Steve Cree spoke to us from 1 Corinthians 12:27-13:13. The key to playing your part in the body of Christ is less to do with what gifts you have and more to do with the attitude and character you have in how you use them. The key issue is love – loving like Jesus.
Key Verse
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Bible Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:27-13:13
Outline:
1. “give me the greatest gift” 12:27-31
2. love is all you need 13:1-3
3. love is… 13:4-7
4. love is forever 13:8-13
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Just wondering if you could expand on something from the passage.
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing. (1 cor 13:3).
Isn’t love about sacrifice and selflessness, and this being seen in the example of Jesus.
Then isn’t the act of giving all you have to the poor or giving up your body acts of love? how can you do these without love?
thanks for your help.
Its our motive or reason for doing these things. If we are doing it to see ourselves glorified or get a pat on the back then we do not do it for love we have done it to be seen as a good person.
Its out of response of what God has done for us and that is sending Jesus to die on the cross for our sins to save us. So in all that we do like giving to the poor or giving up our body if its not done for the glory of God then its meaningless.
Hi Mark
I reckon you just need to think of people like the Bali bombers surrendering themselves to the firing squad to die as “martyrs” and you get a bit of an insight into the sort of extreme yet loveless behaviour that Paul might have in mind.
The same as what Jesus did but for the salvation of a sinful word, there is no greater example of true love than this.