Sunday, May 12, 2024
LOVE & LIFE
1 Corinthians 12:31 (NLT) – But now let me show you a way of life that is best of all.
I. Life Without Love Isn’t Living
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (NLT) – 1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
II. True Love Lives & Lasts
- A Real Life Of Love (Is & Isn’t)
1 Corinthians 13:4-6 (NLT) – 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
B. A Real Love That Lasts
1 Corinthians 13:7-8 (NLT) 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!