Unchanging Love

Unchanging Love

Dave Riddle 9/05/2021

Key passage: 1 Corinthians 13

The Highest Way of All - Love

  • 1 Corinthians. 12:31 - Love!

… is Lonnnnnnnng-tempered 

  • Patient - 1 Corinthians 12:4

…is Kind

  • 1 Corinthians 12:4

  • 1 John 3

…Does Not Boil Over with Jealousy 

  • 1 Corinthians 12:4

…is not Boastful

  • 1 Corinthians 12:4

  • This word is only used one time

…is not self-inflated

  • psysioo- literally, to inflate, blow up, to cause to swell up.

  • 1 Corinthians 12:4

…is not crude or inappropriate 

  • 1 Corinthians 12:5

  • Lacking in care for others around them

…isn’t self-centered

  • 1 Corinthians 12:5

  • “Cure selfishness and you have just replanted the Garden of Eden” - RCH Lenski

…Isn’t moved to anger

  • 1 Corinthians 12:5

  • Of our interactions are defined by rage, we aren’t living in love.

    • Irascible - not just angry but anger that leads to wrong action.

…doesn’t keep score

  • loguzomai- to take inventory, an ancient bookkeeping term that means to calculate or reckon. To make it keep a permanent record.

  • 1 Corinthians 12:5

…Responds Correctly to  Truth and Iniquity

  • 1 Corinthians 12:6

  • Love doesn’t find joy in unrighteousness or the failures of others.

…Persists

  • 1 Corinthians 7-8a

  • “Bears all things” - covers, supports, protects.