15 Disciplines of Love Part 1 - ⁠(1 Corinthians 13:1–3⁠)

Pastor Joel Ramsey - 09/11/2022

The love of the world is discontent, ‌The love of God is patient, ‌‌The love of the world is spiteful and insensitive, ‌The love of God is kind and gracious, ‌‌The love of the world is envious, ‌The love of God is reassuring, ‌‌The love of the world is boastful, ‌The love of God is genuine‌‌, The love of the world is prideful, ‌The love of God is humble‌‌, The love of the world is dishonorable, ‌The love of God is honorable, ‌‌The love of the world is self-seeking and self-gratifying, ‌The love of God of selfless and self giving‌‌, The love of the world lacks self control‌, The love of God embraces self control‌‌, The love of The world is unforgiving, ‌The love of God embodies forgiveness, ‌‌The love of the world finds pleasure in evil‌, The love of God revels in the truth‌‌, The love of the world is unreliable, suspicious and hopeless, ‌‌The love of God protects, is steadfast, trustworthy and full of Hope‌‌, The love of God will NEVER FAIL.‌‌

Introduction - The Priority of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1–3 (NIV)‌1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have 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 do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

1. The First Discipline of Love - Patience, or Longsuffering

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