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Speaker 1 (00:01):
When I signed up to read today, I had no
idea I would get to read my lifelong favorite piece
of Scripture, one Corinthians thirteen. If I speak in the
tongues of humans and of angels, but do not have love,
(00:24):
I am a noisy gong or a clanging single symbol.
And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so
that is to remove mountains, but do not have love,
(00:44):
I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions.
And if I hand over my body so that I
may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, Love is kind. Love is not envious
(01:06):
or boastful, or arrogant or rude. It does not insist
on its own way. It is not irritable. It keeps
no record of wrongs. It does not rejoice and wrongdoing,
but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes,
(01:28):
all things, hopes, all things endures all things. Love never ends.
But as for prophecies, they will come to an end,
as for tongues they will cease. As for knowledge it
will come to an end. For we know only in part,
(01:51):
and we prophesy only in part. But when the complete comes,
the partial will come to an end. When I was
a child, I spoke like a child. I thought like
a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became
(02:13):
an adult, I put an end to childish ways who
not really when I became an adult, as in a mirror.
But then we will see face to face. For now
I know only in part, but then I will know
(02:35):
fully even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope,
and love remain these three, and the greatest of these is.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Love.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, I agree.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I think that's one of the finest readings of Corinthian's
thirteen I've ever heard. So thank you, Fran. They called
her the Bingo Queen. She didn't just play bingo, she
(03:23):
lived bingo. Now, of course, it wasn't always like that.
She and her husband had worked hard all their lives
to raise their six children in a small row house.
They didn't have much money. In fact, they didn't have
much at all, and so they both had.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
To work very hard most.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Of their adult lives as they raised their six children
and taught them faith, and happily, when it came time
to retire, they both found ways to enjoy themselves. He
bought a luxurious reclining chair, and he put it right
in front of the TV where he could watch the
(04:05):
Boston Red Sox. Well, that's from me, because I come
from Boston. From you, it wouldn't be the Boston Red Sox.
But he would sit and watch them lose yet another
baseball game and swear at them through his teeth. And
she became the Queen of Bingo. She went on Monday
(04:27):
night to the local church to play bingo. On Tuesday
night she went to the local volunteer fire company, and
on Wednesday night she went to the synagogue to play bingo.
She loved meeting her friends, she loved having a snack
with the ladies in the kitchen, and she loved her
evenings out.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Sadly, the bingo games came to an.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Abrupt end when her husband had a series of strokes
and they let Tim paralyzed on his left side. He
could no longer walk, could no longer talk, could no
longer swallow. So the doctor gave him a feeding tube
(05:13):
and told his wife she could put him in a
nursing home where they would take care of him. But
she was having none of that. She told them she
was taking her husband home where he belonged, and she
would learn how to take care of him, because that's
(05:35):
what you do, and that's what she did. So that big,
comfortable reclining chair went out and the hospital bed came in.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Of course, the TV.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Stayed so that he could still watch his beloved socks
when they were losing, even though he could no longer yell,
and they settled in to a new normal. One day,
their eldest grandson decided to stop by the house on
his way home from college. He parked the car, walked
(06:11):
up the porch steps, and opened the squeaky screen door. Now,
as he entered the room, he felt that something was wrong.
He didn't know quite what it was, he just knew,
and as his eyes adjusted, he could see the problem.
(06:31):
His grandfather was gesturing, his face red and frustrated, and
his grandmother was standing over him, trying to move things around,
flustered and weeping as she did.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You see the green liquid that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Was now his nourishment had gone everywhere, all over the bed,
all over his grandfather. Well, like any young man, his
first instinct was to quietly and quickly turn away and
exit the house. But as his hand pulled open that
(07:11):
squeaky screen door. It made his grandmother aware of his presence.
She turned and she looked at him and said, don't
you dare, don't you dare leave Her grandson froze, never
(07:31):
having seen or heard his grandmother in such a state.
Don't you dare leave? She said, because sometimes.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
This is what love looks like. And she was right.
We all love to hear sermons about love.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
We love it when love looks lovely, when a couple
walked down the ale, when they hold their first newborn
in their arms, when they're still holding hands sixty six
years into marriage. We love it when love looks like
grandparents beaming at their grandchildren singing in the church pageant.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We love it when love looks lovely. But for those
of you who have ever.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Tried to love for a lifetime, ever try to be
authentic in the christlike way of love, you know, love.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Does not always look like that, because.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
There are times when one or the other will be sick,
perhaps with a terrible cough, and the other stays up
by their side half the night, no matter how tired
they are, rubbing their back and comforting them.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Or maybe a war.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Comes along and she sits on the couch at night,
worrying and wondering where he is and if he's all right.
Sometimes love looks like waiting, sometimes patience. Sometimes love looks
like getting up in the morning, even when you'd much
(09:22):
rather stay in bed because someone has to make the sandwiches.
Sometimes love looks like starting over, or just getting through
the day, or being willing.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
To forgive yet again.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
And sometimes love looks like a seventy year old woman
caring for her husband with his feeding tube pulled loose
and liquid spilling all over. Who is it that taught
you what real love looks like? Who led by their example,
(10:11):
by their authenticity? Perhaps you might remember them in your
prayers this week, Paul tells the church that love never fails.
(10:32):
But he's not talking about our feelings because feelings fail
all the time. And he's not talking about sex because
sex comes and goes, and he's not talking about infatuations
because they fade. He's talking about the kind of love
(10:57):
that asks up, asks us to wake up each and
every morning and decide to love, to decide to do
what's right, to decide to be generous and kind for
one another, not because we're going to receive anything in return.
(11:22):
Or get a good slap on the back, But because
that is what authentic love requires, even when we don't
feel like it. Listen again. Love is patient, Love is kind.
(11:46):
Love is not envious or boastful, or arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way, is irritable
or resentful. It does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices
(12:10):
in truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes
all things, endures all things. Now. I don't know about you,
but when I hear these words, I shudder. I shudder
(12:34):
because I know that my love does not always look
like that. But thank Goodness that God put those words
on Paul's heart because I need to know what love
looks like.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I think we all need to know what real love
looks like.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And that is why we look to Jesus, and that
is why we.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Come to church. So many people then and now.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Want God's love to look like our own, imperfect love, limited, delineated, controlled,
only giving it to those people we think are worthy.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
We want God's love to look.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Like our conditional love given to some but not to others.
But Jesus teaches us that God's love is for all,
available to.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
All offered to all.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
In ways that break down the walls we build.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
When love breaks.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Our hearts, as love is apt to do when love
costs us something, we need to remember what we see
every time we look to Jesus. Sometimes love looks like this,
(14:17):
living and maybe even dying for someone or something.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Greater than just ourselves. I wonder what would happen.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
If we Christians really took Jesus and Paul at their
word and started, with the help of God, to love
each other with a fierce and faithful love. What would
happen if we focused on the quality of that love,
(14:56):
knowing that sometimes love is going to look painful, messy,
overflowing with suffering. What if we were willing to work
on our love so that in times of testing, our
love did not fail.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
But endured.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
What if parents said to their children, I will make
loving you my highest priority, no matter the cost. What
if friends were willing to pay any price to faithfully
care for each other because they know what Paul meant
when he said, without love, I am nothing. What if
(15:48):
the leaders of the church made this daily decision based
on this one goal, that our very actions might reveal
Christ's love for God's people and in turn lead Peoper
people evermore into the heart of God. What would love
(16:14):
look like in our lives if we took Paul's words
to heart and made it our life's goal to learn
to love like that. When I look to Jesus as
(16:36):
my example, my arrow pointing to authentic love, his love
always looks like a willingness to stoop down low enough
to serve in the name of love. Always, always, always,
(17:01):
love looks like Jesus.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Sometimes love looks like us. Amen.
When I signed up to read today, I had no
idea I would get to read my lifelong favorite piece
of Scripture, one Corinthians thirteen. If I speak in the
tongues of humans and of angels, but do not have love,
(00:24):
I am a noisy gong or a clanging single symbol.
And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so
that is to remove mountains, but do not have love,
(00:44):
I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions.
And if I hand over my body so that I
may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, Love is kind. Love is not envious
(01:06):
or boastful, or arrogant or rude. It does not insist
on its own way. It is not irritable. It keeps
no record of wrongs. It does not rejoice and wrongdoing,
but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes,
(01:28):
all things, hopes, all things endures all things. Love never ends.
But as for prophecies, they will come to an end,
as for tongues they will cease. As for knowledge it
will come to an end. For we know only in part,
(01:51):
and we prophesy only in part. But when the complete comes,
the partial will come to an end. When I was
a child, I spoke like a child. I thought like
a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became
(02:13):
an adult, I put an end to childish ways who
not really when I became an adult, as in a mirror.
But then we will see face to face. For now
I know only in part, but then I will know
(02:35):
fully even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope,
and love remain these three, and the greatest of these is.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Love.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, I agree.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I think that's one of the finest readings of Corinthian's
thirteen I've ever heard. So thank you, Fran. They called
her the Bingo Queen. She didn't just play bingo, she
(03:23):
lived bingo. Now, of course, it wasn't always like that.
She and her husband had worked hard all their lives
to raise their six children in a small row house.
They didn't have much money. In fact, they didn't have
much at all, and so they both had.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
To work very hard most.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Of their adult lives as they raised their six children
and taught them faith, and happily, when it came time
to retire, they both found ways to enjoy themselves. He
bought a luxurious reclining chair, and he put it right
in front of the TV where he could watch the
(04:05):
Boston Red Sox. Well, that's from me, because I come
from Boston. From you, it wouldn't be the Boston Red Sox.
But he would sit and watch them lose yet another
baseball game and swear at them through his teeth. And
she became the Queen of Bingo. She went on Monday
(04:27):
night to the local church to play bingo. On Tuesday
night she went to the local volunteer fire company, and
on Wednesday night she went to the synagogue to play bingo.
She loved meeting her friends, she loved having a snack
with the ladies in the kitchen, and she loved her
evenings out.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Sadly, the bingo games came to an.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Abrupt end when her husband had a series of strokes
and they let Tim paralyzed on his left side. He
could no longer walk, could no longer talk, could no
longer swallow. So the doctor gave him a feeding tube
(05:13):
and told his wife she could put him in a
nursing home where they would take care of him. But
she was having none of that. She told them she
was taking her husband home where he belonged, and she
would learn how to take care of him, because that's
(05:35):
what you do, and that's what she did. So that big,
comfortable reclining chair went out and the hospital bed came in.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Of course, the TV.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Stayed so that he could still watch his beloved socks
when they were losing, even though he could no longer yell,
and they settled in to a new normal. One day,
their eldest grandson decided to stop by the house on
his way home from college. He parked the car, walked
(06:11):
up the porch steps, and opened the squeaky screen door. Now,
as he entered the room, he felt that something was wrong.
He didn't know quite what it was, he just knew,
and as his eyes adjusted, he could see the problem.
(06:31):
His grandfather was gesturing, his face red and frustrated, and
his grandmother was standing over him, trying to move things around,
flustered and weeping as she did.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You see the green liquid that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Was now his nourishment had gone everywhere, all over the bed,
all over his grandfather. Well, like any young man, his
first instinct was to quietly and quickly turn away and
exit the house. But as his hand pulled open that
(07:11):
squeaky screen door. It made his grandmother aware of his presence.
She turned and she looked at him and said, don't
you dare, don't you dare leave Her grandson froze, never
(07:31):
having seen or heard his grandmother in such a state.
Don't you dare leave? She said, because sometimes.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
This is what love looks like. And she was right.
We all love to hear sermons about love.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
We love it when love looks lovely, when a couple
walked down the ale, when they hold their first newborn
in their arms, when they're still holding hands sixty six
years into marriage. We love it when love looks like
grandparents beaming at their grandchildren singing in the church pageant.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We love it when love looks lovely. But for those
of you who have ever.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Tried to love for a lifetime, ever try to be
authentic in the christlike way of love, you know, love.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Does not always look like that, because.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
There are times when one or the other will be sick,
perhaps with a terrible cough, and the other stays up
by their side half the night, no matter how tired
they are, rubbing their back and comforting them.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Or maybe a war.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Comes along and she sits on the couch at night,
worrying and wondering where he is and if he's all right.
Sometimes love looks like waiting, sometimes patience. Sometimes love looks
like getting up in the morning, even when you'd much
(09:22):
rather stay in bed because someone has to make the sandwiches.
Sometimes love looks like starting over, or just getting through
the day, or being willing.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
To forgive yet again.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
And sometimes love looks like a seventy year old woman
caring for her husband with his feeding tube pulled loose
and liquid spilling all over. Who is it that taught
you what real love looks like? Who led by their example,
(10:11):
by their authenticity? Perhaps you might remember them in your
prayers this week, Paul tells the church that love never fails.
(10:32):
But he's not talking about our feelings because feelings fail
all the time. And he's not talking about sex because
sex comes and goes, and he's not talking about infatuations
because they fade. He's talking about the kind of love
(10:57):
that asks up, asks us to wake up each and
every morning and decide to love, to decide to do
what's right, to decide to be generous and kind for
one another, not because we're going to receive anything in return.
(11:22):
Or get a good slap on the back, But because
that is what authentic love requires, even when we don't
feel like it. Listen again. Love is patient, Love is kind.
(11:46):
Love is not envious or boastful, or arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way, is irritable
or resentful. It does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices
(12:10):
in truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes
all things, endures all things. Now. I don't know about you,
but when I hear these words, I shudder. I shudder
(12:34):
because I know that my love does not always look
like that. But thank Goodness that God put those words
on Paul's heart because I need to know what love
looks like.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I think we all need to know what real love
looks like.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And that is why we look to Jesus, and that
is why we.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Come to church. So many people then and now.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Want God's love to look like our own, imperfect love, limited, delineated, controlled,
only giving it to those people we think are worthy.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
We want God's love to look.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Like our conditional love given to some but not to others.
But Jesus teaches us that God's love is for all,
available to.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
All offered to all.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
In ways that break down the walls we build.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
When love breaks.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Our hearts, as love is apt to do when love
costs us something, we need to remember what we see
every time we look to Jesus. Sometimes love looks like this,
(14:17):
living and maybe even dying for someone or something.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Greater than just ourselves. I wonder what would happen.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
If we Christians really took Jesus and Paul at their
word and started, with the help of God, to love
each other with a fierce and faithful love. What would
happen if we focused on the quality of that love,
(14:56):
knowing that sometimes love is going to look painful, messy,
overflowing with suffering. What if we were willing to work
on our love so that in times of testing, our
love did not fail.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
But endured.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
What if parents said to their children, I will make
loving you my highest priority, no matter the cost. What
if friends were willing to pay any price to faithfully
care for each other because they know what Paul meant
when he said, without love, I am nothing. What if
(15:48):
the leaders of the church made this daily decision based
on this one goal, that our very actions might reveal
Christ's love for God's people and in turn lead Peoper
people evermore into the heart of God. What would love
(16:14):
look like in our lives if we took Paul's words
to heart and made it our life's goal to learn
to love like that. When I look to Jesus as
(16:36):
my example, my arrow pointing to authentic love, his love
always looks like a willingness to stoop down low enough
to serve in the name of love. Always, always, always,
(17:01):
love looks like Jesus.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Sometimes love looks like us. Amen.
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