The Way of Love

I'm going to read from God's Word now the passage that David is shortly going to come and preach to us from.

1 Corinthians chapter 13, those first 13 verses.

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This is 1 Corinthians chapter 13, verses 1.

1 Corinthians 13:1

To 13.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,

I'm a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,

and I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love,

I am nothing.

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,

but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind.

Love does not envy or boast.

It's not arrogant or rude.

It does not insist on its own way.

It's not irritable or resentful.

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends.

As for prophecies, they will pass away.

As for tongues, they will cease.

As for knowledge, it will pass away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

But when the perfect love comes, the partial will pass away.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child.

I thought like a child.

I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.

Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

So now faith, hope, and love abide.

These three.

But the greatest of these is love.

Amen.

And this is God's own holy word.

Well, in our morning worship, we've been working our way through the Old Testament book of Daniel.

And Corey has been leading us through that.

This morning we're taking a little break from that series.

And as a standalone sermon this morning, we're looking at this very famous passage from 1 Corinthians 13.

One of the most famous and perhaps well-known passages in all of Scripture.

Arguably the most well-known of Paul's writings.

Some have called it the hymn to love.

One commentator calls it the greatest, strongest, deepest thing that Paul ever wrote.

But 1 Corinthians 13 is not sentimental poetry.

It's the Word of God, sharp as a two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit.

Here is Paul holding up a mirror to the Corinthian church so that they might examine themselves and change their ways.

Because, of course, Paul did not write these famous words of 1 Corinthians 13 for a wedding ceremony.

Or for them to be quoted in a hallmark greeting card.

The words of the apostle here are not to be wrenched out of the context in which we find them.

And we discover these verses sandwiched between two chapters in which Paul deals with a contentious issue in the Corinthian church

over the use or abuse of spiritual gifts.

One of the problems in the Corinthian church was the way in which so much emphasis was placed on certain gifts of the Holy Spirit.

We're told in 1 Corinthians 1 verse 7, Paul says that the Corinthians lacked no spiritual gift.

1 Corinthians 1:7

When it came to gifts.

When it came to gifts, this was a church that had them all.

A church ablaze with the charismata.

They spoke in tongues.

They prophesied.

They healed.

They worked miracles.

These dramatic, supernatural gifts of the apostolic age were greatly valued and esteemed in Corinth.

And yet at the same time, the Corinthian church was also a church riddled with division, factions, pride, selfishness, and moral failure.

Many had started to prize their gifts above all and everything else.

And these wrong attitudes had in fact left the church in a sad and sorry state.

And so, what we have here in 1 Corinthians 13 is not a cozy, feel-good passage of Scripture, although often it's presented as such.

But rather, Paul giving the Corinthian church a searing critique of their behavior and conduct.

Paul wasn't writing to the Corinthians so that they would say,

Well, Paul, what a marvelous piece of literature.

So that they would have lots of warm, fuzzy feelings.

He was writing so that the Corinthians would recognize just how far they had fallen.

Just how complacent they had become.

And just how immature they really were.

He was writing these verses to burst the bubble of their spiritual pride and superiority.

Because here was a church guilty of misusing and abusing the good gifts of God.

And at the close of chapter 12, a chapter that speaks about the spiritual gifts and their use,

Paul says this, chapter 12, verse 31.

He says this,

And the language that Paul uses there is very emphatic.

He says,

Here is something far more wonderful.

Here is something far greater.

Here is something you really need to take note of.

Here is something that puts all these gifts,

wonderful as they are in the shade.

Here is the more excellent way.

And that is the way of love.

And what Paul is saying here to the Corinthians, and indeed to us,

is that love is the hallmark of Christian maturity.

It is the most excellent way.

And without it, we are deluding ourselves about the nature of our relationship with God.

We may have gifts aplenty.

We may have great theological knowledge.

We may have had wonderful spiritual experiences.

And yet, for all those things,

we can be missing out on what is the most important thing.

And the chapter, you'll notice there, as Chris read it for us,

has three main paragraphs,

each one telling us something about the nature of love

and its fundamental importance

for any Christian community that is seeking to grow up into Christ.

And the first paragraph that we look at is in verses 1 through 3,

and we'll entitle this,

The Priority of Love.

The thrust of these opening verses of the chapter

is that there is nothing as crucial or as important

as the presence of love.

Love is the vital ingredient

without which we have and are nothing.

And Paul really contrasts in these verses

the gifts on the one hand with love on the other.

The Corinthians laid great store on these gifts.

They viewed these gifts as being the real mark

of maturity and true spirituality.

And what Paul is telling them

is that in that they have got it all wrong.

It's not gifts that are the priority.

It is love.

Gifts without love are useless.

And you'll notice in these verses

how Paul homes in on the kind of things

that the Corinthians believed were important.

And he begins in verse 1 with tongues.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,

but have not love,

I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

The gift of tongues was greatly valued

in the Corinthian congregation,

just as it is by many and some sections

of the church today.

It was a gift that Paul himself exercised.

And the Corinthians saw this gift

as a great mark of spiritual well-being and maturity.

Some believed it to be a language

of angelic or heavenly origin.

And yet Paul tells them here

that such a gift is empty

if love is not present.

The gong, the cymbal,

were instruments commonly used

in pagan worship

as, you know, to drive away spirits

or to attract a God's attention.

And the clanging of bronze at these temples

would have been a very familiar sound

in the city of Corinth.

Despite their great claims

to spiritual maturity

and the elevation of these spiritual gifts,

the absence of love,

Paul says,

means that the Corinthians

were no better than the pagans.

Without love,

the church is little more

than a pagan temple.

And then he says,

if I have prophetic powers,

verse 2,

understand all mysteries,

all knowledge,

if I have all faith,

so as to remove mountains,

but have not love,

I am nothing.

And here Paul speaks

of the great gifts of God

that he himself

had enjoyed as an apostle,

gifts that marked him out

as being someday important

and special,

prophecy,

knowledge,

miracles,

wonderful apostolic gifts.

And yet even so,

even these are not comparable

with love.

No matter the marvelous gifts

we enjoy,

without love,

it's nothing.

We can have degrees

after our name,

we can be academically brilliant,

we can have a miracle-working faith,

yet even so,

the absence of love

means we're nothing,

says Paul.

Supernatural gifts

may make us a somebody

in the eyes of the world,

but the absence of love

makes us a nobody.

And Paul says,

if I give away all I have,

verse 3,

deliver my body to be burned,

but have not love,

I gain nothing.

Here Paul speaks of gifts

that the world admires,

sacrificial giving

for the benefit of others,

and yet even such noble actions

can be motivated

by something less than love.

People can give

for a whole variety of reasons,

personal kudos and fame,

to be thought well of by others,

to gain something for themselves

by way of reward.

But without love being present,

Paul says there is simply

no gain or benefit.

Last Sunday night,

Corey told a story,

a famous story,

first told by Charles Spurgeon

in one of his sermons.

I've been guilty of stealing

Corey's stories

and illustrations before,

so I'll continue in that vein

by telling it again.

This is the story of the king,

the farmer,

and the nobleman.

And this is how the story goes.

Once upon a time,

there was a king

who ruled over everything

in the land.

And one day,

there was a gardener

who grew,

this is a strange story,

an enormous carrot.

And he took it to the king,

and he said,

my lord,

this is the greatest carrot

I've ever grown,

or ever will grow.

And so,

I want to present it to you

as a token of my love

and respect for you.

Well,

the king was touched

by this man's actions.

He discerned the man's heart.

And as the man turned to go,

the king said,

wait,

you're clearly a good steward

of the earth,

and I want to give you

a plot of land to you,

freely as a gift,

so you can garden it all.

The gardener was amazed

and delighted

at this generous gift,

and he went home rejoicing.

But,

there was a nobleman

at the king's court

who overheard all of this.

And he reasoned,

he said,

well,

my,

if that's what you get

for a carrot,

what if you gave the king

something better?

And the next day,

the nobleman came before the king,

and he was leading

a handsome black stallion.

He bowed low,

he said,

my lord,

I breed horses.

This is the greatest horse

I've ever bred,

or ever will.

Therefore,

I want to present it to you

as a token of my love

and respect for you.

The king discerned

this man's heart,

and he said to him,

thank you.

And he took the horse

and simply dismissed the man.

And the nobleman

was confused and perplexed.

And so,

the king said to him,

let me explain.

That gardener

was giving me the carrot

that you were giving yourself.

The horse.

And Paul says here,

if we give only for ourselves,

then such an action

amounts to nothing

on heaven's balance sheet.

And it is possible,

friends,

for some people

to be generous

and kind

and giving

and to appear that way,

and yet in reality,

they're doing it all

for themselves.

actually using people

rather than loving people.

They love

and they give,

but only if they're getting.

Admiration,

obedience,

affection.

And if they're crossed

or don't get what they want,

your history.

Friends,

we know from Paul's writings

that he understood

love to be

a product

of an authentic

work of God

in someone's life.

It's an evidence

of the work

of the Holy Spirit.

It's a hallmark

of Christian

authenticity.

Peter,

2 Peter 1

says this,

add to your faith

love.

It's a mark

of maturity.

It's the opposite

of immature

egocentricity

because it's giving

like God gets.

And we desperately

need this kind

of love

in our own lives,

in our own families,

in our churches,

and indeed

in our wider society.

C.S. Lewis

in his little book

The Four Loves

wrote this,

if you don't want

your heart broken,

give it to nobody.

Lock it up

in a little casket

of selfishness,

and in that

casket,

it will not be broken.

It will become

unbreakable,

impenetrable,

irredeemable.

And friends,

it can happen.

People who are

so gifted,

so knowledgeable,

so able,

but so unable

to really love

anyone else

but themselves.

Paul says

it's not our gifts,

our talents,

our abilities

that really matter.

It's love,

the priority

of love.

It brings me

to the second thing

here from verses

four through seven.

And we'll call this

the power

of love.

If love is more

important than

the gifts,

then secondly,

love is more powerful

than the gifts.

And Paul tells us

something here,

I think,

in these verses

about the power

of love.

love.

Many different

words in Greek

to describe

different kinds

of love,

that between a man

and a woman,

a parent and a child,

between friends

and so forth.

But the word

that Paul uses

here is the word

agape.

It was rarely used

before the writing

of the New Testament.

But it's a word

that the apostles

took to describe

Christian love.

And it relates

to love for the

unlovely,

love for the

unworthy,

love for those

who are different,

love for the sinner,

love for the guilty,

love for the lost.

And what Paul

endeavors to do here,

I think,

in these verses

is to sketch

for us a portrait

of love's power.

He describes

or depicts love

not in terms of,

you'll notice,

feelings or emotions,

but rather in terms

of what it does

and does not do.

In the original language,

there are verbs

everywhere here,

doing words,

words of action.

Love is active.

Here is the way

of maturity.

This is what love

looks like.

This is how you know

it's the real thing.

Look at what he says.

Love is patient

or long-suffering.

Whatever it faces,

love does not

lose its temper.

Human nature

means that we are

often patient

and understanding

with ourselves,

but much less so

with others.

Love is kind.

It cares more

for others

than for self.

It's generous.

It has an open hand.

Love does not end

envy or boast.

It's not puffed up.

It's not proud.

Eugene Peterson,

in his paraphrase,

the message says,

love doesn't want

what it doesn't have.

Love doesn't strut.

Love doesn't have

a swollen head.

Actually,

all through this letter,

we detect

that was actually,

that was a major problem

for the childish

Corinthians.

Corinthians.

Chapter 4,

verse 18,

Paul says,

some of you become arrogant.

Later,

he says in chapter 5,

verse 2,

you're proud.

Chapter 8,

he tells them,

knowledge puffs up,

but love builds up.

Love is not arrogant

or rude.

The Greek word

literally means

to ride roughshod

over someone,

to take advantage

of them,

to bulldoze,

to steamroller them,

to take no notice

of their feelings.

Love does not insist

on its own way.

It's not self-seeking.

Paul has already

told the Corinthians

in chapter 10,

verse 24,

nobody should seek

his own good,

but the good of others.

Love is always

me first.

And it's easy,

even in,

even in God's service,

to seek position

and influence

and status

for our own glory

rather than God's.

The Christian mystics

in John of the Cross

once wrote these words,

all visions,

revelations,

heavenly feelings,

whatever experiences

greater than these

are not worth

the least act

of humility.

For acts of humility

are the fruit

of that agape love,

which neither values

nor seeks itself,

which thinks well

not of self,

but of others.

love is not irritable

or resentful.

It's not easily angered.

It isn't touchy.

Love is not easily provoked.

Love is a long fuse.

I've been in churches

where, you know,

some Christians

should be wearing a sign

around their necks,

danger,

high explosive.

Love keeps no record

of wrongs.

It wipes the slate clean.

It forgives.

It doesn't go around

casting up people's mistakes.

It doesn't treasure

grievances,

bearing grudges.

It doesn't think

the worst of others,

always impugning

their motives

or the motives

behind their actions.

Love does not rejoice

at wrongdoing.

It rejoices with the truth.

Love is not anything goes.

That's sometimes

what we hear

in our wider culture.

Sometimes people

paint a contrast

between the right thing

and the loving thing,

but friends,

the right thing

is the loving thing.

And the loving thing

is always the right thing.

Love is never,

ever to be an excuse

for sin

and evil

and immorality.

Then he says,

love bears all things,

believes all things,

hopes all things,

endures all things.

It's indestructible.

It's powerful.

Many years ago,

we had a lady

that we prayed for

who was served

overseas

in China.

And when she was there,

the authorities

sent a woman

to spy on her,

to get close to her

and to report back to them.

And eventually,

after a few months,

this lady

who'd been sent

from the government

spoke to our friend

and said,

confessed.

And she said,

look,

I can't report on you

because

the love that you've shown me,

the love that you've displayed,

I love you too much.

As Paul's description proceeds,

surely it's clear to us

that there is only

one human model

he could have used

for this portrait.

And that's

our Lord Jesus Christ.

He is the,

alone is the one

through whom we can come

to know

this kind of love.

Love looks like Jesus.

He is the image

of the invisible God,

the Word made flesh.

Love is the revelation

of God's character

that we discover

and encounter

in the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Corinthians were gifted,

but they were graceless.

They thought they were

so spiritual and mature,

but they were children.

They were spoiled brats.

They'd lost sight of Jesus.

Friends,

let's not elevate our gifts

at the expense of love.

What does it matter

about our gifts

if we cannot get on

with each other,

if we can't forgive

one another,

if we can't serve

one another in love?

Because this is what

matters to God.

Not miracles

and signs

and wonders.

Love.

May not be as showy,

but it's more important.

You can have great gifts

and you can be a devil.

Just think of those words

at the end of the,

towards the close

of the Sermon on the Mount

of Jesus.

On that day,

many will say to me,

Lord, Lord,

did we not prophesy

in your name,

cast out demons

in your name,

do many mighty works

in your name?

And I will declare to them,

I never knew you.

Depart from me,

you workers of lawlessness.

The priority of love.

The power of love.

And then thirdly

and finally here

in verses 8 through 13,

the permanence of love.

In these final words

of the chapter,

Paul really lifts up

our eyes

to the eternal horizon.

He says,

love never ends.

As for prophecies,

verse 8,

they will pass away.

For tongues,

they will cease.

As for knowledge,

it will pass away.

Love alone will last.

The gifts will fade.

They will disappear.

They will go.

Prophecies,

they'll pass away.

Tongues will fall silent.

Knowledge will be consumed

in the vastness of eternity.

Only love will remain.

For we know in part,

verse 9,

we prophesy in part,

but when the perfect comes,

the partial will pass away.

Perfection is coming,

says Paul.

A new creation

will dawn in all its fullness

and it will swallow up

everything that is partial

and temporal

and ephemeral.

The perfect that is still to come

is, I think here,

almost certainly

a reference

to the return

of Jesus Christ.

Yes, there are some

who argue

that this perfection

relates to the completion

of the Scriptures

after which the supernatural

gifts died away.

And while I agree

with the view

that these more spectacular

gifts were used by God

in the early days

of the church

to authenticate the gospel,

they were given

for a temporary purpose

while the New Testament

was being written

and compiled,

I do not think

that this text

relates to that.

Paul is simply

making the point

that spiritual gifts,

supernatural or otherwise,

belong to this present age

and not the age to come.

Love alone will endure.

Love alone will last.

Love alone will stand.

Gifts of teaching,

mercy,

helping,

administration,

all of these

are provisional.

Yes, they're needed now,

but they're not going to be needed

in the new heavens and earth.

In the new creation,

there will be no need

for patience

and forgiveness

or faith or hope,

but love will continue.

The mark of heaven

that we experience now

is love.

Love is the language of heaven,

not tongues

or any other gifts.

These things are temporary.

They are not lasting.

They won't endure.

They will pass away.

Jonathan Edwards wrote,

heaven will be

a world of love.

So, Paul says in verse 11,

when I was a child,

I spoke like a child.

I thought like a child.

I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man,

I gave up childish ways.

And I think that verse

is more than just an analogy

or an illustration.

This theme of childish immaturity

runs like a thread

throughout the whole letter.

And already,

Paul has accused

the Corinthians

of being worldly,

mere infants in Christ

in chapter 3.

In the next chapter,

chapter 14, verse 20,

he exhorts them

to stop thinking like children

and you're thinking be adults.

Sometimes,

with young children,

we have a couple

of young grandsons,

and you discover

that they're more interested

in the cardboard box

and the wrapping paper

than the present

that's contained within it.

And that's fine,

isn't it,

with toddlers?

It's cute.

It's funny.

But if you were to see

a 17-year-old

discarding the games console

and climbing inside

a cardboard box,

you might think

there was something

seriously wrong.

And spiritually speaking,

this is what

the Corinthians were like.

They should have grown up

and been mature,

but instead,

they were clinging

to childish ways.

It's a danger.

Maybe there's,

maybe somebody here,

you need to climb out

of the cardboard box

of your selfishness

and your immaturity

and leave it behind

in your thinking.

Be adults.

For now we see

in a mirror dimly,

then face to face,

verse 12,

now I know in part,

then I shall know fully,

even as I've been fully known.

Corinth was a city

famous for metal work,

and that included

the manufacture of,

there were kind of

bronze mirrors.

And these mirrors,

nothing like as clear

and as accurate

as those we have today.

In those mirrors,

you only saw

a poor reflection.

Seeing someone face to face

was very different.

And in this present age,

we see the face

of Jesus Christ,

yes, reflected

in His creation

and in the Scriptures.

But a day is coming

when we will have

no need of those mirrors

that reflect His glory,

for we will meet Him

and see Him face to face.

There's an old hymn

we sometimes sang,

Face to face

with Christ my Savior,

face to face

what will it be,

when with rapture

I behold Him,

Jesus Christ,

who died for me.

Our knowledge of God here

is always partial

and incomplete,

but a day is coming

when all will be revealed.

As we ourselves

are known and loved by God,

so we will know

and love Him.

We shall see Him

face to face,

we will know Him

as He is,

and our knowledge of Him

will be so much greater

and more wonderful.

Now these three remain,

verse 13,

faith, hope, and love,

but the greatest of these

is love.

And yes,

faith and hope

are important

in this world,

but love is in a category

of its own,

because love is a property

of God Himself

in a way in which

faith and hope are not.

God doesn't need faith

or hope.

If He did,

He wouldn't be God.

But if God didn't love,

He wouldn't be God.

And it's in this sense

that love is the greatest

of gifts,

because the essence of love

is that we are turned

away from ourselves

towards others,

towards God.

and beyond anything else

that can build up

any Christian community

in harmony and unity

and maturity

is love.

Maybe it's good

to look at ourselves.

Are we like the Corinthians

of old,

in danger of becoming

noisy gongs,

clanging cymbals,

gifted but loveless?

Do we prize our knowledge,

our zeal,

our service,

our preaching,

while our hearts

are cold and indifferent?

Maybe we should be praying,

Lord, help me

to be more loving,

because this is

what's important.

This is the most

excellent way.

And no matter

who you are this morning,

young or old,

gifted or not,

big or small,

strong or weak,

no matter who you are,

if you are in Jesus Christ,

you can be great in love.

We need to be committed

to loving one another.

By this shall all men know

that you're my disciples,

said Jesus.

It's the real test

of our discipleship,

because church is not

a gathering for the gifted.

It's a community

of compassion and care.

That difficult brother,

that annoying sister,

that person who gets

on your nerves,

they are your calling

as God's children.

Love them.

Be patient with them.

Forgive them.

Bear with them.

And do that not

in your own strength,

but in the power

of the Holy Spirit,

who in His grace,

God pours His love

into our hearts.

The final thing

I'm going to say

just as we close,

be looking to Jesus Christ,

because He's the one

who embodies this love.

He was patient

with His slow-witted disciples.

He was kind

to the outcast and sinner.

He was compassionate

to the lost,

forgiving towards His enemies.

For sinners,

He endured the cross,

despising its shame.

And if you want to know

what love looks like,

look there.

Look to Jesus.

Look to His cross.

Look to Calvary.

Look to the blood

and the nails,

because it's there

that we see

that the steadfast love

of the Lord

never ceases.

It's there that we see

that His mercies

never come to an end.

There's a question

that sometimes,

on occasions,

it's usually

the wife's wife

will ask this question

of her husband

rather than

the other way around.

But the question is this,

do you love me?

Well,

the answer to that question,

of course,

is yes, darling.

Of course I do.

But if you answer

in that way,

you're not going to get

off that easy,

because there's always

a follow-up.

And the follow-up

is the

why do you love me

question.

Why do you love me?

Lots of possible answers

you can give to that.

I love you

because of your

beauty,

because you're,

you've lost

some money,

because we've got

similar interests,

because you're

a great cook,

because you're

much prettier

than I am handsome.

You know,

there's lots of things

you can say.

But friends,

there's only one answer

upon which you can

build a marriage.

And that's,

I love you

because I love you.

I love you

because I love you.

Because if you're loved

because of this,

that,

and the other,

all that does

is breed

an incredible

insecurity.

And the other person

is left wondering,

are they still

pretty enough,

rich enough,

patient enough?

We long

as human beings

for a love

that liberates.

We long

to be really loved.

And this is

God's love

in Jesus Christ.

This is

His electing love.

This is

what Christ

says to us

in the gospel.

He says,

I love you

because I love you.

He loves us

and invites us

whoever we are

to come to Him

in faith.

And it's a powerful love.

It will transform you.

Being united

to Jesus

will change you.

This is the love

that converts sinners,

that builds relationships,

that strengthens churches,

that matures disciples.

It is the essential

ingredient

in that process

of growing

as a Christian.

we learn

and grow

not as we

fixate

on ourselves,

our own gifts

and abilities.

We learn

and grow

as we reflect

and rejoice

in the amazing

love of God

for us

in Jesus Christ.

It's in being

joined to Jesus

that we draw

from Him

all that we need

to love God

and to love

our neighbor

as ourselves.

And it's only

as Jesus

and His love

overwhelms us

and indwells us

that we can even

begin to think

of loving like this.

It's the love

that we see

at the cross.

Look there

and see how much

He loves you.

The Scottish preacher

James Denny

used to say

that the only time

He envied

the Roman Catholic

priest

His crucifix

was when He

wanted to shake

it in people's

faces

and say

God loves you

like that.

It's only

as we look

to the cross

in faith

that we receive

from Christ

that wonderful

assurance

that can change

us and transform

us

because it's

there at Calvary

He tells

sinners

I love you

because

I love you.

Let's pray together.

Almighty God

we are

weak and frail

human beings.

We

falter

and fail

in so many

different ways

especially

in this whole

realm

of love.

Lord

would you be

pleased

in your

mercy

to pour

out your

love

into our

hearts

by your

Holy Spirit

that we

may be

transformed

and changed

that you

might conform

us to the

image of your

Son

that we

might be

more like

him.

Lord

forgive us

restore us

renew us

and refresh

us

by your

Spirit

by your

love

love

that you

might

receive

all the

glory

honour

and

praise

in Jesus

name

Amen

Amen.