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dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ I greet all of you in the Most Blessed
name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ it's been some time since I last spoke
to you God's word and I praed God for the opportunity this evening so that I
can stand before you to speak his truth and I also bring greetings from
the brethren in Myanmar we have been praying for you and we know that you
have also been praying for us despite the various challenges in
life God has been so good to us and we praise God for his faithfulness and
goodness upon us and we want to express our thanks to all of you for praying for
us and for giving us your support this evening I have chosen 1
Corinthians chapter 13 verse 4 and verse 5 for our
meditation previously I have spoken two sermon from this uh chapter chapter 13
of First Corinthians and tonight we are going to focus the last part of verse four and
the first part of verse 5 together in order to capture the entire context I
want to read to you uh from verse 1 right through verse
7 so if you have your Bibles please turn with me to 1 Corinthians chapter
13 reading from verse one though I speak with the tongues of
men and of angels and have not charity I am become a sounding breast or a
tinkling symbol and though I have the gift of Prophecy and understand all all
Mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all Faith so that I could remove
mountains and have not charity I am nothing and though I bestow all my goods
to feed the poor and though I keep my body to be burned and have no charity it
profited me nothing charity suffereth long and is
kind charity envieth not charity Ved not
itself is not power do not behave itself
un seemly seek not her own is not easily
provoked think no evil verse six rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth
in the truth beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things
andure all things may the Lord bless us in the reading of his holy and perfect
word let us look to the Lord in prayer almighty God thou who art our
most gracious Father in heaven we thank you for giving us life and we thank you
for giving us salvation in thy on only begotten son the Lord Jesus Christ and
we thank you for continuing to give us the chance to live in this planet Earth
so that we can be a witness for thee this evening as thy people we come
together whether in person or on Zoom to worship thee to praise thee and to uh
pray unto thee as we do so we want to ponder and meditate upon Thy
word particularly 1 Corinthians chapter 13 verse 4 and 5
we pray for thy Holy Spirit to be with us in a very special way Enlighten our
hearts and help us to understand thy truth so that we can live lives that are
pleasing unto thee we commit our lives and our time unto thee in Jesus name we
pray Amen in one of my first two sermons on 1
Corinthians chapter 13 I focus on verse one to verse
three on the title the supremacy of
love in this entire chapter the Apostle Paul discuss and explain to us what it
means to love in the Christian way in other words this is the best explanation
of biblical love what ought to be true in our lives as
Christians and after that I also preach focusing on verse four the first
part of verse four entitled Love's relation to others love in its relation
to others when it comes to
others relating to others love suffers long love is kind and love does not envy
and that is where we stop the last time tonight I want to pick up from the
second part of verse four so please look at verse four I'm going to read this way
love Ved not itself love is not po up
love does not behave itself unseemly and and love does not seek her own and that
is for uh an easy understanding of course uh as it stands in the King James
Bible all the translation is true and correct I simply want to simplify so we
are going to focus these uh two verses we find four words used by Paul
in this two verses to explain what it means to love so I want to focus on those four
verses and I want to entitle my message this evening as the nature of
love love in its relation to self previously in its relation to
others when it comes to relating to others how does love behave now tonight
qu about our own self if we say we have a love we already explained that the
word love here is aape the best and the uh the purest form of
love and that's what we find in this chapter so if we claim as we ought to as
Christians if we claim that we have a love then these are are some of the
practical ways whereby we can manifest that
love in this entire chapter the Apostle Paul used 15 different words and they
are all verbs explaining what does do and does not do instead of instead of
expressing what love is and is not all these are uh EX verbs or in other words
verbs that explains what love does now
what does love do when it comes to itself that is the what we find in the
second part of verse four charity Ved not itself so our first
point is love does not V itself love
does not V itself and of course the most important word in
this regard is the word v what does it mean
interestingly this is uh uh a very rare word in the New
Testament only used once in the entire New
Testament and the meaning can be explained this way the the word V means
to make a vain display of One's Own work or attainment or to call attention to
pridefully and often bossul and that is how Webster uh dictionary explains the
word v and it does not contradict the biblical
usage love when it comes to self does not V itself and this is in
contradiction to the Corinthian Believers Behavior because they were
very prone to V themsel to show off their spiritual GS and spiritual
abilities to others maybe this way of explaining may help
us one commentator explained this way V in is the other side of
jealousy jealousy is to want to have what someone else has Ving is to make
others jealous of what we
have are we guilty of this sin and that is what we need to examine
ourselves in simple language to to V
itself is to show off to show off as
Christians are we accustomed to show off ourselves of our physical attainments of
our physical uh uh word and attainments
achievements and so on or even our spiritual maturity