Bang Bang – Part 1:Page 4

What We Are To Know…

1 Corinthians 13:11-12 (ESV) 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

  • It only becomes complete when we possess Love…

  • God cannot be seen until love is added to the formula.

  • Everything is incomplete until we put Love into play, because …

  • Without love no man can see God…

  • All that we do…It’s incomplete without Love.

  • All that we obey…It’s incomplete without Love.

  • All that we sacrifice…It’s incomplete without LOVE…

1 Corinthians 13:13 (ESV) 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 John 4:8-13 (NKJV) 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9  In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

  • Paul talked about a glass – We have never seen God face to face, but if we Love one another, we are looking at the attributes of God. God is seen by others through the love that we show.

  • How do they see Jesus? Through our love!  Please don’t get this wrong, but for our appearance tells them nothing except that we are Pentecostal….

  • What is our countenance telling them?

1 John 4:13-16 (NKJV) 13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

  •  This is not Charismatic Talk….This is Bible! Love is the ultimate Goal.

  • Can we grow this church…  Not without Love!

  • Can we have great ministries…  not without Love!