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Love chapter 1 Cor. 13
Love chapter 1 Cor. 13
There was a dog named Tattoo. Tattoo’s owner shut his leash in the door so he could help his wife carry a load to the car. Forgetting the dog was there, the owner pulled onto the road and started home, with Tattoo the basset hound trailing along behind. At first it was like going for a walk, but as the speed increased and the distance lengthened, Tattoo began to have problems keeping up. The people who loved him the most were unaware of the trouble he was in. Before they got to the main highway, a motorcycle police officer noticed the trailing dog. The owners were horrified by the ordeal Tattoo had just experienced, even though the dog appeared uninjured.
When life seems to be dragging you by the neck, it is time to remember that God has something else planned for you—his rest.
Love is the more excellent way.
With love you cant fully define it, you have to illustrate it . in order to fully define it
Story like the women caught in adultry
The prodigal son
Mephosherth and King David .
Love can be an idea
John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”
Romans 13:10 “Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
Love between people
2 Cor 2:4 “For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.”
2 Cor. 8:7 “But as you abound in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us—see that you abound in this grace also.”
Love describes Gods love
Romans 5:5 “Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”
2 Thess 3:5 “Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.”
And Christ love
John 15:10 “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.”
Rom 8:35 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
1 Cor 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.”
1 Cor 13:1 “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.”
Eloquence was greatly admired in the first century and the Corinthians were no exception.
It was a statement of hyperbole concerning exalted eloquence , which is void of love might be momentarily electrifying like a clash of gong or cymbal but then vanished just as quickly. Love on the other hand produces eternal effects.
This verses sounds like a person who is all in.
The word all is mentioned 4 times and the other qualities are all in qualities.
We say love is a self sacrificial.
But can you be self-sacrfical and not have love.
Could you be devoted and commited to a cause and not have love ?
But if you are willing to give your body to be burnt. that sounds like a self sacrificial person.
So love has to be beyond self-sacrfical.
Christ sacrificed His life. But what was behind that love. It was a relationship.
Christ relationship to The Father. Christ love for humanity.
Jesus entire life displayed His love.