Welcome to this weekend's in touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Today's lesson points us to a love that goes deeper than pleasant words and kind gestures.

Let's explore 1st Corinthians chapter 13 to enhance your understanding of the power of love.

What is the strongest motivation in your life? Is it fear, greed, lust, or is it faith or is it love? When there is love

present in a person's life it is an awesomely powerful force.

There is a strength about love that's unmatched by anything else.

In fact, when you think about your relationship to your

relationship to your love for that person or your fear of losing that person.

When you think about your relationship to God,

is it that you fear him? Is that what motivates your relationship to him?

Or do you just love him? Is that what motivates your relationship to him? Or do you just love him? And therefore

your obedience is the result of love, not fear. Well that's what I want to talk about in

this message entitled, The Power of Love. and I want you to turn if you will

to first Corinthians chapter 13 which is best known as the chapter of love and if you

recall in these first three verses that the apostle Paul is talking about the preeminence of love.

So beginning in verse 4, what Paul does is he describes the way love acts. Now I want us to remember something here and that

is that if you and I read verses 4 through 8 and we say well if this is what love is supposed to do I'm not sure

I can do that and you're absolutely correct because there's not a single one of

us who can fulfill carry, or express all of these actions of love that Paul describes here

in our own strength and our own flesh.

There's no way to do it.

It's impossible.

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