Transcript Dissect But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness
and self-control. Against such
things there is no law.
The big picture
But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness
and self-control. Against such
things there is no law.
31…And
now I will
show you the most
excellent way.
1 Corinthians 13
1 Corinthians 12
1Now about spiritual
gifts, brothers, I do
not want you to be
ignorant.
1 Corinthians 14
1Follow the way
of love and
eagerly desire
spiritual gifts,
especially the
gift of prophecy.
Being gifted is important
Being successful in ministry is too
But it is worthless without love
1 Corinthians 13
If I speak in the tongues of men
and of angels, but have not love,
I am only a resounding gong or a
clanging cymbal.
2 If
I have the gift of prophecy and
can fathom all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have a faith
that can move mountains, but
have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I
give all I possess to the poor and
surrender my body to the flames,
but have not love, I gain nothing.
Tongues
Prophecy
Knowledge
Even faith
Extreme generosity
All of this service is empty without love
Love is the most excellent way
This passage describes God’s love for us
It describes God’s hope for how we will
learn to love each other
It is definitely a goal we should seek
It is a goal we will never reach
4 Love
is patient, love is kind. It does not
envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is
not easily angered, it keeps no record of
wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always
protects, always trusts, always hopes,
always perseveres. 8 Love never fails.
Love is essential
It is necessary
It will always be needed
8
…But where there are prophecies,
they will cease; where there are
tongues, they will be stilled; where
there is knowledge, it will pass
away. 9 For we know in part and we
prophesy in part, 10 but when
perfection comes, the imperfect
disappears.
Love will outlast everything
It will always be necessary
13 And now these three remain:
faith, hope and love. But the
greatest of these is love.
Love is so essential Jesus says:
If you want to obey the law…
Love God
Love neighbor
Love yourself
I say:
It is the reader’s digest of the bible…
Matthew 22
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest
commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus
replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is
the first and greatest commandment.
39 And
the second is like it: ‘Love
your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All
the Law and the Prophets hang
on these two commandments.”
Paul, following the same theological
stream of thought, says:
Love fulfills the law
Love sums up the Law
Love is the fulfillment of the law
Romans 13
8 Let no debt remain outstanding,
except the continuing debt to love
one another, for he who loves his
fellowman has fulfilled the law.
9 The
commandments, “Do not
commit adultery,” “Do not murder,”
“Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and
whatever other commandment
there may be, are summed up in
this one rule: “Love your neighbor
as yourself.” 10 Love does no harm to
its neighbor. Therefore love is the
fulfillment of the law.
Scripture says that without love…
We are empty
We are machines
We are existing but not living
Without love we can’t fulfill the law
A loveless Christian is an oxymoron
A complete contradiction
Galatians 5: 22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness
and self-control. Against such things
there is no law.
Nothing else is as essential now and
in the future as love
Gifts
Faith
Hope
Knowledge
Prophecy
The law
Love is essential
When we are face to face with Christ we
will still need to love
We need to keep growing in love
Love makes us more like Christ
Without love we are truly lost