Heart For The House-4-The Love Factor

This morning Pastor Brad delivers part four of The Heart For The House series. as he teaches we will learn about The Love Factor.

Pastors Notes:

The Love Factor
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NKJV
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
INTRODUCTION
Good morning, everyone! I pray and trust that you have been enjoying these messages on “A Heart For The House”.
We’ve been looking at different areas of church life and christian living, and today, we’re going to talk about the one factor that Paul taught was supreme: Love.

If we could ever get it right in this department, we would have revival!
As long as you are breathing, you will have the opportunity to grow in love.
ILLUSTRATION
I love to study the Word.
It’s a passion of mine. I love to read in different translations. When I was 14, I read the whole Bible all the way through for the first time.
So that being said, I learned to get a grasp on what the Bible was trying to say in its entirety.
I really can’t stomach when people take Scriptures out of context.
I’ve seen a 1000 wedding invitations with this Scripture on it. And while it’s, true, it doesn't quite apply here.
There are three words for LOVE in the GREEK language:
Eros love (sexual love)
Phileo love ( brotherly love)
Agape love (the God kind of love)
This passage is talking about the GOD kind of love!
BACKGROUND
In our text, the Apostle Paul is dealing with the chaos and disorder of the Christians in Corinth.
They are living in sin and accepting it, running over each other at the Lords table. and using spiritual gifts to get their way and look spiritual.
The whole two books of 1 and 2 Corinthians are corrective books.
Chapters one and two deal with factions in the church, and how that needs to be avoided.

Other chapters deal with sin, order, and how to behave properly in the house of God.
As we’ve learned over the last few weeks, we need to really understand that to have a heart for God is to truly have a heart for others.
In this particular passage, Paul is dealing with motive.
Why do we really do what we do?
If our Christian to service to others isn’t out of love, we are doing in wrong! Let’s look at our text and see exactly what He is trying to say.
APPLICATION
1. Love is enriching (vs. 1-3)
- Paul names 5 gifts
Tongues- They can be noisy
Prophecy- Can make us look good.
Knowledge- Can puff up.
Faith- We can move mountains.
Giving- We can die a martyrs death
- He states that without love, they are pointless and noisy.
- It’s also good to note that spiritual gives are NOT the measuring stick for Christianity or maturity. Corinth proved this point.
John 13:35 says “By this they will know you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."
In other words, what good does do to speak to God in tongues when you can’t speak to each other in English?
2. Love is edifying (vs. 4-7)
- To edify means to build up.
- It’s the mindset of putting others first.
- They were impatient at communion.
- Love doesn’t boast in iniquity, but they were boasting in their sin.
- Love covers sin, but not in a way to excuse it, but in a way to help them make it right (GRACE).
3. Love is enduring (vs. 8-13)
- Gifts eventually will pass, but love won’t because God is love.
- Love causes maturity.
- Love is eternal.
CONCLUSION
Walking in love NEVER goes out of style