First Baptist Church of Hoquiam
Sunday Worship, July 6, 2025

      • Psalm 119ESV

  • Colossians 3:14 ESV
    14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

    What kind of love?

    Storge - Affection

    Parent to child

    Philia - Friendship

    People we choose to love

    Eros - Romantic

    Falling in love

    Agape - Unconditional

    Divine love

    The Agape-Love Chapter?

    1 Corinthians 13:1–13 ESV
    1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 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. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

    Without agape-love it’s worthless

    1 Corinthians 13:1–3 ESV
    1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

    Agape-love looks like this

    1 Corinthians 13:4–7 ESV
    4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

    Agape-love is the highest value

    1 Corinthians 13:8–13 ESV
    8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 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. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

    Applying Agape-Love

    Matthew 22:37–40 ESV
    37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

    God’s example - the Gospel

    Romans 5:8 ESV
    8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
    Ephesians 2:8–10 ESV
    8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
    1 John 1:9 ESV
    9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

    Where do you need to apply Agape-Love to your life?

      • Colossians 3:14ESV

      • 1 Corinthians 13:1–13ESV

      • 1 Corinthians 13:1–3ESV

      • 1 Corinthians 13:4–7ESV

      • 1 Corinthians 13:8–13ESV

      • Matthew 22:37–40ESV

      • Romans 5:8ESV

      • Ephesians 2:8–10ESV

      • 1 John 1:9ESV

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