Summer Slump – Sermon #1 | LOVE

Summer Slump | 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, 7-8
Galatians 5:16 “So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.”

Galatians 5:22–23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

“Find out where God is at work and join Him there.” Henry Blackaby Experiencing God
Love – Agape “the love God has for man.”

1 John 4:9-10 “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. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

John 13:34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

1 Corinthians 13:1–3 “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. 2 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. 3 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 13:7-8 (ESV) “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends.”

1. Love bears all things – Application: Check in
2. Love believes all things – Application: Communicate your confidence
3. Love hopes all things – Application: Root for spiritual successes
4. Love endures all things – Application: Show up for the hard stuff
5. Love never fails – Application: Be available and dependable