Radical Love: Love Never Fails - Sermon outline for March 8, 2020 (a blogpost for a sermon to be preached at Kenwood Church in Livonia, MI, on March 8, 2020)

RADICAL LOVE - Love Never Fails - 1 Corinthians 13:8a - March 8, 2020

Prayer

INTRODUCTION

Love is patient.

Love is kind.

It does not envy.  It does not boast.  It is not proud.

It does not dishonor others.  It is not self-seeking.

It is not easily angered.  It keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

They will know you are my disciples by your love.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails. 

1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

The importance of words

Never

1. I OFTEN FAIL

A.  In life

“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”

‭‭ Romans‬ ‭3:23‬ ‭NIV‬

‬ 1.  Work

2.  Relationships

B.  In love

A.  Good intentions

B.  Good behavior

C.  Good at failing

1. LOVE NEVER FAILS

A.  Love never fails, but I do.

1.  Love is not dependent upon my ability to love.

2.  Love never fails even when I do.

B.  Love never fails! Amen, Jesus!

1.  When I fail, He still loves.

2. He loves even when I am unlovable.

C.  Love never fails.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever  believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his  Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”

‭‭ John‬ ‭3:16-17‬ ‭NIV‬

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners,  Christ died for us.”

‭‭ Romans‬ ‭5:8‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into  the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but  that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

‭‭ 1 John‬ ‭4:9-10‬ ‭NIV‬‬

CHALLENGE

Read 1 Corinthians 13 every day.  Memorize 1 Corinthians 13:8a.  Have you ever failed to show God’s love to someone?  How does “love never fail” if we do?  Ask God to fill you with an abundance of His love.  Ask forgiveness from someone you have failed to love.  Love someone you have failed.