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Sermon Sunday 5-31-261st Corinthians 13:1-12Vs. 1-2 Love is superior to spiritual gifts in and of themselves.“Possession...
05/31/2026

Sermon Sunday 5-31-26

1st Corinthians 13:1-12

Vs. 1-2 Love is superior to spiritual gifts in and of themselves.

“Possession of the charismata is not the sign of the Spirit; Christian love is.”

Eros- passionate, romantic, sensual love

Storge was the second word for love. It refers to family love, the kind of love there is between a parent and child, or between family members in general.

Philia is the third word for love. It speaks of a brotherly friendship and affection. It is the love of deep friendship and partnership. It might be described as the highest love of which man, without God’s help, is capable of.

Agape- It is a love that loves without changing. It is a self-giving love that gives without demanding or expecting repayment.

It is love so great that it can be given to the unlovable or unappealing. It is love that loves even when it is rejected.

Agape love gives and loves because it wants to; it does not demand or expect repayment from the love given.

It gives because it loves; it does not love in order to receive.

It can be defined as a sacrificial, giving, absorbing kind of love. The word has little to do with emotion; it has much to do with self-denial for the sake of another.

Vs.3

Many Christians believe the Christian life is all about sacrifice – sacrificing your money, your life, for the cause of Jesus Christ.

Sacrifice is important, but without love it is useless, it profits me nothing.

Vs. 4-7 Love: At the beginning, we see love is described by action words, not by lofty concepts.

Paul is not writing about how love feels, he is writing about how it can be seen in action.

True love is always demonstrated by action.

Love suffers long: Love will endure a long time. It is the heart shown in God when it is said of the Lord, The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness,

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2nd Peter 3:9

Love suffers long. If God’s love is in us, we will show long suffering to those who annoy or hurt us.

Love does not envy.

Envy is a painful or resentful emotion that occurs when you lack another person's possessions, qualities, or achievements and either desire them for yourself or wish the other person lacked them.

Love does not parade itself: Love in action can work anonymously. It does not have to have the limelight or the attention to do a good job, or to be satisfied with the result.

Love gives because it loves to give, not out of the sense of praise it can have from showing itself off.

Love… is not puffed up: To be puffed up is to be arrogant and self-focused. It speaks of someone who has a “big head.” Love doesn’t get its head swelled; it focuses on the needs of others.

Love… does not behave rudely: Where there is love, there will be kindness and good manners

Love… does not seek its own:

“Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2‬:‭4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

This is being like Jesus in a most basic way, being an others-centered person instead of a self-centered person.

Love is not provoked- We all find it easy to be provoked or to become irritated with those who are just plain annoying. But it is a sin to be provoked, and it isn’t love.

Love… thinks no evil: Literally this means “love does not store up the memory of any wrong it has received.” Love will put away the hurts of the past instead of clinging to them

Love… does not rejoice in iniquity: It is willing to want the best for others, and refuses to color things against others.

05/31/2026

Can you love even when rejected? 🤔 Dive into Agape love! 💖

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05/31/2026

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05/27/2026

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05/25/2026

This Memorial Day, we remember the fallen and honor the freedom they fought for.

05/24/2026

Acts 2:1-4

I’ve heard it said that the average Christian and the average church are bogged down somewhere between Calvary and Pentecost.

They have been to Calvary for pardon, but they have not been to Pentecost for power.

The average Christian is much like the Ephesians believers when the apostle Paul came to them in Acts 19:2 and asked: “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They replied that they didn’t even know there was a Holy Spirit.

Many Christians do not understand the role of the Holy Spirit and they have not appropriated the power of the Holy Spirit in their own personal lives.

As much as Bethlehem revealed God with us, and Calvary displayed God for us, Pentecost manifests God in us.

Possibly the greatest need for individuals and the church today is to experience a fresh Pentecost.

Oh what a display of the awesome power of God they experienced on that day 2,000 years ago. David Wilkerson once said,”When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That’s what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.”

Can it happen again? It can and it must!

The harvest depends on it because we are not filled with the Holy Spirit for our enjoyment, but we are filled for our employment.

The Setting Of Pentecost

Jerusalem. Why Jerusalem?

He strategically chose Jerusalem for the dramatic multi-national impact it would make resulting in a greater global harvest.

The Sound Of Pentecost

“There came a sound from heaven as a rushing, mighty wind” (Acts 2:2)

Note the source of the sound “A sound from heaven.”

What are the sounds of Pentecost today?

It's the sound of power that can’t be denied.
It’s the sound of unity that can’t be stopped.
It’s the sound of intercession that cannot be ignored.
It’s the sound of revival that cannot be quenched.
It’s the sound of praise that cannot be quelled.

The Sights Of Pentecost

“There appeared to them cloven tongues like as of fire” (Acts 2:3)

The experience of Pentecost was visible. 120 eye witnesses

Pentecost needs to be seen again. Seen in our love for one another, Seen in our witness to the world, and Seen in the miracles we experience.

The Speech Of Pentecost

“And they began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave the utterance’ (Acts 2:4)

Speaking in tongues signals our entrance into the spirit filled life, but it is also a continuing ministry in and through the spirit filled person. (Mark 16:17), (1st Cor. 14:2)

Speaking in tongues surpasses our limited language to acceptably articulate praises to God. Speaking in tongues is available to every believer.

The Significance Of Pentecost

Acts 1:8 reveals the priority and purpose of being baptized in the Holy Spirit. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

We are not filled for enjoyment, we are filled for employment.

It is by the power of the Holy Spirit God's people become more effective witnesses.

We are not filled to experience more exuberance or mere emotional intensity.

It is by the power of the Holy Spirit that we more effectively participate in the completion of the great commission. (Matthew 28:19-20)

05/22/2026

Join us, this Sunday May 24th, if you can, for Pentecost Sunday. It’s going to be a powerful time in the presence of the Lord. Service starts at 11am. We hope to see you. We will save you a seat.

Sermon Wednesday night May 20th.Luke 17:1-5It is impossible as human beings to avoid offending others and being offended...
05/21/2026

Sermon Wednesday night May 20th.

Luke 17:1-5

It is impossible as human beings to avoid offending others and being offended by others, when we are still alive. And, while we do not have the ability to control how others feel or act when offended, we do have free will over our own lives to decide how we will react when we are offended by others.

- Forgiving others wholeheartedly is the secret of a happy and prolonged relationship in all facets of life: in the family, at work, at school, in Church, community, etc.

- It’s not easy to forgive others, but it is what Jesus commands us to do. Even if the other person is not really sorry, we still have to forgive sincerely in order to fulfil the will of God.

In order to fully understand what forgiveness means, we need to look at what forgiveness is not and then to consider what it is.

1. Forgiveness does not Justify the Offender

- Forgiveness does not make the person being forgiven innocent. Forgiveness is not approving the wrong that was done, but overlooking it out of love, and with expectation that the offender will benefit with a profitable change of action and attitude.

2. Forgiveness does not Prevent Correction or Rebuke

- Forgiveness does not require us to submit or be silent to injustice, bad actions and wrong behaviours. We can correct, rebuke or discipline the offenders while still loving them. This does not only produce a profitable change in the offenders, but will clearly reveal what is right to other people with a positive impact. Luke 17:3.

3. Forgiveness does not Harbour Bitterness

- The offences may produce pains or hurts, but there is no true forgiveness if any bitterness is harboured against the offender.

4. Forgiveness is an Opportunity for Self-Examination

- Forgiveness is an opportunity to review our own lives. Whenever we find it difficult to forgive others, we should consider the wrongs that require that God should forgive us.

Similarly, we should examine our hearts to see if there are people we are not willing to forgive, or we have not truly forgiven, whenever we need to ask God for forgiveness.

Forgiveness of others in our life is not something that needs to wait for them to come to us and ask. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can forgive those who never ask.

5. Forgiveness is a Way of Handing Over to God.

- Forgiveness is an act of our will in which we give up the right to hold another person accountable for the wrongs they have done to us, and handing it over to God.

It means releasing that person from any obligation to ever make things right to us, but to God.

- God’s forgiveness is our pattern for forgiving others, Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:12. God has given us this grace in the one he dearly loves.

In him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offenses, according to the riches of his grace Ephesians 1:6.

- This forgiveness is at the heart of our relationship with God. God has erased our sins, removed his wrath from us, and raised us from death to life.

He has been incredibly kind and compassionate to us. And we now face a secure and glorious future through Christ.

- Because God has forgiven us, we have a reason and the strength to forgive others. As God has erased our sins and sees us as holy and blameless through Christ, so we can and should seek to do the same to others: to erase the sins of others from our ledger of wrongs.

We can forgive because we have been forgiven.

The key to forgiveness is to focus on what God has done for you. As God forgave us freely, we are to forgive those who have hurt us.

- God forgives us without limit. We are also expected to forgive others without limit. Matthew 18:21-22.

- God forgives us completely, immediately, and with sincerity. With the Holy Spirits help learn how to practice these qualities in our forgiveness of others.

Forgiveness is profitable, not only to the person being forgiven, but also to the person doing the forgiveness.

Forgiveness is a source of emotional health and freedom. It has the power to set us free from the hurts of the past, whether we are talking about ten minutes ago, or ten years ago.

1. Forgiveness Gives us Freedom from Hatred and Bitterness

When we truly forgive others, we are set free from the hold of bitterness and hatred against them in our hearts. Genesis 50:14-21.

Joseph did not deny the sinful nature of his brother's actions. Yet Joseph had refused to let their actions turn him into a bitter man.

- Joseph doesn't make any excuses for their behaviour. He understood that they were accountable to God for their actions, not to him.

- However, because Joseph had forgiven his brothers he could comfort and speak kindly to them.

Lewis Smedes “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

The organization of John Hopkins Medicine reports that the anger and resentment we hold from unforgiveness actually affects our physical and mental health. According to the organization:
“Chronic anger puts you into a fight-or-flight mode, which results in numerous changes in heart rate, blood pressure and immune response. Those changes, then, increase the risk of depression, heart disease and diabetes, among other conditions. Forgiveness, however, calms stress levels, leading to improved health.”
As we can see, something as simple as holding anger toward another can affect us more than we know. On the contrary, forgiveness heals us spiritually and physically.
“Studies have found that the act of forgiveness can reap huge rewards for your health, lowering the risk of heart attack; improving cholesterol levels and sleep; and reducing pain, blood pressure, and levels of anxiety, depression, and stress.”

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We are so thankful for our upgrades to our sound and media, our worship team and platform and our brand new youth buildi...
05/18/2026

We are so thankful for our upgrades to our sound and media, our worship team and platform and our brand new youth building. We celebrate blessing and increase and all that God is doing here at The Creek. Much more to come this year.

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