The Greatest of These Is Love: An Introduction to the Series
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🗓️ 12 March 1995
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The text for this morning's message is found in 1st Corinthians, Chapter 13. |
| 0:07.0 | If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I've become a noisy |
| 0:20.3 | gong or a clanging symbol. And if I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and |
| 0:29.0 | all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains that do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to |
| 0:49.9 | be burned but do not have love. It profits me nothing. Love is patient. |
| 1:02.6 | Love is kind and is not jealous. |
| 1:06.9 | Love does not brag and is not arrogant. |
| 1:10.4 | Does not act unbecomingly. It does not act unbecomingly. It does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice an unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. |
| 1:29.6 | Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, endures all things, love never fails. whole things. |
| 1:50.0 | Love never fails, but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away. If there are tongues they will cease, if there is knowledge, it will be done away. |
| 1:59.0 | For we know in part, and we prophesy in part that when the perfect comes the partial will be done away. |
| 2:10.0 | When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child. |
| 2:20.0 | When I became a man, I did away with childish things. |
| 2:25.0 | For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face, now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been |
| 2:42.3 | fully known. But now abide faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is love. |
| 2:57.0 | I began a new series this morning under the banner, the greatest of these is love. And Noel said, I could be forgiven one servant in which I virtually never refer to the text. |
| 3:17.0 | This sermon this morning is not taken from First |
| 3:23.0 | God then 13 except insofar as that last phrase, |
| 3:28.0 | the greatest of these is love, is going to provide the banner under which I preach now for the foreseeable future. |
| 3:38.0 | Do you say, how long is this series going to last? I say, well, I go on vacation in July. |
| 3:45.0 | And I'm not promising it'll be over by then, but it might be. You pray that I'll have guidance. The series is the |
| 3:56.6 | grace of these as love and what I want to do today is give you ten |
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