Preacher: Jeremy Herbert
Theme: Love
Text: 1 Corinthians 13
Notes:
Love is defined by what it does–not what it says or what it feels.
Love:
- Is Patient/Longsuffering and Kind
- Patient with the faults and failures of others–and is still kind to them
- It is not possible to claim to be patient if you are still unkind
- How do I react when other people let me down?
- God is patient with many who will reject Him
- “God is good to the just and the unjust”, Matthew 5:43-48
- Psalm 145:9
- Romans 2, “the goodness of God leads us to repentance”
- Kindness is love in working clothes
- Augustine in Confessions, Ambrose moved him by his kindness; “that man of God received me like a father”
- Amy Carmichael in India
- Rejoices in and speaks the truth
- Our love for God and our love for others are rooted in the truth
- Ephesians 4, truth matures us and unifies us
- Ephesians 4:15, “speaking the truth in love”
- The truth speaks love–but it always speaks lovingly
- 1 Timothy 2:1-4
- 2 Timothy 2:24-45, the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome
- Revelation 2:1-5, it doesn’t matter how many things you get right–if you get love wrong
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