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*The Way To Go*
*1 Cor.
12:31b - 13:13*
*Feb.
11, 1996*
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*Introduction*
*I.
The Necessity of Love*
* Love is the superior and necessary way.*
* /Without love, gifts are worthless./*
A.
The way of Christianity is found in love.
/31~* But eagerly desire the greater gifts.
And now I will show you the most excellent way./
B.
It is not found in the noise of heightened spirituality.
/1~* If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal./
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It is not found in power trips of knowledge or faith.
/2~* If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing./
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It is not found in self-exalting martyrdom.
/3~* If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing./
*II.
The Character of Love*
* Love is the essential character of the Christian.*
* /Love is concerned to give itself, not assert itself./*
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Love is:
/4~* Love is patient, love is kind.
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Love is not:
/It does not envy, /
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/it does not boast, /
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/it is not proud./
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/5~* It is not rude, /
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/it is not self-seeking, /
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/it is not easily angered, /
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/it keeps no record of wrongs./
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/6~* Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth./
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Love always:
/7~* It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres./
*III.
The Permanence of Love*
* Love is of an enduring nature.*
* /Gifts are merely temporal whereas love is eternally pre-eminent./*
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Gifts are impermanent.
/8~* Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away./
B.
Gifts are incomplete.
/9~* For we know in part and we prophesy in part,/
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Gifts are imperfect.
/10~* but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears./
D.
Gifts are preliminary.
/11~* When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me./
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Gifts are representative.
/12~* Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known./
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But love is both now and forever.
/13~* And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love./
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