Homerton Baptist Church
Morning Service (260111)

      • 1 Corinthians 13:8–13ESV

  • Hymn 159 - HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY

      • Psalm 78:67–69ESV

  • Hymn 972 - The Lion of Judah is Jesus, the lamb

      • 3 John 1–15ESV

      • John 6:22–59ESV

      • Ruth 1:6–18ESV

  • Hymn 959 - For ever with the Lord

      • 1 Corinthians 13:8–13ESV

      • Ephesians 1:3–14ESV

      • 1 Corinthians 13:8–13ESV

  • 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.
    Introduction
    As we continue in applying the words of Jesus in John 4:24 “24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”” we can learn much from the errors in the church of Corinth. One of the major problems was the way in which they worshipped. We find the same problem in many professing churches today. Our responsibility is to worship in a God honouring and glorifying way.
    Today I want to consider broad principles and then return to more detail in future sessions.
    It is important to remember that this letter to the Corinthians was written 55AD, the third of Paul’s 12 or 13, if you include Hebrews, letters. Paul was converted in 34AD
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    1. Continuing and Not Continuing v8

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    1 Corinthians 13:8 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.

    a. Continuing

    1 Corinthians 13:8 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.
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    As God’s Word never “falls to the ground,” so his love never fails. Love is eternal because it is one of God’s attributes . It emanates from God to all his people throughout time and eternity. While everything else in God’s creation comes to an end, love continues to be an active and lasting influence. Kistemaker, S. J.,
    1 John 4:16 ESV
    16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
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    b. Not Continuing v8

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    1 Corinthians 13:8 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.

    i. Prophecies

    1 Corinthians 13:8 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.
    A revelatory gift. Does not just mean predictive but the authoritative exposition and proclamation of God’s Word. In other words preaching!
    But if there are prophecies, they shall be set aside.” Whereas love is timeless, predictive prophecies are temporal. Love remains active, but prophecies have only partial significance; Kistemaker, S. J.,

    ii. Tongues

    1 Corinthians 13:8 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.
    A revelatory gift.

    iii. Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 13:8 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.
    1 Corinthians: Crossway Classic Commentaries “The Greatest of These …” (Verses 1–13)

    It is not knowledge in the comprehensive sense of the term that is to cease, but knowledge as a gift, as one of the list of extraordinary endowments mentioned in

    1 Corinthians 12:8 ESV
    8 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
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    2. The Partial and the Perfect v9-10

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    1 Corinthians 13:9–10 ESV
    9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

    a. The Partial v9

    1 Corinthians 13:9 ESV
    9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
    This applies to the period of inscripturation the last book, Revelation written in 96AD.

    b. The Perfect v10

    1 Corinthians 13:10 ESV
    10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
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    Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966 The Holy Scriptures

    By the Scriptures, or Bible, we mean only the sixty­six books of the Old and New Testaments. The books known as the Apocrypha, not being inspired, form no part of the Scriptures. In the absence of the original manuscripts, God has divinely preserved his work in many faithful copies. Careful translations are to be made that all men might personally read God’s Word in their own language.

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    Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966 The Holy Scriptures

    The Scriptures have their origin in God himself; they are God­breathed, given by inspiration of God. This inspiration extends to all the books in their totality, down to the very words used, and is not limited in any way whatever either by man’s understanding or response. The Scriptures do not therefore merely contain God’s Word, they are God’s Word.

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    3. Immature and Mature v11

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    1 Corinthians 13:11 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.

    a. Immature

    1 Corinthians 13:11 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.

    b. Mature

    1 Corinthians 13:11 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.
    1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV
    20 Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
    Ephesians 1:16–18 ESV
    16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
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    4. Seeing Face to Face v12

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    1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV
    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.
    Paul is now looking to eternity and our assurance of truly seeing Christ face to face.

    a. Indistinct Reflection

    1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV
    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.
    Greek mirror polished metal not a clear image.

    b. Face to Face

    1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV
    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.

    c. Partial Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV
    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.

    d. Full Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV
    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.
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    1 John 3:2 ESV
    2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
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    2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV
    18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
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    John 17:24 ESV
    24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
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    5. Love is Greatest v13

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    1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV
    13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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    1 Corinthians c. Permanence and Perfection of Love (13:8–13)

    But in the light of Paul’s discourse, he differentiates the triad of faith, hope, and love from the gifts of prophecy, tongues, and knowledge. These gifts are set aside and cease, but the three virtues remain.

    a. Faith

    1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV
    13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
    Hebrews 11:1 ESV
    1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
    1 Corinthians c. Permanence and Perfection of Love (13:8–13)

    Saving faith in Jesus Christ comes to an end, but another aspect of faith, namely, trust in him, remains forever; similarly, hope in Jesus Christ is timeless (see 15:19). Faith and hope are intimately linked, so that where there is faith there is hope.

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    Hebrews 12:1–2 ESV
    1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

    b. Hope

    1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV
    13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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    Hebrews 6:19–20 ESV
    19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, 20 where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

    c. Love

    1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV
    13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
    1 Corinthians c. Permanence and Perfection of Love (13:8–13)

    Paul singles out love but sees no need to explain the attributes of the other two virtues. For him, love is basic because of God’s eternal love for his Son and through him for his people (

    Ephesians 1:5 ESV
    5 [in love]he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
    John 3:16 ESV
    16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
    1 John 4:7–8 ESV
    7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
    1 John 4:16 ESV
    16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
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    1 Corinthians c. Permanence and Perfection of Love (13:8–13)

    In time and eternity the concept love remains foundational in divine-human relationships.

    Conclusion
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    Ephesians 1:13–14 ESV
    13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

      • 1 Corinthians 13:8ESV

      • 1 Corinthians 13:8ESV

      • 1 Corinthians 13:9–10ESV

      • 1 Corinthians 13:11ESV

      • 1 Corinthians 13:12ESV

      • 1 John 3:2ESV

      • 2 Corinthians 3:18ESV

      • John 17:24ESV

      • 1 Corinthians 13:13ESV

      • Hebrews 12:1–2ESV

      • Hebrews 6:19–20ESV

      • 1 Corinthians 13:13ESV

      • Ephesians 1:13–14ESV

  • Hymn 909 - THE SANDS OF TIME ARE SINKING
  • Doxology 223 v6

      • 2 Peter 3:18ESV

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