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God, Increase Our Love
And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
1 Corinthians 2:1-5 (NIV)
1. God will never increase our love if we are disconnected from the source.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
1 John 4:7-12;16
Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.”
Psalm 16:2
2. We must acknowledge that we serve a God of an upside Kingdom.
The greatest act of love is self-denial.
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God
2 Corinthians 5:21
Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.
John Wesley.
3. Love is my responsibility.
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. 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. 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 Corinthians 13:1-3
Where is God asking you to increase your love?
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1 Corinthians 2:1-5 (NIV)
1. God will never increase our love if we are disconnected from the source.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
1 John 4:7-12;16
Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.”
Psalm 16:2
2. We must acknowledge that we serve a God of an upside Kingdom.
The greatest act of love is self-denial.
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God
2 Corinthians 5:21
Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.
John Wesley.
3. Love is my responsibility.
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. 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. 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 Corinthians 13:1-3
Where is God asking you to increase your love?