This video is the concluding message on our
series through I Corinthians 13. Our focus has been on what agapè-love[1]
is and is not,[2]
but with the introduction of the first three verses telling us that we are
nothing without this love,[3]
and now the conclusion of the last six verses showing how this agapè-love is
supreme over all other ways of doing things.[4]
When God’s Book communicates that the
distinctive agapè-love of God is supreme, it is in the context of what we learn
about spiritual gifts.
However, God is not asking us to choose between
doing things in love or doing things through our spiritual gifting. Rather, he
is showing us that the ways we express ourselves through our spiritual gifts
has a “more excellent way”[5]
to it when everything is done in this agapè-love.
Join our home church family in considering
how God doing everything in agapè-love towards us gives us everything we need
to cover everything we do in our own expressions of this agapè-love. When agapè-love
guides us in everything we do, our expressions of spiritual gifts in ministry
become the most excellent way to build-up one another in love.
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Unless otherwise noted, Scriptures are from the
English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text
Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of
Good News Publishers.)
[1] ἀγάπη (Greek) agapè (English) ~ Our working definition of agapè-love
has been: “goodwill arising from a personal moral good rather than
attraction”. It is different from all other loves in that it operates out
of God’s love for us not out of anything good or bad in another person. We do
not love our enemies because we are attracted to them, but because God has
poured his enemy-loving love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit whom he
has given us (Romans 5:5).
[2] I Corinthians 13:4-7
[3] I Corinthians 13:1-3
[4] I Corinthians 13:8-13
[5] I Corinthians 12:31
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