HARVEST: Love is the Secret Sauce

HARVEST: Love is the Secret Sauce
Message Date: 11/20/2022
Speaker: Pastor Rod Hidalgo
HARVEST SERIES

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Who is one person you know that loves their job?

Everything about being workers in the harvest must be based on

!

Paul speaks about love:

  1. Paul writes a letter to the church of Corinth
  2. Paul shares the concern of a church divided
  3. Persistent problems with confusion about marriage, divorce, and pagan religions

Paul will not hide away from the

.

But he says that if we don’t have a foundation of

, we are missing the point.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding

or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am

.

If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have

, I gain nothing.

Intellectual Abilities/Without Love

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

1 Corinthians 13:1 (The Message)

Spiritual Abilities/Without Love

If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2 (The Message)

Physical Abilities/Without Love

If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere.

1 Corinthians 13:3 (The Message)

Love others with our: Body, Mind, Soul

The Secret Sauce for the Harvest is LOVE!

In Mexican food, QUESO is the liquid gold!

Harvest: Love

  1. Use intellectual abilities to share the Good News covered with love
  2. Use spiritual abilities to share the Good News covered with love
  3. Use your resources, whether physical or financial, to share the Good News covered with love

Get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Love is the Secret Sauces for the Harvest!