Audio Sermon - February 22nd 2015
February 22nd. 2015 "Love Is Greater Than All Gifts" 1 Cor. 12:31 (Audio)
By Pastor Ray Sleiman
1 Corinthians 12: 31
31 But earnestly desire the best[a] gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.
Acts 9: 6
6 So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?”
Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
Hebrews 2: 4
4 God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?
James 5: 14
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Zechariah 4: 6
6 So he answered and said to me:
“This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:
‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’
Says the Lord of hosts.
James 4: 14
Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
Ephesians 3: 18-19
18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
2 Timothy 4: 22
Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all long suffering and teaching.
Deuteronomy 33: 24
24 And of Asher he said:
“Asher is most blessed of sons;
Let him be favored by his brothers,
And let him dip his foot in oil.
Romans 5: 5
5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
1 John 4: 16
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
1 Corinthians 13: 1-3
13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
John 3: 16
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Revelation 2: 4
4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
Matthew 5: 44-45
44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,[a] 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
John 13: 34-35
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Romans 13: 8
8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.
31 But earnestly desire the best[a] gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.
Acts 9: 6
6 So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?”
Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
Hebrews 2: 4
4 God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?
James 5: 14
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Zechariah 4: 6
6 So he answered and said to me:
“This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:
‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’
Says the Lord of hosts.
James 4: 14
Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
Ephesians 3: 18-19
18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
2 Timothy 4: 22
Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all long suffering and teaching.
Deuteronomy 33: 24
24 And of Asher he said:
“Asher is most blessed of sons;
Let him be favored by his brothers,
And let him dip his foot in oil.
Romans 5: 5
5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
1 John 4: 16
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
1 Corinthians 13: 1-3
13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
John 3: 16
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Revelation 2: 4
4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
Matthew 5: 44-45
44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,[a] 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
John 13: 34-35
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Romans 13: 8
8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.