True Christians Must Walk In Love That Never Fails

Paul, talking to believers, tells us that the gifts of the Holy Spirit will be done away with when Christ makes everything right. They will then be unnecessary. Faith, hope and love remain, but the greatest of these is love. Are we growing in love? I was talking to the Father yesterday and was concerned about this. As a result of the great wickedness that is going on, it is so easy to become callus as we hear over and over about the evil things that are going on.

We must judge ourselves. Are we drifting away from walking in love? If we are, we are walking away from Jesus, who is Love. True love only has one source, Jesus the Messiah who gave himself over to his Father to receive the wrath of God for our sins. Because Jesus was God he survived it. There is nothing Jesus could have done to show his love for mankind than to take the wrath of God that is due each of us. He paid the price for sin. We could not. If we reject that, there is no hope for us as that leaves us under the wrath of God, unprotected by the blood of his Son.

We must trust Jesus, say no to the things we want, turn from our sin and follow him continually. Matthew 16:24 ISV. Do not give up brothers and sisters. It will be worth it all when we see Jesus' face!!

1 Corinthians 12 ISV
27Now you are the Messiah’sg body and individual parts of it. 28God has appointed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those who perform miracles, those who have gifts of healing, those who help others, administrators, and those who speakh various kinds of languages. 

• 29Not all are apostles, are they? 
• Not all are prophets, are they? 
• Not all are teachers, are they? 
• Not all perform miracles, do they? 
• 30Not all have the gift of healing, do they? 
• Not all speak in foreigni languages, do they? 
• Not all interpret, do they? 

31Keep on desiringj the better gifts. And now I will show you the best way of all.

Continuing into 1 Corinthians 13 ISV

1If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal. 

2If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing. 

3Even if I give away everything that I have and sacrifice myself,a but have no love, I gain nothing.

4Love is always patient;

love is always kind;

love is never envious

or arrogant with pride.

Nor is she conceited,

5and she is never rude;

she never thinks just of herself

or ever gets annoyed.

She never is resentful;

6is never glad with sin;

she’s always glad to side with truth,

and pleased that truth will win.b

7She bears up under everything;

believes the best in all;

there is no limit to her hope,

and never will she fall.

8Love never fails. Now if there are prophecies, they will be done away with. If there are languages, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9For what we know is incomplete and what we prophesy is incomplete. 10But when what is completec comes, then what is incomplete will be done away with.

11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways. 12Now we see only an indistinct image in a mirror, but then we will be face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.