Holy Spirit - Love
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The Flesh
The Flesh
We want to no longer live in the flesh, the the flesh only produces flesh:
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
In our flesh we cannot do move any further then death.
Flesh can only produce flesh, this is what we need to see here. There is nothing good in me.
Paul also says this:
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
Romans 7.
I want us to move from living in the flesh, even as Christians. I want us to move to living a Spirit centered life. It is this life that is filled with the dynamic power, the ability to flow over flowing. It is only in the Spirit filled life that we go from full to - over flowingly full.
We are given gifts of the Spirit, we are lead to be used in mighty ways by the Spirit. We are more then just saved and heaven bound we are mighty tools for the Lord.
Let me read you Acts again:
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts
I want this baptism of the Holy Spirit. But before we get into that I want to talk about this aspect of love. So many have taken the love and the gifts out of balance. So to avoid that I want us to look at the power of the love as it is the fruit that we need to have in our lives.
Let me read to you where I want to spend the majority of out time today:
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 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. 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.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 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. 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.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
1 Corinthians 13.
Tongues is often the biggest topic of conversation when it comes to the giftings of the Spirit. I am not sure why but some even use the gift of tongues as a “proof of salvation”
We just do not see tis scripturally.
Paul talks to us here in a very clear way.
Saying if you do not have love you are nothing more that a loud sound
I also want to point out tongues here is referring to languages. Some have also used this to say:
Tongues is nothing more than a gift to be able to preach the gospel in a different language.
Some suggest that it is the gift if peaking other languages
This is true in some regards. This is referring to speaking in a language.
It was also a gift that some were given as we see in and 3.
Yet it is not that alone.
The angles have a language, it was actually a common knowledge of that time, the Jews belieik9kved that the angels spoke a heavenly language.
I also want to point out that they we believe they communicate in some fashion.
What language do they speak in heaven, english, probably not.
There is a heaven language that is between God and man!
For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
This is a language and the indication is that it is from God and people have it so confused as they use it to satisfy ones own spiritual pride.
Living in the Spirit is not about serving self!
“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.
If we challenge people to live for worldly reward and self gratification this is all we will get.
As we look at this again
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 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. 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.
From prophecy to faith the substance of our Spirit filled life must be founded on love
Love the Real Fruit
Love the Real Fruit
Let’s turn to
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Galatians 5.22
The fruit is love
This is not a gift, it is the natural reaction of a life lived in the Lord.
Love is a change heart and able to live love in a supernatural way
Agape
A love that is giving with nothing expected in return:
i. Eros was one word for love. It described, as we might guess from the word itself, erotic love. It refers to sexual love.
ii. Storge was the second word for love. It refers to family love, the kind of love there is between a parent and child, or between family members in general.
iii. Philia is the third word for love. It speaks of a brotherly friendship and affection. It is the love of deep friendship and partnership. It might be described as the highest love of which man, without God’s help, is capable of.
iv. Agape is the fourth word for love. It is a love that loves without changing. It is a self-giving love that gives without demanding or expecting repayment. It is love so great that it can be given to the unlovable or unappealing. It is love that loves even when it is rejected. Agape love gives and loves because it wants to; it does not demand or expect repayment from the love given. It gives because it loves; it does not love in order to receive. According to Alan Redpath, we get our English word agony from agape. “It means the actual absorption of our being in one great passion.” (Redpath) Strictly speaking, agape can’t be defined as “God’s love,” because men are said to agape sin and the world ( and ). But it can be defined as a sacrificial, giving, absorbing kind of love. The word has little to do with emotion; it has much to do with self-denial for the sake of another. (Guzik, David. 1 Corinthians. Santa Barbara, CA: David Guzik, 2013. Print. David Guzik’s Commentaries on the Bible.)
Guzik, David. 1 Corinthians. Santa Barbara, CA: David Guzik, 2013. Print. David Guzik’s Commentaries on the Bible.
The difference between the world and those in Christ is here:
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
This is the difference between life and the world
Without love we cannot truly live in the Spirit
Without love we cannot really use the gifts of the Spirit
To heal, becomes about self
To speak in tongues becomes a place of self pride
To do anything without love we can become like the chruch in Corinth
Paul rebukes the Corinthians for how they were using the gifts.
To do anything without love we can become like the church in Corinth
It had become about them and not the work of the Lord
Paul rebukes the Corinthians for how they were using the gifts.
This is a reminder that the gifts are nothing without the fruit
Which is love...