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Oct 30, 2016

All You Need Is Love... with Gifts

Passage: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Preacher: Pastor Tim W. Young

Series: God's Love Letter to an Unlovely Church

Category: 1 Corinthians

Summary:

Main Text - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; OT Reading - Proverbs 10:1-12; NT Reading - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Detail:

"God’s Love Letter To an Unlovely Church”

“All You Need Is Love….with Gifts”

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

 

  1. Gifts Are Not A Sign of Spiritual Maturity – Vss 1-3

 

  1. You can be gifted and be

 

                1 Cor 1:7

                 1 Cor 3:1

               1 Cor 13:11 & 14:20

 

  1. You Can be gifted and not….  

 

               - 2 Corinthians 12:11-13                Mat 7:21  

 

  1. You can serve sacrificially with your gifts and not…

 

              

  1. Gifts Are not Only What You Do But How You Do It – Vss 4-7

 

  1. Paul is not rebuking them for the use of the gifts but for…                                                    

               Paul used his gifts - 1 Cor 14:18

 

               Paul commands then to   -   1 Cor 12:31a & 14:1

 

  1. Love is to guide our use of our gifts  -               1 Cor 12:31

 

               Love is patient and kind -              

               Love does not envy or boast

               Love  is not arrogant  

               Love is not rude. -  

               Love Does not insist on its own way -  

               Love is not irritable or resentful -  

               Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth -  

               Love bears all things,believes all things,  hopes all things,endures all things.  

 

  1. The Gifts Are Temporary So Don’t Put Them Above the Eternal

 

  1. This does not mean the gifts are

                             

               What is the “perfect and when does it come?

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  1. This does mean the Fruit, and especially love, are more

                             

Put your name in the blank….”I am________”   and respond accordingly