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LOVE YOU!

Speaker: Pastor Keith Goullette
Theme: Church Life
Thesis: Loving?
Scripture Text: II Corinthians 2:1-4 (next week II Corinthians 2:5-11)
I. Pain - v. 1-4a
II. Purpose - v. 4b, c

Scripture Readings

PSALM 141:5
Let the righteous smite me in kindness and reprove me; It is oil upon the head; Do not let my head refuse it, for still my prayer is against their wicked deeds.

PROVERBS 27:5-6
Better is open rebuke than love that is concealed. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.

GALATIANS 6:1 & 10
Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.
So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

I CORINTHIANS 13:4-8
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

SCRIPTURE TEXT—II CORINTHIANS 2:1-4
But I determined this for my own sake, that I would not come to you in sorrow again. For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful? This is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.

Sermon length: 40:03