Title: The Value of Love
Contents
1. Outline of the text
The church is made up of people from all walks of life. There are children and there are adults. Some are responsible for everything and some are not. Even in the Corinthian church, there were many people who had not matured inwardly. Paul set out the criteria and characteristics of maturity in chapter 13, and that is “love.” As a child gradually grows up, letting go of the things of childhood and becoming an adult is love, and becoming an adult is knowing how to love.
2.Topic
worth of love
3. Sermon Outline
Text: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Title: The value of love
Main content: Those who have love are those who have grown up
Introduction
1. The story of Saint Teresa of India. He is practicing the love of Christ himself.
2. Love is the essence of Christianity. But the reality is not so. How many church members can say, “I practice love according to the word of the Lord”?
3. Today, this generation is the generation that has lost love.
4. Let's look at the characteristics and values of love through the text.
I. Love is essential (1-3).
A. Faith without love is false faith.
1. In faith, there is true faith and false faith (Ananias and Sapphira).
2. The church must have more and more owners of true faith for that to be true revival.
1) speak in tongues
2) have the power of prophecy
3) It has the power of healing and healing.
4) Has the miraculous power to move mountains
5) There must be more believers who have good faith enough to sacrifice their bodies for others.
3. However, no matter how many such people increase, it is not true revival.
1) There must be love.
2) The Korean church has the gift of healing and healing.
3) There are many false prophets like Dami Mission.
4) There are many miracles that make limbs grow.
5) The problem is that there is no "love".
B. What is our faith?
1. Isn't it too gift-focused?
2. Are you interested in love?
II. Love is maturity (4-7).
A. In order to love, you must know what love is.
1. Love is long-suffering. kind. never be jealous don't brag not arrogant
2. Don't be rude. Don't think only of yourself. don't get angry don't eat bad heart
3. Love does not rejoice in injustice. Happy to see only the truth. covers everything believe in everything wish everything withstand everything
B. Let's all sing the gospel song of love while thinking about the lyrics.
III. Love is the standard of a mature person (8-13).
A. Adults should abandon the thinking of children.
1. Even as an adult
1) I like cartoon movies every day
2) Going in and out of the arcade
3) It is very difficult to eat snacks.
2. It is the same with faith.
1) Continue to like prophecies
2) speaking in tongues
3) If you boast only about memorizing the Word, you are a child of faith.
3. A child cannot think more than a child, and his judgment is only a child. The hallmark of small children is the fact that they are imperfect.
4. A child insists that only his or her own is right. If you don't accept others or try to put yourself out there, you are a child.
5. So the thoughts and actions of childhood are only hazy and hazy, like looking in a dim mirror
B. Become a mature believer.
1. The standard of a mature person is to practice the words 4-7.
2. Having faith is the word for those who put the lessons of love into life.
3. However, the most important thing is whether you are a child or an adult.
4. In faith, gifts are important, abilities are important, and sacrifices are important. But if you insist like a child, you are incomplete. The imperfect disappears when the perfect comes. No matter how expensive and precious the clothes you wore as a child, when you become an adult, all of them are useless. The idea that only oneself is the best is worn out and imperfect.
5. Now, let's all cast off childish affairs and become mature men of faith.