Revival Fires Baptist College

Christian Ethics

Professor: Dr. Dennis Corle

Ethics and Love

I. 1 Corinthians 13, “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. 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. 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. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is

not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked,

thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things,

believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 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. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when

that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 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. 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. And now abideth faith, hope, charity,

these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”

A. This is true agape love that God wants us to have.

B. Talking about us loving spiritually.

C. Similar to what God has for us.

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II. Charity is used because agape is never a passive thing, a feeling, agape love is an action word.

A. Charity is love with some fruit connected to it.

III. The greatest thing in the world is charity.

IV. Agape love is me doing what is best on behalf of the object of my love, regardless of personal

expense.

A. God is love.

B. Does John 3:16 say, “For God so love the world that He felt sorry that they were going

to Hell?”

C. He had emotion to it.

D. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that

whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

1.God so love the world that He did what was best for the world regardless of

what it cost Him.

V. Fear is a great force, but love is a greater force.

A. Fear will be unethical while love will not.

B. Men will do things for fear; they will do more for love.

C. People will put themselves more on the line for love.

D. Fear has to do with self-preservation, love has to do with the preservation of others.

1.I’m afraid so I do something for my sake to preserve self or I love them so I

do something for them.

VI. Love has a message to it.

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VII. The greatest thing is not faith.

A. 1 Peter 4:8, “And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity

shall cover the multitude of sins.”

B. Above all things means above all things

VIII. Matthew 22:36-40 “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him,

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy

mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love

thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

A. Love is the fulfilling of the law.

B. If I love God and love man, I will do what the Bible says and what the law says because

God put in there what is right for everybody.

C. I will do what is best for others.

IX. You will love people into submission, you don’t declare yourself into submission.

A. If you treat people the way that you ought to treat them, you can love them into

submission.

B. That is the way it ought to be.

C. You don’t demand submission out of anybody.

D. He didn’t tell me to try to make it happen, He commanded me to lover her.

E. If I will love her like I ought to, she will submit like she ought to.

F. God can change others when I am doing my responsibility.

G. If I love God, I will do what is right by God.

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H. If I love my wife, I will do what is right for my children.

I. If I love my children, I will do what is right for my children.

J. If I love my people, I will do what is right for my people.

K. If I love my pastor, I will do what is right for my pastor.

X. We talk about how we love someone then our actions are contrary to our statement.

A. We practice poor ethics in damaging their character.

XI. Prophecy without love is not enough, it is ineffective.

XII. Understanding mysteries without love will not work.

XIII. Love is the greatest.

A. More than faith.

B. Love is greater than faith because the end is greater than the means.

C. Everything in our Christian life is built on faith.

D. Faith connects me with God Who is love.

E. Faith is the means and love is the end.

1.The means is important and necessary.

XIV. Missionaries can take nothing greater to the heathen than a heart of love.

XV. A soul winner can take nothing greater to a lost world than a heart of love.

XVI. Love is a universal language.

A. Love is something people understand.

B. Love doesn’t have a barrier of words.

C. Love can be communicated when a language barrier can’t be overcome.

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XVII. Love is a compound thing.

A. It is like light passing through a prism being broken into its different colors.

XVIII. Love is patient.

A. Longsuffering primarily has to do with my treatment of people.

B. Relates to circumstances, not personalities.

C. How I deal with people who have an irritating trait or personality.

XIX. Love is kind.

XX. Love envieth not.

A. It doesn’t try to get what someone else has, it gives what it has.

B. It is not only not envious, it is generous.

XXI. Love vaunteth not itself.

A. It is not self-promoting.

B. It is not self-exalting.

C. Humility.

XXII. Love is not puffed up.

A. Not boastful.

B. Not filled with pride.

XXIII. Love does not behave itself unseemly.

A. It is courteous and mannerly.

XXIV. Love seeketh not its own.

A. It is unselfish.

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XXV. Love is not easily prevoked.

A. Has self-control.

XXVI. Thinketh no evil.

A. Not sitting around thinking evil thoughts.

B. Not conniving things.

XXVII. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.

A. Sincerity.

XXVIII. Beareth all things.

A. Doesn’t fall apart or shatter the first time it comes to a problem.

B. Endures all things.

XXIX. Believeth all things.

A. Love is a trustful thing.

B. Until someone proves themselves untrustworthy, I should trust them.

C. I love and trust them until they betray my confidence.

D. Jelous people who trust no one and are suspicious of everyone will create the problem

that they feared.

E. They will drive people from them.

XXX. Hopeth all things

A. Being positive.

B. Seeing the bright side of things.

C. Has expectation for good things.

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XXXI. Love never faileth

A. Real love is eternal.

B. It is not only long-lasting, the length of this life, real love never faileth.

XXXII. We speak much of love for God, one another, the church, sinners, etc., but the truth is, if these

characteristics are not in motion, what we call love is not love according to the criteria of the

Bible.

A. It is dishonest to say that I love and then not have the qualities that love has.

XXXIII. Patience is love on the anvil.

A. Bearing the trials and blows that it takes.

B. Love is passive, waiting calmly to do its work.

XXXIV. Kindness is love in an active sense.

A. Doing what is best for others

B. Proverbs speaks of the law of kindness.

C. The Lord Jesus spent His live doing kind things for others sacrificially.

D. There is a great difference between trying to please someone and giving them pleasure.

XXXV. Love envieth not.

A. Generosity.

B. Envy has to do with feeling of ill will toward those who are in the same line or those

who are ahead of us.

XXXVI. Love is the greatest thing in the world because it lasts.

A. Eternal love never fails.

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B. Every prophecy has a fulfillment and an end.

C. Tongues

1.All the languages of humanity will be melted into one in eternity.

2.Languages will cease.

D. Knowledge of the ancient is nothing today.

1.The schoolboy today knows more than Sir Isaac Newton knew.

E. Faith is going to be fulfilled in sight.

F. Hope will come to pass.

G. Love still abides.

1.Love is the greatest.

XXXVII. Love is ethical.

A. Unethical people do not love scripturally.

1.They may love themselves carnally.

2.They may want to please themselves.

XXXVIII. When Dr. Corle reviews, he has already made the tests.

A. The review is off the test.

B. Exactly what is in the review is what is on the test.

XXXIX. Review for Quiz 4

A. What two texts were used for the lecture on, “If it Can’t be Tamed, it Must be Bridled”?

1.James 3:1-18

2.James 1:26

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B. Spurgeon said, “If all men’s sins were bound into 2 bundles, 1 entire bundle would be

sins of the tongue.

C. James 3:8 says, “But the tongue can no man tame.

D. James 1:26, “If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue,

but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.”

E. Please define taming:

1.To tame something means you break it of its bad habits and change its nature.

F. What one word was given as a definitive term for “bridling”?

1.Restraint

G. Give the eleven times that he tongue should be bridled with a reference with each.

1.When it is ready to sow discord among brethren – Proverbs 6:16-19

2.When it is set to play the role of the talebearer – Proverbs 11:13

3.When it is about to proclaim falsehood – Proverbs 12:17

4.When its intent is to be harsh – Proverbs 15:1

5.When contention is our object or its subject – Proverbs 18:6

6.When its message is not wholesome – Proverbs 15:4

7.When it is tempted to misuse knowledge – Proverbs 15:2

8.When its words are evil – Proverbs 15:28

9.When it wants to engage in backbiting – Proverbs 25:23

10. When it desires to answer before it hears – Proverbs 18:13

11. When it is ready to brag – Proverbs 20:6

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H. Quite often what I was thinking and what I said had too much in common.

I. Proverbs 13:3 says, “He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life.”

J. Life is not existence but a quality existence

K. What text tells us that our speech is to be always with grace, seasoned with salt?

1.Colossians 4:6

XL. A breach of ethics is sin since I find my ethics in the Bible.

A. Any time I violate Bible principle, I am guilty of sin.

B. Many times we have acceptable sins.

C. Anytime someone is unethical, they are unscriptural.

D. Ethics come from Bible principle.

E. Every principle is something that God intended for me to have as part of my character.

F. When I fail to do that, I am in violation of Bible principle which is sin.

G. We have taken the ethical part of Christianity pretty lightly.

1.We have been concerned about the legality of things.

2.Just because the Bible doesn’t say “Thou shalt not” doesn’t mean I should do

it.

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