SERIES: Transformed By Love
TITLE: Love’s Permanence
TEXT: I Corinthians 13: 8-19 (p.959)
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GETTING FOCUSED
“Love never ends.”
“Love never fails.”
“Love never dies.”
“Love will last forever.”
Word for “fail” is used of a leaf that falls to the ground, withers, and decays.
Word for “never” refers to time.
Word used for both prophecy and knowledge is (reduced to inactivity, abolished).
Word for cease is (to stop, to come to an end).
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GETTING STARTED
4 truths from I Corinthians 13 worth remembering:
#1: Love is of God, not man, so (get connected). See I John 4:7-13 (p.1023)
#2: Love is an (act), not a (feeling), so just do it. I John 4:18
#3: Love is a (gift), not a wage or a bribe, so give it (freely).
#4: Love is an (obligation), not an option, so pay it. I John 4:11- “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
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