EXPOSITION OF I CORINTHIANS 13 – PART 6
PART 5 WAS ISSUED ON FEBRUARY 23, 2010
March 9, 2010
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A CHARITABLE LOVE REJOICES IN THE TRUTH, NOT IN INIQUITY OR THE PUNISHMENT OF OTHERS FOR INIQUITY.
I Corinthians 13:6 – Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
REJOICETH NOT IN INIQUITY,
We are not to enjoy becoming a part of iniquity or to experience pleasure that others participate in it with us.
Romans 1:32 – Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy
of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Nor or we to love seeing others punished because they choose the wrong path and are judged by God for it.
The love of God in us is not to be glad when we see others go the wrong way, as in the attitude “I told you so,” or “just look at him, I knew it would happen.” Love that enjoys seeing a brother we don’t like go wrong is not the love of God in us, but the pleasure of the flesh in seeing it happen.
The descendants of Esau (Edom), the brother of Jacob (Israel) rejoiced when they saw God use the Babylonians to destroy the city of Jerusalem, and they later paid a terrible price for doing so.
Psalm 137:7 – Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
Jeremiah 49:10,17,18 – But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not. [17] Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. [18] As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
BUT REJOICETH IN THE TRUTH;
One of the prime indicators that manifests the existence of the love of God transplanted in a man or woman, is an ever growing love for the truth they believe can be found in his inspired word, the Bible. Each new truth that the born again heart discovers in the Bible causes an inner rejoicing like none other in this world, and it shows the individual’s love for the God who gave it and then confirmed it by his Word. The first thing the love of God revealed to me by his Spirit in his Word was how free from the condemnation of God I am eternally set free, and that it is a one way passage from death into eternal life, from which I will never again be placed back under God’s condemnation.
John 8:31,32,36 – Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; [32] And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. [36] If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be
free indeed.
John 5:24 – Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Romans 7:24 to 8:2 – O wretched man that I am!
who shall deliver me from the body of this death
? [25] I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
[1] There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. [2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
John 10:28-30 – And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
[29] My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. [30] I and my Father are one.
BUT REJOICETH IN THE TRUTH;
III John 3,4 – For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of
the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest
in the truth. [4] I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
I Timothy 3:14,15 – These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: [15] But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Ephesians 5:25-27 – Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; [26] That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, [27] That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
John 17:17 – Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
BUT REJOICETH IN THE TRUTH;
I John 3:18,19 – My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
[19] And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.