Living OUT God’s LOVE Everyday

BEING A BELIEVER EVERYDAY Rom 12:13; Selected Scriptures By D.Z. Cofield, Th. M., D. Min. October 3, 2021 Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (ESV) 1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. John 13:34-35 (ESV) – “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” LOVE – Definition by Pastor A. Louis Patterson “Love is a minimum of emotions and a maximum evaluation of need, with the meeting of that need, in a spirit of self-sacrifice, by doing whatever is needed to be done, even if you don’t feel like doing it…” 1. Your LOVE is REAL when you first show LOVE to other BELIEVERS. Romans 12:13 (ESV) – Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Romans 12:13 (NLT2) – When God’s people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality. A. GIVE to meet the NEEDS of OTHER believers. Contribute – Acts 4:34-35 (ESV) – There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold 35 and laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. Romans 16:1-2 (ESV) – I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, 2 that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well. 2 Corinthians 8:1-4 (ESV) – We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, 2 for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. 3 For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, 4 begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— B. SHOW hospitality to others Hospitality – 1 Timothy 3:2 (ESV) – Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 1 Peter 4:9 (NLT2) – Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to sta...