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The Royal Road of Love
1 Corinthians 12:27-13:13
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1 Corinthians 12 (NKJV™)
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
28 And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
31 But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 13 (NKJV™)
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

New King James Version®, Copyright © 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Royal Road of Love, The

Today, we begin a new series based on perhaps Paul the Apostle's most famous literary work, 1 Corinthians 13. This "chapter of love" is one of the most beautiful, most needed, and most misunderstood sections of the New Testament. As we survey this plot of scriptural real estate together, my hope is that God will work within each of us a heart of mature love—love that is unconditional, sacrificial, and satisfying!

God's love is the missing ingredient in many of our relationships. Many of them are merely perfunctory and unfortunately erode over time. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul paints a picture of what true love is and what it is not. Throughout the text, Paul shows us that true love has many facets and explains it in both positive and negative terms. He tells us our love for others is meant to be a mirror of Christ's love for us. This series looks at what true love really is, highlighting how we can learn to let love govern our personal relationships.

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  1. The Meaning of Love

    1. What Love is Not

    2. What Love Is


  2. The Malfunction of Love

    1. What They Had

    2. What They Needed


  3. The Misunderstanding of Love

    1. Love Can't be Separated From Truth

    2. Love Can't be Separated From Discipline

Pondering the Principles:
  1. In terms of relationships, think of those ­closest to you? How is your love demonstrated to them? Now draw a circle which includes your relatives and friends with whom you occasionally meet. How is your love revealed to them? Now draw an even bigger circle that includes Christians in your church, other churches, unbelievers, the poor and then finally people in other parts of the world. How should love be shown in these cases?

  2. In what ways has your own idea of what love really means been challenged

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5/13/2001
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The Missing Ingredient
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
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Imagine having a simplified cake mix with only one requirement—"Just add water"—only to find that the city turned off your water supply! The simple instructions now become frustrating because you're missing only one ingredient: water. What water is to your recipe, love is to the Christian believer—without it you have only dust and crumbs! In this second message in our series on real love, we discover the preeminence of this ingredient.
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5/20/2001
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Five Facets on the Diamond of Love
1 Corinthians 13:4
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The splendor of a fine jewel is due to the summation of all its attributes. Love is no different. To define real love is difficult; to describe love is much easier. That's what Paul does for us here. Like spinning a diamond and examining its fine markings, he looks at agape love under the magnifying glass of its own characteristics. Today, we turn the light onto one verse and see five facets of this exquisite gem.
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5/27/2001
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So Easy to Say, So Hard to Do!
1 Corinthians 13:5-6
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In the movie classic Fiddler On The Roof, Tevye, the husband and main character, gently asked his wife, Golde, in song, "Do you love me?" Her response was very pragmatic and evidential. She explained that since she has been committed for over 25 years to him in marriage and serves him around the house that her love is sure. How can we tell that we are people of love? What is the proof? How do loving people act around other people? These verses tell us.
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6/17/2001
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Love 101: A Mid Term Exam
1 Corinthians 13:7-8
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Many of our kids have just finished their school year. No more homework and no more tests to take. But not so in life! Our education never really ends. We're taught lessons every day and those lessons are often accompanied by tests—opportunities to demonstrate if we've learned the necessary material. Today let's take a test to see how well we stack up in the area of Christian love.
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6/24/2001
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The Main Thing is the Greatest Thing
1 Corinthians 13:8-13
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You've heard the old saying, "The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing!" The whole premise of this thirteenth chapter to the Corinthians is that love is the main thing. But why is it so? And why should it be always cultivated and maintained in any relationship or friendship? Because, says Paul, it is the greatest thing of all!
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