1 Corinthians 13:5b-7 – “What love is and what love is not” part 2
My sermon notes for Sunday morning, Sept 4th. Remember, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the sermon. They are provided as an outline each week for our Tabernacle Church family. The church provides a live stream of the service each Sunday at 10:30 on Facebook. We also provide the services through YouTube by Sunday afternoon. You can find Sermon Notes, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List, and other resources at our Church Website.
INTRO
- Agape Love… love in action
- Not feeling love, but doing love
- What love does & What love does not do
- Paul is painting a portrait of love, and Jesus Christ is sitting for the portrait. He lived out in perfection all of these virtues of love. This beautiful picture of love is a portrait of Him. (John MacArthur- 1 Corinthians Commentary)
- Remember the context. Spiritual gifts within the life of the church
- Our relationship with others is a direct reflection of our relationship with God.
Love does not insist on its own way – v. 5
- Seek to be second rather than first
- Even when deserved… we are 2nd
- Opposite of … I want my own way
- Matthew 20:28
- Others not me.
Love it is not irritable – v. 5
- not easily angered
- when the inside comes out (our heart)
- Our tongue. Our Words
- We should only be angered by the things that anger God
Love is not resentful – v. 5
- keeps no record of wrongdoing
- Bringing things up
- Does not keep score
Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing – v. 6
- Rejoice when someone fails
- Find satisfaction in the wrong of others
- Gossip at the failure of others
Love rejoices with the truth – v. 6
- Biblical truth applied in life
- Shines the light on the right of others
- Looking for and focusing on the right
Conclusion – Driving the point home – v. 7
- A summary and conclusion of this section – vv. 3-7
- all things – in every way – everything in accordance to God’s divine tolerance.
Love bears all things
- to cover, to cover over in silence
- Willing to cover up
- Love never protects the sin but is anxious to protect the sinner.
- Galatians 6:1
Love believes all things
- Not suspicious.
- Thinking the best and not the worst
Love hopes all things
- Refuses to take failure as the final answer
- Looking toward the future.
Love endures all things (the present)
- Military term… hold the line at all cost
- Willing to do whatever it takes
Love bears what otherwise is unbearable; it believes what otherwise is unbelievable; it hopes in what otherwise is hopeless; and it endures when anything less than love would give up. After love bears it believes. After it believes it hopes. After it hopes it endures. There is no “after” for endurance, for endurance is the unending climax of love.
John F. MacArthur Jr., 1 Corinthians, MacArthur New Testament Commentary (Chicago: Moody Press, 1984), 355.
Galatians 5:16–24 - [16] But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. [17] For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. [18] But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. [19] Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, [20] idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, [21] envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. [22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, [23] gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. [24] And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. (ESV)