Series: What God Says About…
From: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
God’s church ought to be known in His world by His love.
…If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 4. Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5. does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6. does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7. bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8. Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10. but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
What does branding love require?
- Branding love requires the commitment of love. (v. 1-3)
- The impression love has on others.
- Branding love requires the font of love. (v.4)
- It is not rude, it keeps no record of wrongs.
- Branding love requires the language of love. (v. 5)
- It is not just forgiving but also forgetting.
- Branding love requires the color of love. (v. 6-7)
- Is your love more like when you were first saved or has your heart become harden?
- Branding love requires the impact of love. (v.8-13)
- Love is not an attitude of the Christian life it is the Christian life.
God’s church ought to be known in His world by His love.
