How to be something when I am nothing

*Awaken to Love

*Key Concept

*Our need for infusing biblical love into all we Say, Think and Do for personal profit and meaningful impacts toward others. 

*Love’s Impacts

The World

The Church

God

You

Effective Evangelism

Meaningful Ministry

Right Relationships

Freedom from FEAR

John 13:35

Rev 2-3Ephesians 4:16

1 John 4:20-21

1 John 4:16-19

Personal Profit1 Corinthians 13

*God IS Love

*Personal Profit and Meaningful Impacts

NOTHING SOMETHING

“For if anyone thinks he is

something, when he is

nothing, he deceives

himself” Gal 6:3

1 Corinthians 13

*Love’s DescriptionsSUFFERS LONGIS KINDDOES NOT ENVYDOES NOT PARADE ITSELF

IS NOT PUFFED UPDOES NOT BEHAVE ITSELF UNSEEMLY

DOES NOT SEEK ITS OWN

IS NOT PROVOKED

THINKS NO EVILDOES NOT REJOICE IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICES IN THE TRUTH

BEARS ALL THINGSBELIEVES ALL THINGS

HOPES ALL THINGSENDURES ALL THINGS.

LOVE NEVER FAILS.

*Suffers Long

1) to be of a long spirit, not to lose hearta) to persevere patiently and bravely in

enduring misfortunes and troublesb) to be patient in bearing the offenses and

injuries of others1) to be mild and slow in avenging2) to be longsuffering, slow to anger, slow to

punish

*Is Kind

*to show one's self mild, to be kind, use kindness*Only used Once in our Bible!

*Does Not Envy

1) to burn with zeala) to be heated or to boil with envy, hatred, anger

1) in a good sense, to be zealous in the pursuit of goodb) to desire earnestly, pursue

1) to desire one earnestly, to strive after, busy one's self about him

2) to exert one's self for one (that he may not be torn from me)3) to be the object of the zeal of others, to be zealously sought

afterc) to envy

*Does not Parade itself

1) to boast one's self2) a self display, employing rhetorical embellishments in extolling one's self excessively

*Is not puffed up

1) to make natural, to cause a thing to pass into nature

2) to inflate, blow up, to cause to swell upa) to puff up, make proudb) to be puffed up, to bear one's self loftily,

be proud

*Does not behave itself

unseemly

to act unbecomingly

“But if any man think that he behaves himself uncomely toward his virgin” 1 Cor 7:36a

*Does not seek its own

1) himself, herself, itself, themselves

*Is not provoked

1) to make sharp, sharpena) to stimulate, spur on, urgeb) to irritate, provoke, arouse to anger

1) to scorn, despise2) provoke, make angry3) to exasperate, to burn with anger

* Thinks no evilThinks:1) to reckon, count, compute, calculate, count over

a) to take into account, to make an account of1) metaph. to pass to one's account, to impute2) a thing is reckoned as or to be something, i.e. as availing for or equivalent to

something, as having the like force and weightb) to number among, reckon withc) to reckon or account

2) to reckon inward, count up or weigh the reasons, to deliberate3) by reckoning up all the reasons, to gather or infer

a) to consider, take into account, weigh, meditate onb) to suppose, deem, judgec) to determine, purpose, decide

Evil:1) of a bad nature

a) not such as it ought to be2) of a mode of thinking, feeling, acting

a) base, wrong, wicked3) troublesome, injurious, pernicious, destructive, baneful

*Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth

Iniquity1) injustice, of a judge2) unrighteousness of heart and life3) a deed violating law and justice, act of unrighteousnessTruth

1) objectivelya) what is true in any matter under consideration

1) truly, in truth, according to truth2) of a truth, in reality, in fact, certainly

b) what is true in things appertaining to God and the duties of man, moral and religious truth1) in the greatest latitude2) the true notions of God which are open to human reason without his supernatural

interventionc) the truth as taught in the Christian religion, respecting God and the execution of

his purposes through Christ, and respecting the duties of man, opposing alike to the superstitions of the Gentiles and the inventions of the Jews, and the corrupt opinions and precepts of false teachers even among Christians

*Bears all Things

Bears:1) deck, thatch, to cover

a) to protect or keep by covering, to preserve2) to cover over with silence

a) to keep secretb) to hide, conceal

1) of the errors and faults of others3) by covering to keep off something which threatens, to bear up against, hold out against, and so endure, bear, forbear

All Things:1) individually

a) each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything

2) collectivelya) some of all types

*Believes all Things

1) to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in

a) of the thing believed1) to credit, have confidence

b) in a moral or religious reference1) used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul2) to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith3) mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith

2) to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelitya) to be intrusted with a thing

*Hopes all Things

1) to hopea) in a religious sense, to wait for salvation with joy and full confidence

2) hopefully to trust in

*Endures all Things

1) to remaina) to tarry behind

2) to remain i.e. abide, not recede or fleea) to preserve: under misfortunes and trials to hold fast to one's faith in Christb) to endure, bear bravely and calmly: ill treatments

*Love Never FAILS

1) to fall out of, to fall down from, to fall off2) metaph.

a) to fall from a thing, to lose itb) to perish, to fall

1) to fall from a place from which one cannot keep2) fall from a position3) to fall powerless, to fall to the ground, be without effect

a) of the divine promise of salvation

Unregenerate: FLESH

SPIRIT: Regeneratesexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies

love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control

NOTHING SOMETHING

“So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.”

Anthropology of Love

for the Christian

*Love’s DescriptionsSUFFERS LONGIS KINDDOES NOT ENVYDOES NOT PARADE ITSELF

IS NOT PUFFED UPDOES NOT BEHAVE ITSELF UNSEEMLY

DOES NOT SEEK ITS OWN

IS NOT PROVOKED

THINKS NO EVILDOES NOT REJOICE IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICES IN THE TRUTH

BEARS ALL THINGSBELIEVES ALL THINGS

HOPES ALL THINGSENDURES ALL THINGS.

LOVE NEVER FAILS.

*Key Concept

Our need for infusing biblical love into all we Think, Say and Do for personal profit and meaningful impact towards others. 

NOTHING SOMETHING