Preacher: Jeremy Herbert
Theme: Love
Text: 1 Corinthians 13
Notes:
Love is defined by what it does–not what it says or what it feels.
Love:

* Is Patient/Longsuffering and Kind

* Patient with the faults and failures of others–and is still kind to them
* It is not possible to claim to be patient if you are still unkind
* How do I react when other people let me down?
* God is patient with many who will reject Him

* “God is good to the just and the unjust”, Matthew 5:43-48
* Psalm 145:9
* Romans 2, “the goodness of God leads us to repentance”


* Kindness is love in working clothes

* Augustine in Confessions, Ambrose moved him by his kindness;  “that man of God received me like a father”
* Amy Carmichael in India




* Rejoices in and speaks the truth

* Our love for God and our love for others are rooted in the truth
* Ephesians 4, truth matures us and unifies us

* Ephesians 4:15, “speaking the truth in love”


* The truth speaks love–but it always speaks lovingly

* 1 Timothy 2:1-4
* 2 Timothy 2:24-45, the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome


* Revelation 2:1-5, it doesn’t matter how many things you get right–if you get love wrong