1 Corinthians 13

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.

• Tongues = Language
• Angels knows and understand all languages
• Though = If
• If I speak with the language of men and of angels, and have not love = you're speaking without understanding.
• Sounding = roaring
• Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
• Brass = Elsewhere (money)
• Matthews 10:9 Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses
• Revelation 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
• Tinkling = An onomatopoeic word as of the battle shout
• Joshua 6:20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
• Love more excellent than gifts
• Love the pre-eminent grace

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

• Remove = Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
• You have to make a stand, you need tough love to correct those that do wrong
• You are to forgive your love ones, but don't forget what they have done to you = be wiser than the serpent
• You don't need to go around family members that do wicked, but if they asked for help in the word, helped them.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

• Bestow = give away in doles
• Roman 12:20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
  21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
• You can help and teach =  but without love = It nothing
• Some only think of money and not family
• Love brings compassion
• Goods = the things belonging to me
• Luke 9:48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.
• Give = deliver up
• John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the spirit.
• To be = in order that it may be
• It profiteth = I am nothing profited

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

• Love brings Patients
• Acts 7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

• Plan for the best, not the worse = Never plan anything in anger
• You have to have love, try and do what's right
• Don't make decision on hate
• Is easily provoked = is roused to anger
• There is no word for "easily" = The statement is absolute
• Thinketh no evil = reckons not the evil (done to it)

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

• Iniquity = righteousness
• Don't go look for trouble
• Truth = God's word
• Rejoiceth in the truth = rejoiceth with the truth as it wins its way, truth being personified.

7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

• Beareth = here it means "is forbearing in all provocations"
• Don't have hate in your heart, but stand up and do what's right
• If they want to take God's name out of our schools. etc.. vote for someone that's going to stand for God and do what's right.

8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

• Faileth = all the texts read "falleth"
• Fail = be brought to nought
• Roman 3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
• Gifts only transient
• You will always speak in the language you was born with = think in that language

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

 

10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

• When Christ comes at the seventh trump = once All have been changed back into your own spiritual body
• That which is in part shall be done away = Done away = same as "fail" verse 8

11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

• Once you become a Christian, act like an Christian not a child
• Thought = reasoned
• Put away = did away with, as in verse 8 and 10
• Childish things = the things of a child

12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

• Glass = mirror
• Darkly = riddle = Only here and James 1:23
• James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
• Know = fully know
• Even as = even as I was fully know also

13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

• Love abides and is supreme
• Greatest gifts is Love, which comes from our Father

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25