“What Love Really Looks Like!” #11
Text:
1 Corinthians 13
“Love
Endures All Things, Love Never Fails!” - vs 7-8
Here we are t the end of this blog series with the last entry of "What Love Really Looks Like!" An in-depth look at 1st Corinthians 13. Let's see how Paul sums this up but first let's review. The cultural definition of love is vague at best,
watered down, these days it's just a word used loosely, typically to
get an advantage or a desired outcome! We're so removed from the practical use of the word
but what's scary is how far removed we've become from the spiritual
weight of the word! So far we've learned that love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous, love does not brag and is
not arrogant, love does not act unbecomingly, love does not seek his own, love is not provoked, love doesn't
remember wrongs, love doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness but rejoices with
the truth, love bears all things, believes all things, and hopes all
things! If you've missed any entry so far I encourage you to go back through and catch up. With this series I wanted to go verse by verse through these eleven
pictures of what “agape”, true, biblical love and what it looks like in real life through biblical scenario's. I want
us to see how Jesus loved! We've reached the end! We've went from
internal to action to completion! In each blog I
want to view the particular picture of love in these scenarios,
Spiritually, Specifically, and Socially!
** Let's find out
what it means, love endures all things, love never fails? **
The
KJV translates Strong's G5278 in the following
manner: endure (11x), take
patiently (2x), tarry
behind (1x), abide (1x), patient (1x), suffer (1x).
And ye shall be hated of
all men for
my name's sake: but he that endureth G5278 to
the end shall be saved.
And ye shall be hated of
all men for
my name's sake: but he that shall endure G5278 unto
the end, the same shall be saved.
Looking unto Jesus the
author and finisher of our faith;
who for the joy that was set before him endured G5278 the
cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of
the throne of God.
Behold, we count them
happy which endure. G5278 Ye
have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the
Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
The
KJV
translates Strong's G1601 in the following manner: fall (7x), fall
off (2x), be
cast (1x), take
none effect (1x), fall
away (1x), fail (1x), vr
fallen (1x).
Not as though the word of
God hath taken none effect. G1601For
they are not
all Israel, which are of Israel:
Christ is become of no
effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are
fallen from G1601 grace.
For all flesh is as
grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass
withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: G1601
- True love holds
on, its effective, it continues, it stays, it endures, it suffers, it
sacrifices, it NEVER fails! -
1.) Specifically
*
Person to Person Relationships, spouses, friends, siblings, etc. *
We see this in the
relationship of Hosea and Gomer! Hosea loved Gomer even when it hurt! In chapter 3 of Hosea we find a man who endures all kinds of rejection, pain, loneliness, betrayal, and questions yet he fought for the one he loved! This story is a beautiful picture of God's love for Israel but also Christ's love for us! Go read Hosea!
2.) Socially
* Individual to
Society, to Individuals with which we don't have a “personal”
bond. *
We see a picture
of this love in Zerrubabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah! They didn't give
up! Their love
finished the job! They rebuilt worship, the temple, and the wall with a love that endures!
We also see it in the love Moses had for his people!
3.) Spiritually
* God to Man and Man to God! *
- Spiritually is the
most important as it's correct position will produce the first two! -
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Man to God -
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We see this in Jobs relationship to the Father! -
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He never gave in! -
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God to Man -
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Christ and His Cross! -
Hebrews 12:2King James Version (KJV)
2 Looking
unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that
was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set
down at the right hand of the throne of God.
-
He loved you through it! -
Romans 5:8King James Version (KJV)
In
Closing:
**
LOVE NEVER FAILS **
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Love NEVER holds back -
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Love sticks around! -
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Love sees good in the end! -
-The Excellence of Love
1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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