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- Paul’s motive for living and for serving was a great love for Jesus. Jesus was Paul’s passion and First Love. Paul was also filled with the Holy Spirit and the love of Christ. Jesus’ love filled and controlled Paul in all areas of his life.
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Oct 25, 2018 · Scripture clarifies that God specifically chose Paul, before he was born, to proclaim the Gospel, mainly, but not exclusively, to the gentiles (Galatians 1:15-16). When you study the Book of Acts...
- Love Is Countercultural
- Love Is Not Soft
- Love Is Christ-Like
- The Love of God Poured Out by The Holy Spirit
- Imitating Christ’s Love
- Love and The Law
Paul’s description of the action and behavior produced by love is distinctly countercultural. It speaks against the envy, pride, and self-centeredness of the Corinthian Christians, and in doing so speaks clearly to our own generation as well. In a society where so much is presented in terms of “self”—self-awareness, self-esteem, self-acceptance, se...
Many see love as little more than an attitude of “niceness” to everyone. This means that any dispute, any strong speaking over important matters, and any firm spiritual discipling or disciplining of another is to be regarded as unloving. In some churches this has even led to a watered-down Christian faith being preached with little emphasis on holi...
Love is a way of being as a person, a way of thinking, acting, and living. It is, in fact, being Christ-like. Paul, the author of this letter to the Corinthians, has shown us what this looks like in his own life in chapter 9. For example, he tells them: Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as...
In 1 Corinthians 8:3, Paul tells us that God is the object of love. Since Paul rarely talks of love for God, this first deserves comment. As Barrett writes, “It is more characteristic of Paul to describe man’s response to God as faith rather than love.” Love for God was seen to rest in God’s prior work through his Spirit. Paul’s understanding of th...
A further explanation of why love comes to function as the marker par excellenceof the true believer lies in the imitation of Christ. Christ stands as the supreme example of love through the whole of his life, but specially in his death. In 1 Corinthians 1 the death of Christ was at the center of Paul’s understanding of God’s wisdom (his plan) to s...
A third explanation of why love comes to authenticate people of true Christian faith is surely to be found in the way the law is now understood to be written on the hearts of all Christians. Love, focused in two directions, was to be a defining marker of all God’s people since the days of the Mosaic law. The first direction, repeatedly stressed, is...
Jan 7, 2020 · Paul Was Driven & Compelled By The Love of Jesus. Paul’s motive for living and for serving was a great love for Jesus. Jesus was Paul’s passion and First Love. Paul was also filled with the Holy Spirit and the love of Christ. Jesus’ love filled and controlled Paul in all areas of his life.
Oct 18, 2016 · I originally thought of 32 reasons why I love Paul, but it would take a book to unfold all of them, so here are five of the most significant reasons, in some detail. 1. A massive change came into Paul’s life through his experience on the Damascus road, and turned him from being a killer of Christians into being a lover of Christ and his people.
Jun 14, 2013 · At the end of his life, he understood the grace, the power of God’s mercy and love. Look at verse 14 again, “The grace of our lord was poured out on me abundantly along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
Apr 10, 2018 · Paul was sold out to God and loved people enough not to pull any punches. He was tired of the religion thing because he had already done that in his old life as Saul, and it only led to legalism and a performance-based faith that felt impossible to fulfill.
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Aug 3, 2018 · Chosen by God to be a vessel to the Gentiles, Paul’s writing and preaching encouraged the early church and taught them how to live a God-centered life in a pagan-centered world.
