We return to our study of the love chapter in the New Testament – 1 Corinthians 13 – and landing on the eighth quality in the love of God. This quality is to control, or constrain, the lives of His children in relationships with one another – Love is not irritable.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
1 Corinthians 13:4-5
TONIGHT
- Love is not irritable
- Definition of irritable or irritability: Acts 17:16
- Who displays loveless irritability?
Mark 6:7-13, Mark 6:30-32, Mark 6:34-36 - When do we display loveless irritability?
a. Emotionally charged situations and circumstances – Matthew 20:20-27
b. Physically, emotionally, spiritually exhaustion – Proverbs 25:28
c. Losing sight of God’s sovereignty – Genesis 50:15-21 - What loveless irritability does in relationships?
a. With people: Desensitizes us toward them: Philippians 2:19-21
b. With God: Numbers 14:1-11 - How is loveless irritability defeated?
a. Keep watch over ourselves – Matt. 26:41, Prov. 4:23
b. View people as image-bearers – not irritants – Genesis 3:26-27
c. Remember God is constantly at work in us – Philippians 1:12-14
d. Recognize loveless irritability as sin – Hebrews 12:1-2