LOVE THAT LASTS (16 OF 17)
by Ross Lester
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13
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Love That Lasts (16 of 17)
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1 Corinthians 13
Proposition Statement:
Christians are supernaturally loved by God, which enables them to supernaturally love each other.
Intro:
1 Corinthians 13 is where we will be. You have probably heard this text a thousand times. It becomes almost mythical and indeed mystical, and in fact many people don't even know that it is from the Bible, just as many people don't know that Footprints isn't from the bible.
So, because I don't want us to give in to the contempt that is bred from familiarity, I am going to ask us to stand for the public reading of this magnificent chapter.
Passage:
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Thank you. Take your ...
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1 Corinthians 13
Proposition Statement:
Christians are supernaturally loved by God, which enables them to supernaturally love each other.
Intro:
1 Corinthians 13 is where we will be. You have probably heard this text a thousand times. It becomes almost mythical and indeed mystical, and in fact many people don't even know that it is from the Bible, just as many people don't know that Footprints isn't from the bible.
So, because I don't want us to give in to the contempt that is bred from familiarity, I am going to ask us to stand for the public reading of this magnificent chapter.
Passage:
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Thank you. Take your ...
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