Friday, February 4, 2011

1 CORINTHIANS 13 - LOVE




We cannot serve God without us having Charity (Love). Without love we are nothing. So love is the key that will unlock our hearts.



John 13:35

"By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."



John 15:13 & 14

13) "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friend.

14) "You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.



1 John 3:14, 16, & 18

14) We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love the brother abides in death.

16) By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

18) My little children let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed & in truth.



1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 8a

4) Love suffers long & is kind; love does not envy, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

5) does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

6) does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

7) for us. bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8) Love never fails.



God tells us to have love for one another. We should walk as the early church did in

1 Corinthians 13: We're supposed to do so.



Romans 12:9 &10

9) Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.

10) Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving prefence to one another;



Love itself is more important then faith. Because without love we are nothing. As a Christian we

Have a responsibility to walk in love.

Now if a Christians connubially find fault with people it will do damage to their Spiritual life. Just walking out of love will cause that damage.

Christians should not be boastful or think more of them. Pride has never walked in love!!

We should exercise the Gift of Love. Because if we do not want to sound like a clanging cymbal. In other words not being empty & our words the same. If we do not walk in Gods love, we can never reach the lost, receive knowledge, understanding, or know the mysteries that God has.



Doing prophesy, speaking in tongues, both man tongues of angles, feed the children, help the poor, the widow. With out love what ever we do doesn't mean a thing!! You have to do those things with LOVE!



Love is & isn't

1 Corinthians 13 (these are not in order of the verses)

LOVE IS LONG-SUFFERING LOVE IS NOT EASILY PROVOKED

LOVE IS KIND LOVE DOESN'T ENVY

LOVE REJOICE IN TRUTH LOVE ISN'T BEING ARROGANT

LOVE BEARS ALL THINGS LOVE IS NEVER RUDE

LOVE BELIEVES ALL THINGS LOVE DOESN'T PROVOKED

LOVE HOPES ALL THINGS LOVE DOESN'T THINK EVIL

LOVE ENDURES ALL THINGS LOVE DOESN'T REJOICE IN SIN

LOVE NEVER FAILS



Love is the first of the Fruits of the Spirit! God loved you & me so very much that He sent His only begotten Son.



John 3:15 - 18

15) "that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

16) "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

17) "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

18) "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.



LOVE HATES SIN!!

If we see sin in others we should never condemn them. We should never be fault finding. We should be like Jesus Christ & love them, pray for them, help them work through the sin so they can over come! LOVE them as Christ loved you & never condemn them!! Christ never condemned you. He gave His life for you. We should give our life for others in love. And you will right before God.

LOVE,
REV Londa

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