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A More Excellent Way

A More Excellent Way. Pt. 3 - Generosity. “But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way .” 1 Cor. 12:31. Love. 1 Cor. 13:4-8a. Description of Love.

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A More Excellent Way

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  1. A More Excellent Way Pt. 3 - Generosity “But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.” 1 Cor. 12:31 Love

  2. 1 Cor. 13:4-8a Description of Love 4. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5. does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6. does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7. bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8. Love never fails.

  3. Love 1 Cor. 13:4-8a Description of Love Guilelessness Sincerity Spiritual strength Open-Mindedness Optimism Faithfulness Loverly Patience Kindness Generosity Humility Courtesy Unselfishness Good temper

  4. A More Excellent Way Pt. 3 - Generosity “Love does not envy” Envy = Jealousy

  5. The Meaning of Envy Greek = to be filled with jealousy, envy...toward someone. Envy is discontent at the excellence or good fortune of another. Discontent and resentment aroused by desire for the possessions or qualities of another.

  6. KJV“Love envieth not” NKJV “Love does not envy” Williams “Love Never boils with Jealousy” Amplified “Love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy” N.E.B. = “love envies no one” W.N.T. = “Love knows neither envy nor jealousy.” Several have “Love is not jealous”

  7. Envy is a Foolish Sin • Waste of time, energy and emotion • Gives more pain than any other sin. • Most sins have some pleasure but not envy. • “Envy is a poison that I drink in the hope that the other person will die.”

  8. What others have said About Envy Chrysostom “As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.” Horace “The envious man grows thin at another man's prosperity” Thompson “Base envy withers at another's joy and hates the excellence which it cannot reach.”

  9. What others have said About Envy Greber “One cannot be envious and happy at the same time.” Aeschylus - “No man is a complete failure until he begins disliking men who succeed.” Solomon - Proverbs 14:30 “A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.”

  10. What Envy can do to you Cain Gen. 4 - hated Abel and killed him - Why ? I John 3:12 “Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.”

  11. What Envy can do to you Haman Esther 4-5 Haman was jealous of Mordecai Esther 5:9 “Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.”

  12. What Envy can do to you Jews They had envy toward Jesus Matthew 27:18 “For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.” “For he realized that it was out of jealousy that they had handed him over.” NRSV

  13. The Bitter Fruit of Envy Sorrow, Misery, Death Can divide families and friendships Can split a church “For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.” Titus 3:3

  14. What Generosity can do for us • Love is free from the blight of envy • Love has the opposite which is generosity • Envy wants to take • Love wants to give • Generosity of love is a trait of the soul that says “What is mine is yours also, if you really need it.”

  15. An example of Generosity The Good Samaritan Luke 10:25-37 “Who is my neighbor ?” Jesus told the story of the Good Samaritan “Which was the neighbor?” Answer = The one who showed mercy Jesus said “Go and do thou likewise”

  16. Showing our love for our fellow man “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.” 1 John 3:18

  17. A More Excellent Way Pt. 3 - Generosity “Love is not jealous” Love Love is happy when others do well.

  18. Love 1 Cor. 13:4-8a Description of Love Guilelessness Sincerity Spiritual strength Open-Mindedness Optimism Faithfulness Loverly Patience Kindness Generosity Humility Courtesy Unselfishness Good temper

  19. Sermon by Arthur Pigman Evans Church of Christ 515 Gibbs Road Evans, Ga. 30809 706-855-1249 evanscoc@bellsouth.net www.evansgachurchofchrist.org Sunday Evening August 4, 2013

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