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What is Love? Part 1 - tryingthespirits.com

What is love ? Part 1 By Mitchell Kuhn Heavenly Father, thank you very much for the time to gather together with your people. We re very grateful that you ve brought us here, given us a desire to know the truth, and given us the understanding of the scriptures. We appreciate all the trials that you are bringing, and we ask for more faith that we may appreciate them more, because we struggle, as you know, with all these things. Be with all those who are suffering and having all different sorts of health, financial, and/or family trials. Increase their faith to endure faithfully what you are sending. We ask all these things in Christ s name. Amen. Welcome everybody! We are back in our Wednesday night study, and as the Lord always does, he s taking us from topic to topic.

What is Love? Part 1 By Mitchell Kuhn Heavenly Father, thank you very much for the time to gather together with your people. We’re very grateful that you’ve brought us here, given us a desire to know the truth, and

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1 What is love ? Part 1 By Mitchell Kuhn Heavenly Father, thank you very much for the time to gather together with your people. We re very grateful that you ve brought us here, given us a desire to know the truth, and given us the understanding of the scriptures. We appreciate all the trials that you are bringing, and we ask for more faith that we may appreciate them more, because we struggle, as you know, with all these things. Be with all those who are suffering and having all different sorts of health, financial, and/or family trials. Increase their faith to endure faithfully what you are sending. We ask all these things in Christ s name. Amen. Welcome everybody! We are back in our Wednesday night study, and as the Lord always does, he s taking us from topic to topic.

2 It always seems to apply to what s going on in the body. The topic that has been on my mind a lot recently is What is love , and how does it operate inside of relationships? There has been a particular need recently. I know Mike and I have both been doing a good amount of marriage counseling, Mike more so than myself, but definitely it s been coming up a lot. We know that marriage is a symbol of Christ and the church, so those who are not married in the body are just as in need of the advice as those who are married, because we are all married to Christ and married to one another in the spirit. So we have to learn how to operate properly as a body of Christ in the spirit. We are going to go through Corinthians 13: 1-7. We are not going to get to all the verses tonight. We ll do about half of them and the rest will turn into Part Two.

3 1Co 13:1 (NKJV) Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love , I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 1Co 13:2 (NKJV) 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. 1Co 13:3 (NKJV) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love , it profits me nothing. 1Co 13:4 (NKJV) love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 1Co 13:5 (NKJV) does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 1Co 13:6 (NKJV) does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 1Co 13:7 (NKJV) bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

4 He said a lot right there! Basically, all of the scriptures, as we go through the different stories, bear out this process. As we live out our lives as God has written, we re going to live through every single one of these things. We re first going to not do it; we re going to do the opposite of what it says, and others are going to do the opposite to us. As you go through that process, you start to learn the incredible value of the love of God operating in you, and then He changes you to do it His way. As we are going through this, the thought that s been on my mind often is no one can be anywhere other than where they are today. So, where you are today is exactly the day that God wrote in the book for today. It can t be different, it can t be faster, it can t be slower; it is where it is. So the first step in love in being obedient to God is to understand He has worked everything to be as it should be in this exact circumstance, to learn the things we have to learn.

5 When you are in that state of complaining against God, or railing against Him, blaming other people for what they are doing, you can t act in love because you re caught in the flesh, and you are just blaming, complaining and whining. But once we step back and say, Okay, the Lord has worked all of this. What is the proper biblical response to this circumstance? How should I be? And when that is in our mind, we can start to keep these commands, and things start to go a lot better, which the Lord those things. The first one is: love suffers long. It s the same word as patient. But patience is suffering for a long time. It s going through suffering properly. Suffers Long (patient) 2Pe 3:9 (NKJV) The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering (patient) toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

6 We should think like God as we deal with others in our life, whether we re married, single, whether we work or whatever our circumstance. We want others to come to repentance. That s our first and foremost goal. We don t want them to suffer just to suffer. We don t want to torment them or get revenge on them. We should want to say, Look, I m going to bear with you, so that in due time you can repent. That s a really important mindset, because the carnal mind doesn t think that way. It doesn t want to forgive, it doesn t want to let go; it wants vengeance. It s bad how the carnal mind operates. Act 9:15 (NKJV) But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine (speaking of Paul) to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. Act 9:16 (NKJV) For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name's sake.

7 " As we live by every word, this is the prophecy to us. The Lord will show us how many things we must suffer for his name. You suffer within your own self, and you also suffer for others. So don t be surprised when the Lord sends you people to love that are unlovable, difficult and a pain in your side. Look at what Christ dealt with. He lived his entire life with unconverted people. Not one of them understood everything anything! They didn t know who he was hardly, until after the spirit came and they were changed. Then they started to see it. So, just like Christ, until the spirit comes we are going to walk among a carnal people, and they are not going to treat us right. If we have the spirit of God, and we know better, then we have the higher calling to bear up with them, to be longsuffering until Christ be formed in them, which is exactly what Paul did to all those he ministered to.

8 Eph 4:1 (NKJV) I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, Eph 4:2 (NKJV) with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love , (Why do we have to bear with one another? Because we are difficult! We re a pain!) Eph 4:3 (NKJV) endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. He has to say this because the carnal mind is enmity against God. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom. It will fight against God. It does not like him. It will persecute his prophets. It will give you a hard time. So, expect that; don t be surprised when it comes. And it is coming so that we can learn to be lowly, to be gentle, and to be long suffering. Just as a parent raises their children, so we have to raise one another.

9 Kind Luk 6:35 (NKJV) But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; (And when he says lend, he doesn t mean just money. He means everything. Lend your time. Lend your affection. Lend your encouragement. And don t expect anything back because you are not going to get it for a while. Fruit trees take anywhere from two to seven years to bear fruit. So, if you re expecting immediate results when you do good to people you will be sorely disappointed, because sometimes it takes a long time, but it s worth it.) and your reward will be great, (When you love your enemies and do good, not expecting anything.) and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind to the unthankful and evil. We like to be kind to the thankful and the good, but He says, No, no, even the gentiles do that. Be kind to those who don t thank you.

10 Be kind to those who mistreat you, don t appreciate you, and who don t understand how much you care for them. Those are the ones you really need to be kind to. Luk 6:36 (NKJV) Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. Don t expect people to change right away. Give them space to repent. Give them a little bit of truth, and leave them alone. Recognize how hard it is to overcome the things they are dealing with. I found that one of the roots of not being merciful is not understanding that that person can t be anywhere other than where they are. God has made it so they are trapped there. When you think about that you go, Wow, I could be in the exact same position. Let me help them out of that. Sometimes it s being patient and kind. Sometimes it is a sharp rebuke, but don t go there quickly.


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