Modern Love

Scripture Lesson: Colossians 3:12-17

Modern Love

Crazy. Stupid. Love.

Week #3

1. Know your motivation.

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. 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.  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 13:1-3

2. Love is crazy.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.                                       – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

3. Sometimes love seems stupid.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.                  – 1 Corinthians 13:8-12

4. Love conquerors all.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. – 1 Corinthians 13:13

Points To Ponder

1. How does love fulfill the law of God?

2. In what way does love cover a multitude of sins?

3. What does resilient love look like?

4. How will your relationships be strengthened and improved when governed by this kind of love?

Homework: Matthew 19