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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
our spiritual grow are we guilty of Ving
ourself do we sh off of what we have and what we can
do and that is what the Apostle Paul doesn't want us
to have he says love does not V itself if
you and I are Christians who have the AAP love then we are not to show our
attainments our abilities and whatever we have and whatever we can to others in
a manner that people will uh be jealous of
us whether it is physical or spiritual things we must be very careful of not to
uh not to display it in a very uh uh a very brightful
expression and the remedy for this is found in James 1 verse1 17 where we have
God's word telling us that every good gift comes from God himself in other words
whether uh anything you can do anything you have that others don't have in fact
those things come from God those good things come from from God when you acknowledge that those things come from
God then there is no reason for you to V
yourselves so dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ of all the people in the world we
are the people we Christians are the people who ought to show genuine love
among ourselves among people of the same faith
have we been guilty of showing off of our physical as well as spiritual
abilities and attainments and achievement let us examine
ourselves
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let us go to the next Point still in verse four charity is not part
of Charity is not part
up to be part up is is to be proud of one's position and to see oneself as
Superior to others explain one
commentator uh there is a difference between Ving
and uh being part of perhaps the difference may be
explained this way invting one expresses itself of what he
has and what he can do but when it comes to being puff up the person does not
show off it is a kind of his uh mentality
which others may not be able to see so uh being puff up to be puff UPS
is to be PU is to be proud to be uh prideful inside in
ourselves it speaks of the feeling that we have in ourselves which others may
not see you can see there's a very close relation to these two ideas the first
Ving is expressing showing and being po up is having uh
arrogance or bright in ourselves which may not be expressed to be sin of others
yet yet these two should not be true of us should not be uh uh should not be
maintained or sustain in us as
Christians because our word expression often comes from inward
reality so the person who is proud fful and
arrogant in himself inside himself which others do not
see very often he express it outwardly so that others may see but sometimes he
just keep it down and he keep it he keep it to he keeps it to himself yet these
are two sins that should not be true of the person who is loving in other words
the loving Christian does not V himself and the loving Christian does
not uh does not feel uh
bright kind of vanity in himself he is not boasting in any sense outwardly or
inwardly maybe this illustration may help us understand how how bright
arrogance and expression and of what we have and what we can do often brings us
to uh harms ourself and no good to all of us once upon a
time there were two ducks and one frog living together in a pond they are good
friend they were good friends and in the summer the pond dry up and the two
were thinking where to move to because the pawn is uh dry
up and they had this idea that oh we should move to the place where there's
plenty of water and since this frog has been a friend of us for so long we
should bring him together with us so uh they decided to C the frog with a
stick one duck holding the other the one side of the stick and the other uh dep
holding the other side then in between in the middle the Frog was hanging
on hanging on with his mouth of course and as they went a farmer saw it
and he asked well isn't that a very clever idea I wonder who thought of
it then the Frog answered I
did that is how boasting brings har to
oneself we all know the story of the Titanic back in
1912 when the Titanic was completed they were about to sell from Liverpool to New
York for the first time at that time one of the inventors of the ship was asked a
question in an an interview if this whole ship could actually sink in the
ocean replying to the question he said not even God himself
could sink this ship but the
set story is that we all know the
Titanic sang down and as a result about
1,500 people were pled Into the
Depths and there's a debate over who said those words and according to some
Source it was at word John Smith who spoke those words whoever it was if that
words were spoken it reflects
arrogance think of it not even God himself could sink this
the opposite came to Dear Brothers and Sisters in
Christ even for a moment let us never think that way in ourself people do not
see us yet God sees us out ourself when we express ourself of course others see
us so whether it is in ourself or outside ourself let us never maintain a
brightful uh Behavior a prideful uh mentality remember love does not vout
itself love is not PA of let us continue with verse five here
is the top Point love does not behave
unseemly love does not behave unseemly love does not behave itself
unseemly says verse five what does it mean this is talking
about uh ill ill Behavior unmannered
Behavior inappropriate behavior whether it is in speech or
deed the Christian who is loving is very careful of his behavior he is very
decent he is he is very careful of his speech of his deed of course his
mentality as well one the Bible says charity does not
behave itself un L it seems to emphasize the outward
expression but we must remember that outward expression comes from in what is
true in inside the person so in other words the loving Christian does not
behave unseemly before others because he be he does not behave unseemly in and of
himself as well even when people do not see him even when no one else uh sees
him he does not behave unseemly and that is very challenging isn't
it people care so much about what others see and what others say they care very
little about what is true of themsel
the Bible says a good man out of the good Treasure of his heart bringeth
forth that which is good and an evil man out of the evil Treasure of his heart
bringeth forth that which is evil for of the abundance of the heart his mouth
speaketh Luke 6 verse 45 in other words the person who
behaves appropriately decently is a person who
also uh behaves appropriately in and of himself and we
ought to be very careful of our behavior and our attitude as
well the Apostle Paul also tells us in other Epistles in
Colossians 4: 6 he says let your speech be always with gra
season which salt that ye may know how you ought to answer every man and in
Ephesians 4: 29 he says let no corrupt
communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of
edifying that it may Minister Grace unto the
hearers so the principle being taught by the Apostle Paul here is that we ought
to be always of good maners our speech our
deed and our at attitude must be right before God right before others and right
in ourselves as well people who do not maintain this
Godly and appropriate and decent composure are often people who do not
love others enough if you love people around you enough then you should be
careful of how you speak how you think and how you do the things that you ought
to do and lastly also in verse five and this is
our fourth Point love does not seek its own look at
verse five again love seek not her
own interestingly we have four words here in verse uh 4 B and 5 a these four
words are all in the present tense which means this ought to be true always
continually of us as Christians it shouldn't be once in a
while it should be habitual it should be be the way we live in other
words vating of ourselves should never be true of us and being pop up should never be
what we are and we should never behave ourself
unseemly so what does it mean when the Apostle Paul say love does not seek her
own of course he doesn't goes further than that so we can by way of
explanation and application we can add on for example in this m love does not
seek its own praise its own profit its own pleasure his own satisfaction it's
own interest and so on dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ is very natural for
Humanity for human for the human being to seek our own in fact everybody by
Nature seeks his or her own
benefit
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sometime I happen to listen to
those meetings in the United Nations to cope up with the news of the
world and one thing I noticed is this here you have a represent a
representation ative of a particular country every representative when they
speak they speak for their own country for the interest and benefit of their
own country and that is very natural because they are
human so even after we have become Christians it is still natural for
us to seek our own our own Glory our own own profit our own pleasure our own
gratification our own satisfaction it's all about me me me is all self
centered but the loving Christian the Christian who has a compare God's love
in his life is very careful about uh how he behaves he does not seek his own
profit his own pleasure his own Glory
so dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ let us examine ourself if we have been
guilty of this very sin I'm afraid many of us at many times
we are guilty of this including myself so dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ
Let Us return to the Lord let us return to his truth and examine ourselves
have I been seeking my own praise my own profit my own pleasure my own
satisfaction even in the church even when you come to the church are you
seeking your own Comfort your own
praise your own satisfaction in the church rather we should be coming to the
church to glorify God to to to praise God and to edify
others so let us examine ourself and uh try to correct ourself if
we are wrong in some ways I want to read some portions from
the same epistle uh the same P written by the uh Paul uh chapter 10:
23 and verse 24 for he says all things are lawful for me but all things are not
expedient all things are lawful for me but all things edify not let no man seek
his own but every man another's
wealth 12:25 he says that there should be no Schism in the body no division but
that the members should have the same care one for another you care for others
Philippians 2:4 look not every man on his own things
but every man also on the things of others nature tells us you must please
yourself you must seek those things that will benefit yourself but the Bible
tells us you need to care for others look not
on yourself not on your own things on on your own things but every man also the
things of others we should live for others we should care for others so there are four lessons we need
to learn when it comes to ourself as loving Christian we should not vount ourself we
should not show up whether physical or spiritual things
we secondly we should not be pu up whether inside ourself where people do
not see we should never maintain bright or a bful brightful or bful uh
mentality and thirdly we should always behave ourself
appropriately not unseemly and we should not seek our our
own our own name our own Glory it should be others the glory the
edification the satisfaction of others so dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ
have we been living for others or for ourselves let us examine ourselves the
Apostle Paul devoted one entire chapter to explain what it means to love others
this chapter is talking about loving others as Christians so have we
succeeded to some extent it is my prayer that everyone of
us here tonight will do our best to live up the Bible to live out the truth of
God's word found in this chapter let us pray father we thank you for tonight we
thank you for Thy word we thank you for the Apostle Paul who wrote these words we pray for the Holy Spirit to
help us remember these words and help us to live these words into our daily lives
we pray all these things in Jesus name amen thank you God bless