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SSMC SUNGAI WAY-SUBANG METHODIST CHURCH REV TAN ENG LEE | 19 MAR 2017 LOVE tHE ESSENCE OF MINISTRY
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REV TAN ENG LEE | 19 MAR 2017
LOVE tHE ESSENCE OF MINISTRY
‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest commandment. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Matt. 22:37
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Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
And yet I will show you the most excellent way. (1Cor. 12:31)
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Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts. (1Cor. 14:1)
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If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. (1 Cor. 1-3)
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What is Love? Christian love is not the victim of our emotions but the servant of our will. Rev. John R.W. Stott.
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. (1 Cor. 13: 4-5)
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Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (1 Cor. 13: 5-6)
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The Supremacy of Love
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. (1Cor. 13:8)
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For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. (1 Cor. 13: 9-10)
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What is that completeness? Over realized eschatology: Already achieved: kingdom of God has dawned; Messiah is reigning, the crucial victory has been won; the final resurrection of the dead has begun, the Holy Spirit has been poured out on the church.
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But the Kingdom has not yet come in fullness: death still exercises in power, sin must be overcome, power of darkness still at war against us.
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For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. (1 Cor. 13-12)
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And now these three remain: faith,
hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Cor. 13:13)
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (1 Cor. 13:4-7)
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We love for He first loved us. (1John 4:19)
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