Ex 9; Lk 12; Job 27; 1Co 13
Egypt as object lesson.
Similar admonitions to the above in vs. 8-9 and 10, followed by a remarkable promise and reason not to worry regarding what to say or how to make one's defense...
Luke 12:12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say.”
The rest of the chapter - be ready!
Luke 12:31 Instead, pursue his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.
Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Luke 12:40 You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”
Exodus 9:15-16
15 For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth. 16 But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.
Luke 12:4-5
4 “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after the killing, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
Similar admonitions to the above in vs. 8-9 and 10, followed by a remarkable promise and reason not to worry regarding what to say or how to make one's defense...
Luke 12:12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say.”
The rest of the chapter - be ready!
Luke 12:31 Instead, pursue his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.
Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Luke 12:40 You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”
In 1 Cor. 13 Paul explains the superiority and necessity of love in the body of Christ. Gifts are temporary. They will be completely done away with "when the perfect comes." (repeats this 3 times - v. 8 with explanation in v. 9; then examples in v. 11 and v. 12) Faith, hope and love, will remain - but love is superior, the undergirding, even, for faith and hope.
8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside.
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.
12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
