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Flourishing In Divine Love

 1 Corinthians 13

Our text passage is a very popular chapter on love in the scriptures.

It is the love chapter, in this chapter we see what divine love is, how important it is, and how it is the very essence of our Christian walk.

Love according to 1 Corinthians 13 is depicted as such a tall order to attain for any human.

It is a kind of love that is forgiving, sacrificial, caring, and considers the greater good.

This is the kind of love God wants fully formed in His people, His churches, and in families.

Ephesians 5:2

Human beings are naturally selfish and self seeking, it is the way of the fallen nature in humanity.

This fallen nature makes it hard and impossible to walk and operate in the love God would have us live by.

The love God wants us growing and flourishing in is divine love.

Fortunately the Spirit of God is made available through Jesus Christ to help us walk in this type of love.

It is this love that took Jesus to the cross, kept Him on the cross,  it made Him die and rise from the dead that salvation might be made available to humanity.

This divine love wiped out poverty among God's people in the early church community because the rich and the poor gave and the resources were shared equally by the Apostles to meet every man's need.

The rich were willing to sacrifice more by giving more, they didn't see it as a loss but a blessing to give, they were glad to give more to help their brethren who had fewer resources. That is love!

Acts 4:34-37

That is how poverty is banished in a community, through love!

In environments where love thrives poverty is wiped out.

True love is the cure for poverty.

The God type of love or divine love is the type of love that wins the world and points people to Christ.

The Holy Spirit helps us live and flourish in divine love.

Romans 5:5

With the Spirit at work in Him it was love at work in Jesus that made Him go about doing good, healing people, working miracles.

John 11:34-43

The anointing works with love.

Jesus had compassion and empathy on the plight of people, that is love.

Matthew 9:36

It is in love that God sent prophets in times past to give His commands and instructions to specific people and humanity.

Hebrews 1:1

It is in love that God sent angels to humanity and specific people at different times.

It is by love that God preferred human beings to angels.

Hebrews 2:5-18

It is with love that God prepared creation for man (Adam/humanity)

Genesis 1

Faith works by love.

Galatians 5:6

Hope is made fruitful by love.

Love brings hope.

1 Peter 1:3

Jesus is love personified, His sacrifice and presence brought good will to the world.

His love brought salvation and redemption, justification and sanctification to humanity.

We should be channels  of God's love, conduits of His mercy.

That is true ministry.

That's what we are called to do.

John 13:34,35


Olutosin Ogunkolade, a Teacher-Pastor shares this teaching 


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