Why We Should Serve Out of Love

Love is irreplaceable Why We Should Serve Out of Love

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (NET Bible)

“Like bronzes that have been struck sound with a great racket and will not stop until someone puts a hand on them, so these orators when asked the smallest thing produce a marathon distance speech.” –Plato Why We Should Serve Out of Love

ἔρως érōs στοργή storgē φιλία philía ἀγάπη agápē ἔρως érōs στοργή storgē φιλία philía ἀγάπη agápē Why We Should Serve Out of Love

Activity(Love) = Reward Giving(10) = Great reward Teaching(3) = Modest reward Mercy(0) = No reward Activity(Love) = Reward Giving(10) = Great reward Teaching(3) = Modest reward Mercy(0) = No reward Why We Should Serve Out of Love

Love is irreplaceable Why We Should Serve Out of Love

Love is irreplaceable Love is selfless Love is irreplaceable Love is selfless Why We Should Serve Out of Love

4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. 6 It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NET Bible)

Love is… Patient Kind Rejoices in truth Bears all things Believes all things Hopes all things Endures all things Love is… Patient Kind Rejoices in truth Bears all things Believes all things Hopes all things Endures all things Why We Should Serve Out of Love Love is not… Envious Bragging Puffed up Rude Self-serving Easily angered Resentful Glad about injustice Love is not… Envious Bragging Puffed up Rude Self-serving Easily angered Resentful Glad about injustice

“Love is not set over against the gifts…rather, love is the way in which the gifts are to function.” –Gordon Fee “Love is not set over against the gifts…rather, love is the way in which the gifts are to function.” –Gordon Fee Why We Should Serve Out of Love

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Love is irreplaceable Love is selfless Love is irreplaceable Love is selfless Why We Should Serve Out of Love

Love is irreplaceable Love is selfless Love is everlasting Love is irreplaceable Love is selfless Love is everlasting Why We Should Serve Out of Love

8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 (NET Bible)

“The immortality of love highlights the temporality and imperfection of the other spiritual gifts: prophecy, speaking in the tongues, knowledge.” –Pheme Perkins “The immortality of love highlights the temporality and imperfection of the other spiritual gifts: prophecy, speaking in the tongues, knowledge.” –Pheme Perkins Why We Should Serve Out of Love

1 Corinthians Applications: Read/study 1 Corinthians 14:1-25. [ Determine whether your actions are motivated by love for others. Confess your sins if your actions are motivated by love for self. Measure your life against God’s description of love. Remember the Gospel, and rejoice in God our Savior. Applications: Read/study 1 Corinthians 14:1-25. [ Determine whether your actions are motivated by love for others. Confess your sins if your actions are motivated by love for self. Measure your life against God’s description of love. Remember the Gospel, and rejoice in God our Savior.