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Background: Drought
We obey, straight away! Mark 1:16-18 immediate obedience
Obadiah – Feared the Lord greatly, protects the persecuted prophets
14:6. Intelligibility makes for edification.
Ryken: God is the main character of this chapter; he is the hero, or protagonist. Thus the lessons to be learned from 1 Kings 17 are not about Elijah primarily…but they are really about the living God
Paul compares two gifts – prophecy and tongues. The medicines in your medicine cupboard are good, if used rightly. Get the proportion wrong, and they can do damage. It is the same with the gifts.
Jonathan Edwards wrote: ‘Heaven is a world of love.’
Our leaders are both an example to us, and a reflection of us.
Daniel Andrews: ‘Love is love, fair is fair, and equality is not negotiable.’ That is precisely not what Paul is saying.
There’s nothing necessarily wrong with noticing what other people have, but most of us don’t stop and notice so that we can give thanks to God for his blessings to others. We notice and then stop being thankful for all that God has given us. – Kevin DeYoung
To preach on this chapter is to run the grave risk of wrecking it, like studying a flower by taking it apart. The word ‘love’ (agape) is found nine times in this chapter. Karl Barth suggested that the reader should substitute the word ‘Christ’ for ‘love’.
