The Greatest of These

Apostle Paul has talked about
the great gifts of the Holy Spirit. If you'll read verses 8 through
11, you'll find some account of these. He says in 1 Corinthians
12, 8, to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to
another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit, to another
faith by the same Spirit, to another the gifts of healing
by the same spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another
prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another divers
kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
But all these worketh that one and selfsame spirit, dividing
to every man severally as he will. And then in the closing
verses of chapter 12, if you'll go down there a moment, in verse
28 he said, And God has set some in the church, first apostles,
secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles,
then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. And he asked these questions,
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers?
Are all workers of miracles? Do all have the gifts of healing?
Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But covet,
covet these gifts. No problem there. Covet any gift
or any God-given talent that can be used for the glory of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Covet anything that God can give
you, that God will give you, knowledge, faith, gift of healing,
gift of prophecy, whatever it might be, covet these best gifts. But then he adds, and I want
you to note this carefully, I'll show you something better. I'll
show you something better. We're exposed today to a lot
of clamor about speaking in tongues and the gifts of the Spirit,
and it's dividing congregations and denominations and families
and friends, and people are wanting to speak in tongues, and the
gift of prophecy and knowledge and healing and all these things.
Paul lists these gifts that were given to the early apostles as
credentials for their ministry, and then he says, and this is
something very important here, he says, yet I show you something
better. They give me the impression today,
these people that are pursuing these things, that there's nothing
better. This is, if you can be baptized
with the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues, that's utopia. You
have it. You're at the top of the ladder.
You're where nobody else could possibly exceed you or go above
you. But yet Paul says, I'll show
you something better than knowledge. Do you covet knowledge? Do you
covet the gift of prophecy? Do you covet the gift of healing?
Just think what it would be like to be able, like Paul or Peter,
James or John, to say, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, rise
up and walk. Do you covet that gift? Paul
said, I'll show you something better than that, better than
the gift of healing, better than the gift of prophecy, better
than the gift of tongues, better than wisdom. And this may shock
you a little bit, but he said, I'll show you something better
than the gift of faith. Now, note this, that's the first
thing by way of introduction. He says, I'll show you a more
excellent way. Now, he lists all these gifts
and deals with them, and then he says, I'll show you something
better, show you something more important, I'll show you something
more excellent. And now note this, if you will,
these gifts were distributed among godly men. One had one
gift, one had another gift. You note that back over in verse
8. to one is given the word of wisdom, to another the word of
knowledge, to another faith, to another the gifts of healing,
to another the workings. He divided this severally as
he would among the disciples, among the apostles, among the
early believers. One had one gift and one had another. But
now what he's going to talk about in chapter 13 belongs to all
of us without exception, to all of us. This thing of love, because
the Lord said, listen to this verse of scripture over here
in 1 John, I'll just read it to you, you won't have to turn.
Everyone that is born of God and knoweth God, beloved, let
us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone that
loveth is born of God. And everyone that's born of God
loves it. So this gift and this grace is given to every believer. This is something every believer
can have. Then thirdly, these gifts, look at chapter 13 a minute,
these gifts were of temporary use. That's right, they were
all temporary. He says in verse 8, just as clear
as a bell, love never fails. Whether they be prophecies, they
shall fail. So the man with the gift of prophecy
has a gift that shall fail. And the man with the gift of
tongues has a gift that will cease. And whether they be knowledge
My friend, we know so little. We know down here in verse 9,
he said, we just know in part. We just know a little bit. We
prophesy in part. So all of these gifts were of
temporary use. Their value was limited to their
realm and to their day and to their moment. But this grace
of love never faded away. It's never superseded. It's always
the same. It's always invaluable. There
is no particular realm for love. Christ is love. God is love. All right, watch this. However
poor I may be in these gifts, I may not have any of them. Not
any of them. However poor I may be in these
gifts, I can be rich in the love of God. I can be rich in the
greatest gift, because it's intended for every believer. every believer. And then suppose, he goes on
in chapter 13 here, talking about these gifts, verse 1, he says,
suppose I have the gift of tongues. In fact, I speak with the tongues
of men and even of angels. Suppose I had that gift and suppose
I could speak with tongues like angels even, and have not love
and have not this grace that I'm talking about, he said. Why,
he said, I'm nothing but a noisy gong and a clanging cymbal. That's
all my tongues amount to. If I don't have the grace of
love, I'm nothing but a noisy gong that does nothing but make
men's ears unpleasant, sound unpleasant, and makes their brains
rattle and their heads ache. I'm nothing but a clanging cymbal,
unpleasant sound. And verse 2, he says, suppose
I have the gift of prophecy. I can tell you what's going to
be. And I understand the mysteries of the scarlet lady in Revelation
and the riderless horse and all of the plagues and the four different
angels and all of these things. Suppose I have all that knowledge,
and though I have faith so that I could move mountains and have
not love, I'm a useless nobody. That's how important it is. You
talk about showing you something better, the greatest of these,
a more excellent way, and yet who's seeking it? Who's seeking
this gift? You've got folks begging for
the gift of tongues and the gift of healing, the gift of faith
and the gift of prophecy and the gift of knowledge and intellect
and prophecy and all these things, but who do you know of your acquaintance
is coveting this greatest gift of God and making it his aim. He says, verse 3, just suppose
I bestow my goods to feed the poor, looking for some recognition
like Ananias and Sapphira. Suppose I become a martyr, give
my body to be burned at the stake for what I believe, my doctrine,
I will not bend, I will not recant. I stand, like Martin Luther,
here I stand, I can do no other. Well, if I have not love, he
said, it won't profit me anything, I gain nothing by it. That's
how important it is. I'll show you something better.
Paul the Apostle talks about all of these gifts that men debate,
argue about, are they for our day, etc., etc. And Paul comes
down and says, I'll show you something much better, much better. Now, you can speak with the tongues
of men and of angels. If you don't have this, you're
a sounding gong, a clanging gong, and a cymbal. And you can have
your gift of prophecy and knowledge and intellect and all of these
things, even faith. And if you don't have love, you're
a useless nobody. And you can give your body to
be burned as a martyr and bestow your goods to feed the poor and
to send missionaries to the foreign field. And if you don't have
love, you won't gain one thing by it. When it comes down to it, I noted
this very carefully, when it comes down to it, actually, Bruce
and I were talking in a study a moment ago about all these
papers and and all these deep, mysterious articles we're exposed
to all the time in these magazines and papers. And I'm getting just
a little bit tired of it, and I think most of you are. We don't
know much, and we have no cause to be proud or to be lifted up.
Listen to verse 9. He says, We preach or prophesy in part. Verse 12, he says, what we see
is only dimly seen. What we know is only in part.
What we preach is only in part. You know, I think sometimes if
all this so-called knowledge that we have accumulated through
the 20 or 30 or 40 years, and we were to spill it out in the
presence of the angels or the redeemed in glory, they'd smile
at us and snicker like we do at little children. We don't
know anything. I'm just sure of that. In fact,
Paul, the foremost man of the church, he compared it this way. He said in verse 11, when I was
a child, I talked like a child, and when I became a man, I put
away childish things. I talked like a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, mature,
I put away these childish things. And this is what's going to happen.
We're down here on the earth, and we are so limited by these
sin-bound minds and these finite minds, and we study the Bible
and study all of our textbooks and commentaries and all of the
different pros and cons and positions and theories, and we do all this
studying. And when we come to the place
where we've just about got it all pigeonholed and put in the
right locker, you know, and in the right place, and then we
We're taking the glory, and it's going to be just like this man
that was a child. He looks back on that and says,
well, I was awful dumb. I didn't know anything. I didn't
know anything. I thought I knew something, but
I didn't know anything. I knew in part. I prophesied
in part. I looked through a glass dimly.
It's just like a child, a person coming from infancy to manhood,
and looks back on the silly, foolish, childish things he believed
and he held to and he advocated, and he becomes a man, and it's
just so silly and so stupid. And I really think there are
things about the gospel and God's righteousness and God's justification
and substitution and these things that are foundations, but we
know so little even about that. We know so little that I don't
see any point for any of us raising too much issues. But he said,
and finally when it's all, verse 13, look at this, and now, abideth,
I do know these three things abideth. I don't know about your
prophecies and tongues and knowledge and all these things, but I do
know faith, hope, and love are by it. Faith in Christ, hope
in Christ, and the love of Christ, those things are by it. When
it's all said and done, and when it's over, and when we grow from
infancy to manhood, when we grow from infancy to maturity, when
we grow from this state of bound by the flesh till freedom of
the spirit, when we grow from this state of looking through
a glass, foggy and smoky and dimly, and we see face to face
what three things are going to abide—faith, hope, and love. Out of all the ruins and the
rubble and out of all of this infancy, we come up face-to-face
with the living God and these three things abide, faith, hope
and love. But boy, I'll tell you, you talk about a prominent
place, he gives love, he said, and the greatest of these. You
see where we're going? It's love. The greatest of these. So our apostle, writing under
the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, God-breathed, is talking about
these gifts in the early church. He names them—healing and faith
and tongues and interpretations and discernment and prophecies.
And he says, but I'm going to show you something better. Now,
you covet the gifts. If God can use you in a particular
situation or place for his glory, okay, you covet that gift. But
I'm going to show you something better, and that's love. And
he said, you might speak in tongues and so forth, but if you have
not love, you're not anything. This is how important love is.
If you don't have it, you don't have anything regardless of what
you have. And then he comes down here and he says, we just know
in part and prophesy in part. We're just babies struggling
on crawling, trying to walk. We don't know anything much.
One of these days, right now, we're looking through a glass.
We see men as trees walking. We're looking through a glass
dimly, being face to face. But I know one thing, he said,
faith, hope, and love abide. And I know the greatest of these
is love. And then he starts out chapter
14 and he says, follow after love. Make love your aim. Make it your aim. Forget tongues. Prophecy, knowledge, martyrdom. great victories and ask God to
give you the love, shed above the love of God in your heart.
I have four points that I want to enlarge upon in this message
briefly. And if you want to jot these
down, I think it might be worthwhile to later on look at them. And
the first one is love's definition. What are we talking about? Love. I'll show you something better.
I'll show you something better. Love. Make love your aim. We're not talking about romantic
love. They've got a little old cartoon
in the paper, on the funny page. That's the order in which you
ought to read your paper. Read the sports and the funny paper,
and then if you've got time, read the front page. But on the
funny paper, there's a little thing, love is. And it's got
all these different things, these two little figures, you know,
love is. But this love we're talking about here, this better
way, this excellent way, this most important way, this greatest
way, We're not talking about romantic love. We're not talking
about infatuations. We're not talking about self-love.
We're not talking about fleshly attraction. We're not talking
about that at all. In fact, turn to Luke 6, and
our Lord discounts that in Luke 6. He says here in Luke 6, 32
and 35, and Barnard said one time, he said, Now when you start
defining repentance or faith or love, you're in trouble, well,
I'm already in trouble, but I'm going to give you a scriptural
definition of love, but Christ said here in Luke 6, verse 32,
"...if you love them which love you, what thank hath ye? Sinners also love those that
love them." So we're not talking about that kind of love. No,
we're not talking about that. What are we talking about? We're
talking about spiritual love. We're talking about that spiritual
love that grace has begotten, which the Holy Spirit, Romans
5, 5, has shed abroad in the heart of a believer. All right?
There are 11, I'll scare you to death, there are 11 marks
of love. You know how long it takes me to cover 11 points.
But I'm going to be brief, so let's look at them. 1 Corinthians
13, verse 4, there are 11 marks of love. First of all, in verse
4 it says, "...love suffereth long." That is, it endures. Love endures. The grace of love
is not a temporary experience. It's not a temporary feeling,
it's a permanent thing. It endures. Our love for God
and our love for men is an enduring love. This spiritual love is
an enduring love. It doesn't diminish, it grows.
You see, it endures. And it says love is kind. It's patient and it's kind. It
suffers long and it's kind. It endures and it's kind. Love
is not only patient under the trials of God, but it's patient
under the trials of men. What does the word kind mean?
It means gentle and courteous. So love is gentle, love is indoors,
it is patient, it is kind, that is, it's gentle and courteous. Thirdly, verse 4, love envieth
not. Love is not envious, that's not
love. Where you have jealousy and envy,
it's not love, it's selfishness. He who has the love of Christ
in him is not envious, he's not jealous of the happiness of another,
or the prosperity of another, or the blessings of God upon
another, but he rejoices in those blessings if he really loves
that person. And I'll show you an illustration of this. Now,
nearly all of us here have children, we have grandchildren. And how
we rejoice when something good happens to our children. or our
grandchildren, if our child came into great honor or great possessions
or great fame or good health or prosperity or anything, it
just thrills us. We're not envious of that child.
We're not jealous of that child's prosperity and blessings, because
we have some kind of love. Well, now, if we have real God-given
love, we'll have that same exercise of emotion towards other people. You see what I'm saying? Towards
other people. You love them that love you. Christ said there's
nothing to that. You love your family circle and
your friends and your close love. That ain't love, Christ said.
That's self-love. But now, love is not envious
and it's not jealous. Verse 4, look again, "...and
it vaulteth not itself." It's not puffed up. That is, love
is not boastful and proud. Love is not proud of what he
has, what he does, or what he knows. No, sir. Because he knows
that what he has and what he does and what he knows is the
gift of God. And it can be removed just as
easily as it was given. Who maketh thee to differ? So
real love is not boastful and proud. And then in the fifth
place, verse 5, and love does not behave itself unseemly, I
think the best Best translation of that is, love is not rude. Rude. A rude, discourteous person
is not lovable, nor is he one who loves. Love is not rude and
discourteous. All right? Sixthly, in verse
5, love seeketh not her own. That is, does not insist on his
own rights. A person that truly loves is
not one who insists on his own rights. This is the scriptural
way. First of all, real love seeks
the glory of God. A real love for Christ and real
love for people seeks the glory of God first because anything
that's for His glory is for our good. And secondly, real love
will seek first the glory of God and secondly the happiness
of other people. And then thirdly, his own rights. But love seeketh not her own
rights at the expense of someone else's comfort, happiness, joy,
or blessing, even if those rights are lawful. That's right, even if those rights
are lawful. I know what's, I want what's
coming to me. Whoever it hurts, whoever is
harmed, then you don't love. Love, seek it, not her own. Seek
it, God's glory and then the good of others. And then love
is not easily provoked. In other words, one interpretation
says love is not touchy. Are we touchy and fretful and
so easily provoked? Someone says you have to handle
him with the utmost care or you'll hurt his feelings. This is not
love when everybody has to tread softly to keep them hurting our
feelings, tread softly to keep them offending us, tread softly
to keep them incurring our wrath. It's a wonder they don't just
write us off. If we really love, we're not easily provoked, we're
not touchy and fretful and easily offended, and thinketh no evil. You know what that means? It
means it doesn't imagine evil. Have you found yourself guilty
of this? I have. Perhaps you'll confess the same
thing. Suspicious. Suspicious. Reading between the
lines. Do you ever do that? Someone
says something and you go off and say, wasn't what he meant by
that? Hmm? One wonders if he's kind of getting
a little slice in there, you know, a little burner on that
or something. Love doesn't think that way. Not true love. Love
is not suspicious of others. Love doesn't doubt their faithfulness
and doubt their loyalty and doubt their integrity and doubt their
love, but just leaves it be. Thinketh no evil. In other words,
not suspicious. Not reading between the lines.
Not always trying to find something dark or foreboding, but just
looking at the light. All right, watch this now in
the next place. In verse 6 it says, "...rejoice not in iniquity,
but rejoice in the truth." This is a sad commentary on our nature. Tell me, which would make the
rounds the fastest? A bad report on Ed Ballard or
a good report? Which do you think would go around
the world fastest? You know, that's a sad commentary on our
nature. The fact that something bad can
go so fast and something good will die right there. It's a
sad commentary. It's an evil report. Someone
said travels so fast and a good report travels so slow. But you
know what true love, true love will cover the evil report and
promote the good. True love will. Let's use our
children again as an example. Suppose a member of your family
had a problem that was not commendable and was not just in the best
interest of all, of everybody. You reckon you'd be the first
one to tell it? If it's left to you, it'd never be told. It
would never be told. But now, you let that same member
of your family get a promotion down to office, and we get on
the phone. Did you know so-and-so got promoted?
Did you know so-and-so got promoted? We really broadcast. We love
that person. But now a stranger or maybe just
a casual friend or just a church member, they get a promotion
or a blessing or anything good that happens and we kind of let
it die, but boy, did you hear such and such? No. And we get
on the phone, we're going to get that news out, you know.
Love that rejoices not in iniquity, it covers it. It suppresses it. It hides it. and rejoices in
the truth. Watch verse 7. Here, Mr. Spurgeon said, are the four sides
of love. The four sides. Beareth, believeth,
hopeth, and doeth. All right, take our love to God,
beareth all trials sent our way by his mighty hand, believeth
all his word, his promises, his purpose, hopeth all in Christ,
his grace, his mercy, and endures to the end. That's the four sides
of love. You can't have love without all
four of those sides. It beareth all trials, it believeth
all the promises, it hopeth in Christ, and it endureth to the
end." All right, to others, love will bear disappointments. Love
will believe the best. Love will hope that all will
be good, and love will endure to the end. For he says here
in verse 8, love never fails. Love never fails. Now let me
tell you something, and I watch these cases of Marriage is ending
in divorce, and what people used to call love turns to hate and
vengeance. Now, what's even families and
this sort of thing where they hurt one another and they get
even? And I'm here to say this, and
I say it on the authority of this book. not on the authority
of what we think and suppose and so forth, it never was love. You can call it what you want
to, you can call it infatuation or affection or attraction, but
it wasn't love. Because he says here plain as
the nose on your face, love never fails. Never. You know what it
says? Let all men be liars and God
be truthful. It never was love. never was. Love like faith will persevere,
must persevere, because it's of God. Now, that doesn't mean
that I continue in a situation. The thing that I'm troubled about
is the hate and the vengeance and the hurt and the unkind words
and all of these things. That is not to be. We can even
bless those who persecute. We can pray for those who despise
us. That's what Christ said. I say
unto you, love your enemy. Bless them that curse you. Pray
for them which despitefully use you. Pray and bless them and
curse not and feed your enemies. That's God's Word and we can't
improve on that. And whether or not easy or hard or whatever it is,
it's still God's Word. It's just like I may not like
the particular atonement, but she's so whether I like it or
not. And it's the same thing of God's commandments and God's
laws and God's precepts. They're so whether I like it
or not. They're so whether I do it or not. They're so whether
I can complete it or not. It's still so. And let it be
true. We must not. We must make love
our aim. He said, I'll show you something
better than anything. I'll show you something better
than anything. You talk about your knowledge of the Scripture
and your knowledge of the doctrine and your prophecies and your
charitable enterprises and so forth. If you don't have love,
you don't have anything. You are useless and nobody, he
said. All right, well, secondly, quickly, and we'll wind up, love's
source. Now, where does this come from,
this love right here that he defined? Where does it come from?
But I borrowed a little something here from John Gill. The Holy
Spirit alone can teach and enable a person to love in this way. Love is received and learned
in no other school but at the feet of Christ. Love derives
its existence from Christ. Love derives its strength from
Christ. Love can bear and believe and
hope and endure because Christ has born, believed, hoped, and
endured all things for us. Now there's where it comes from.
That's where she is right there. Love makes us love. Love begets
love. That's where it's all about.
God is love. And if I want love, I've got
to suck that love out of Him. Got to get my nourishment from
Him. That's where it's got to come
from. I don't have any in here. I'm empty. I'm as empty as an
old rotten coconut. But if I can join my heart by
faith to his breast, I can derive from him that love that I need. That's where it comes from, Christ.
Love makes us love. It's love that bought us. It's
love that sought us. It's love that brought us. And
it's love that will constrain us to behave accordingly. When
our Lord say of that woman to whom much is forgiven, they love
much. Someone said this about Paul's
1 Corinthians 13. This man Paul had seen something
that others had not seen. This man Paul had heard a voice
that others had not heard. This man Paul had experienced
something that others had not experienced. I must have it. Isn't that beautiful? I must
have it. I'll tell you where you get it. From Christ. He's
the source of it. He's the spring. He's the strength
of it. He's the life of it. Love makes us love. All right,
let me quickly give you this. The marks of love. This is the
third thing. The marks of love. 1 John. Let's
look at 1 John a minute. If you'll take your Bible, and
I'll just give you the bare outline, and you can think about these
things later. In 1 John 4, 8, He that loveth not knoweth not
God. So he who loves knows God. That's the mark of love, to know
God. He who loveth not knoweth not
God. Then he who loves knows God.
Now that's second. Now look at verse 12. No man
hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells
in us. Okay, there's the mark of love.
If we love, God dwells in us. Thirdly, 1 John 4, 18, there's
no fear in love. Perfect love casteth out fear.
So love casteth out a slavish fear. Oh, we have reverence for
God and awe before God and the fear of sonship, but we have
confidence in him. Love brings confidence. If you
love someone, you're not trouble in their presence. You
don't have an uncertain feeling in their presence. And then love
is the spring of true obedience. 1 John 5 verse 2, By this we
know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep
his commandments. This is the love of God that
we keep his commandments. So love is the spring of true
obedience. Now last of all, Galatians 5. Galatians 5, verse 22. Galatians 5, 22. Here's the fourth
thing, and I quit. Love is the first fruit of the
fruit of the Spirit. In other words, in Galatians
5, 22, it says the fruit of the Spirit. Now these are all, as
we said once before, this is not plural, this is singular.
Where the Spirit of God is, there's love, joy, peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Well, what's
the first one he names? What's the first one? That's
pretty important, isn't it? What's the first one? The fruit
of the Spirit. But that which he named first
is love. Why? Because it's the greatest.
Because it fulfills the whole law. Christ said the whole law
is fulfilled in loving God and loving your neighbor as yourself.
Because it's to be God-like, God is love. Because it's the
chief, watch it, the chief evidence of regeneration. By this, Christ
said, shall all men know you are my disciples, if you love
one another. I want to give you a little illustration
that I got from Spurgeon. And he was preaching on this
subject and he said, I have seen genuine affection and I have
seen affectation. I've been among people who cried
dear brother this and dear sister that and dear minister down to
dear tabernacle singing the dear hymns to a dear tune and he said
I get sick at my stomach. That's affectation. But love,
affection, listen, is shown more in your eyes than in your words. It's shown more in your deeds
than in your doctrine. It's shown more in your grace
than in your gifts. It's shown more in your mercy
than in your merit. That's affection. Affection and
affectation are two different things. This is affection. Genuine, God-given affection. And its source is Christ. And
if we could just somehow say, instead of saying, well, I'm
in the flesh and I'll never make it, if we could just say, I got
to have it. It's like one old writer said, Lord, give me Christ
or I die. John Knox said, Lord, give me
Scotland or I die. And God almost gave it to him.
And instead of seeking tongues and the gifts of the Spirit and
faith and great knowledge and intellect and all of these things,
why don't we do what Paul said, under the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit, make love your aim? Because you can have all that
other and perish. But you can't perish if you love
Christ. Our Father, we do pray for this.
Thou knowest our hearts. Thou knowest our need more than
we do. Thou knowest our hypocrisy and our pride and our selfishness. And Thou knowest what failures,
what miserable, miserable failures, how little we do know, how defeated
we are. But we do need this grace. We
need to excel in this grace. We need to show forth this grace
more and more for the glory of our Lord. And we pray for it.
Make this a place, not only the preaching of the gospel of Christ,
for if the gospel of Christ is truly preached in the power of
the Holy Spirit, we'll have this grace. But make this a place
where love is known and where love is shown. For Christ's sake
we pray, and in his name, amen.

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