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Turning Up The Heat – Week 6 – The Highest Way of All

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Turning Up The Heat – Week 6 – The Highest Way of All

Dave Riddle – 8/27/2017

Key Passage: 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

The Way of Love

  • Looooooong-tempered
    • 1 Corinthians 13:4
    • The ability to be inconvenienced and taken-advantage-of without getting ticked off.
      • Useful
        • 1 John 3:17
        • Not just in theory but in action.
          • Doesn’t boil over in jealousy
            • 1 Corinthians 13:4
              • Doesn’t “flaunt it”
                • 1 Corinthians 13:4
                • physioo (Greek): literally to inflate, blow up, to cause to swell up. Figuratively: proud or puffed up about one’s self.
                  • Isn’t crude and inappropriate
                    • 1 Corinthians 13:5
                    • The Corinthians were models of “Unbecoming” behavior.
                      • Isn’t self-centered
                        • “Love doesn’t seek its own”
                        • 1 Corinthians 13:5
                          • Isn’t moved to anger
                            • “Sudden outbursts of emotion”
                            • 1 Corinthians 13:5
                              • Doesn’t keep score
                                • logizomai (Greek): to take an inventory an ancient bookkeeping term that means to calculate or reckon.
                                • 1 Corinthians 13:5
                                  • Correctly responds to both truth and iniquity
                                    • 1 Corinthians 13:6
                                    • We only rejoice in that which is true
                                      • Persists
                                        • Never quits.
                                        • 1 Corinthians 13:7-8

                                          • Closing thoughts:

                                          • How do we live this out, not just with the people that we love, but also with the people we don’t?
                                            • How do you love the people that can do absolutely nothing for you in return?
                                              • How do you love the people that you’re prone to hate?
                                                • Repent
                                                  • ...more
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