LOVE
Message #4
I Corinthians 13:7-8a
I Corinthians 13:7-8a Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
12 - Love ______all things (verse 7)
“bears” to ______with silence
For the sake of love for another person, love will do all it can to ______up and ______the sin of another.
Normal depravity tends to ______someone else’s depravity.
I Peter 4:8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Love is a big, huge blanket!
note
Love ______the sin of the one it loves.
Love will rebuke and confront, but it will also ______and not ______.
Love covers because it has a ______quality.
13 - ______all things (verse 7)
Love maintains ______.
Instead of suspecting and eager to denounce the offender, love believes the best, in two ways.
1 – in relation to the ______or actual offense
2 – in relation to the ______
14 - ______all things (verse 7)
Love doesn’t accept sin and its affects as ______.
Love ______and ______and______.
There are enough promises in the Bible to ______our hope.
“No man is hopeless.” (William Barclay)
15 - ______all things (verse 7)
What do you do when hope is ______away? You endure!
Love never ends (verse 8)
How Can I Have This Kind of Love
in My Life?
1 - Acknowledge that you are ______by God to love like this.
Romans 13:8-10 [8] Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. [9] For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” [10] Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
2 – Acknowledge that you have the ______already to love like this.
Romans 5:5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
3 – Acknowledge that it is the ______to love like this.
I John 4:7-8 [7] Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. [8] Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
4 – Acknowledge that it is the ______work to produce this love.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, [23] gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
5 – ______.
Philippians 2:12-13 [12] Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, [13] for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.