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A More Excellent Way
The Necessity, Character, and Permanence of Love
(1 Corinthians 13)
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Corinthian Church Problems
Division because of Pride & Self Interest
Sexual Immorality
Lawsuits
Confusion about Marriage and Singleness
Abuse of the Lord’s Supper
Competition among Spiritual Gifts
Confusion about the Resurrection
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Gordon Fee The First Epistle to the Corinthians, 628
“Love is primary for [Paul] because it has already been given concrete
expression in . . . Jesus Christ” (Jn. 3:16; 1 Jn. 3:16).
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Gordon Fee The First Epistle to the Corinthians, 628
“Love is not set over against the gifts, precisely because it belongs to a
different category altogether . . . love is the way the gifts are to function. To desire earnestly expressions of the
Spirit that will build up the community is how love acts in this context.”
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Biblical Idea
Paul dissected the character of the gospel ethic of love against the flawed Corinthian view of spirituality.
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Verses 4–7
Paul described love positively - Love …• Is patient• Is kind• Rejoices with the truth• Bears all things• Believes all things• Hopes all things• Endures all things
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Verse 4–7
Paul described love negatively – Love …• Is not envious• Is not boastful• Is not arrogant• Is not rude• Is not insistent on its own way• Is not irritable• Is not resentful• Does not rejoice at wrongdoing
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The Basics of Love’s Character
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Love Is Patient.
Love bears up under provocation without complaint. As the old KJV puts it, “Love suffereth long.”
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Love Is Kind.
Love shows mercy and compassion.
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The Seven Don’ts of Love’s Character
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Love Does Not Envy.
Love does not have intense negative feelings over another’s achievements or successes.
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Love Does Not Boast.
Love does not heap praise on oneself, like a braggart or a windbag.
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Love Is Not Arrogant.
Love does not have an exaggerated self-conception.
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Love Is Not Rude.
Love does not have a pattern of disgraceful (lacking favor or benevolence) behavior. Basically, love isn’t a jerk all the time.
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Love Does Not Insist on Its Own Way.
Love is not intent on striving for one’s own advantage (Jn. 5:30).
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Love Is Not Irritable.
Love is not easily provoked to anger and wrath.
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Love Is Not Resentful.
Love doesn’t keep score of wrongs.
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The Gladness of Love’s Character
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Love Does Not Rejoice at Wrongdoing.
Love is not happy in the proximity of injustices and violations of standards of right conduct.
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But Love Rejoices with the Truth.
Love experiences joy in the truth—virtuous living (Philippians 4:8–9).
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The Tenacity of Love’s Character
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Love Bears All Things.
Love keeps undesirable or displeasing things about another confidential instead of using them for self-interest. Love springs no leaks when the storm comes, like a ship tightly sealed.
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Love Believes All Things.
Love is true, worthy of trust, faithful (1 Jn. 4:16).
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Love Hopes All Things.
Love waits confidently.
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Love Endures All Things.
Love stands one’s doctrinal ground and maintains relational resolutions in the face of opposition (Mk. 13:13; 2 Tim. 2:10).
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Timeless Truth
The Holy Spirit empowers a new Christ-looking love of being and doing.
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A More Excellent Way
• Step #1: Love as being — Are you a lover? This is our ethical identity as new creations in Christ by the Spirit. I am a lover. People could come to Christ and know that they would be met with love. Do people know when they come to us that they will find love? Are we lovers?
• Step #2: Love as doing — How do I love? What do I do? This is gospel ethics in action. I will love so-and-so by doing X. This may take a little research and attention to detail. Do we know how to love?
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Today’s Message
Test the character consistency of your love.
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Love as being and doing creates responsibility and readiness that reaches others effectively.
Responsibility Narrows• “Choose this day whom you will
serve!” (Josh. 24:15)• “Yet I have loved Jacob, but
Esau have I hated” (Mal. 1:2–3). • Jesus’ circles of disciples (Luke
6:12–16)• A husband chooses one wife
(Gen. 2:24).
Readiness Widens• “And should not I pity
Nineveh?” (Jon. 4:11)• ”Which of these three proved
to be a neighbor?” (Lk. 10:36)• Prepared to speak to anyone
(Col. 4:2–6; 1 Pet. 3:15)
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Testing the Character Consistency of Love
First, test the character consistency of your love toward those for whom you have obligations and responsibilities. Does your activity toward these people match the biblical character of love?
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Testing the Character Consistency of Love
Second, test the character consistency of your readiness to love your neighbor. What’s your default ethic? How do you act in situations of providential spontaneity? What does this reveal to you about the Spirit’s work to make you a being who loves?
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Testing the Character Consistency of Love
Third, test the character consistency of your love toward the local church at West Lisbon. Every church is made up of relationships. Our problem-solving and solution-seeking activity, the activities that we commit to for the mission of God should match love’s character.
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Testing the Character Consistency of Love
Fourth, test the character consistency of your love for God.
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Verses 4–7
Paul described love positively - Love …• Is patient• Is kind• Rejoices with the truth• Bears all things• Believes all things• Hopes all things• Endures all things
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Verse 4–7
Paul described love negatively – Love …• Is not envious• Is not boastful• Is not arrogant• Is not rude• Is not insistent on its own way• Is not irritable• Is not resentful• Does not rejoice at wrongdoing
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Internalizing 1 Corinthians 13:4–7
[ ] is patient and kind; [ ] does not envy or boast; [ ] is not arrogant or rude. [
] does not insist on [ ] own way; [ ] is not irritable or resentful; [ ] does not rejoice at wrong-doing, but rejoices with the truth. [ ] bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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A More Excellent Way
The Necessity, Character, and Permanence of Love
(1 Corinthians 13)