What’s Love Look Like? “What’s Love REALLY Got to Do With It?”
1 Corinthians 13:1-3, 13, “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing… And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
- Patience is the will, the choice, to wait or endure __________ _______________.
- If envy is left unchecked, the desire for the “thing” turns into a dislike for _______________________ who has the “thing”.
- In other words, love isn’t concerned with ________________, or self-assertion; it cares more about ___________________.
Calvin Coolidge, 30th President, delivered this on January 17th, 1925: “Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
How do you compare to this description?
Did you see Jesus in this description?