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1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Stephen Caswell © 2005
New Years Resolutions
/Have you made any *New Years Resolutions* for 2005?
Are you still keeping them?
/I would like to suggest 2 New Years Resolutions that could transform your life; 2 simple commandments that are life changing.
In fact there Jesus said that these 2 commandments sum up the law and the prophets.
*Matthew 22:37-39: */You shall love the Lord// your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself./
To love God and our neighbor is to fulfill the Law.
Jesus then qualified who our neighbor is by telling the story of the Good Samaritan.
The Tsunami disaster has left millions of people needing to be lovingly cared for.
We can help these people.
These 2 commandments to love are vital for mankind.
*/Since love is so important we need to take a good look at it.
/*The word */love/* is*/ /**ἀγαπάω**, *or God’s love.
*/What makes Churches grow?/* */One person/* might answer /faith that works miracles/.
Seeing God move mountains brings people in.
*/Someone/* else answers /prophecy./
What we need today is a new word from the Lord.
*/A third/* person says what we really need is to /know the mysteries/ of God’s Word.
*/A fourth/* person says that /tongues/ is the key to blessing.
We all need to speak in tongues to reach the lost.
*/A fifth/* person says what we need /to give/ more money.
Then we could build bigger buildings and help the needy.
*/Paul says that all of these things are useless unless we love those we serve./*
/Tragically the Corinthians used their spiritual gifts as toys to play with and weapons to fight with rather than tools to build with./
God loved and He gave His Son to serve us.
Every part of Christ’s service and sacrifice was motivated by love.
*/So Paul emphasizes love when using spiritual gifts./*
/Unfortunately many people today take 1 Corinthians 13 out of its context and make it a hymn to love./
Yet Paul is still dealing with spiritual gifts.
He explains how love is the most excellent way to exercise spiritual gifts.
He shares 3 vital facts about love.
*/Love Is Essential, Love Is Effectual, Love Is Eternal./*
/Firstly/, Love Is Essential
*1 Corinthians 13:1-3:* /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./
When someone asked Jesus what the greatest commandment was the Lord said to love God with all we have.
The second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself.
The Corinthian’s were using their gifts like weapons to fight with.
*/To show how important love is Paul describes the ministry of five gifts without love./*
Paul refers to /tongues,/ /prophecy, knowledge, faith/ to work miracles, and /giving./
J.B. Phillips paraphrases it like this.
In verse 1 he says/ I produce nothing of value/, in verse 2 he says /I am nothing of value/ and verse 3 says that /I gain nothing of value/.
*/Spiritual gifts minus love equals nothing./*
Paul describes these gifts as being exercised to their fullest capacity to make his point.
He exaggerates his argument to highlight the importance of love.
No one in Church history has used their gifts to the extent that Paul describes.
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Tongues Of Men And Angels/
On the day of Pentecost when God poured out the Holy Spirit on His Church they spoke with other tongues.
This gift enabled unbelieving Jews from foreign lands to hear the good news in their own language.
*1 Corinthians 14:22 says: */Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; /Biblical tongues aren’t */babble /*but real languages spoken to reach the lost.
In *Acts 2:6 & 8* the word*/ tongue/* is *dialekto"* which literally means a*/ language/* or */dialect.
Paul spoke in tongues frequently in countries from Israel to Italy and even to Spain./*
Some say that tongues is a special prayer language used by angels quoting *1 Corinthians 13:1* and *Romans 8:26*.
To start with men cannot speak with the tongues of angels.
Paul is simply exaggerating to make his point.
No one has ever moved mountains by faith.
/Paul’s point is this; even if I could speak with the tongues of men and angels without love I simply make a loud noise for a moment/.
*/Love was necessary to make tongues a useful spiritual gift to reach the lost.
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Prophecy and Knowledge/
Prophecy was a gift of the Holy Spirit that enabled someone to give new revelation from God.
The Lord spoke through prophets to establish His Church on solid teaching.
But prophecy without love makes the prophet nothing.
In *Ephesians 4:15* we are told /to speak the truth in love./
*/Preaching and witnessing can do more harm than good if we don’t love the people we share the Gospel with./*
This application can also be made to knowledge which is spiritual insight given directly by the Holy Spirit.
/Again Paul is taking this example to extreme measures, because no one has ever understood all mysteries or all knowledge./
But if some one knew it all, without love they are nothing.
*1 Corinthians 8:1b:* says /knowledge puffs up but love edifies or builds up./
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Faith/
Stephen and Barnabas were said to be full of faith and the Holy Spirit.
Stephen was able to work miracles and wonders as he exercised his faith.
Jesus said that if someone exercised faith they could command mountains to be moved.
However no one has ever done this.
Paul is not minimizing these gifts; he is simply saying that they will have no good effect on the individual or on the church unless love is manifested in the life of the Christian when they exercise these gifts.
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Giving/
Next Paul describes giving away all of one's possessions to feed the poor.
Yet this too is fruit less.
*Matthew 6:2:*/ 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.
/Only love enables believer’s gifts to truly help people./
/Christians who love the poor will not embarrass them to promote themselves.
*/Giving must be done lovingly not grudgingly for God loves a cheerful giver.
/*/Even laying down our lives for Christ is useless without love./
*/Here,/*/ *Paul is probably speaking of martyrdom.*/
Therefore Love is the measure of all things.
Love makes ministry count.
Love gives ministry a human touch that really meets people’s needs.*/
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Working With Fibreglass
My brother worked in a boat building factory for a long time.
To make something with fiberglass you need the fiberglass and the catalyst.
Fiberglass won’t set without it.
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