7.5.15 // The Power of Love

Believe – Say – Do: Week 4
Scott Young.com ~ Pastor of Hope

1 Corinthians 13:13 - And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

• What Is My Hope? What Do I Believe?
• What Is My Faith? What Will I Say?
• What Is My Love? What Will I Do?

LOVE IS MOTION THAT BRINGS EMOTION

1 John 3:18 - Let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 Corinthians 13:1 - If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

CHOOSE LOVE RIGHT NOW!

1. Love Always Does Kindness

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Love is kind.

Ephesians 4:32 - Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Mark 12:30 – “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ [31] The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

2. Love Always Does Generosity

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

2 Corinthians 9:7 - Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Matthew 6:21 - For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

3. Love Always Does Forgiveness

1 Corinthians 13:5 - Love keeps no record of wrongs.

Colossians 3:13 - Bear with each other, and forgive each other. If someone does wrong to you, forgive that person because the Lord forgave you.

1 Peter 4:8 - Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.