Without love behind our actions we are just an irritating noise…this is eerily the atmosphere in the United States today. We call each other to hatred under the guise of Conservative Christians.
Hate is not from God but from the Evil One.
The church at Corinth was a seriously troubled church. Infected with sexual immorality, split by factions that dragged each other into court, and crippled by abuse of the spiritual gifts, this church was in need of radical spiritual surgery. Though true believers, the Corinthians had a lot of growing up to do. They had to stop following the immoral, selfish, and contentious ways of their pagan neighbors in Corinth, the notoriously immoral city of that day. One can sense the disappointment of a hurt father in Paul’s stern words for the Corinthians. Yet Paul, like a surgeon, diagnosed the problem and aimed his efforts straight at the source: pride and a lack of true love in the church.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14
Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done with love.
8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”
1 Peter 4:8
3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:3
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