Love Is Kind

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Love Is Kind

• I Corinthians 13 4a
• Charity suffereth long, and is kind

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• Matthew 514-16 (KJV)
• 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is
  set on an hill cannot be hid.
• 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it
  under a bushel, but on a candlestick and it
  giveth light unto all that are in the house.
• 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they
  may see your good works, and glorify your Father
  which is in heaven.

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• Other Translations
• Love cares more for others than for self. (the
  Message)
• All the other translations use the same word,
  kind
• Definition of Kindness
• The quality of being friendly, generous, and
  considerate
• Kindness is patience in action
• Patience and kindness usually go together

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• Love affects to be kind
• Galatians 5 22-23
• But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
  longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Meekness, temperance against such there is no
  law.
• Goodness
• Kind to whom?
• Christian friends
• Ephesians 432 And be ye kind one to another,
  tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God
  for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

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• Enemies
• Luke 635 But love ye your enemies, and do good,
  and lend, hoping for nothing again and your
  reward shall be great, and ye shall be the
  children of the Highest for he is kind unto the
  unthankful and to the evil.
• Strangers
• Leviticus 1934 But the stranger that dwelleth
  with you shall be unto you as one born among you,
  and thou shalt love him as thyself for ye were
  strangers in the land of Egypt I am the Lord
  your God.

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• Why should we be kind?
• Proverbs 1117
• The merciful man doeth good to his own soul but
  he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh. (KJV)
• A man who is kind benefits himself,  but a cruel
  man hurts himself. (ESV)
• The man who shows loving-kindness does himself
  good, but the man without pity hurts himself.
  (NLV)
• Proverbs 1917
• He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the
  Lord and that which he hath given will he pay
  him again. (KJV)

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• Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,
• and he will reward them for what they have done.
  (NIV)
• Micah 68
• He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good and
  what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do
  justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly
  with thy God? (KJV)
• O man, He has told you what is good. What does
  the Lord ask of you but to do what is fair and to
  love kindness, and to walk without pride with
  your God? (NLV)
• Example of the Good Samaritan
• Luke 1025-37

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• 27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the
  Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
  soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy
  mind and thy neighbour as thyself.
• 29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto
  Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
• 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed,
  came where he was and when he saw him, he had
  compassion on him,

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• Example of Ruth
• Repayment of Kindness

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• Havent we been kind lately?
• Remember love is kind