Part of 2022 Q2 - Kingdom Culture - 1 Corinthians
August 18, 2022
We need a definition of love
Love is of eternal importance
We should desire spiritual gifts and pursue love
Takeaway: Use your gifts to build up the church in love
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (1 Co 13:4–8). (2016). Crossway Bibles.
As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (1 Co 13:8–13). (2016). Crossway Bibles.
14 Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (1 Co 14:1). (2016). Crossway Bibles.
12 So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (1 Co 14:12). (2016). Crossway Bibles.
The Greater Gifts are for
14:3 - Upbuilding, encouragement, consolation
14:4 - Builds Up the church
14:5 - Built Up
14:12 - Strive to excel in building up the church
14:17 - Other people built up
14:26 - Let all things be done for building up
14:31 - All be encouraged
