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All You Need Is Love
It’s the summer of 1967.
It’s called the Summer of Love.
The height of the hippie movement.
The flower children are on the prowl.
In July of 1967, the Beatles sang these poetic and diverse words:
Love, love love
Love, love love
Love, love love
All you need is love, all you need is love
All you need is love, … love, … love is all you need
All you need is love
All you need is love, … love, … love is all you need.
That is the peak of flower power lyrics right there.
So much depth.
In case you missed those words, let me say them again.
Love, love love
Love, love love
Love, love love
All you need is love, all you need is love
All you need is love,
And just when you think you got the pattern down, John Lennon mixes them up on us.
… love, … love is all you need
All you need is love
All you need is love, … love, … love is all you need.
“Love, love, love
Love is what we will be talking about this morning.
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Perhaps this sermon would have worked better last week, just prior to Valentine’s Day.
Love, love, love
And for this sermon I will have three points for you.
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love Needed.
All you need is love, all you need is love
Love Demonstrated.
All you need is love, all you need is love
All you need is love, love, love is all you need
And Love Remains.
All you need is love, love, love is all you need
All you need is love
And to get us in the mindset of where we need to go in this, let’s read all of .
All you need is love
All you need is love, love, love is all you need
Read .
All you need is love, love, love is all you need
Love Needed
Remember the context of this passage.
This chapter is one of those chapters that is well known, and is even given a nickname.
is known as the Faith Chapter or the Faith Hall of Fame.
And is known as the Love Chapter.
It’s a beautiful chapter.
It’s one that’s frequently quoted in weddings, on greeting cards, and by two love birds who are confessing their love for each other.
Especially, verses 4-8, at least the first half of verse 8.
Though this chapter is helpful to married couples, it’s not directly about marriage, even though it’s read at weddings.
Remember who this letter is written to and who this chapter is written to.
It’s not Paul writing a love letter to a lady.
It’s Paul writing to a fractured and divided church.
They loved their gifts.
They loved the Spiritual gifts.
They’d come together and want to show those gifts off.
They each thought they were more important than each other.
So in the last chapter, Paul explained that there are gifts and we each have gifts according to God’s choosing.
Here Paul lays out this huge and important truth about the gifts … in order to properly use the gifts, love is needed.
Since the beginning of January, we’ve started this conversation about the gifts.
First is what is the great work that God has prepared for you ahead of time.
So we started thinking about how you fit into the body.
Then it was what is your gift.
And I know you’re thinking about.
You’re praying about it.
You’re seeking your gift.
You are talking to one another about where your gifted.
I love it.
I am appreciating the text messages and the emails where you tell me where you think you are gifted.
This is really fun.
It’s so neat to think about you starting to think how God has gifted you and what your place in this body is.
We are beginning to see that church isn’t something that we attend.
Rather the church is something that we are a part of.
And now as we start thinking about gifts, we need to realize that we don’t have gifts just so we can have gifts, or show off, but rather we have gifts so that we can love others.
Our gifts exist so that we can build each other up.
You have a gift so that you can serve other people.
At the close of the previous chapter, Paul said, “But earnestly desire the higher gifts.
And I will show you a still more excellent way.”
Basically, know your gifts.
Use your gifts.
And let me show you how to use your gifts.
And then we go into chapter 13.
As chapter 13 starts, Paul gives some hypothetical statements, some exaggerated statements.
An exaggeration is something that is blown out of proportion, it’s taken to the extreme.
So he begins with tongues.
The gift of tongues is a gift that isn’t around today anymore.
But when it existed, tongues were real languages.
In , when the Holy Spirit was poured out on the church, and people spoke in tongues, they didn’t speak in a made up language.
It wasn’t, “Should’ve bought a Honda, but I bought a Kia.”
Let me slow that down for you, “Should’ve bought a Honda, but I bought a Kia.”
It was a real language that existed already.
says of tongues, “And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.”
In , they spoke in actual languages, so that nonbelievers would hear the Gospel.
Back to , Paul says, “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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