7. Love is….
1 John 4:7-10
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes
from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God
and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know
God, because God is love. This is how God showed his
love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the
world that we might live through him. This is love: not
that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his
Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
8. Love is….
Ephesians 5:1-2
Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved
childrenand walk in the way of love, just as Christ
loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant
offering and sacrifice to God.
12. City of Corinth
•It’s a port, safe haven for ship / travelers due to its
strategic spot
Background
13. City of Corinth
•It’s a port, safe haven for ship / travelers due to its
strategic spot
•It’s a city where ex-slave men were placed (1 Cor
1:26) Made famous for its idolatry temple, Aphrodite
(goddess of love)
Background
14. City of Corinth
•It’s a port, safe haven for ship / travelers due to its
strategic spot
•It’s a city where ex-slave men were placed (1 Cor
1:26) Made famous for its idolatry temple, Aphrodite
(goddess of love)
• More than 1000 priestess / prostitutes
Background
15. City of Corinth
•It’s a port, safe haven for ship / travelers due to its
strategic spot
•It’s a city where ex-slave men were placed (1 Cor
1:26) Made famous for its idolatry temple, Aphrodite
(goddess of love)
• More than 1000 priestess / prostitutes
• The historical phrase “to corinthianize”
Background
16. City of Corinth
•20th
century archeological findings confirms so many
biblical writing in regards to the city:
Background
17. City of Corinth
•20th
century archeological findings confirms so many
biblical writing in regards to the city:
• Synagogue
Background
18. City of Corinth
•20th
century archeological findings confirms so many
biblical writing in regards to the city:
• Synagogue
• Bema Seat
Background
19. City of Corinth
•20th
century archeological findings confirms so many
biblical writing in regards to the city:
• Synagogue
• Bema Seat
• Local meat market
Background
20. City of Corinth
•20th
century archeological findings confirms so many
biblical writing in regards to the city:
• Synagogue
• Bema Seat
• Local meat market
• Temple …etc.
Background
22. City of Corinth
•Church Plant
• Paul planted the church, stayed there for 18
months
Background
23. City of Corinth
•Church Plant
• Paul planted the church, stayed there for 18
months
• He departed to Ephesus
Background
24. City of Corinth
•Church Plant
• Paul planted the church, stayed there for 18
months
• He departed to Ephesus
• His letters was a response to some sad news /
questions by Chloe (1 Cor 1:11)
Background
27. City of Corinth
•Church Plant
• The challenges of the church:
• Church conflicts
• Disunity / divisions
Background
28. City of Corinth
•Church Plant
• The challenges of the church:
• Church conflicts
• Disunity / divisions
• Immorality – fornication, gross sin, overall
casual attitude towards moral sin
Background
29. City of Corinth
•Church Plant
• The challenges of the church:
• Church conflicts
• Disunity / divisions
• Immorality – fornication, gross sin, overall
casual attitude towards moral sin
• Marriage and divorce
Background
30. City of Corinth
•Church Plant
• The challenges of the church:
• Church conflicts
• Disunity / divisions
• Immorality – fornication, gross sin, overall
casual attitude towards moral sin
• Marriage and divorce
• Selfishness – Lord’s table
Background
31. City of Corinth
•Church Plant
• The challenges of the church:
• Church conflicts
• Disunity / divisions
• Immorality – fornication, gross sin, overall
casual attitude towards moral sin
• Marriage and divorce
• Selfishness – Lord’s table
• Puffed up / prideful
Background
32. City of Corinth
•Church Plant
• The challenges of the church:
• Church conflicts
• Disunity / divisions
• Immorality – fornication, gross sin, overall
casual attitude towards moral sin
• Marriage and divorce
• Selfishness – Lord’s table
• Puffed up / prideful
• Using gifts for self gratification …etc.
Background
34. 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 Corinthians 13:1-8
35. 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. Love never
fails.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8
40. 1. Patient
2. Kind
3. Rejoicing in truth
4. Bearing all things / always protect
7 things what love IS
41. 1. Patient
2. Kind
3. Rejoicing in truth
4. Bearing all things / always protect
5. Believing all things / always trust
7 things what love IS
42. 1. Patient
2. Kind
3. Rejoicing in truth
4. Bearing all things / always protect
5. Believing all things / always trust
6. Hoping all things / always hope
7 things what love IS
43. 1. Patient
2. Kind
3. Rejoicing in truth
4. Bearing all things / always protect
5. Believing all things / always trust
6. Hoping all things / always hope
7. Enduring all things / always persevere
7 things what love IS
47. 1. envy
2. parading itself
3. puffed up
4. behaving rudely
8 things what love IS NOT
48. 1. envy
2. parading itself
3. puffed up
4. behaving rudely
5. seeking its own
8 things what love IS NOT
49. 1. envy
2. parading itself
3. puffed up
4. behaving rudely
5. seeking its own
6. provoking
8 things what love IS NOT
50. 1. envy
2. parading itself
3. puffed up
4. behaving rudely
5. seeking its own
6. provoking
7. thinking of evil
8 things what love IS NOT
51. 1. envy
2. parading itself
3. puffed up
4. behaving rudely
5. seeking its own
6. provoking
7. thinking of evil
8. rejoicing in sin
8 things what love IS NOT
52. When you love right, your life’s all right.
The right kind of love leads to the right kind of life.
Love Right, Live Right
