WEBVTT 00:00:00.959 --> 00:00:06.080 If you got your Bibles, turn with us to 1 Corinthians also gonna be up on the screen. 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:12.080 1 Corinthians chapter 13 and verse 1, also known as known as the love chapter. 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:21.440 It's a chapter that you hear a lot around Valentine's and weddings and all that good stuff, and nothing wrong with that. 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:27.920 But I know that we just came out of the discipleship uh six week about talking about walking in love. 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:32.960 It is not easy to walk in love, is it? 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:40.320 Especially when those that you're walking in love toward aren't showing love backwards to you. 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:41.520 It's hard. 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:43.200 So, amen. 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:44.719 But we're gonna get into it here. 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:45.679 Let's pray. 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:52.240 Father, I just ask you to anoint me because God, apart from your anointing, I cannot accomplish anything. 00:00:52.399 --> 00:01:07.519 But Lord, your word is anointed, and I pray, God, that you would take that anointed word and you would anoint me to speak your word in the way and the in the path that you have for us tonight, and that God, it would be us receiving from you, not them hearing from me. 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:09.760 Because God, we need to hear from you tonight. 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:15.840 We ask you, Lord, in the mighty name of Jesus, to do this for your glory and for your honor, and your glory and honor alone. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:17.120 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:18.319 And everybody say, Amen. 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:22.799 First Corinthians chapter 13. 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:25.120 We're going to begin reading in verse number one. 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:28.239 Notice the first word. 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:38.319 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging symbol. 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:52.640 And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 00:01:55.120 --> 00:02:06.000 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love I gain nothing. 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.039 Love is patient and kind. 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:11.280 Love does not envy or boast. 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:15.439 It is not arrogant or rude. 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.039 It does not insist on its own way. 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:26.719 It is not irritable or resentful. 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:31.439 If you haven't got convicted yet, praise God for you. 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:42.000 Verse six, it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:54.000 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:57.439 Love never ends. 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.319 As for prophecies, they will pass away. 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:02.560 As for tongues, they will cease. 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.680 As for knowledge, it will pass away. 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:14.639 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:20.400 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.800 When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:31.360 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:40.400 Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:44.319 So now faith, hope, and love abide. 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:45.680 These three. 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:49.599 But the greatest of these is love. 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:51.759 Father, thank you again for your word. 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:57.599 We ask you, God, that your word would sink deep into our heart and that we would be changed through the word. 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:07.199 That God, we would not resist the word, but if the word is speaking to us and it is, Lord, let us listen and let us be doers of the word as you have called us to be. 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:08.240 In Jesus' name. 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:09.680 Everybody said, Amen. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:22.560 There's a lot of ifs as we read this chapter, or not all of it, but yeah, we did. 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:24.079 We read all of it. 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:35.920 There's a lot of ifs in this chapter, if I speak in the tongues of men, if I don't have love, and if I have prophetic powers, and if I have all faith, right? 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:42.639 And if I give away all that I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned and don't have love, I gain nothing. 00:04:42.800 --> 00:05:03.920 It if I do a lot of things that from the outward seems good and righteous and holy, but the backing of the motivation is not one of love, they accomplish nothing. 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:19.920 You see, it is easy to have a presentation of righteousness, but not really be rooted in a foundation of God's righteousness. 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:26.720 And I want to be clear when I say God's righteousness, I mean obviously, you know, he's God, Christ's righteousness. 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:29.920 And what why does that matter when I'm talking about love? 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:35.199 Because I love because he first loved me. 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:40.079 That has got to be the premise of us loving others. 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:44.720 So many times we'll say, but Pastor, you don't understand it is hard to love them, and it is. 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:57.439 And they're hateful and they're mean and they're cantankerous, they're backbiting, they they talk about me behind my back, they say things that sometimes is true but still hurtful and ways that is hurtful, and you just you just don't get it. 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:01.439 And look, we all get it, we've all been there at some point in time. 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.079 If you've been in any type of ministry, you get it. 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:04.800 Amen. 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:11.600 And you say type of ministry, it could be street ministry, it could be, you know, lemonade ministry, it could be anything. 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:15.519 And if they because it let's say Michael started doing a lemonade ministry. 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:23.360 Well, that'd be some people complain that it ain't strong enough, it ain't sweet enough, it's too high, it's too cheap. 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:26.240 It's he don't come around enough, he needs to do it on this day, that day. 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:30.560 I I mean they would be complaining, and look, and he's giving it away, basically. 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:33.439 There'd be somebody complaining about it. 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:34.800 Well, guess what? 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:36.160 That's life. 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:49.199 But when we think about how love is that Christ is calling us to, amen, we have to be reminded that he loved me first, amen. 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:57.360 And it's because he loved me that I should love others, and how he loved me is how I'm supposed to love others. 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:06.879 Because if I do all the presentation, but without the foundation, then I'm on sinking sand and it will go nowhere. 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:08.800 It will fall apart. 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:38.399 And so when we think about loving others that is difficult, that is hard, we first got to realize, and I think this is hard for most of us, maybe, maybe not, but to be genuinely, because we live in a society today that tells us that, you know, we tell our kids, and I'm not meaning this toward any of the kids here, but the world as a whole will say to their kids, you know, uh, you're a puppy's breath, you're Skittles, you're, you know, you're you're just wonderful. 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:42.480 You're, and what I mean by that is you're just per, you know, you're just amazing. 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:45.680 You you just you're just awesome. 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:57.680 And we do need to encourage our kids, don't misunderstand me, but they also need to understand that they're rank, dead, when they get to the point they can understand, going to hell without Jesus sinners. 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:00.879 And not pull any punches. 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:11.839 They need to understand that, yes, they're a blessing, and we love you, and we're here to support you, but unless you get saved, you're not going to heaven. 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:13.120 Amen. 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:31.120 And so many times, we was me and me and brother uh Nelson was talking about this earlier today, a lot of parents, not him, but a lot of parents, they're more concerned about what college their kids are going to get into instead of worrying more about it, they're getting into heaven. 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:36.080 And a lot of times that's because we don't think we're that bad. 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:38.480 We are bad. 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.279 How do you know we're bad? 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:47.360 Well, because Jesus had to suffer a grueling, terrible death because of all of our sins. 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:52.799 So if we ever forget, you say, but what's this got to do with that about love? 00:08:52.960 --> 00:09:09.279 Well, because if we judge our the how we love others based on how we think we should be treated, amen, and maybe they've done all kinds of the wrong things, we first got to not forget that we are not just the offended, but we are first the offender. 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:13.039 Well, I didn't do it to them. 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:15.200 Yeah, but you did it to Christ. 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:19.679 You did it to him. 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:28.080 It is because of me and you that he had to suffer and die and was beaten and was ridiculed and was rejected. 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:29.039 It is terrible. 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:34.960 If we can ever get how terrible sin is, we wouldn't live in it anymore. 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:38.159 We need a revelation of how terrible it is. 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:39.919 I do, you do. 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:41.519 We need to be reminded every day. 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:46.559 Not that we're still in it, but that we need to stay away from it. 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:49.440 Jesus says it this way. 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:52.240 Kind of important guy. 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:55.200 For the wages of sin is what? 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:56.799 Death. 00:09:58.159 --> 00:09:58.799 Death. 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:04.320 Now I know we love the second part of it, and we're gonna quote it, but the wages of sin is death. 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:06.720 Sin kills. 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:08.159 Amen. 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:14.080 That's why he told Adam and Eve in the garden that the day you eat it, you will what? 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:15.200 Die. 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:23.120 When you eat what I told you not to eat, when you break my command, when you when you uh do what I've commanded you not to do, you're gonna die. 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.600 And the and the smart person will say, Well, but they didn't die. 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:26.799 Oh, but they did. 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:30.080 They died spiritually. 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:31.519 Amen. 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:32.879 They died. 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:36.240 And the wages of sin is death. 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:41.279 But, he said, the gift of God is eternal life. 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:44.879 But notice what the wording there is. 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:47.279 And I'm getting back into the scripture, I promise you. 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:49.440 Look, notice the wording there. 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:52.080 But the what, the gift. 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:56.080 Do you buy the gift for yourself? 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:58.559 Some people do, but typically no, you don't. 00:10:59.120 --> 00:10:59.440 Right? 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:15.279 When somebody gives you a gift, when I one day am able to give Brother Michael a 2085, because that'll probably be when it is, but a 2085, uh, 3500 HD, brand new, give him the keys. 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:16.159 Brother, I just love you. 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:16.879 Here you go. 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:18.399 Just want to give it to you. 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:19.279 Right? 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:20.399 Yeah. 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:36.879 When we are able to do that, I mean, so many times we we want to do things, but then we forget, amen, that it is God, amen, that has done so much for us, and we forget that we're the ones that had first offended him. 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:46.000 We're the ones that have first are the ones that it's because of us that he first loved us, that he died for us. 00:11:46.080 --> 00:12:01.200 And so when we think about the way of love, when we think about a man showing love to others, we got to be reminded of just how bad it was that we were, so that we're not just thinking of being offended, but that we're the offender. 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:10.159 And if we remind ourselves that we're the offender, then we will be more apt to forgive the offender who's offended us. 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:12.320 You say, what's that got to do with anything? 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:16.240 Well, because he tells us in verse 4, love is patient and kind. 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:26.080 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, it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:30.000 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:32.879 Love never ends. 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:42.799 So if I want to have that kind of love, I got to be reminded that somebody first loved me that way. 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:49.840 That while I was still a sinner, Christ died for me. 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:54.000 That he said, I didn't choose him, he chose me. 00:12:55.679 --> 00:13:02.480 That on his final breaths on the cross, he was saying, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:14.559 That's the kind of love that we have been loved with by Christ, and that's the kind of love he is calling us to love others, not because they haven't offended or hurt or whatever, filling the blank. 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:16.399 We're not making light of that at all. 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:19.519 But we leave judgment to God. 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:25.679 We say, God, you see what they did, you understand how it hurt, and Lord, I put it in your hands. 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:31.600 There may be a time where they need to go to them, let them know, because the Bible tells us to go to them and let them know that they offended you or whatever. 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:33.360 Do that according to Scripture. 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:34.000 Amen. 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:38.799 But at the end of the day, it's in his hands, not in mine and yours. 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:47.360 And so when we think about love and we think about how so many times we hear this and we think about, well, you know, we've got to be patient, all this stuff. 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:51.840 We don't want to be with those that it's difficult because we think we're better than them. 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:54.080 Well, I don't do that. 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:58.480 Yeah, but what do you do that you don't realize you do that other people could tell you that you do? 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:02.720 Maybe you don't do what they do, but you do other things. 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:03.759 How do you know? 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:04.799 Because you ain't perfect. 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:05.360 How do you know? 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:06.720 Because you're still here. 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:10.480 If you were perfect, then you'd be in heaven right now. 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:11.840 But you're not. 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:14.480 So there's still some work to be done. 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:15.440 Amen. 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:31.440 So when we stop and we think about the way that God loves us and that he expects us to love others, the first thing, amen, that we've got to understand is that if I'm gonna love others the way he's loved me, and look, it's a process, and we gotta need, we have to have the help of the Holy Spirit. 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:32.639 We can't do it in ourselves. 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:33.120 Amen. 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:44.559 But if we're gonna do that, my the first most critical thing is to understand the mindset that I have must be in the understanding that I am a sinner apart from the grace of God. 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:51.200 Now we're not anymore because he's forgiven us, but apart from the grace and the forgiveness of God, I would be lost. 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.000 Every one of us would be. 00:14:54.720 --> 00:15:00.399 And if I remind myself of that, then it's way easier for me to forgive somebody else when they offend me. 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:03.440 It's way easier to forgive someone else when they wrong me. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:08.720 Because how much more have I wronged and offended Christ and God Almighty? 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:11.200 Tremendously. 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:14.240 Tremendously. 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:25.919 Starting in verse eight, that as for prophecies, they will pass away. 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:27.519 As for tongues, they will cease. 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:29.120 As for knowledge, it will pass away. 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:29.840 Why? 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:32.480 Because when the perfect comes. 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:35.840 When the perfect comes, when does the perfect come? 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:38.639 When we get into heaven, when we get to be with Jesus. 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:42.960 When the perfect comes, we won't need those because we're going to have him. 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:44.080 Amen. 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:46.559 We won't, he's going to answer us. 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:47.840 He's going to know what we're going to say. 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:51.039 He already does, but he's going to answer us before we can finish speaking. 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:54.000 The Bible tells us that he is going to be the light of the city. 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:55.200 We ain't going to need the sun. 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:56.399 Amen. 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:01.200 So when we think about, well, why is this, you know, the prophecies and all that stuff to end? 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:02.320 Because the perfect has come. 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:05.600 But look what he says: love never ends. 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:09.600 And we say, well, God's love, so he doesn't end. 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:10.240 Yes, that's true. 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:11.279 That's one of his attributes. 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:12.320 And he never ends. 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:12.960 Amen. 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:17.840 But I am convinced that when we love like God, that love never ends. 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:25.039 When we love like God, that love never ends, because God is love and he never ends. 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:29.120 And so when we love like God, that love never ends. 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:32.159 There's a world today that is looking for love. 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:36.480 They're looking for that acknowledgement in their life. 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:46.000 They're looking for other people to acknowledge them and to see them when really they're just looking for the love of God. 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:54.000 When really they're looking for the divine love of God that comes only from God that you can't get from anybody else. 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:56.639 Look how many people write songs about love. 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:01.360 Lost it, need it, can't find it, hurt from it. 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:13.759 I mean, if we was to count up, I'm telling you, the old saying is if you back up certain country songs, you know, you get your dog back, your house back, your car back, your wife back, or whatever, you know. 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:16.000 Because you lose all that stuff. 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:18.880 Well, what is it that they're looking for? 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:19.680 They're looking for love. 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:23.839 They're looking for someone to accept them, to love them, to want them in their life. 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:25.119 And let me tell you something. 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:27.440 God wants you in his life. 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:28.319 How do I know? 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:31.519 Because Jesus stretched his arms and died on a cross for you. 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:33.359 So that you can. 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:36.000 God loves you. 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:37.039 How? 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:42.079 Well, because he says greater love has no man than this, that he lays his life down for his friends. 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:44.400 Amen. 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:45.920 Jesus has died. 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:47.200 He loves you. 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:50.240 You say, Well, I don't always feel that love. 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:54.079 Well, if there's anybody in your life that you love, you don't always feel it. 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:55.759 But you know it. 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:05.519 I mean, I don't have to wonder if my wife loves me or my daughter loves me or my mom loves me or whatever my boys love me. 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:06.400 I mean, I don't. 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:07.279 I know they do. 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:10.960 They don't always like what I do, but they love me. 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:13.440 That's what really love is. 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:15.519 Is they love me anyway. 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:18.400 Well, what's this got to do with anything? 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:24.640 Well, understand this: that the way that God wants us to love is like Him, and we can't have a presentation. 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:28.000 We need that without the, we've got to have a foundation, which is the love of God. 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:28.480 Amen. 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:32.559 Is that we're believing that God is going to do great things in people's lives. 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:41.519 I am praying and I am believing that we're going to see marriages restored, friendships restored, souls saved, bodies healed, people filled, amazing things happen. 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:45.359 Let me tell you, but all of that is nothing if we don't love them. 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:53.680 If we don't love people when they come in, and sometimes some of them's gonna come in and they ain't nowhere close to being saved. 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:54.640 That's okay. 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:57.920 It's not like we're trying to put them on the board. 00:18:58.559 --> 00:18:58.880 Okay. 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:02.720 Now maybe one day, praise God. 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:09.519 But no, and they may come in and they may not look like you, act like you, talk like you. 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:10.559 But you know what? 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:12.720 Thank God it ain't about me and you. 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:15.359 It's about Jesus. 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:24.640 And Jesus got fishermen, Jesus got tax collector, Jesus got people that was insignificant and hated. 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:26.880 You know, people hated tax collectors. 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:32.960 They weren't just disliked, they hated them because they had to collect for the Roman government, and then the Roman government didn't care. 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:37.119 As long as they got their amount, they could get as much more as they could from anybody else. 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:44.160 And they always chose people from among their neighbors and family and friends because they know where they hid their money at. 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.079 They was despised. 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:50.640 Guess what? 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:53.519 That's one of the ones Jesus chose. 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:55.279 Amen. 00:19:55.920 --> 00:20:04.160 Jesus chose somebody that was religiously very zealot, loved being, loved the law, loved uh being zeus for the law. 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:07.599 His name was uh Saul, but was changed to Paul. 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:16.319 He was very religious, but he didn't have no Jesus. 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:20.480 We may have somebody come in that's got full of knowledge, but they don't have Jesus. 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:22.400 Let me tell you, we gotta love them anyway. 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:25.440 You ever been around that person that you can't tell them nothing? 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:31.359 They're like a glass of water full, and they you need trying to pour something in them and it just pours out because they can't if they know everything. 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:36.400 Sometimes you just gotta love them anyway. 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:43.599 Pray that God put some holes in their glass so it comes out, and they realize they don't know everything. 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:47.759 How many ever learned that your parents got smarter the older you got? 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:53.279 It just got it's just amazing how they got smarter and smarter and smarter the older you got. 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:57.759 Well, no, it's like I heard someone say they didn't get smarter, you just quit being so dumb. 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:00.079 And I don't mean it hateful, I'm just saying. 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:02.640 When you're young, you don't know what you don't know. 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:05.200 You think you're smart, but you ain't. 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:11.119 And as you get older, you realize, hey, mom and daddy understood more than I realized they understood. 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:13.599 He said, What's that got to do with everything? 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:17.599 Well, because, amen, he says faith, hope, and love abide. 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:20.319 We talk about faith a lot, which we should. 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:22.480 I mean, we should. 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:29.279 If we have the faith of a ground and much, we can stand on this mountain, be thou removed, and cast in the sea. 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:32.400 We should have the hope, and this ain't the hope in the wishful seeking. 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:37.279 This is a firm uh assurance, a confidence that he's talking about here. 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:38.720 But he says, and love. 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:40.480 But the greatest of these is love. 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:40.799 Why? 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:44.240 Or charity, one one uh the King James renders, charity. 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:44.640 Why? 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:54.720 Because at the end of the day, if we don't really love people, if we don't love God, if we don't love in the way we do things, then it's for nothing.