The Way of Love
Quinquagesima I Corinthians 13 A More Excellent Way This chapter of Scripture hardly needs any introduction. Its uses are practical right now in our lives. We need to be exhorted and encouraged to follow this way of doing things for in the end we will feel better about ourselves and God will be pleased. Luther summed it up well when he said on this passage, “ Justification of necessity precedes love. One does not love until he has become godly and righteous. Love does not make us godly, but when one has become godly love is the result.” We learn first that “ nothing beats love.” Vs 1-3 The Apostle starts out with a series of hypothetical impossibilities. “ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass , or a tinkling cymbal.” And having the tongues things will not impress God either…th...