sounding brass & tinkling cymbal

1 Corinthians 13:1

"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."

GOD'S plan for you and for me is to GIVE out "free samples" of GOD'S LOVE to people wandering around not knowing what they want. They will realize THEIR OWN hunger for the Gospel and be LEAD to Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. We studied this lesson last week in the Epistle from the Apostle Peter to the Churches he worked with. And, we get to benefit from his advice on Answering CHANGE.

We continue in our series titled; Seasons of Life. This week the lesson has the theme of "Falling in LOVE." We turn to another Epistle from another Apostle. These verses are VERY famous and used at MANY weddings. The commonly used translation will have the word "LOVE" where the KJV has "CHARITY." We will look at which word is best as we study this week.

We DO need all these things in weddings and relationships. AND, we need this in all the relationships in our lives. As we study these verses keep in mind; they were NOT written to man and woman about to be joined in Holy Matrimony. These verses were written to a church. A church divided by infighting and quarreling between different factions. Unfortunate nastiness between brothers and sisters in Christ.

The Apostle Paul begins this section of his Epistle (letter) with a GREAT preface; however lofty and well chosen his words maybe, if they are not voluntary help given to those who clearly need it; then they are just a bunch of NOISE. First Corinthians, chapter thirteen, verse one; "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."

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