HEAVEN IS A WORLD OF LOVE (3 OF 3)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:8-13
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Heaven Is a World of Love (3 of 3)
Series: The Power of Love
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 13:8-13
Let a man do whatever religious thing he wishes, it means nothing without love. Love is the greatest of God's gifts. Love is deeper than emotions.
Love is the God-given proof that you are Christ's disciples (John 13:35). This is a message about the future but it is also a map for the present. Since the future is not something we are permitted to see directly - only God sees the end from the beginning - in order to this sermon to be anything other than an exercise in conceit, it has to be based squarely on what God as revealed in His Word.
''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'' (1 Corinthians 13:1-13).
''For now we see i ...
Series: The Power of Love
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 13:8-13
Let a man do whatever religious thing he wishes, it means nothing without love. Love is the greatest of God's gifts. Love is deeper than emotions.
Love is the God-given proof that you are Christ's disciples (John 13:35). This is a message about the future but it is also a map for the present. Since the future is not something we are permitted to see directly - only God sees the end from the beginning - in order to this sermon to be anything other than an exercise in conceit, it has to be based squarely on what God as revealed in His Word.
''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'' (1 Corinthians 13:1-13).
''For now we see i ...
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