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  • Tabernacle Baptist Church
    • Sep 10, 2022
    • 2 min read

Love Never Ends (1 Corinthians 13:8-13) - 9/11/22

INTRO

  • Agape Love… love in action

  • 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.

  • The unified Church focuses on the eternal not the temporal

  • What will be standing at the end

    • Love or gifts

  • Consider the Constant, the Passing and live faithfully as we Wait.

Love is eternal – v. 8a

  • Love never ends

  • Agape

  • God’s Love for us

  • Our love for God

  • Our love for one another

  • Falls. Fails to make the cut

  • Love does not fail because

    • Bears, Believes, Hopes, Endures ALL THINGS

The gifts will cease/pass away – vv. 8b-10

  • Prophecies, Knowledge, Tongues

    • Those that had been causing the most controversy

    • Remember, the context of this passage…. UNITY IN THE CHURCH

  • Not carry over into the next.

  • No longer needed

  • YET… Love will carry over from this age into the fullness of the age to come

The joy is living in the now as we await the future – vv. 11-13

  • We know and prophesy in part

  • We are limited

  • Paul was including himself (even the apostle)

  • We are influenced and tainted by sin

When the perfect comes, then the partial will pass away

  • The Lord’s victorious return

  • All things will be complete

Moving Toward Maturity

  • Child – Adult

  • Mirror – Face to Face

  • Partial – Full

The concluding statement -v. 13

The Temporary

  • Faith – Trusting God in what we cannot see.

  • Hope – Expecting God to do what He has promised.

    • (In Glory we will SEE HIM and BE WITH HIM)

The Eternal

  • LOVE

Already, and Not Yet (How to Live in the Last Days)

  • already adopted in Christ (Romans 8:15), but not yet adopted (Romans 8:23);

  • already redeemed in Christ (Ephesians 1:7), but not yet redeemed (Ephesians 4:30);

  • already sanctified in Christ (1 Corinthians 1:2), but not yet sanctified (1 Thessalonians 5:23–24);

  • already saved in Christ (Ephesians 2:8), but not yet saved (Romans 5:9);

  • already raised with Christ (Ephesians 2:6), but not yet raised (1 Corinthians 15:52).

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