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1 Corinthians 13:11-13 Love Looks Around - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: March 27, 2011

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 13:11)

We should all be 'growing up' in our faith and becoming less selfish and more caring.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 13:12)

One day in God's presence, we will know and understand everything.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Luke 18:17 NLT

I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."

Luke 6:37-38 NLT

37 "Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full-pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back."

Matt 7:12 NKJV

Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

2 Cor 13:5 NLT

Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith.

1 Cor 13:12 NLT

Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

Matt 10:30-31 NLT

30 And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. 31 So don't be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows.

John 15:13 NKJV

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

Heb 11:1 NLT

Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.

1 Cor 13:13 NLT

Three things will last forever-faith, hope, and love-and the greatest of these is love.

1 Cor 13:13 AMP

And so faith, hope, love abide [faith - conviction and belief respecting man's relation to God and divine things; hope - joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love - true affection for God and man, growing out of God's love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Luke 22:31-32 NKJV

31 And the Lord said, "Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren."

Rev 21:4 NKJV

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."

Rev 21:4 NLT

He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever."

Eph 4:15 NLT

Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.

Matt 24:12 NLT

Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold.

2 Peter 3:18 (partial) NLT

Rather, you must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Gal 5:22-23 NKJV

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

Luke 9:51-54 NKJV

51 Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem, 52 and sent messengers before His face. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for Him. 53 But they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. 54 And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?"

John 13:34-35 NLT

34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples."

John 13:1 NKJV

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

Rom 5:8 NLT

But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

1 John 4:19 NKJV

We love Him because He first loved us.

1 John 3:18 NLT

Dear children, let's not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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