The Greatest of ALL is LOVE! 7-25-25

The reason this message was saved last is, it is more important than gifts; without LOVE being displayed in our lives, gifts don't mean a thing. Let's see what the Word of God says:

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part.  But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.  For now, we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE (1 Corinthians 13:13).

Time for the fruit:  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:22-23).

Notice that the first fruit is LOVE, which to me mean, it is the foundation that all the others fruit hinges on. No love, no joy: No love, no abiding peace; it takes love to be patient; Love is kind, Lord expresses goodness; how can we be faithful without love; the Word tells us to be tenderhearted (gentle) toward others (Ephesians 4:32); self-control is one that I needed more help with, as with all the fruit we should be growing and developing into matured fruit, meaning we should bearing fruit  by letting our light so shine before men that they will see our good works (fruit) and glorify our Father in heaven (Matthew 5:16).

Jesus told us to bear fruit- “I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing (John 15:5). What kind of fruit are you bearing?

His handmaiden, Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org