For Loves Sake

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For Loves Sake

• The Situation- Philemon and Onesimus
• Paul could have demanded
• Yet for loves sake or on the basis of love
• I appeal to you

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Servants Serve for Loves Sake

• We must understand what love is so we can serve
  properly
• Paul describes love in 1 Corinthians 13
• This morning let look careful at what Paul says.
• Love is more than

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Love Never Gives Up ("Patient") vs. 4a

• Patient to endure misfortunes with confidence
  and endurance.
• Patient to bear wrongs done to us not quick to
  retaliate when wronged.

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Love Cares More For Others Than For Self
("Kind") vs. 4b

• Kindness strives to make the other person happy.
• Kindness strives to assist others in need.

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Love Doesnt Want What It Doesnt Have
("Jealous") vs. 4c

• Jealousy leads to suspicion.
• Jealousy leads to fear.
• Jealousy leads to competition.

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Love Doesnt Show Out ("Boastful") vs. 4d

• Boasting flows from pride.
• Boasting flows from conceit

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Love Doesnt Have An Inflated Ego("Arrogant")
vs. 4e

• Arrogance inflates our ego.
• Arrogance blows our own whistle.
• Arrogance comes from pride.

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Love Doesnt Force Itself On Others ("Rude")vs.
5a

• Rude behavior comes like a storm.
• Rude behavior comes like a violent wind

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Love Isnt Always Me First("Selfish") vs. 5b

• Selfishness is demanding.
• Selfishness is thinking about me.
• Selfishness is seeking self-gratification.

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Love Doesnt Fly Off The Handle ("Provoked") vs.
5c

• Provocation seeks to irritate someone.
• Provocation seeks to anger someone.
• Provocation seeks to despise someone

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Love Doesnt Keep Score Of The Sins Of Other
("Take Into Account") vs. 5d

• Keeping Score places others in bondage.
• Keeping Score weighs others down.

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Love Takes No Delight In Sin ("Iniquity") vs. 6a

• There is weeping over sin.
• There is no pleasure in repeating sin.

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Love Longs For The Truth ("Truth") vs. 6b

• Truth seeks honesty.
• Truth seeks loyalty.
• Truth seeks fidelity.

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Love Seeks To Protect ("Bears all things") vs.
7a

• There is preservation.
• There is covering.
• There is concern.

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Love Is Faithful ("Believes") vs. 7b

• Believing leads to trusting.
• Trusting leads to confidence.
• Confidence leads to faith.

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Love Always Looks For The Best ("Hopes") vs. 7b

• Hope is Blessed
• (Titus 211-14) For the grace of God that brings
  salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us
  to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions,
  and to live self-controlled, upright and godly
  lives in this present age, while we wait for the
  blessed hope-- the glorious appearing of our
  great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave
  himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness
  and to purify for himself a people that are his
  very own, eager to do what is good.

• Hope is Living
• (1Pet. 13-4) Praise be to the God and Father of
  our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has
  given us new birth into a living hope through the
  resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and
  into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil
  or fade-- kept in heaven for you,

• Hope is Good
• (2Th. 216)- May our Lord Jesus Christ himself
  and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace
  gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,
  encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every
  good deed and word.

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Love Never Looks Back ("Endures") vs. 7c

• Endurance moves ahead.
• Endurance remains faithful.

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Love Keeps Going To The End ("Never Fails")vs.
8a

• Love never gives up.
• Love never loses its power.

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Servants Serve for Loves Sake

• So, no matter what I say,
• what I believe,
• and what I do,
• Im bankrupt without love!

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