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Seeking Revival: Restraining Loveless Irritability

We return to our study of the love chapter in the New Testament – 1 Corinthians 13 – and landing on the eighth quality in the love of God. This quality is to control, or constrain, the lives of His children in relationships with one another – Love is not irritable.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 13:4-5

TONIGHT

  1. Love is not irritable
  2. Definition of irritable or irritability: Acts 17:16
  3. Who displays loveless irritability?
    Mark 6:7-13, Mark 6:30-32, Mark 6:34-36
  4. When do we display loveless irritability?
    a. Emotionally charged situations and circumstances – Matthew 20:20-27
    b. Physically, emotionally, spiritually exhaustion – Proverbs 25:28
    c. Losing sight of God’s sovereignty – Genesis 50:15-21
  5. What loveless irritability does in relationships?
    a. With people: Desensitizes us toward them: Philippians 2:19-21
    b. With God: Numbers 14:1-11
  6. How is loveless irritability defeated?
    a. Keep watch over ourselves – Matt. 26:41, Prov. 4:23
    b. View people as image-bearers – not irritants – Genesis 3:26-27
    c. Remember God is constantly at work in us – Philippians 1:12-14
    d. Recognize loveless irritability as sin – Hebrews 12:1-2