1. Let Me Show You A Better Way 1 Cor. 13

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. 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.”

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. 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