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1 Corinthians 14:1-3 Love, the Great Quest - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: April 10, 2011

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 14:1)

Let love be your highest goal-your greatest quest.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 14:3)

Make it a goal to encourage at least one believer every day.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 14:3)

We all need to be strengthened, encouraged and comforted in our faith.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

1 Cor 14:1 NLT

Let love be your highest goal! But you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives-especially the ability to prophesy.

1 Cor 14:1 (partial) AMP

EAGERLY PURSUE and seek to acquire [this] love [make it your aim, your great quest]; and earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual endowments (gifts),

1 John 3:10 NLT

So now we can tell who are children of God and who are children of the devil. Anyone who does not live righteously and does not love other believers does not belong to God.

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.

1 Cor 13:12-13 NLT

12 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.13 Three things will last forever-faith, hope, and love-and the greatest of these is love.

1 Cor 14:1 AMP

1 EAGERLY PURSUE and seek to acquire [this] love [make it your aim, your great quest]; and earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual endowments (gifts), especially that you may prophesy (interpret the divine will and purpose in inspired preaching and teaching).

Ex 18:15 NKJV

And Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

Ex 18:17-18 NKJV

17 So Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good. 18 Both you and these people who are with you will surely wear yourselves out. For this thing is too much for you; you are not able to perform it by yourself.

Ex 18:22-23 NLT

22 They should always be available to solve the people's common disputes, but have them bring the major cases to you. Let the leaders decide the smaller matters themselves. They will help you carry the load, making the task easier for you. 23 If you follow this advice, and if God commands you to do so, then you will be able to endure the pressures, and all these people will go home in peace."

Num 11:24-25 NKJV

24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle. 25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they never did so again.

1 Cor 13:2-3 NLT

2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn't love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.

1 Cor 14:2 NLT

For if you have the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking only to God, since people won't be able to understand you. You will be speaking by the power of the Spirit, but it will all be mysterious.

Jude 20 NKJV

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

Rom 8:26 NLT

And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don't know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.

1 Cor 14:15 NLT

Well then, what shall I do? I will pray in the spirit, and I will also pray in words I understand. I will sing in the spirit, and I will also sing in words I understand.

1 Cor 14:14 NKJV

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

1 Cor 14:3 NLT

But one who prophesies strengthens others, encourages them, and comforts them.

Gen 22:2 NKJV

Then He said, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."

John 3:16 NKJV

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

1 John 4:11 NKJV

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:19 NKJV

We love Him because He first loved us.

Rev 1:5b (partial) NKJV

To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

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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