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Ptr. Stephen Lloyd Reyes
UBC Manila

I Corinthians 13:1-7 HCSB

Love: The Superior Way

If I speak human or angelic languages but do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.2 If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.3 And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.4 Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not conceited,5 does not act improperly, is not selfish, is not provoked, and does not keep a record of wrongs.6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Central Emphasis

Christianity’s supreme moral standard is love, the most powerful evident of change in revealing the purpose of Christ.

  • The way of love is greater than the spiritual gifts. V.1-4
    • If I speak human or angelic languages but do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.2 If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.3 And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.4 Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not conceited,5
  • The way of love is governed by moral qualities. V.4-6
    • 4 Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not conceited,5 does not act improperly, is not selfish, is not provoked, and does not keep a record of wrongs.6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.
  • The way of love is grander in all its form.v.7
    •     …It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Key

Obedience to the Truth
1 Peter 1:22-23 (HCSB) By obedience to the truth, having purified yourselves for sincere love of the brothers, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,23 since you have been born again—not of perishable seed but of imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God.



Vision: To see equipped members fulfilling the Great Commission.