1 Corinthians 9:1-27

  1. Are you willing to give up your “freedoms” for the sake of loving other people?
  2. In what ways does loving another person for the sake of the gospel constrain us?

Love and self-denial for the object loved go hand-in-hand. If I profess to love a certain person, and yet will neither give my silver nor my gold to relieve his wants, nor in any way deny myself comfort or ease for his sake, such love is contemptible; it wears the name, but lacks the reality of love: true love must be measured by the degree to which the person loving will be willing to subject himself to crosses and losses, to suffering and self-denials. After all, the value of a thing in the market is what a man will give for it, and you must estimate the value of a man’s love by that which he is willing to give up for it.

Charles Spurgeon

 

While freedoms are valuable, they are not as important as the gospel or the kingdom of God. Christians ought to discard their freedoms readily and eagerly when they do so to further the gospel of the kingdom.

Richard Pratt

 

Love without an exit strategy. When you love with hesed love, you bind yourself to the object of your love, no matter what the response is.

Paul Miller

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