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Love Is Patience and Action: Embracing the More Excellent Way

Explore the profound meaning of love based on 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, highlighting patience, kindness, selflessness, and endurance. Discover how love, as a powerful force, shapes relationships and fosters growth. Delve into the spiritual essence of love as a transformative experience that aligns with God's will and guides our actions. Join the journey to understand the depth and significance of love in our lives, reflecting on the enduring nature of true love that transcends all else.

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Love Is Patience and Action: Embracing the More Excellent Way

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  1. Love is A-C-T-I-O-N I Corinthians 13:4-8

  2. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (ESV) 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5  or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6  it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8  Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

  3. Love Is…… I Corinthians 13:4-8 • The Starting Point: • Galatians 5:22 THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE……

  4. Love Is…… I Corinthians 13:4-8 • Sustaining Process: • MacArthur states, “this is a key N.T. Word only known entirely and fully to a person who is a Christian.

  5. Love Is…… I Corinthians 13:4-8 • Stabilizing Force: • Love is under control in order to win the person and to help them to live, work, and serve as they should.

  6. Love Is…… I Corinthians 13:4-8 4. Simple and Complex Together: • Love is to be found willing to suffer long until it is realized; until love changes someone, THEN they too realize the Love of God.

  7. Love Is…… I Corinthians 13:4-8 Love is the capacity to be wronged and not to choose retaliation • James 5:7,8 • Rom. 12:12 • I Cor 13:7 • 2 Tim 2:10,12 • Heb 12:2 and 2 Peter 3:9

  8. Love Is…..I Corinthians 13:4-8 Life Steps The More Excellent Way… Action: Love coming out of me or received by me is the Fruit of the Holy Spirit in me. “Love is patient” Only God sustains me to love a world that does not love me Love suffers long to see change from God:

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