great mysteries

3) Great knowledge (knowing all things)

3) Great knowledge (knowing all things)

“Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.”

()

()

4) Ultimate faith

4) Ultimate faith

b.

Note the verdict:

b.

Note the verdict:

1) “ouyen eimi”= “I am nothing”

1) “οὐθέν εἰμι.”=

“I am (already) nothing”

C. Without love, good works avail nothing (VS.

3).

C. Without love, good works avail nothing

“And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.”

“And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.”

καὶ ἐὰν ψωμίσω πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντά μου, καὶ ἐὰν παραδῶ τὸ σῶμά μου, ἵνα καυθήσομαι, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐδὲν ὠφελοῦμαι.

().

καὶ ἐὰν ψωμίσω πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντά μου, καὶ ἐὰν παραδῶ τὸ σῶμά μου, ἵνα καυθήσομαι, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐδὲν ὠφελοῦμαι.

1. Self-sacrifice, by itself accomplishes nothing.

1. Self-sacrifice, by itself accomplishes nothing.

a.

Notice the self sacrificial acts discussed:

a.

Notice the self sacrificial acts discussed:

1) Expending all possessions to feed the poor.

1) Expending all possessions to feed the poor.

2) Sacrifice of own life for religion

2) Sacrifice of own life for religion

II.

I MUST REMEMBER THE CHARACTERISTICS OF REAL LOVE

II.

I MUST REMEMBER THE CHARACTERISTICS OF REAL LOVE ().

(VS.

4-8).

” Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8Love never fails…And now abide faith, hope, love…”

(VS.

4-8).

” Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8Love never fails…And now abide faith, hope, love…”

A. I must seek to live out the seven positive characteristics

A. I must seek to live out the seven positive characteristics of real love.

of real love.

of real love.

1. PATIENT

1. PATIENT

2. KIND