Youth bible study1/4/2024 ![]() You give them time to change, room to make mistakes without coming down hard on them. You bear with others’ imperfections, faults, and differences. The Greek word comes from two words meaning, “long-tempered.” If you’re patient, you’re slow to anger, you endure personal wrongs without retaliating. It’s when things start to irritate or frustrate me that I need patience, but usually at that point I don’t want to be patient! Patience is an interesting quality in that when I don’t need it, I want it. Ouch! Why did he put that first? This often confronts me with my failure in relating to my family. A whole series of sermons could easily be preached on these qualities of love. A New Testament definition of agape is “a caring, self-sacrificing commitment which shows itself in seeking the highest good of the one loved.” Jesus Christ, in His sacrificial death on the cross, is the epitome and embodiment of this kind of love. Paul enumerates 15 characteristics of love to show how love acts or what it looks like in everyday life. I’m really easy to get along with.” But I ask each of you to forget about everybody else and ask God to apply these verses to you. We’re all prone to apply verses like these to others: “My mate and my kids could sure use a lesson in love. While in English most of these words are predicate adjectives, in Greek they are verbs. We’re going to focus mainly on verses 4-7, where Paul describes how love acts. In verses 8-13 he shows the permanence of love, that love is greater than all spiritual gifts because it outlasts them. In verses 4-7 he shows the practice of love, how love is greater than all spiritual gifts because of its selfless characteristics. In verses 1-3 he shows the preeminence of love, that love is greater than all spiritual gifts because without love, gifts are empty. ![]() But we can profit from understanding the parts and applying it to family relationships. To comment on its parts is a bit like giving a botany lecture on a beautiful flower-if you’re not careful you lose the beauty and impact of it. ![]() These verses are the most eloquent and profound words ever written on the subject of love. Selfless love is the priority for every Christian. Paul makes the point that the use of their God-given gifts would amount to nothing if the Corinthians did not make love their priority. They were using their gifts apart from love. The Corinthian church was emphasizing a good thing, spiritual gifts, to the neglect of the best. Paul’s famous chapter on love, 1 Corinthians 13, tells us. But how do we know what such love looks like in everyday dress? Parents and children, brothers and sisters, must love one another. But, wives, too, must love their husbands. Husbands, especially, are to love their wives. What does biblical love look like? We know that our relationships in the family need to be marked by love. In the words of the Apostle John, we love in word, but not in deed and truth (1 John 3:18). But what do you mean by love? So often we love our family like that little girl loved broccoli: We love in the abstract, but when it comes right down to it, we don’t want to get too close. The hostess said, “I thought you said you loved broccoli.” The girl replied sweetly, “Oh, yes ma’am, I do, but not enough to eat it!”ĭo you love your family? “Of course I do!” We all would say that! It’s the only right answer. “Oh, yes,” the child replied politely, “I love it!”īut when the bowl of broccoli was passed, she declined to take any. The vegetable was buttered broccoli and the mother asked if she liked it. Each PDF lesson can be filled out using most PDF readers on your computer or smartphone.A little girl was invited for dinner at the home of her first-grade friend. You can now download our new Momentum Youth Bible Study guides covering our 28 fundamental beliefs in a new and refreshing way geared towards youth.
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