"Love is patient and kind" by Kathryn Kuhlman part 3 of her "1 Corinthians 13 Series"

You and I have been having some heart-to-heart talks regarding something that everybody's talking about these days And that's that thing of love and the Longer I live the older I get the more I realize how few people know what love really is I Mean and yet I know that I'm dealing with something that's vitally important when I discuss with you this thing of love because the Word of God and always remember The Bible is the highest authority that man has and the Bible instructs us to follow after love Paul talking about the wonderful gifts of the Spirit and Encouraging us to seek earnestly the best of the gifts of the Spirit Yet he comes a great climax and he says I show you a more excellent way Something that is even greater follow after love and Even the wonderful gifts of the Spirit and though you should be Fortunate enough to be one to whom all the gifts of the Spirit were given If you were not mastered by love Then these gifts the Spirit would mean nothing absolutely nothing whatsoever everything must be motivated by love And I left you in our last heart-to-heart talk Concerning this thing of love in the individual life Love Suffer with long Don't stop there the Word of God continues and is kind Sometimes I think there's so little real kindness in the world today So Little of forgiveness That's another word. That's completely out of the human vocabulary You know, we've been adding so many new words the human vocabulary It seems like every time I have a conversation with somebody especially the youth of today I become aware of the fact that that's so many new words are being added to the human vocabulary And on the other hand There are so many words being taken out from the human vocabulary and Another one of those words taken out is the word kindness We hear a little about kindness You know once Peter Having his own theology Having his own theology like a lot of folks today Went to the Lord and said I'm telling you something I'm having difficulty in forgiving my brethren and I've just come to the conclusion that Once is all right To forgive him twice I can do that I'm straining a little in forgiving him five times I've almost reached the end in forgiving him six times But seven times is the limit I'll forgive him seven times and then after that I'll take the matter in my own hands And I'll give him what he deserves That was Peter's theology when it comes to forgiveness and kindness What did the master say? Oh, he says you poor child of mine. Oh Dear me Forgive him Seven day times seven and then if he still needs forgiveness Just keep on pouring it on for real love self-wit long and is kind And I left you By giving that wonderful illustration in what Jacob said about one of his sons He was talking about Joseph and He said Joseph is a fruitful bow a fruitful bow by a fountain His branches run over the wall That's beautiful And to think a father said that about one of his sons Joseph is a fruitful bow But he didn't stop there a fruitful bow by a fountain His branches run over the wall More Than anything else I Want to go that second mile. I want to go that third mile. I Want to do more than is expected of me More than even my Lord expects of me for I must please him first Then I want to do more than my brethren expect I Want to go beyond that which my Enemies even expect of me Not the third mile but the fourth mile the fifth mile his branches run over the wall Something for the man next door something for the outsider Love suffereth long and is kind What next? love Envieth not That is to say the ear is never undervaluing itself because It's is not the eye The ear is rejoicing in the brilliance of the eye It's not Anything that someone else possesses Stop right there Don't just hurry over these things We talk about love everybody's talking about love Everybody no matter where you go love love There those today who are wearing certain clothes To to try to impress upon people what they stand for love But love isn't in just your dress Or the length of your hair love is something that you do That's it Love is never jealous Love Envieth not And this is not only for the one with the long hair But is for the man in the pulpit in clerical robe That's another kind of dress and sometimes I Think that we find more jealousy in the pulpit That we find more jealousy in the pulpit Then we'll find anywhere else in the world why it is. I do not know don't ask me. I don't have the answer But very often I Think that we find more jealousy In clerical robe than in any form of dress you Want me to hurry on past that? But it's there You know it'd be wonderful If those who are members the body of Christ would realize and acknowledge the fact That we are in the same body The body of Christ that Christ himself is the head And if one in the body the body to whom we belong is Successful is winning soul to Lord Jesus Christ is doing more than we are doing can say oh I rejoice in it I Rejoice in it And we stand on the sideline and we applaud Because it is the same family to whom we belong it is the same body to which we are born into If only we could do that do you want to know something? We'd win the world for God If we could manifest that love of the Lord Jesus Christ to that degree Where we rejoice in our brother's success And we do everything humanly possible to help him to succeed Literally the world would see the love of Christ Manifested through our lives and we'd win the unconverted and unregenerated for God Do you want to know who my worst critics are today? Not the man on the street Not the hippie not the unregenerated But very often One who is a member of the clergy I Said a mouthful Do you want to know who understands Catherine Cooman the least? Not the hippie Not the sinner But the one who professes religion Love Enriching Mm-hmm love endeth not It means Do not envy anything that someone else possesses Love vaunteth not itself Oh now If you're doing something stop doing it right now and listen very closely. This is practical If only you and I would get back to the word of god, it has everything the word of god has all the answers Do you want to know the greatest need in the world today? Is the lack of our knowledge of the word of god? If man would just come back again And go to the bible and see what the bible really teaches and get back again to the word of god the laws of god instead of living contrary To the laws of god the word of god and you see that's the reason we've gotten ourselves in such a mess is because We're all living contrary to what the bible teaches We're living contrary to god's laws and god's rules And we've gotten ourselves in the state that we're in today Love vaunteth not itself And the whole emphasis here is on the word itself that little word itself Love that talks of loving is not love You know I get scared of these people Who constantly are telling me how much they love me? Oh Miss kuhlman miss kuhlman Oh, I love you. I love you. I love you I love you. I love you I found out a long time ago That those are the people who'd be the very first ones to turn on you If something would happen Is the person who never talks about how much they love you? Love but who show their love by doing Their uh confidence in you Their loyalty to you they're right there when you need them There are some folk who have never told me that they love me never and yet I know That if I needed them they'd be right there Through thick and thin they'd be right there I could call on them night or day. They'd be right there Love vaunteth not itself What a man has to come home and say to his wife Oh Oh, darling, I love you. I love you. I love you. I'm gonna tell you something If papa ever had come home and said emma, I just love you. I love you Mama would say joe What's up now? What have you been doing, you know Kind of like that if that husband of yours Has to keep telling you that he loves you he loves you You will know something When there is real love In the heart of that husband He'll work the flesh and blood He'll work the flesh off his bones to give to his little family a nice home life I didn't say a mansion I didn't say Stakes at every dinner I didn't say the finest car in the block. I didn't say that But when he really loves he'll give to his little family the best that he can afford the very best He'll work he'll sacrifice love is something that you do And he isn't continually saying I'm doing this because I love you I'm sacrificing because I love you I'm giving because I love you he doesn't have to You know In your own heart that he is doing it because he loves you Why in the world you think That papa ate mama's burnt cookies And sat there and said emma these cookies are so good Well, i'm gonna tell you something Well, i'm gonna tell you something the neighbor's dog wouldn't have eaten those burnt cookies But papa loved mama Mama wasn't a very good cook I don't think she'd mind if I would tell you that Mama wasn't a good cook. She was never a slave to her kitchen And yet papa would say oh emma I would rather eat your food Than Bale's best cooking are the best dinner in any restaurant Wasn't mama's good cooking it was just because papa loved mama and some of you wives Can put the best meal in the world on the table if your husband doesn't like you I dare say he doesn't even know what he's eating When he sits down at the table and eats Your wonderful cooking there's something about love. There's something about love everybody's talking about it But yet you have to go to the word of god You want to really analyze love and break it apart And see what it's made of Love vaunted not itself Love that talks of loving is not love and so it is with our love for the master When somebody goes around and has to constantly tell you how much they love the lord Oh I love him. Oh I love the lord You don't have to tell the whole world how much You love him Your actions will speak louder than your words It's the deeds that you do it's your everyday living It's your everyday living It's the sacrifices that you make for the lord and yet love knows no such thing as a sacrifice not really That word sacrifice will never be in your vocabulary It'll be taken out completely when you love the lord enough Your giving Will never be a sacrifice never When somebody comes and said Here's a gift Use it for the lord's work And I only wish It was more I know that love prompts the giving of that gift Gift when somebody says here is a real sacrificial gift I hope you appreciate it Or maybe you're giving it because you're propositioning god, you know something like that You know good and well that love Is prompting the giving of that gift But when you can give and say I wish it were more It's all that I have It's the best that I have god knows my heart When you can say I wish there was more strength in my body with which to serve him I wish I could do more for him. I've done so little I wish there was more that my hands could do I wish I could give more than I'm giving That's love But when you have to speak of your love It is not love at all for the word of god says love wanteth not itself