The Greatest of These

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ACOUSTIC EVIDENCE: available ACOUSTIC MUSIC INTERVALS: 00:38:06.880-00:41:25.040 ACOUSTIC SPEECH OVERLAP: yes ACOUSTIC BOUNDARIES APPLIED: end Inline CUT markers identify each proposed audio boundary after the relevant word. --- ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT WITH PROPOSED CUTS MARKED --- A good many years ago, when I first started in ministry, I spent a considerable amount of time earnestly seeking the Lord as to what direction the focus of my ministry should take. I asked him, should my emphasis lie on evangelism, equipping God's people to obey the great commission to make disciples of all nations? I asked him, should I concentrate on helping people find their spiritual gifts in fulfillment of the biblical command to earnestly desire spiritual gifts so that we could be of service to God and of service to each other? And I asked him, Lord, do you want us to be more or less a traditional church in which we just find pleasure in meeting together and in meeting with God and finding the stability that comes out of that? I did that kind of searching because ministry is a little bit like engaging in a construction project. If you don't know where you're going and if you don't know what blueprint to follow, then you end up doing a lot of zigzagging and at the end you have nothing to show for it. And so for a season that was my prayer as I started in ministry and as I recall for several months nothing much happened until all of a sudden there came the answer and the answer came in a way that I can only describe as coming in the form of a revelation from the Lord. It wasn't like I heard any voice, I had no visions, it was just a sudden revelation of what it was that God wanted me to be about in ministry. And when the answer came it was so simple that I almost burst out laughing because here is what the Lord put in my heart. He said concentrate on building a people who will love the Lord their God with all of their heart, soul, strength and mind and who will love their neighbor as they love themselves. And he said to me that if I concentrated on that, everything else would take care of itself. Because you see if we love God and we love our neighbor, then evangelism is a natural side effect of our walk with God and our love for our neighbor, isn't it? And if I love God and if I love my neighbor, then finding and cultivating my spiritual gift so that I can serve God better and serve his people better is a natural byproduct of my walk with God. And if I love God and I love my neighbor, then I value life and community and I want to give myself in service to God's people. That's a good many years ago now that that happened, but from that day to this, whenever I find myself in a situation where I'm in danger of being confused or I'm tempted to lose my way because we live in a world with many different agendas and many different ways of getting pulled, I always retreat back to that moment of revelation. Whenever I get confused, whenever I wonder, "God, what are you about and what am I supposed to be doing?" I always retreat to the question, "Does this help God's people love God better? Does this help God's people to love each other better?" And if the answer to that is yes, then I can give myself to it wholeheartedly knowing that I cannot possibly go wrong. And if the answer is no, then I know that that is a distraction from the central purposes of the gospel. And so it is that here in the book of Corinthians, having spent all this time in chapter 12 outlining for us the importance and the virtues of spiritual gifting, Paul now comes to this great chapter that we know as the love chapter, 1 Corinthians chapter 13. And while many a young couple uses it at their wedding as an expression of their love for each other, and that is appropriate, understand it's not really written as a romantic love chapter, but it's really written for Christian community. In the time that we have this morning, I want to walk you through some very basic principles that are outlined in 1 Corinthians chapter 13. It's one of these chapters we read easily, and we think we know what it says, but it actually has a pretty profound message that creates a balance for the Christian life. So listen again how Paul introduces it actually at the end of chapter 12. 1 Corinthians 12-31, Paul says, "Eagerly desire the greater gifts, and now I will show you the most excellent way." And then he launches into the great love chapter, 1 Corinthians chapter 13. So as we look at that just quickly this morning, if we can, I want you to notice three things. First of all, Paul says, "Love trumps everything." Listen again to how he puts it in the first three verses of, "I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not 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 faith that can move mountains," now that's no insignificant gift when it's the last time you made a mountain move, "but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor, and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing." What's he saying? Well, he is comparing the relative importance of the gifts of the Spirit as opposed to the fruit of the Spirit. We talked about that a number of weeks ago, let me just briefly summarize it. This way, the Holy Spirit is the agency of the Godhead who imparts to us the benefits that we have in Christ. God in Orthodox Christianity is pictured as Trinitarian, three in one. We speak of God the Father, we speak of God the Son, and we speak of God the Holy Spirit. Each of them has a different role in creation and in redemption. God the Father is the one who decides that he wants a family of children, that's why he wants us to be in his image and in his likeness. The Son is the one who makes it possible not only originally in the creation of the universe, but he makes it possible in redemption by giving his life and being raised from the dead so that we can qualify to be in the presence of God and to be his children. But the Holy Spirit is the one who comes into the world to make real the blessings that we have in Christ. And as we've seen in the past, he does that in two ways. He does that by coming into our hearts, what Brad Long used to call the Spirit within, to transform us from the inside out. And he does that by coming upon us to empower us to do the will of God. And so the Spirit within changes us from the inside out so that our character becomes more like the character of Christ. Paul talks about that in Galatians chapter 5, 22 and 23. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, against such there is no law. If you are united by faith in Jesus and the Holy Spirit lives in you and you grow in him, then your life changes from the inside out and the ultimate manifestation of that is the gift of love. You now consider others better than yourselves and you pour your life into others as you become conformed to the image of Christ. The Spirit upon is the anointing of the Holy Spirit to equip us to do the work of God through spiritual gifts. And that's what Jesus talks about, Acts 1, 8. You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. The Spirit upon, spiritual gifts, are the power tools to do the work of the Kingdom. And what Paul is saying, we need both. To have the fruit of the Spirit without the gifts of the Spirit can make us wonderfully nice people but relatively powerless over against the evil that is in the world. And by the same token, to be anointed by the Holy Spirit with spiritual gifts so that we have faith to move mountains without having the fruit of the Spirit makes us extremely dangerous because now we have power but we exercise it without love. And so what Paul is saying here is spiritual gifts are really important. You need spiritual gifts to be able to do the business of the Kingdom. But he says the context of spiritual gifts always has to be love. And if you don't have love, then it doesn't matter what your gifts are, you are a noisy gong and a clanging symbol. You are useless from God's perspective. Now understand his argument here. His argument is this, the reason he puts it this way and places the fruit of the Spirit within the context of the gifts of the Spirit is because gifts of the Spirit without the fruit of the Spirit very quickly becomes an exercise in self-aggrandizement. It becomes a way of boasting about my gifts. It's like giving a kid in your house a buzzsaw and then watching him destroy the furniture because he is so enamored with his own power. Because you see that's the context of the first book of Corinthians. These Corinthians who became Christians in Paul's second missionary journey and these Corinthians were unusually gifted spiritually. They had been raw pagans, they had come to faith in Christ, the Holy Spirit had been poured out upon them to such a degree that earlier on in 1 Corinthians chapter 1, here's what the Apostle Paul says, he says, "I always thank God for you because of his grace given to you in Christ Jesus." He says, "For in him you have been enriched in every way, in all your speaking and in all your knowledge because their testimony about Christ was confirmed in you, therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for the Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed." These were people who overflowed with the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives. So what was the problem? Spiritual gifts does not make you spiritually mature. In fact, they were babes in Christ. He talks about that a chapter or two later on, 1 Corinthians 3.1, "Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as verbally mere infants in Christ," and he goes on to explain what a bunch of babies they are and how they're fighting and they're jostling and they're arguing with each other and spiritual gifts in that context become a means of competition. I can speak in tongues better than you. You're not as spiritual as I am. Oh, by the way, I can speak prophetic words and God really honors it and you should see what happens when I pray for that person. God heals them all and maybe he does, but if I speak in the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I'm a noisy gong and a clanging cymbal. So what's Paul saying? It doesn't matter how gifted you are. If you're not using your gifts to build up the body, if you're not moving in love to help and encourage somebody else to become everything that they can be in Christ, you're a noisy gong and a clanging cymbal. You're wasting your time. You're wasting your energy. Paul says, "Love trumps everything." And spiritual gifts, whatever your gift is, spiritually speaking, the motivation has to be not self-aggrandizement, not, "Oh, look at me. I'm finding my identity in my gift." No, no. It has to be, "How can I use this gift to serve somebody else? If I have the gift of prayer, if I have the gift of speaking," or whatever it is that I have the gift of, the purpose is using it so that other people can be blessed and built up. So that's Paul's first observation here. Love trumps everything. Then he goes on in this passage and he explains to us what love looks like. He goes on, verses four, six, and seven again. Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not proud. It is not rude. It's not self-seeking. It's not lazily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs, does not delight in evil, rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. I've said this before, Paul loves making lists. And he loves making lists because he knows what slippery customers we are. He knows that given half a chance, we think what he has to say doesn't apply to us. And so he always spreads it all over the place so that everybody knows exactly what he is saying. Now, he defines love in part because in his world, as in our world today, we live in a world where love is so broadly defined and so universally abused that it has virtually lost its meaning. I want to show you a picture. It's a picture of three young men. This story has been in the news for about two weeks. And it's been in the news because this fellow here and this fellow here joined together in a gay marriage a number of years ago. Then they got sort of tired of each other and they wanted to spice up their sex life a little bit. So they started cruising and they met up with this dude in the middle. And they decided they both liked him and they wanted him to be part of their union with them. But they were already married. So what do you do? They divorced each other. And in the process of divorcing each other, they're now busy with lawyers trying to find some legal way of defining a threesome as a marriage. And when challenged or asked about it, here's what one of them says, "We just want to say that love is love, it should be multiplied, not divided. It shouldn't matter if you're in a three-way or in a four-way relationship." And that's where society is going because once you reject biblical values in terms of marriage, then who is to say that marriage is only between two people? Why not three? Why not four? And you mark my words, as time goes on, that's where the push in our society will go. Because once you throw scripture out of the window, you can redefine reality on the basis of the loudest voice. Now these three want to have children. What do you think is their plan? Well, their sisters have offered to serve as their surrogate mothers. I don't know how that's going to pan out, but pity those children because they're going to be a tad confused about the reality of life. And I'm not bringing this story up to point fingers or to say we don't live in a very complicated world, I bring up this story to say that the definition of love is increasingly being twisted and in the name of love we are permitting all kinds of things that are far removed from a biblical basis. And so it's very important for you and me to understand what love looks like from a biblical point of view. Talked about that not too long ago, let me just quickly review what love from God's perspective looks like as the apostle Paul defines it here. Three quick components to love. Number one, it's wanting God's best for the other person. Scripture teaches we've been created in the image of God. God wants a covenant relationship with us. He wants our love for him to exceed our love for anybody else. The greatest commandment is to love God. The second one, like unto it, is to love your neighbor. You separate those two, then you have no basis to decide what human love looks like. And so then you end up being led in whatever direction your emotions take you. Leave them on here. She talked to me after we did a series of messages a while back on homosexuality in gay marriage and she's allowed me to share this story. She has a son who's gay. And she's been struggling with the son's desire that she meet his gay lover. And she and her son are going to meet to try to figure out what does love look like? How do I love my child? And yet stand firm on what God has ordained in terms of human sexuality. So always remember that no matter how many people are pulling on you, the ultimate question still is what does God say about this life and about this relationship? Not only that, but biblical love, and this is also equally important, we must honor people's right to make their own choices. We must honor people's rights to make their own choices. Remember the parable of the prodigal son. Prodigal son comes to the father, give me my share of the inheritance. What does the father do? Well, the father gives it to him and he lets him go. Why? Because love must be freely given. And while it's important for you and for me to love somebody enough to debate with them and to argue with them and to try to keep them on the straight and narrow, if at the end of all of that they make a decision knowingly and deliberately to walk in a particular direction that is contrary to biblical truth, whether that's your kid or your grandkid or your mom or your dad or your uncle or your aunt, there comes a point at which you say I have to let you go. Because the other alternative is to be nitpicking and fighting all the time and that accomplishes absolutely nothing. The prophet Ezekiel got the balance right years ago when the Lord told him this. He said, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. So hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to the wicked, a wicked man, you will surely die and you do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways. That wicked man will die for his sin, not the next phrase, but I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man to turn from his ways and he does not do so, he will die for his sin, but you will save yourself. What's he saying? If I see somebody straying and I do not warn him, I'm responsible. That's pretty heavy duty because most of us are pretty scared to point out somebody else's sin, but if I warn him and he goes ahead and follows the course of action that he is desiring to follow, then I am not guilty of his blood. He is deliberately and knowingly taking his own step. Part of loving people is you set them free to make their own choices knowing they are not free to escape the consequences of their choices, but you cannot be their conscience and nagging them isn't going to help because it will just make them fight you that much more. So true love means wanting God's best. True love is setting people free even to choose wrong paths, painful and full of heartache as that may be, particularly if somebody is close to you and you really love them. And of course, number three, it means extending grace whenever possible. And to extend grace means that first of all, I put myself in their shoes. Ever notice how easy it is to be judgmental about somebody's behavior when you haven't really figured out why they're doing what they're doing or what it is that is driving them? It is very helpful to remember that but for the grace of God, there isn't a one of us who couldn't fall flat on his or her fanny. Do you know that about yourself? It's the grace of God that keeps you standing, believe you me. So put yourself in other people's shoes, understand their situation, doesn't justify sin, doesn't justify rebellion, but it is the reality of life. And then extend forgiveness as many times as you need to extend forgiveness. And pour yourself into their lives legitimately and biblically not to be codependent or support them in ways that they ought not to be supported in, but in ways that will open their hearts to the reality of the gospel. That's painful business because it may well mean that your love gets thrown in your face. You know, I was thinking about this the other day. If I look back over the years of ministry, there's lots of highlights and there are some pretty significant lowlights. But you know, the one thing that I have found the most painful, and a lot of you can identify with this, you pour yourself into somebody's life. You honestly wish and hope and pray for God's best. And they come out of very broken places, they start living life, and they become big enough to walk on their own, and before you know it, they turn their backs and throw your love in your face, and off they go, totally ignorant about the impact that they leave on the lives of people that have loved them. Anybody here identify with that? It could happen to your kid, it could happen to people that you work with in community or in the church. That's an incredibly painful thing. I'll never forget when I first began to experience that kind of rejection in the early years of ministry. You've got to understand, I grew up, I didn't know what rejection was. Life had sort of always gone my way, and I got into ministry and began to discover slander and gossip and stories that weren't true. And in the middle of feeling very thoroughly sorry for myself, the words of 2 Timothy 2 came to mind, just a little phrase, "Consider Jesus." And all of a sudden, it dawned on me that here I was feeling sorry for myself because I was experiencing some broken relationships, and who knows what I contributed to those broken relationships, right? Certainly not being perfect, and here was Jesus, he was absolutely perfect, and what did they do to him? They nailed him to the cross, and it put things in perspective for me that loving people is expensive business, you know that? Forgiving people is expensive business. Somebody has to pay the price. Every time you forgive somebody, you're paying the price to equalize that relationship. And you learn real quick what the flesh is made of and how much you need Jesus. And that's why Paul here, in this passage, talks about love, being patient and kind, not proud, not self-seeking, not easily angered, not keeping track of wrong. If there's any flesh left in your life or in my life, you get into those kind of relationships, I tell you, you spend the night, as I did, preaching sermons to people that think God never got preached. I could understand those disciples when they said to Jesus, "Lord, do you want me to call down fire from heaven on them?" And Jesus says to them, "You don't know what spirit you are of. The Son of Man hasn't come to destroy, but to seek and to save." Do you know what I'm talking about? That's what love looks like, and that's what the spirit wants to work in your life and in my life, and you don't know what lives in you until you find yourself in a situation where you haven't been wrongly abused or wrongly used, and you will know how much you need Jesus. Well, one more thing, Paul then says, love trumps everything. He then defines love as sacrificial, self-giving, regardless of the cost. It's bagape love, and then he clinches his argument, and fascinating argument it is. He says love is eternal. Love never fails. 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 perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. Now there's different interpretations of what he means by when perfection comes. The newer translation of the NIV is when completeness arrives. The word in Greek is teleos. It's the end of the matter. There are those who think it is the completion of the canon of scripture, and when the canon of scripture was completed, spiritual gifts were no longer necessary because we have the written and the recorded word of God, and this is a school of thought that says spiritual gifts of the nature described in these chapters have ceased to be. We call them cessationists. If you listen to any of John MacArthur's broadcasts on the radio, he is a cessationist. Doesn't necessarily buy into the argument that the perfect is the completion of the canon, but he certainly is a very staunch cessationist. Spiritual gifts described in these chapters no longer happen because we have the word of God. I don't believe that. I believe that spiritual gifts continue to be active throughout the age of scripture, and I agree with most commentators that the perfect when it comes refers to the completion of the age of redemption. It happens when Jesus comes back. He purifies this whole world with his fire. He gets rid of everything and everybody that refuses to bend the knee before his authority, and he will establish his eternal kingdom, and everybody will be perfected in love for God and love for each other, and when that perfect comes, two things are going to happen. Spiritual gifts are going to disappear, and number two, love will be perfected. Why do spiritual gifts disappear? Because spiritual gifts are a poor man's way of trying to put into words the realities of the kingdom that is to come. Do you ever find yourself in a situation, for example, where you just cannot comprehend what a relationship with God looks like, where you cannot comprehend what loving God totally and passionately could ever look like, what loving your neighbor passionately and totally could ever look like, what the new creation could possibly look like, and the chances are we don't. Why? Because it is a whole other world, and spiritual gifts, as described in these chapters, tap into the powers of the age to come. Paul describes it this way, "We see a poor reflection as in a mirror. Then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, and then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." Now we're accustomed to glass mirrors that are an accurate reflection of your image when you look into the mirror. In ancient days, that wasn't the case. They were mirrors of polished metal. They were a poor reflection. Spiritual gifts are a poor reflection of eternity. They're a forte. They're a touch. They're power tools that God can help us tap into. But they are not the ultimate reality. The ultimate reality comes when we are in the new creation and we see face to face. We will be fully known, and it will be totally clear. And the only way that I can try to describe it is, do you ever have those moments, those moments of revelation when suddenly you see something, the light bulb goes on, like what I described earlier, where all of a sudden you see it, and it's not like you knew anything in addition to what you had before, but you see it. Well, that's what eternity is going to be like. You will see it. You will know fully, even as you are fully known. And so God doesn't have to reveal himself through dreams or through the kind of imagery that you see throughout scripture, where God is trying to get us to understand. See, from God's perspective, his problem of communication is, picture it this way. Picture little ants in an anthill. And you're an adult over here, and you're trying to communicate to these ants down here who you are and what you look like. Well, you speak a different language. You can't even begin to comprehend. And spiritual gifts are God's way of trying to get at that. But how much better when you stand fully in his presence and you know that you know that you know. So spiritual gifts cease in the age to come. I often joke that the only people around here that are going to be employed in the age to come is maybe Roberta and her worship teams. All the rest of us, we're going to be out of work. Nobody needs to preach. Nobody needs to do evangelism. Nobody needs to do any healing. It's all there. It's all done for. I think we'll find something to do, but it won't be that. At the same time, everything that separates us from each other will be totally gone. We will know fully even as we are fully known. Remember Adam and Eve in the garden? Before they fell into sin, they were naked and they were not ashamed. If you've ever had a moment of intimacy, whether with a spouse or with a friend where it's like the two became one, then you have but a small foretaste of what that eternal union with God and with God's people is going to be like. Imagine no hiding, no secondary motives, nothing that cannot be revealed because somebody's going to take advantage of me. I can truly be myself. I can be loved for who I am. I can fulfill God's destiny for me and for all eternity I'm going to keep expanding into everything that God has for me, which is why faith and hope in addition to love are going to continue for all eternity. That's like going to be heaven. Now here's what Paul says. That's his whole point. "This is what you're aiming for," he says. That's where God's taking you through union with Christ. So now he says, "Since spiritual gifts are going to be gone and eternity is going to be characterized by perfect love and friendship reigning, what do you think ought to be your priority and what ought you to be boasting in? Ought you to be boasting in your gifts of money or power or communication skills?" Those are important and they're tools that God wants you to use for the building up of his community, but they're not going to last for all eternity. They're not going to be necessary anymore. So what matters? What matters is love. So what should you and I be concentrating on? We should be concentrating on developing the fruit of the Spirit. We need to be cultivating what it is that God is calling forth in us. We need to grow up in Christ, which is why he says, "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 childish ways behind me." And then verse 13, "Now these three remain, faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love." So let me finish up with a couple of very practical questions. First of all, do you love the body of Christ? Think about that. Do you love the church? Especially for those of you that are part of this community, do you love this community? Do you love the people in it? Are you willing to give your life to them? Share your resources with them? Share your heart with them? Now I, of all people, know there's lots of reasons that we might not want to do that, because it's costly, it's expensive, but it's what Jesus did. It's what He died for, and it's what He wants to build. He wants to build a body that reflects Him, and that involves a commitment in your part and on my part of being part of community and letting the Lord work in our lives and in our relationships until the values of heaven become increasingly the values of the hear, and now are you hearing me? God in Christ has done it all. When you stand before Him on the final day, and He says, "Well, you know, did you love my people?" And you're going to say, "Well, they were a bunch of cantankerous," whatever. See how far that gets you, and Lord, they hurt my feelings, and they misunderstood me, and they didn't honor or respect me. You see how far that gets you on that final day, because He's going to say, "For those tears I died, I poured out my life to transform you and them from the inside out so that together you could be a reflection of heaven's values." So will you give your heart, will you give your life, will you give your resources, will you commit yourself to being part of a community that God can so fill with His presence that the world knows that the gospel is real, because you can speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and you can have faith to move mountains, and you can give your body to be burned, but if you don't have love, you're a noisy gong, and you're a clinging symbol. Pray to God that He will pour that kind of grace into each of our lives so that His purposes will be accomplished in our day and age for His glory. [CUT] [PROPOSED CUT 1 START at 00:38:06.880; remove through 00:41:25.000] So with one heart, we'll say to the Lord, and with one heart we'll have God's word. So with one heart, we'll say to the Lord, and with one heart we'll have God's word. So with one heart, we'll say to the Lord, and with one heart we'll have God's word. 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