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1 Corinthians 14:1 · BSB
14:1 Earnestly pursue love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.
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…of some greater strategic effort. And and I'm not hating on that because that's the that's the way I'm wired to think, but it is good if if it'sfirst Corinthians 14 verse 1pursue love. Like that is a win in itself. That's right. Um huge shout out, huge to those uh those people who came, the high schoolers who came in…
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Well, I'm gonna uh go into my message today. I'm gonna be reading out of1 Corinthians chapter 14, verse 1 to 5. Paul is writing to the church in Corinth, and he says this he says, Pursue love, desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. For…
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…it. Listen, I just want you to know if if you want the Holy Spirit to empower your words, He doesn't just overtake you. You've got to want it. In1 Corinthians chapter 14, verse 1, Paul says, eagerly desire spiritual gifts. The words eagerly desire are the strongest verb tense in all of the New Testament, and they are only…
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…for the good of a person who knows how to shut off their human mind, their human understanding, and tap into Him and His will at a different level.1 Corinthians 14, verse 1. Let love be your highest goal, but you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives, especially the ability to prophesy. For if you…
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…learn and step into what God has. One of the things that Paul said just before he warns the church about gifts, and I put on the screen, it's in1 Corinthians 14, verse 1, he says this. He says, Pursue love. He's speaking to the church and he's speaking about spiritual gifts. He says, Man, all these gifts are…
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…I would rather be practicing and making a mistake here and there than not even touching it. And so spiritual gifts are to be desired and practiced.1 Corinthians 14, verse 1, it says this, follow the way of love. Follow the way of love. You maybe have no church background or any Bible background, but you already know 1…
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…Chapter 13, the chapter centered on love. Because gifts without love is just noise. But love empowered by the Spirit becomes witness. So Paul says,1 Corinthians 14, verse 1, immediately after completing his narrative on love, follow the way of love and eagerly desire the gifts of the Spirit. So as I draw to a…
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…him press things all day. And you say he has a bad spirit. How did he get it? 1 Corinthians chapter 14. 1 Corinthians chapter 14. Verse 1. So in1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 1, what do we see? Paul will give emphasis to the church regarding that. That for the church to be edified, let there be tongues and interpretation…
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…or ferocious times. It says, Your sons and your daughter shall prophesy. So this, your young men, they shall see visions. Great. In Corinthians,1 Corinthians 14:1, it's you love and desire spiritual gifts. How can you desire something that was stopped? In 1 Corinthians 12, 28, it speaks about first God places…
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…here. Is that the light? Okay. I just want to make sure I wasn't hearing things. All right. I want you to see this. Try not to get distracted.1 Corinthians chapter 14, verse 1. Okay, I want you to see this. Because if we're not careful, we read over the spiritual gifts. We get to 14, chapter 14, and we celebrate the…
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…this is direct quotes each one of the church. Paul never, never limits basically who can receive it to just the apostles. As a matter of fact, inFirst Corinthians chapter 14, verse 1, he goes another step and says, pursue love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts. Now the only reason I'm just going to tell you straight up, the…
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…he gives us that wonderful elaboration on love in 1 Corinthians 13. And following that that chapter where he defines love and emphasizes it in1 Corinthians 14:1, he exhorts the church, pursue love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. And this leads me to the second…
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…are not reserved for pastors, prophets, evangelists. They are available to every believer who desires to be used by God. This is what Paul says in1 Corinthians chapter 14, verse 1. He says, Follow the way of love and eagerly desire the gifts of the Spirit. Eagerly desire the gifts of the Spirit. Do you understand, friends?…
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…from the spirit to where? To the human mind. So that the human mind can understand and be edified. Are we all here? Praise God. Praise God. So now,1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 1now. 1 Corinthians 14, verse 1. 1 Corinthians 14, verse 1. Follow after charity and desire spiritual words. Please, media team, that you are not…
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…stronger. They say, this is what's about to happen. You're going to be okay. They leave you encouraged. In fact, the Apostle Paul called this in1 Corinthians 14:1the most important gift, not because the prophet is more important, but because we as humans get so discouraged. We need those who have the ability…
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…how? Earnestly. 1 Corinthians 14, 39. 1 Corinthians 14, 39. Wherefore, brethren, convert to prophesy, and forbid not what? To speak with tongues.1 Corinthians 14, verse 1. 1 Corinthians 14, verse 1. Follow authority and desire spiritual gifts. Hallelujah. Romans chapter 12, verse 11. Romans chapter 12, verse 11.…
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…God, which is what it means to be prophetic. It means to hear him and it also means to respond and obedient to what he says a little bit later in1 Corinthians 14:1, we're given a little bit more understanding of the why follow the The way of Love eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially literally to a…
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…His prize.” See, Paul went from pursuing one thing to pursuing something else. It's also translated, as it is here, as “pursuit” or “to pursue.”First Corinthians 14:1—I'll just give you a couple other examples of its usage—”pursue love.” And 1 Timothy 6:11: “and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love,…
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…say, or what they don't say, or how they respond or how they don't respond. No, we're going to love them. Right to what. Protect the bond of unityFirst Corinthians 14:1says this pursue love Pursue love. So not only do you have to keep your own self in love? You have to close yourself and put on love. He lets us…
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…in that particular time to this particular people to build them up. Prophecy was not something that our church was historically strong in. But1 Corinthians chapter 14, verse 1, teaches us to pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. So that's what we did. We invited a team of…
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