Sermon Notes:
Pastor Alan Hannah
4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
13Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. [1 Corinthians 13:4-7, 13]
6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. [1 Corinthians 13:6]
34So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. [John 13:34]
6“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
7If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” [John 14:6-7]
16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. [John 14:16-17]
20What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. [Isaiah 5:20]
18But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. [Romans 1:18]
7Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 8But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. [1 John 4:7-8]
9Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. [1 Corinthians 6:9-10]
You can have truth without love, but you cannot have love without truth.
9Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. [Romans 12:9]
10Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?” 11“No, Lord,” she said.
And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.” [John 8:10-11]