The eighth quality of the love to constrain the lives of God’s children in relationships with one another – Love is not irritable.
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Jim Sole
This Lord’s Day we continue with a high mark of spiritual maturity in one’s relationship with the Lord – rejoicing always.
A local church is a community of believers committed to one another in genuine spiritual relationships produced by the Gospel and alive through faithfulness to one another in the Word, prayer, fellowship and breaking of bread. As the Apostle Paul closes out his first letter to the Thessalonian church, he does so emphasizing these relationships. This Lord’s Day, we focus on our relationship with the Lord and particularly the two word command – Rejoice always.
This Lord’s Day evening, we continue our series loving as Jesus loved – the chief fruit of revival. We are looking at the descriptions of true love as defined in 1 Corinthians 13 and are landing on the sixth quality and the one causing us the most trouble in loving like the Lord – love does not insist on its own way (the sin of selfishness).
A local church is a community of believers committed to one another in genuine spiritual relationships produced by the Gospel and alive through faithfulness to one another in the Word, prayer, fellowship and breaking of bread. As the Apostle Paul closes out his first letter to the Thessalonian church, he does so emphasizing these relationships. This Lord’s Day, we focus on how we are to see, treat, and serve another as the sheep of the Lord’s pasture.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all…