Communion Sunday  

Love Suffers  

1 Corinthians 13:7 & Matthew 27:27-44  

True love is able to bear many hardships and endure many sufferings.  

The Suffering Love of Jesus 

 1. _______________ Jesus – totally exposed  

2. _______________ and beaten  

• Mocking his claim to be _______________  

• Mocking his claim to be a _______________  

“They also blindfolded him and kept asking him, “Prophesy! Who is it that struck you?” (Luke 22:64)  

• Mocking his _______________ (40)  

• Mocking his _______________ (42)  

• Mocking his _______________ (43)  

These were all reasons for Jesus to be _______________, not humiliated  

3. _______________ – the universal sign of contempt  

4. The _______________  

• _________________________  

• Public _______________  

• Spiritual _______________ (46)  

“looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”  (Hebrews 12:2)  

“He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.” (1 Peter 2:22–24)  

Responding To The Suffering Love of Jesus  

1. _________________________  

“because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”  (Romans 10:9–11)  • _______________  • _______________  

2. Profound _______________  “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:57)  

3. Loving others with a _________________________  “And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” (Ephesians 5:2)  

“For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.” (1 Peter 2:20–21)  

God may give us more than __________ can bear, but he will never give us more than __________ can bear