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August 26 - 1 Corinthians 13 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Monday.
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  It is the 26th of August. Welcome to the new week.
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  I hope you're going well. Hope your weekend was a good
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  one, maybe even a relaxing one if you are really lucky.
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  But here we are at the beginning of the next week and we have got
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  a real treat to get us started. This is the loveliest passage in
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  all of scripture. What's Sean the loveliest?
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  Well, it's definitely the one most about love.
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  It is used in countless weddings, including mine
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  because, well, frankly, how do you beat it?
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  You just don't. This.
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  This is a wonderful passage where Paul talks to his church
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  about just what it looks like to love each other.
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  So with all of that said, let us share it together, shall we?
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  Let's read together First Corinthians chapter 13.
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  If I speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't
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  love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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  If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's
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  secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such
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  faith that I could move mountains but didn't love
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  others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I had to
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  the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it.
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  But if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
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  Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful
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  or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way.
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  It is not irritable and it keeps no record of being wronged.
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  It does not rejoice about injustice, but rejoices whenever
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  the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses
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  faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every
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  circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown
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  languages and special knowledge will become useless, but love
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  will last forever. Now our knowledge is partial and
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  incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of
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  the whole picture. But when the time of perfection
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  comes, these partial things will become useless.
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  When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child,
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  but when I grew up I put away childish things.
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  Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a
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  mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.
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  All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will
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  know everything completely, just as God who knows me completely.
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  Three things will last forever. Faith, hope and love.
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  And the greatest of these is love.
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  Oh Jesus, you know our broken hearts.
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  You know that our sinful nature pushes us in the direction of
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  judging, of keeping record, of being boastful and jealous and
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  proud. But you don't only tell us this
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  different way. You don't only show us this
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  different way, but you yourself are this different way.
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  You, you, Jesus, our love. Thank you for the love that you
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  are, the love that you show us, the love that you have given us.
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  And oh, my prayer is that this love would transform us from the
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  inside out so that we too could love like you do.
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  Well, we probably won't ever achieve that this side of
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  eternity, but how about that we can love more like you do, our
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  incredible, loving Saviour and whose name we pray.
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  Amen.