Topic: Whatever You Do [David Jeremiah Ministry 28 September   2023 | Turning Point Ministries]

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Whatever You Do

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1

 Recommended Reading: 1 Corinthians 8:1-3

Consider a cobbler who is so busy making shoes for other people that his own children go barefooted. That might speak to pride, selfish ambition, or negligence by the father. At the very least, it shows a lack of love for his children. When love is absent, life is unbalanced.

The apostle Paul began his chapter on love with illustrations of “ministry” replacing love in the church. He cites several commendable activities: using the gift of tongues or prophecy, having spiritual knowledge and faith, being generous to the poor, and dying for the sake of Christ (1 Corinthians 13:1-3). Then he says that if any, or all, of these ministries are performed without love—that is, for carnal or self-promoting reasons—then the ministries themselves are worthless. Better not to undertake such ministries at all than to undertake them without the motivation and practice of love.

Also Read:  Open Heaven 28 September  2023 – IS JESUS IN YOUR BOAT?

Consider this paraphrase of Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 10:31: “Whatever you do, do it in the Spirit of love.” Clothe your words and deeds today with a cloak of true love.

Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
C. S. Lewis

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