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- 0:04Pastor Robert Young: Today's meditation is coming from the book of First Corinthians, chapter 13.
- 0:11Pastor Robert Young: After teaching about spiritual gifts in chapter 12, Paul now reveals the most excellent way.
- 0:20Pastor Robert Young: He paints a picture that would have stopped the Corinthians in their tracks.
- 0:26Pastor Robert Young: You can speak with tongues of angels, but with without love, you're just noise.
- 0:32Pastor Robert Young: You can understand mysteries, possess great knowledge, and exercise mountain-moving faith, but without love, it amounts to nothing.
- 0:44Pastor Robert Young: You can give away everything you own and even suffer for your beliefs.
- 0:49Pastor Robert Young: But without love, there is no lasting value.
- 0:54Pastor Robert Young: The Corinthians were impressed by powerful gifts.
- 0:58Pastor Robert Young: Paul was impressed by transformed character.
- 1:02Pastor Robert Young: Then Paul gives one of the scripture's most beautiful description of love.
- 1:08Pastor Robert Young: Love is patient, love is kind.
- 1:11Pastor Robert Young: It does not envy or boast.
- 1:14Pastor Robert Young: It is not proud or self-seeking.
- 1:18Pastor Robert Young: It is not easily angered and keeps no record of wrongs.
- 1:23Pastor Robert Young: Love rejoices in truth.
- 1:26Pastor Robert Young: Love always protects, trusts, hopes, and perseveres.
- 1:31Pastor Robert Young: Paul isn't merely defining love, he is describing the character of Jesus Christ Himself.
- 1:40Pastor Robert Young: Finally, Paul compares spiritual maturity to growing up.
- 1:45Pastor Robert Young: As children, we see only part of the picture.
- 1:49Pastor Robert Young: One day we will see God face to face and understand fully.
- 1:55Pastor Robert Young: Spiritual gifts are valuable, but they are temporary.
- 1:59Pastor Robert Young: They serve a purpose for this age.
- 2:03Pastor Robert Young: Love, however, never ends.
- 2:06Pastor Robert Young: The chapter closes with one of the most beloved statements in all of Scripture.
- 2:12Pastor Robert Young: And now these three remain faith, hope, and love.
- 2:16Pastor Robert Young: But the greatest of these is love.
- 2:19Pastor Robert Young: The message is clear.
- 2:21Pastor Robert Young: Spiritual gifts reveal God's power, but love reveals God's heart.
- 2:29Pastor Robert Young: Friends, with that in mind, let's take three minutes to reflect on the following questions.
- 2:40Pastor Robert Young: One, how does understanding God's love deepen my trust and awe?
- 2:48Pastor Robert Young: Two, are my actions motivated by genuine love or by recognition, achievement, or approval?
- 2:59Pastor Robert Young: Three, what truth about God's love do I need to embrace and extend to others?
- 3:08Pastor Robert Young: Repeat this affirmation now, and throughout your day: God's love is shaping my heart.
- 6:19Pastor Robert Young: I choose patience over frustration, kindness over selfishness, and grace over resentment.
- 6:28Pastor Robert Young: Through Christ, I am learning to love as He loves.
- 6:34Pastor Robert Young: Lord, search my heart and reveal anything that does not reflect your love.
- 6:55Pastor Robert Young: Teach me to be patient, kind, and humble and forgiving.
- 7:01Pastor Robert Young: Lord help me to value people more than accomplishments and character more than recognition.
- 7:08Pastor Robert Young: Let your love flow through my words, actions, and relationships so that others may see Christ in me.
- 7:16Pastor Robert Young: May faith, hope, and the love grow in my life above all.
- 7:22Pastor Robert Young: May I walk in love.
- 7:24Pastor Robert Young: For Christ's sake.
- 7:27Pastor Robert Young: Amen.