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INTRODUCTION
We are living in days when loyalty and trust no longer hold the place that they used to occupy.
The fact is that it is hard to embrace these characteristics because of the shadiness and un-trustworthiness of people.
It is sad, but it is so true, and we would be wise to learn the lesson from history: “people will smile in your face and stab you in the back”, or they will kiss you on the cheek and sell you out.”
Common Sense dictates that in such cases, the best recourse that one can take is to remove themselves as far from such persons as possible.
The problem is that with the distance there is separation, and with the separation there is no fellowship, and where there is no fellowship there is no opportunity to show that we truly love God.
Because the Bible teaches us that the only way that we can quantify or prove our love for him is by the way we relate to one another.
See 1 John 4:20
And so the predicament is precarious because love can’t exist where loyalty does not reside.
So Instead, we put up a sign that says “Love don’t live here anymore.”
I believe that the Lord wants us to understand today, like He wanted that recipients of Paul’s letter to know, that at the end of the day there is only one thing that will possess any eternal value.
It is not tongues, prophecy, nor knowledge; it is “Love”.
When everything else fails; love never fails.
SCRIPTURE READING
Have Congregation turn their Bibles to 1 Cor 13:1-8
CENTRAL IDEA - The text is tailored to teach us that God is not impressed by Gifts, He is moved by Love
this truth is seen as we look at
The Preeminence of Love (vv.
1-3)
The main idea that the Apostle is seeking to communicate is that “Love” is the more excellent way (12:31).
Let’s look at word love for a moment and discover what it means.
The Lexham Bible Dictionary defines love as “A feeling of deep affection.
A central theme in Scripture and Christian theology and ethics.
Defines our relationship with God and dictates how we should treat others.”
Paul says to his readers that Love ought to be above everything else.
That’s really what preeminence is - “first.”
The argument among the Corinthians was which gift was the best and it had them missing the mark.
They were focusing on the wrong thing.
This is what they were doing: majoring on the minors and minoring on the majors.
Paul tells them that tongues, prophesies, knowledge, self sacrifice, all must take a back seat to love.
Love is first.
If you leave that out, nothing else even matters.
Jesus blessed so many people during the 3 and a half years of His earthly ministry.
He possessed such wonderful spiritual gifts: he healed the sick and raised the dead, He feed the multitudes, gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf, He even caused the dumb to talk.
But What He did on Calvary showed the preeminence of love.
See John 15:13
Simpson, B. I. (2016).
Love.
In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.),
The Lexham Bible Dictionary.
Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
The Lord is not impressed by gifts, He is moved by love; look at
The Perfections of Love (vv.
4-7)
Paul shifted from the first person to the third person and replaced himself with a personification of love.
Some have seen in verses 4–6 the fruit of the Spirit (Gal.
5:22–23); others have seen here a description of Christ Himself.
As different sides of the same coin, both are applicable and provided a solution to the many Corinthian problems.
Love, defined by 14 predications (half of them negative, half positive) constituted the “way.”
Love, Paul wrote, is patient … kind … does not envy or boast, and is not proud.
Patience (makrothymia) is the capacity to be wronged and not retaliate.
The Corinthian church had many members who had been wronged (e.g., in lawsuits [1 Cor.
6:8] and the poor at communal meals [11:21–22]).
The response of love to these wrongs would be a display of kindness and goodness.
Envy and boasting seemed to abound as two poles of the same problem (e.g., divisions [1:10; 3:3, 21]; gifts [12:14–25]).
The Corinthians had no monopoly on pride though they seemed to.
The verb physioō occurs only seven times in the New Testament, six of which are found in this letter (cf.
4:6, 18–19; 5:2; 8:1).
13:5.
Paul then gave four negative descriptions of love: It is not rude nor self-seeking nor easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs.
Rudeness found expression in the problem of women in worship (11:2–16), the disorders at the Lord’s Supper (11:17–22), and the general organization of worship (14:26–33).
Self-satisfaction was a pervasive disorder particularly manifested in the eating of food sacrificed to idols (8:9; 10:23–24).
People who are not easily angered usually do not start lawsuits (as in 6:1–11).
Love does not record wrongs, though there was ample opportunity for doing so in Corinth (e.g., 6:8; 7:5; 8:11).
13:6.
Love does not delight in evil (e.g., incest [5:1–2, 8]), but rejoices in truth (5:8).
13:7.
Love always protects (cf.
8:13), trusts (cf.
15:11), hopes (cf.
9:10, 23), and perseveres (hypomenei, “remains steadfast in the face of unpleasant circumstances”; cf.
9:19–22).
Let me illustrate:
Love Keeps No Score
Jerry Banks of Henry County, Georgia, was hunting one day in 1974.
He came across two bodies that had been shot.
He made his way to the highway, flagged a motorist, and sent for the sheriff.
Banks returned to the scene and stood guard over the strangers until authorities arrived.
His reward?
He was arrested and charged with double murder.
Subsequently he was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death.
Eventually, the Supreme Court ordered a new trial.
Again, he was found guilty and sentenced to death.
All the while the accused continued to affirm his innocence.
Meanwhile, new evidence emerged.
Finally, after spending six years in prison, five of which were on death row, Jerry Banks was freed, December 22, 1980.
The humble man is reported to have commented, “I just didn’t believe God’ll let’em kill me for something I didn’t do.”
“Love keeps no score of wrongs; does not gloat over other men’s sins, but delights in the truth” (1 Cor.
13:6, NEB).
Jones, G. C. (1986).
1000 illustrations for preaching and teaching (p.
225).
Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers.
I’m just trying to get you to see that God is not impressed with gifts, He is moved by love.
The text shows us ...
The Permanence of Love (vv.
8-13)
The Apostle says “Love never fails”.
The Faithlife Study Bible says that “love” will never become obsolete or invalid.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary says “Love will never fail”, in the sense it will never come to an end.
Positively stated, it is eternal.
This is not true of the spiritual gifts.
Some of the gifts were foundational (e.g., prophecies and knowledge; cf.
Eph.
2:20) and confirmatory (e.g., tongues; cf. 2 Cor.
12:12; Heb.
2:4).
Every gift is linked in some way to building up the church to maturity—some (prophecy, knowledge, tongues) functioning in the early years of the Church Age and others continuing on till the church is perfected.
When that perfection is achieved, the gifts will have served their purposes and will be rendered obsolete.
But this will not happen to love.
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