love is kind
Gregory Bishop
(Audio: Spanish)
SUMMARY: In this sermon, the speaker talks about the importance of love in the Christian community, using First Corinthians 13 as a basis for discussion. They focus on the second sentence of verse 4, which states that love is benign or kind. The speaker defines kindness as concrete actions that show love, such as opening a door for someone or remembering a person's name. They caution against confusing kindness with being nice, which can be motivated by self-interest. The speaker cites examples from Jesus' life, such as healing the sick and feeding the hungry, as models of kindness. They also emphasize the importance of seeing every person as worthy of respect and attention.
The pastor talks about the importance of kindness and how it is a reflection of God's love. He encourages people to be kind even to their enemies and shares personal testimonies and biblical references to support his message. He also compares kindness to engine oil that lubricates human relationships and prevents emotional sludge from building up. Kindness is essential in any group or community to prevent friction and maintain trust.
The speaker talks about the importance of kindness and how it is a lifestyle that requires effort and consideration of how others receive love. He shares a testimony of a woman who was homeless and had mental health problems but was an example of kindness and goodness to those around her. He emphasizes the need to be kind to others in a diverse church, workplace, and society. He shares a prophetic dream he had about Jesus, where he learned that when we are kind to others, we are also being kind to Jesus. He concludes by encouraging listeners to seize every opportunity to be kind and to see others through spiritual eyes.
The pastor talks about the importance of kindness and how it is a reflection of God's love. He encourages people to be kind even to their enemies and shares personal testimonies and biblical references to support his message. He also compares kindness to engine oil that lubricates human relationships and prevents emotional sludge from building up. Kindness is essential in any group or community to prevent friction and maintain trust.
The speaker talks about the importance of kindness and how it is a lifestyle that requires effort and consideration of how others receive love. He shares a testimony of a woman who was homeless and had mental health problems but was an example of kindness and goodness to those around her. He emphasizes the need to be kind to others in a diverse church, workplace, and society. He shares a prophetic dream he had about Jesus, where he learned that when we are kind to others, we are also being kind to Jesus. He concludes by encouraging listeners to seize every opportunity to be kind and to see others through spiritual eyes.
First Corinthians 13, in the English service we are talking about issues of identity like the Lion of Judah in this time of a new beginning, and we were talking a few weeks ago about the call to be radical and committed to the Kingdom of God, to be radical and We talked in Romans 12 about offering the body as a living sacrifice, and it led us directly in that same chapter to talk about love, about what it is to love one another.
Another theme of our identity as a Church is to be a Church with a supernatural mentality, to see the spiritual world behind the natural and also to know that there is a spiritual warfare around us, that there are gifts of the Holy Spirit that God wants to use. And we are going to study the Book of First Corinthians, and there in the middle of First Corinthians we find chapter 13, which says that: "If I speak in human and angelic tongues, but I do not have love, I become like resounding metal and If I had prophecy, I understood all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I had all faith, in such a way that I moved mountains and had no love, I am nothing, if I distributed all my goods to feed the poor, and if give my body to be burned and I have no love, it is of no use to me."
Another theme of our identity as a Church is to be a Church with a supernatural mentality, to see the spiritual world behind the natural and also to know that there is a spiritual warfare around us, that there are gifts of the Holy Spirit that God wants to use. And we are going to study the Book of First Corinthians, and there in the middle of First Corinthians we find chapter 13, which says that: "If I speak in human and angelic tongues, but I do not have love, I become like resounding metal and If I had prophecy, I understood all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I had all faith, in such a way that I moved mountains and had no love, I am nothing, if I distributed all my goods to feed the poor, and if give my body to be burned and I have no love, it is of no use to me."
