BANKRUPT WITHOUT LOVE
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)
FEW UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE IN LUST AND LOVE. WE NEED TO MAKE PEACE WITH THE PAST. REAL LOVE PRAISES GOD AND OTHERS. IF WE ARE WORRIED ALL THE TIME, WE NEED TO KNOW PEACE COMES WITH UNDERSTANDING. LOVE NEVER FAILS. WHY LIVE IN A PANIC MODE? PRAISE WILL KILL PANIC. PANIC WILL KILL PRAISE.
THERE IS A TRUTH WE MUST PRACTICE. IF I DON’T LOVE OTHERS --- I AM NOTHING. I ONLY LOVE GOD AS MUCH AS I LOVE THE LEAST. I AM SPIRITUALUALY BANKRUPT.
Matthew 25:40 (MSG) Then the King will say, 'I'm telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.' 41 "Then he will turn to the 'goats,' the ones on his left, and say, 'Get out, worthless goats! You're good for nothing but the fires of hell. 42 And why? Because— I was hungry and you gave me no meal, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was homeless and you gave me no bed, I was shivering and you gave me no clothes, Sick and in prison, and you never visited.' 44 "Then those 'goats' are going to say, 'Master, what are you talking about? When did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or homeless or shivering or sick or in prison and didn't help?' 45 "He will answer them, 'I'm telling the solemn truth: Whenever you failed to do one of these things to someone who was being overlooked or ignored, that was me—you failed to do it to me.'
LOVE NEVER FAILS. TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO HAVE A GOOD DAY. How much love do you give? BECOME A WONDERFUL PERSON AND YOU WILL HAVE A WONDERFUL LIFE. Do you love hard to love people?
*LOVE: an intense feeling, deep affection, taking pleasure in something, great interest, to enjoy very much,
1 Corinthians 13:1 (MSG) If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2 If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love. 4 Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head, 5 Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others, 6 Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
7 Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end. 8 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. 9 We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete.
10 But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled. 11 When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good. 12 We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! 13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1 (NLT2) If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless. 11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. 13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
FIRST CORINTHIANS 13 GIVES US A BIGGER PICTURE OF HOW LOVE SHOULD LOOK: .
1. LOVE GIVES: There is a tendency to give leftovers and exert little effort.
2. LOVE IS PATIENT: to tolerate delay, trouble and suffering without getting angry or upset, to not be annoyed.
3. LOVE IS KIND: friendly, generous, considerate, pleasant, helpful,
4. LOVE IS NOT JEALOUS: emotion of unsecure, suspicious, lack of trust.
5. LOVE DOES NOT BRAG: loud, self boast, me, myself, and I.
6. LOVE IS NOT RUDE: offensive, ill-mannered, abrupt, mean, indifferent.
7. LOVE DOES NOT DEMAND ITS WAY: does not consider others, lacking consideration.
8. LOVE DOES NOT REJOICE WITH INJUSTICE:
9. LOVE REJOICES WHEN TRUTH WINS:
10. LOVE IS NOT IRRITABLE: to be easily annoyed, easy to make mad.
11. LOVE KEEPS NO RECORDS OF PAST HURT: forgives quickly, lets go.
12 LOVE NEVER GIVES UP: never quit, keep trying, press forward.
13. LOVE NEVER LOSES FAITH:
14. LOVE GIVES HOPE: anticipation, trust, expectation.
15. LOVE ENDURES: remind firm under suffering.
16. LOVE IS NOT ENVIOUS: GIVE ME, GIVE ME.
17. LOVE IS NOT ME FIRST: LOVE PREFERS OTHERS:
18. LOVE DOES NOT GET A BIG HEAD:
19. LOVE TRUST GOD AND HIS PLAN:
20. LOVE LOOKS FOR THE BEST IN PEOPLE.:
21. LOVE NEVER LOOKS BACK: LOVE DREAMS FOR BETTER.
22. LOVE LASTS FOREVER: LOVE NEVER DIES.
23. LOVE IS UNDERSTANDING: sympathic, aware of others feelings, insight, perception.
LOVE NEVER FAILS. TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO HAVE A GOOD DAY.
BECOME A WONDERFUL PERSON AND YOU WILL HAVE A WONDERFUL LIFE.
*LOVE: an intense feeling, deep affection, taking pleasure in something, great interest, to enjoy very much,
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
LOVE? WHAT IS LOVE?
In English we use the term love for many different areas. I love ice cream. I love that car. I love French fries? I love my dog. I love my teacher. I love my son. I love my wife. Each of there these types of love mean something different.
*THERE ARE 3 TERMS USED FOR LOVE:
*EROS: SENSUAL, 5 senses, eye pleasing, sexual attraction, PASSION,
*PHILEO, brotherly, LOVE BETWEEN FRIENDS, warm, sincere,
*AGAPE: highest form of love, goodwill, God love, everlasting, seeks the best for others, selfless, prefer others, Christian love, giving, sacrificial,
AGAPE: LOVE IS PATIENT, KIND, NO ENVY, HONORS OTHERS, NOT PROUD—HUMBLE, NOT EASY ANGERED, NOT SELF SEEKING, DOES NOT REMEMBER WRONGS, NO JOY IN EVIL, REJOICES IN TRUTH, LOVE PROTECTS, LOVE TRUSTS, LOVE HAS HOPE, LOVE PERSERVES, LOVE NEVER FAILS.
John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all your things be done with charity.
His servant, Wade M. Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)
