The Lessons of Love

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This series liberated to love continues. Of all the emotions that a person can experience what is the most important one of all. It is low. It is the superlative of all emotions. There is no emotion that you and I experience that even begins to compare the importance of emotional flow. For example, when you and I go to heaven we not deleted a whole because it will all be completed, we will need and if they could all be finished but long we gonna take with us. That's the one emotion we are going to enter into heaven, will that's what I want to talk about in this message and title the lessons of low and I want you to turn if you will to first Corinthians chapter 13 ballot you'll find it between chapter 12 that has to do with spiritual gifts and chapter 14 that has to do with one specific gift that is the gift of tongues and the reason Paul is writing this is simply this, that those Corinthian Christians had put far more emphasis on the gifts of the spirit than they had the fruit of the spirit. And so if you notice what he says is begins. He says if I speak with the tongs of men and of angels, but do not have love, I become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains do not have law pieces.

I am nothing and if I give all of my possessions to feed the poor and if I deliver my body to be burned but do not have love, it profits me nothing, and what I would like to do in this passage, and in this message is to talk about the discussed the three lessons of love and certainly hope you'll be wise enough to jot them down. The first lesson I want us to look at concerning love is this to live life without learning to love God and learning to love others, is to miss the very point of living to live our life without learning to love God and love others is the Mr. Britt reason for living.

Now, if you recall, the 22nd chapter of Matthew, of what Jesus said you recall there were asking him about what is the greatest commandment in he said here's the greatest one you shall all the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it you shall love your neighbor as yourself that Jesus said of all the commandments that are he said the most important commandment deals with love and deals with our relationship to the father loving God and the deals their relationship to other people, so the Scripture says in this passage that Jesus said that the most important commandment of all is a commandment that deals with love. You would think are the most important memo of the faith and things like that. He says it's love. You recall he said this is the way to his disciples. This is the way I want everybody to know who you are.

I want to know that you want to my followers not by your great faith, not by your ability to speak of several cases.

The way I want them to know you is I want them to be able to detect within you a sense of love that you learn to love the father and you've learned to love them.

I want them to see that you are one of my followers because love is just flowing out of and so it's very easy to understand the code of the Scripture that superlative supreme greater than all the other quality is what he's looking for in your life in my life is the spirit of love actions of love demonstration expression of love. Well, how my going to be able to love God whom I do not know how my going to be able to love others.

Often times when there is conflict between what we think and how we feel in our personalities don't match.

So God has taken care of it and you recall, the Bible says that you and I we would say we were born again, what is its born-again we receive a brand-new spirit. He says therefore they demand in Christ. He's a brand-new creation old things are passed away.

Behold, everything is become new. Well, what became the one of the things that became new was my capacity to understand and to know God and to love God you see. Apart from that, he says, you and I were dead in trespasses and sins dominated by I want and I will control by self-willed selfishness and self-centeredness and pride and arrogance and all the rest in order for God to make it possible for me to live out my life and he live at you like to do the very thing he wants us to do as the learn to love him and the learned love others. He had to do something dramatic in your life and mine. He had to bring about a new birth experience. They gave us a new spirit and a new potential to love and be loved. Violence that's what God wants rollovers above all else.

He wants us to learn to love him, and he wants us to learn how to be loved in return. And so when we come to this 13th chapter and we see that he says it is preeminent above all things. We know that love is extremely important but lesson number two is this that is that genuine love flows from God who dwells within us genuine love has its source, God who dwells within us all of the love is imperfect. All the love that flows through you and me to other people comes through our personality and our fleshly experience, but perfect love comes from God. And when the Lord Jesus Christ came in your life in my life. What they do. He came into your life in my life and established himself and he is the source of law that flows from you and me. There is a fleshly law that the unbeliever can experience to some degree, it may be a Leo count of an affection toward someone, but only those who know Christ as their Savior. Only those in whom God is dwelling can the love of God flow through them.

This is why the ministry of the Holy Spirit is so absolutely essential in every single solitary aspect of our life. The Holy Spirit doesn't just come to anoint preachers and missionaries in and Christian workers to do the work of God, the Holy Spirit indwells every single believer to enable you and me to do those simple little things that we think are simple but are so absolutely essential to our becoming the person God wants us to be. If I am going to be able to love someone if I'm going to be able to love the way God wants them to be love and to receive their love the way God wants me to be able to receive it, that I must have the Holy Spirit living in my life working through me doing his work. That is what he's up to.

He is conforming you and me into the likeness of Christ.

He says that's what he predestined, what happened was that is the work of the Holy Spirit.

So he says the fruit of the spirit, he didn't say the further Christian but he says that for the Holy Spirit, what is that mean he says, for example, I am the vine, you the branch. The branch is abiding in the bomb. The separate closing the barn blows the branch and the luscious grapes out here on the branch on the bond out here on the branch hanging there, how they produce the branch didn't produce the grapes. It was the Sabbath that runs in the bond running in the branch. That's like the spirit of God. He says on the value the right. That is, we as believers of the branch and it is the spirit of God flowing through us that expresses that wonderful love of God in our hearts.

That's why lesson number two. Genuine law is the love of God flowing through us. It has God as its source. It is what I can conjure up in what I can make myself think about someone else is God flowing through us loving throat. God is the source of that love. And so we set. Lesson number one is this and that is to go through life to live our lives without learning to love the father to love the Lord Jesus Christ in his spirit and learn to love others would miss the whole point of living and genuine love has God as its source. That is God who dwells within and so then we come to the third lesson then become the first review chapter 13, because in this third lesson. The lesson is simple but as profound, I think, is the elbows, and that is simply this, that life without love is empty and meaningless. No matter how gifted you may be. And no matter how strong and powerful.

You may be and what you may be able to accomplish in life, and no matter what you are willing to give away in life. Life is empty and meaningless. No matter what.

Apart from low and listen to what the apostle Paul said in this passage of Scripture verse significant what he said here. Look, if you will in chapter 13 verse one.

He said now remembering that what he's doing. He's talking about the preeminence of love before he says here's what it does is how love acts. He says it superlative. It is distinguished above all other emotions is at the pinnacle in the peak of them all now. With that in mind what he does. Here he gives us five. He compares the infinite value of love, to five very finite important things they were informed of the days in which Paul wrote in their important to us today so let's begin with number one because he says. First of all this.

Compare log with the ability to communicate and watch this if I speak with the tongs of man and of angels, but do not have love, I become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. Now the best way for me to express those set this way. Suppose I said to you I love you and I don't really understand what love is and I don't mean he says this is what it's like now let me ask your question what did you get out of that you get anything all you heard was noise. He says a lot of people who think they're loving all they're doing is making a noise when they say I love you that is making a noise. You know why they don't love God, so therefore they don't have the capacity to really love you and when they say oh yes, I feel love but without God, they don't really have the capacity to genuinely feel so what he's saying is that people who who say that their love that they love and and who put their emphasis on their ability to communicate. He says that love is all about. For example, if I really and truly love you. I'm going to speak the truth.

Sometimes it's going to be like velvet is going to be smooth and gentle and soft and you gonna love it. Sometimes if our luggage going to be like steel and sandpaper and you not gonna like, but if I speak the truth. It'll be velvet sometimes steel and like sandpaper and other times that's why parent if you love your children, the Bible says that you will discipline them when they need discipline because love not only Isabel but it's also like sandpaper and so he's is far more important than the ability to speak is love is what comes through the heart, not just what comes to the mall because, listen, you cannot camouflage what comes to the mall with something that is not genuine, true, real, love this person has any discernment at all knows when there's love and there's no love fake, counterfeit, so he says far more important than any kind of gifts that you and I have is our capacity to express low then if you notice what he says. He says, and if I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, Jesus, for example, when a person is genuinely speaking in love and registers in your heart when it's not spoken, and love. It doesn't so he says all the Bible teaching all the preaching. All the Sunday school teaching all these things with doing with it singing or whatever it may be he says it is not motivated by love is. It has no value is just noise.

This is like clanging of pans and meaning of symbols. He says it's meaningless.

It doesn't have any effect. The notice what he said. He said, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love nothing you know somebody said what you want from God above everything else like to talk about an intimate relationship with him. But somewhere real close to the top was a mountain moving faith mountain moving faith. We know what he said. He said that's real good but you know what he said. He said even superior distinguished even above not moving faith by which you and your work in the ministry God would be able to accomplish great feats through all of us. Whatever Winn-Dixie said far more important that is your capacity to love the father and to love someone else God places that even above faith. He says so what if you if you just speaking and your eloquent but without love, he says, is meaningless.

He said you can have all kinds of knowledge and understand all, scriptural things and have this mountain moving faith. He says that is mainly for his that's nothing. Then if you notice what he said in verse three he says and if I give all my possessions to feed the poor.

Now people give for lots of different reasons. Some people give for example, because the genuine love others give because of taxes they give because they believe in a cause they believe because there's a need they believe they give because of somebody compels him to do so. They give because it makes them feel good. You know what he said. He said of my giving is not motivated by my love of the father and those to whom I give. He says in the judgment seat of Christ when he looks at the tally of our good deeds.

He says that the blank space it wanted to militarily is not even going to be there.

He says because it profits me nothing. Notice he didn't say it profits me something.

He says it profits me nothing. Listen, if it profits me nothing. It profits me nothing in the eyes of God and then Paul uses an extreme example is what he says. He says even if I give my body to be burned but do not have love, it profits me nothing. That is, a person can make the ultimate sacrifice for a cause. Get the name and history, whatever it may be he says is not even on the register is not even on the tally sheet. It profits is absolutely nothing unless it is motivated by genuine love for God and motivated by love of others. There are people who sacrifice their life in genuine love for God genuine love for others that's on the tally sheet be greater love has no man than this, he said in one lay down his life for his friends even greater than that is that God laid on the life of his son for all of us who were sinners.

He says while you and I were sinners, Christ died for those of us the ungodly and what is Paul saying all this, the most important thing in life is love.

He says to live your life without learning to love God and learn to love others you missed the point of living that genuine love has God as its source, God who dwells within us.

Is there that life without love.

He says life without love, no matter how gifted you may be, no matter how successful you may be because of your faith no matter what you give away no matter what you will, and the sacrifice he says it's meaningless. It's worthless. It's empty, it's hollow, it's profitless. It's of no value. You know why because God places such high value on love, think about this, can you put your finger on somebody out there that you can honestly say I love you unselfishly willing to serve you willing to sacrifice for you willing to be used of God to build you up to become the person that God wants you to be and achieve the goals of God wants you to achieve in your life to help you to do all of if not more than likely, you have never experienced that intimate, loving relationship that God wants you to experience premises. I don't believe there's anything in life to equal that when I think about children who grow up and never experienced husbands and wives who live together all of their life and that married but never having experience that kind of wonderful love which God is provided. 1 Terrible Way to live positives empty, hollow, meaningless and profitless nothing for so many people who think that their loved, but if they ever got into a real genuine loving relationship. They realize that they had felt before, like a peanut hall just to haul something being dismissed and once they learn to love that way. And once they began to experience someone really genuine that loving them with agape love selfish sacrificial serving love.

I believe that person with the for the first time in their life have suddenly began to lay out know the truth is you and that's what love is all about and he says of all the emotions that you and I can experience in life that is the pinnacle of the mall. Thank you for listening to the lessons of lab if you'd like to know more about child family for intense ministries and had started wagging the presentation of intact ministry management