Let Me Show You A Better Way 1 Cor. 13

Look back to 1 Cor. 12 “Now concerning spiritual gifts…” 1 “Various gifts…but, one Spirit, one Lord, one God who empowers them all in everyone.” 5-6 “Given for the common good…” 7 “Many members…one body” 12-30

Look back to 1 Cor. 12 “Earnestly desire the higher gifts, but I will show you a more excellent way.” 31

L-O-V-E 1 Cor. 13:1-2 All the Without love is nothing Tongues Prophetic powers Understanding all mysteries Understanding all knowledge Faith Without love is nothing

L-O-V-E 1 Cor. 13:3 If I… Without love is nothing Give away all I own Deliver my body to be burned Without love is nothing

Because L-O-V-E is… 1 Cor. 13:4-7 Patient Kind Does not envy or boast Is not arrogant or rude Does not insist on its own way Is not irritable or resentful

Because L-O-V-E is… 1 Cor. 13:4-7 Does not rejoice at wrongdoing Rejoices with truth Bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things Why is love greater than all? Love never ends

L-O-V-E never ends… 1 Cor. 13:8 Prophecies? They will pass away Tongues? They will cease Knowledge? It will pass away

L-O-V-E never ends… 1 Cor. 13:9-10 Gift of knowledge…only know part Gift of prophesy…only see part But when perfection comes.... “the partial will pass away.”

L-O-V-E never ends… 1 Cor. 13:11 When I was a child… Spoke, thought, reasoned like a child As an adult… I gave up childish ways

L-O-V-E never ends… 1 Cor. 13:12 Currently, we see in a mirror dimly… Currently, I know in part But, then (later), I shall know fully

L-O-V-E never ends… 1 Cor. 13:13 So what exists now? Faith, hope, and love Which is the greatest? Love

L-O-V-E 1 Cor. 13 Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” “And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Matt 22:36-39