Faith Baptist Church of Higginsville, Missouri Podcast

Worship Service 06/08/2025

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Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Theme: Love is not irritable or resentful

Text: 1 Corinthians 13:5

Notes:

The descriptions of love in 1 Corinthians describe the character of Christ.

Proverbs 22:1, “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches”

Irritable

  • Paul’s primary concern in this verse is that love is not irritable with people
  • However, when we are irritated with circumstances, we are often irritated with God himself
  • Love chooses not to be angered, annoyed, or exasperated with others
  • Paul himself was not immune to this temptation, nor was his partner in ministry, Barnabas:
    • Acts 15, “the contention was so sharp that they parted from one another”
    • Why do we get irritated?
      • Our values are distorted by sin
      • We value our time and energy more than we value people
      • We would love to get our way more than we love others
      • We view others as obstacles to happiness rather than agents to push us toward holiness
      • Those who irritate us help us to see our own weaknesses

        • Resentful

        • Irritation(s) over a period of time fester into resentment
        • The biblical language is rooted in accounting/recording wrongs in a ledger
        • “Love keeps no record of wrongs”
        • Love does not ‘forgive and forget’–it remembers, and still forgives
        • Chrysostom, love quenches wrongs rather than recording them

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          How do we respond when we get irritated or resentful?

          • Angry looks
          • Angry words
          • Poisoned courtesy
          • Silent treatment
          • Sulking
          • Withdrawing

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            God uses people and circumstances to grow us into Christlikeness

            Real joy is circumstance-independent

            How do we address this in our own heart?

            • What do I really want?
            • Philippians 2:1-4
            • Galatians 5:26
            • 1 Corinthians 13:7-8
            • No matter how difficult circumstances and people are, love persists
            • People are not obstacles
            • 1 Corinthians 13:13-14:1, “the greatest of these is love…pursue love”
            • We are most like our Savior when we love
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