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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Excellent Way: Love | February 4, 2026
- And then you find that
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- Big broad pregnant,
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- Magnificent word called agape.
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- And that word, according to g.
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- Packer, is almost, almost unique.
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- That's not really good english, but i think it fits.
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- It is almost unique to christianity.
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- It is a sacrificial love.
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- It's a total serving love
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- That is a total unselfish love.
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- It is a love willing to lay down your life.
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- It is a love that will go to any extreme
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- At any time and any place for anybody.
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- Welcome to the winning walk.
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- I'm ed yong.
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- Love is one of god's greatest gifts.
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- In fact, i think you could say it is god's greatest gift.
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- Yet is often misunderstood.
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- Biblical love is more than a feeling.
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- It's a commitment.
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- It's rooted in truth and grace and faithfulness.
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- God's word teaches us how to love well with patience,
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- Kindness, and humility
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- In a way that reflects his character.
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- We study the bible today.
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- My prayers
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- That god will deepen your understanding of his love
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- And how it transforms every area of life.
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- I thought, what if you and i
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- Had a gps system
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- By which it was directed
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- Right to almighty god,
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- And we'd ask god
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- To give us the way
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- To live, the way to life.
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- We'd say, god, i know you're there.
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- I'm sending you this message straight to your throne room.
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- Give to me.
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- Give to us
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- The way
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- To live, the way to life.
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- Would you be interested.
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- In the answer?
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- I know exactly what the edge would be.
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- In the bible, he talks about the broad way
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- That leads to destruction. you.
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- He talks about the narrow way
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- That leads to life.
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- And his son jesus says,
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- I am the way,
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- The truth, and the life.
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- So, lord, show us the way
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- We are to live
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- The way from here
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- To life forever.
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- Now we come to the third chapter
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- And it is a parenthesis.
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- It is within a parenthesis.
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- Look at it if you would.
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- If you have your bibles with you.
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- We go to the third chapter
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- And we go to the last verse of the 12th chapter.
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- Paul says,
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- And yet i will show you
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- The most excellent way.
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- That's our word, right way.
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- I'll show you the excellent way.
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- That's one end of it.
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- The other end of it is the first verse of chapter 14.
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- Follow the way of love.
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- So you have first corinthians 13
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- Defines and tells us about love.
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- And it says they find the most excellent way.
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- And then there's all the chapter on love.
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- The other in the parentheses it says the master way.
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- The only way is love
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- To god.
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- Talk about love.
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- Love is like sex.
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- We talk about it.
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- We think we know everything about it, but we really don't.
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- I'm going to have several series of messages on that.
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- So hang on, bring your asbestos suits with you.
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- But love is so confusing to most people
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- In the modern world, and especially was there in cod.
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- And it also is today.
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- You find some people say in the greek language, they had
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- Nine different words for love, some say eight, some say six.
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- Various various understandings of love.
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- But in the bible
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- There are only three
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- Different words used for love.
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- Eros is used in
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- The old testament, that is, that sensual love.
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- In the new testament we find the word for leo
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- Friendship, love. i love you as a friend.
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- And then you find that
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- Big broad pregnant,
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- Magnificent word called agape.
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- And that word, according to g.
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- Packer, is almost, almost unique.
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- That's not really good english, but i think it fits.
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- It is almost unique to christianity.
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- It is a sacrificial love.
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- It's a total serving love
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- That is a total unselfish love.
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- It is a love willing to lay down your life.
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- It is a love that will go to any extreme
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- At any time and any place for anybody.
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- Agape is not an emotional thing.
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- It is an action thing.
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- That's where we get confused.
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- How do we get to god?
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- Hey man, i found in first
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- John a very little verse there
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- That says, when we obey
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- And live by the word of god,
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- We receive god's love
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- Agape, and we are complete.
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- We obey god
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- And receive this kind of supernatural love.
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- It's not such an emotional thing.
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- It's something that we can do.
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- We can practice.
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- We're motivated by when christ comes into our life.
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- The holy spirit dwells, and we just begin
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- To overflow with this kind of.
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- Selfless love.
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- And his supernatural.
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- And this is what paul describes to us magnificently
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- In the little parentheses there in the 13th chapter.
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- Look at it, and it tells,
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- First of all, that love is indispensable.
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- And paul begins
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- By talking about himself in the first person.
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- Look at it.
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- If i, paul,
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- Speak with the tongues of man or of angels,
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- And do not have love, i'm
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- Only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
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- In other words, if i speak in the tongues,
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- In corinth, said people all the world,
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- They spoke every language, every dialect.
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- Paul said, if i had the ability to speak in whatever
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- Language, whatever tongue somebody would have, man,
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- That would be something
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- I could communicate eloquently like that.
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- He said even if i had the language of angels.
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- And by the way, all of this is hyperbole.
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- It's exaggeration to
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- Get everybody's attention,
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- To wake everybody up.
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- Paul was saying, if i had this kind of ability
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- To orate and speak in any language at any time,
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- But i don't have this agape love in my life.
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- All that i'm doing is a gong.
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- Boom. boom. boom.
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- Chuck are clashing symbols.
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- In other words, it's just noise, right?
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- If i if i don't have love.
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- So i have this great ability.
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- It's just noise.
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- Then he goes on. he said.
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- He said another.
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- If is there.
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- He speaks up.
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- He said, if i have the gift of prophecy
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- And can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
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- If i have a faith that can move mountains,
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- But i do not have love, i am nothing.
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- What he's saying there,
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- He's saying, if i
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- Could understand
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- Gnosticism big in that day, if i could understand mysterious.
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- Things about god and all the workings of the world,
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- He said, that would be good.
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- But if i don't have, love would mean anything.
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- He said, if i had the faith to move mountains,
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- And that means that
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- If you had the ability when you were in a meeting
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- Or in a situation where everybody was boxed
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- In, it seems there's no way out.
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- And this suggestion, that suggestion.
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- Paul said, if you had the ability to see through that
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- And have faith to find answers in that situation,
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- He said that would be big and important, wouldn't it?
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- We've all been there, boxed in,
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- He said. but if i even could
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- Move that mountain
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- As a tremendous leader,
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- He said, if i don't have love,
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- It doesn't mean a thing in the world.
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- You have nothing.
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- And then he says.
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- If i give all i possess.
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- Verse three
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- To the poor, and give my body to
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- Hardships that i may boast,
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- But do not have love, i am nothing.
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- Listen what he's saying.
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- Take everything you've got. everything i've got.
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- We give to the poor people.
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- They have less, they have nothing.
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- We just empty all of our resources here.
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- I give it. all to you.
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- Or we would say, man, there's a christian boy.
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- That person really sees something.
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- I so admire this kind of sacrificial living.
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- Paul said even if you do that,
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- You don't get one point with god,
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- One point with god.
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- And if i go out, i become a martyr for the faith.
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- I stand up when everybody else is sitting down,
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- And i stand for god in christ on this biblical principle,
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- And i am martyred.
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- He said.
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- That doesn't amount to anything either.
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- And without this agape love for us.
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- So your life and my life,
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- All of this stuff becomes nonsense.
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- But when that agape love is flowing,
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- Man, beautiful things happen,
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- Life doesn't always unfold the way we expect.
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- There are moments filled with uncertainty.
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- Challenges that test our strength.
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- And days
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- When encouragement feels hard to find in those moments.
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- And then we
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- Get a clear definition of what love is.
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- You say, well, what is this love?
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- He tells us clearly.
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- Look at verse, verse number four.
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- He said, love is patient.
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- Time out.
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- We go to church.
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- We hear words.
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- Love is patient.
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- Well, i'm not patient.
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- Listen, stay around patients for a while.
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- Love.
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- This kind of supernatural love is
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- Patient, man.
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- I looked at that, said, oh lord, i've.
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- Got a million. miles to go.
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- Love is patient
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- And then love is kind.
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- Don't you love to be around people who are just
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- Genuinely kind, genuinely thoughtful.
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- Genuinely listen?
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- Love is kind. are you kind?
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- Am i. kind? am i patient?
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- Are you patient? say, we have to.
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- Take this and let the lord work in your life.
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- And in my life.
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- And then he tells us
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- What love is not.
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- It does not boast him.
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- It is not proud.
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- It does not dishonor others.
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- It is not self-seeking.
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- It is not easily angered.
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- Oh, i have a temper. no, no, no.
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- Love is not easily angered.
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- It keeps no record of wrongs.
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- Man, you know this.
- 00:13:48.974 --> 00:13:50.342
- That's the third time he's done that.
- 00:13:50.342 --> 00:13:52.378
- I'm telling, i don't know.
- 00:13:52.378 --> 00:13:55.714
- Remember i thought about peter?
- 00:13:55.714 --> 00:13:57.883
- He went to jesus trying to brag.
- 00:13:57.883 --> 00:14:00.552
- He said, jesus, all we do is forgive people seven times.
- 00:14:00.552 --> 00:14:04.189
- That was a big thing.
- 00:14:04.690 --> 00:14:06.725
- Jesus said, oh no, no, no, no.
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- You know,
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- You need to give people seven times 74 to 90 times
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- And there's no end to forgiveness.
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- We do not keep a record.
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- We just are a forgiving people.
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- Love does not
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- Delight in evil, but rejoices with truth.
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- Do you ever delight some in
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- Somebody who had cut you down?
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- They collected you, deceived you, exploited you.
- 00:14:30.916 --> 00:14:34.453
- And you hear that for
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- He got what he had come into her.
- 00:14:37.056 --> 00:14:41.460
- That if i have a.
- 00:14:41.894 --> 00:14:43.896
- Oh, well delight in evil.
- 00:14:43.896 --> 00:14:49.301
- And then it says
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- It is always protected.
- 00:14:52.304 --> 00:14:54.206
- In other words, we said, this is what love is.
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- This is what love is not.
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- This is what love does.
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- It is always protects.
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- It always protects.
- 00:15:02.915 --> 00:15:04.216
- Loves always puts an umbrella over people.
- 00:15:04.216 --> 00:15:07.019
- I like that. we're protected.
- 00:15:07.019 --> 00:15:09.822
- Love is protective.
- 00:15:09.822 --> 00:15:11.590
- It's protective is what love is patient. god.
- 00:15:11.590 --> 00:15:16.095
- This is what love is not.
- 00:15:16.095 --> 00:15:18.163
- And then we see.
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- What love does.
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- It is protective.
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- It's always protective.
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- It always trust.
- 00:15:27.139 --> 00:15:29.541
- Always hopes.
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- Always preserves.
- 00:15:31.443 --> 00:15:33.846
- Do you see how high this is?
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- But how magnificent it is?
- 00:15:37.683 --> 00:15:39.985
- What is that?
- 00:15:39.985 --> 00:15:41.086
- Operating your family in this church in relation to.
- 00:15:41.086 --> 00:15:43.889
- If we do anything, be different, by the way.
- 00:15:43.889 --> 00:15:46.458
- This is what heaven is like.
- 00:15:46.458 --> 00:15:48.060
- It's just full of agape.
- 00:15:48.060 --> 00:15:49.828
- It's full of love, full of joy, full of celebration.
- 00:15:49.828 --> 00:15:54.266
- So we see paul says very clearly,
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- If i have all this, don't have, i have love doesn't
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- Mean a thing. he uses hyperbole.
- 00:16:01.340 --> 00:16:04.209
- Then he say, this is what love is.
- 00:16:04.209 --> 00:16:05.944
- This is what love is not, and this is what love does.
- 00:16:05.944 --> 00:16:09.448
- He gives us for things.
- 00:16:09.448 --> 00:16:12.284
- And then he says something
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- That boom over the top,
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- Staggering.
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- Listen to this.
- 00:16:20.659 --> 00:16:22.895
- Love never.
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- Fails.
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- Your translation
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- Might say something else.
- 00:16:31.103 --> 00:16:33.906
- It's the.
- 00:16:33.906 --> 00:16:34.573
- It may say love never ends.
- 00:16:34.573 --> 00:16:37.709
- It may say even love never falls.
- 00:16:38.410 --> 00:16:41.580
- That's a train word, isn't it?
- 00:16:41.580 --> 00:16:44.349
- But. but love never does fall.
- 00:16:44.349 --> 00:16:46.418
- We talked about falling in love.
- 00:16:46.418 --> 00:16:48.687
- But love never falls away.
- 00:16:48.687 --> 00:16:51.690
- Love just keeps on coming.
- 00:16:51.690 --> 00:16:54.827
- The more we practice love, we don't run out of it.
- 00:16:54.827 --> 00:16:58.130
- The more love we get.
- 00:16:58.130 --> 00:17:00.666
- But then the move with the holy spirit in your life.
- 00:17:00.666 --> 00:17:03.869
- In my life and these areas, amazing things begin to happen.
- 00:17:03.869 --> 00:17:08.440
- It's supernatural.
- 00:17:08.874 --> 00:17:10.876
- Love never fails,
- 00:17:10.876 --> 00:17:13.078
- Never ends, never falls away.
- 00:17:13.078 --> 00:17:15.814
- The more you use it, the more you begin to get.
- 00:17:15.814 --> 00:17:18.650
- In this agape sense.
- 00:17:18.650 --> 00:17:21.720
- And then he moves on and explains
- 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:24.056
- That even clearer.
- 00:17:24.056 --> 00:17:26.758
- He says, but there are when they're prophecies.
- 00:17:26.758 --> 00:17:30.529
- By the way, prophecy used in the bible
- 00:17:30.529 --> 00:17:32.731
- Is used to foretell the future
- 00:17:32.731 --> 00:17:36.802
- And is used to tell forth prophecy
- 00:17:36.802 --> 00:17:40.372
- Is more proclamation than it is prediction by the future.
- 00:17:40.372 --> 00:17:44.543
- What do you see the word well there?
- 00:17:44.543 --> 00:17:46.512
- No, no, it's proclamation,
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- He says.
- 00:17:49.948 --> 00:17:51.216
- But word there are prophecies.
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- They will cease
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- Where there tongues may be.
- 00:17:54.887 --> 00:17:56.321
- Glossolalia is there?
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- There will be stilled.
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- Where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
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- Then i'll love this night.
- 00:18:03.729 --> 00:18:04.997
- Verse four.
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- We know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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- But when the completeness comes,
- 00:18:09.334 --> 00:18:12.104
- What is in part disappears and images
- 00:18:12.104 --> 00:18:15.107
- Part again down in next the last first of words.
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- Everything we have now is in part here.
- 00:18:18.977 --> 00:18:22.014
- We got a part of this.
- 00:18:22.014 --> 00:18:23.215
- We know a part of this.
- 00:18:23.215 --> 00:18:24.883
- We've experienced a part of this.
- 00:18:24.883 --> 00:18:26.685
- It's like having a giant puzzle.
- 00:18:26.685 --> 00:18:29.454
- Then paul said, look at that word when completeness comes.
- 00:18:29.454 --> 00:18:32.958
- Remember first john,
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- We obey the lord.
- 00:18:35.827 --> 00:18:36.929
- We get the love of god, and that love completes us.
- 00:18:36.929 --> 00:18:41.233
- Or when maturity
- 00:18:41.633 --> 00:18:42.801
- Comes, your word may say perfection.
- 00:18:42.801 --> 00:18:45.938
- What does that mean?
- 00:18:46.405 --> 00:18:48.607
- All these parts.
- 00:18:48.607 --> 00:18:52.477
- With the god they love,
- 00:18:52.978 --> 00:18:54.112
- They begin to come together.
- 00:18:54.112 --> 00:18:56.982
- And there is a completeness.
- 00:18:56.982 --> 00:18:58.884
- There.
- 00:18:58.884 --> 00:19:00.619
- There is a maturity there.
- 00:19:00.619 --> 00:19:02.788
- There's a perfection there.
- 00:19:02.788 --> 00:19:04.923
- And all of a sudden, you and i in christ begin to function
- 00:19:04.923 --> 00:19:09.595
- And live in a way we never thought possible.
- 00:19:09.595 --> 00:19:14.533
- That's what happens to us when completeness comes.
- 00:19:14.533 --> 00:19:17.803
- You see, all life begins to come together.
- 00:19:18.704 --> 00:19:22.341
- And there's a maturity there.
- 00:19:22.975 --> 00:19:25.344
- There's an understanding there.
- 00:19:25.344 --> 00:19:26.712
- And this part i didn't get over here in my life.
- 00:19:26.712 --> 00:19:30.282
- Or i begin to see how it fits over here and.
- 00:19:30.282 --> 00:19:32.918
- That which i could
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- Not comprehend, and that which i thought was terrible.
- 00:19:34.019 --> 00:19:37.556
- All that completeness comes there.
- 00:19:37.556 --> 00:19:40.392
- And then he talks about what this maturity is.
- 00:19:40.392 --> 00:19:43.362
- He talks about child, children.
- 00:19:43.362 --> 00:19:46.865
- He said, but we know in part and when we prophesy in part,
- 00:19:48.033 --> 00:19:51.036
- But when completeness, there's our word comes
- 00:19:51.036 --> 00:19:54.973
- What is and part disappears.
- 00:19:54.973 --> 00:19:57.576
- Then he says, when i was a child,
- 00:19:57.576 --> 00:20:00.078
- I talked like a child.
- 00:20:00.078 --> 00:20:02.080
- I thought like a child.
- 00:20:02.080 --> 00:20:03.348
- I reasoned like a child.
- 00:20:03.348 --> 00:20:05.050
- But when i became a man or a woman, bar mitzvah, whatever,
- 00:20:05.050 --> 00:20:08.787
- I put the ways of childhood behind me.
- 00:20:08.787 --> 00:20:11.590
- Listen, when i was a little guy, i played marbles
- 00:20:11.590 --> 00:20:15.260
- Ball again.
- 00:20:15.594 --> 00:20:16.628
- Maybe you got i played marbles, i'd climb trees,
- 00:20:16.628 --> 00:20:20.299
- I built forts,
- 00:20:20.632 --> 00:20:23.135
- Man. i followed everybody that would come by.
- 00:20:23.135 --> 00:20:26.004
- I had a little sword.
- 00:20:26.505 --> 00:20:28.674
- I was a child, you know, i thought like a child.
- 00:20:28.674 --> 00:20:32.044
- And i reasoned like a child.
- 00:20:32.044 --> 00:20:34.246
- I live like a child.
- 00:20:34.246 --> 00:20:35.580
- Nothing wrong with that.
- 00:20:35.580 --> 00:20:37.316
- But you know what?
- 00:20:37.316 --> 00:20:38.750
- When they showed me a football
- 00:20:39.351 --> 00:20:42.354
- And a basketball and a baseball,
- 00:20:42.354 --> 00:20:44.790
- You know, i didn't spend time shooting marbles
- 00:20:44.790 --> 00:20:47.793
- Or building forward to climbing trees.
- 00:20:47.793 --> 00:20:49.695
- I just that was all behind me.
- 00:20:49.695 --> 00:20:52.631
- It was over.
- 00:20:52.964 --> 00:20:54.533
- That's what happens to us in christ.
- 00:20:54.533 --> 00:20:57.336
- We grow up, we mature.
- 00:20:57.336 --> 00:20:58.704
- And there's a completeness there.
- 00:20:58.704 --> 00:21:01.306
- There is a wholeness there.
- 00:21:01.306 --> 00:21:03.208
- That's what a god. does to us.
- 00:21:03.208 --> 00:21:05.577
- That when our motivations get proper,
- 00:21:05.577 --> 00:21:08.547
- That's what our motivations become pure.
- 00:21:08.547 --> 00:21:11.383
- That's then
- 00:21:11.383 --> 00:21:12.584
- When our motivations in life become knowledgeable to god.
- 00:21:12.584 --> 00:21:15.921
- He says, that's my boy, that's my gal.
- 00:21:15.921 --> 00:21:19.124
- That's my son, that's my daughter.
- 00:21:19.124 --> 00:21:21.460
- That's my family.
- 00:21:21.460 --> 00:21:24.129
- Completeness comes and then he moves on.
- 00:21:24.129 --> 00:21:27.899
- In this passage
- 00:21:27.899 --> 00:21:30.335
- And he says,
- 00:21:30.335 --> 00:21:32.504
- For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror.
- 00:21:32.504 --> 00:21:36.575
- Then we shall see face to face.
- 00:21:37.209 --> 00:21:40.145
- Now i know in part another one of those parts,
- 00:21:41.113 --> 00:21:44.483
- Then i shall know fully, even as i am fully known.
- 00:21:44.483 --> 00:21:48.820
- In other words, by the way, corinth made mirrors.
- 00:21:48.820 --> 00:21:52.224
- They were known for mirrors.
- 00:21:52.224 --> 00:21:53.892
- They would take steel and shine it,
- 00:21:53.892 --> 00:21:56.762
- And they would look at it, and you would see
- 00:21:56.762 --> 00:21:58.864
- An image of partial image.
- 00:21:58.864 --> 00:22:01.600
- And in that day they would take bone.
- 00:22:01.600 --> 00:22:04.269
- And that's what windows were made out of.
- 00:22:04.269 --> 00:22:06.338
- Bone you could see out, but it was blurry.
- 00:22:06.338 --> 00:22:08.874
- You could see an image
- 00:22:08.874 --> 00:22:10.041
- In that polished steel, but not clearly.
- 00:22:10.041 --> 00:22:13.011
- But paul says, once we will see
- 00:22:13.011 --> 00:22:15.313
- Face to face,
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- Face to face.
- 00:22:17.449 --> 00:22:19.551
- You see a picture.
- 00:22:19.551 --> 00:22:20.952
- Then you see face to face.
- 00:22:20.952 --> 00:22:24.656
- Paul. that's something.
- 00:22:25.157 --> 00:22:26.758
- That's the anticipation of us graduating and being with god.
- 00:22:26.758 --> 00:22:31.163
- And somehow, some way,
- 00:22:31.163 --> 00:22:32.964
- We have an image and experience with god in christ.
- 00:22:32.964 --> 00:22:36.435
- But one day we will see face to face.
- 00:22:36.435 --> 00:22:39.571
- And as we have known, we begin to know the word know.
- 00:22:39.571 --> 00:22:44.176
- And the bible is an intimate word, a relationship word.
- 00:22:44.176 --> 00:22:48.513
- Adam knew
- 00:22:48.814 --> 00:22:49.681
- Eve, paul with that intimacy.
- 00:22:49.681 --> 00:22:53.084
- And to know it says, as we have been known intimately.
- 00:22:53.084 --> 00:22:57.222
- So we begin to know intimately, and we will see face to face,
- 00:22:57.222 --> 00:23:01.326
- And we'll get assignments from god
- 00:23:01.326 --> 00:23:04.296
- All the way through eternity.
- 00:23:04.296 --> 00:23:06.731
- And then the last little verse
- 00:23:06.731 --> 00:23:09.000
- Here is a powerful verse.
- 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:12.003
- And now these three remain faith,
- 00:23:12.704 --> 00:23:17.976
- Hope and love.
- 00:23:18.310 --> 00:23:21.313
- But the greatest of these
- 00:23:21.313 --> 00:23:23.782
- Is love.
- 00:23:23.782 --> 00:23:24.583
- Now wait a minute.
- 00:23:24.583 --> 00:23:26.351
- You mean we're going to have to have faith in heaven?
- 00:23:26.351 --> 00:23:28.820
- It may remain these three remains.
- 00:23:28.820 --> 00:23:31.556
- Absolutely.
- 00:23:31.890 --> 00:23:33.625
- Because in heaven you see,
- 00:23:33.625 --> 00:23:35.827
- We're not just float around with our wings.
- 00:23:35.827 --> 00:23:37.863
- Folks, i'm
- 00:23:37.863 --> 00:23:39.064
- Sorry to tell you that that's not going to be the agenda
- 00:23:39.064 --> 00:23:42.000
- In heaven.
- 00:23:42.300 --> 00:23:43.401
- We're going to be able to fulfill all that we didn't
- 00:23:43.401 --> 00:23:45.770
- Get to fulfill on this earth, man.
- 00:23:45.770 --> 00:23:48.874
- Oh, all of it.
- 00:23:49.207 --> 00:23:50.141
- And he goes, and we have to have faith.
- 00:23:50.141 --> 00:23:51.943
- That boy, the next eon that we'll have,
- 00:23:51.943 --> 00:23:54.646
- What god will give us faith to grow and expand.
- 00:23:54.646 --> 00:23:57.616
- We don't shrivel up. we don't say the same.
- 00:23:57.616 --> 00:24:00.218
- That's the faith is an act we have hope of.
- 00:24:01.119 --> 00:24:03.822
- We can't imagine what will be.
- 00:24:03.822 --> 00:24:06.825
- C.s. lewis said, if we met somebody we've known
- 00:24:06.825 --> 00:24:09.861
- All of our life and bang, we'd be before them in heaven.
- 00:24:09.861 --> 00:24:14.232
- That would be such a magnificent specimen
- 00:24:14.232 --> 00:24:17.702
- That we want to bow down and worship,
- 00:24:17.702 --> 00:24:20.672
- Because there's a whole new resurrection body
- 00:24:20.672 --> 00:24:23.775
- There, a whole new resurrected life there.
- 00:24:23.775 --> 00:24:26.745
- We'll know as we've been known,
- 00:24:26.745 --> 00:24:28.547
- And we'll have to have faith, and words have hope,
- 00:24:28.547 --> 00:24:31.316
- And we will have to have love, because all of heaven's
- 00:24:31.316 --> 00:24:35.687
- Domain is filled with the god they love.
- 00:24:35.687 --> 00:24:40.358
- Can you imagine it?
- 00:24:40.358 --> 00:24:42.594
- You know, i thought about
- 00:24:42.594 --> 00:24:45.163
- Just taking people out of the audience here
- 00:24:45.163 --> 00:24:47.399
- And bringing somebody say, man, just love this person.
- 00:24:47.399 --> 00:24:50.235
- Completely love that.
- 00:24:50.235 --> 00:24:51.403
- And we just go around and boy, if that was an atmosphere.
- 00:24:51.403 --> 00:24:56.141
- There'd be fire and
- 00:24:56.608 --> 00:24:57.642
- Lightning and joy and celebration.
- 00:24:57.642 --> 00:25:00.712
- When we walk in one another's shoes,
- 00:25:01.513 --> 00:25:04.482
- We pour ourselves into another life.
- 00:25:04.482 --> 00:25:07.619
- And that a god.
- 00:25:07.986 --> 00:25:09.454
- Pay love is overwhelming.
- 00:25:09.454 --> 00:25:11.590
- And by the way, remember this is the way
- 00:25:11.590 --> 00:25:16.328
- We're trying to find a way.
- 00:25:16.928 --> 00:25:18.129
- Are we?
- 00:25:18.129 --> 00:25:18.830
- We gb's so into god, he said.
- 00:25:18.830 --> 00:25:21.766
- The way you live and walk is love.
- 00:25:21.766 --> 00:25:24.636
- I can't do it.
- 00:25:24.636 --> 00:25:25.870
- But he begins to love us.
- 00:25:25.870 --> 00:25:27.372
- And that love flows in my life and your life,
- 00:25:27.372 --> 00:25:30.375
- And it flows out in the lives of others.
- 00:25:30.375 --> 00:25:32.510
- It is something we do.
- 00:25:32.510 --> 00:25:36.448
- It's action.
- 00:25:36.781 --> 00:25:38.950
- When we decide to live our life
- 00:25:38.950 --> 00:25:42.220
- God's way.
- 00:25:42.520 --> 00:25:45.357
- I wrote standing on the promises
- 00:25:46.057 --> 00:25:48.059
- This little book, years ago, because life has a way
- 00:25:48.059 --> 00:25:51.630
- Of shaking us right to our very foundations.
- 00:25:51.630 --> 00:25:56.668
- We all face days when circumstances
- 00:25:56.668 --> 00:25:59.437
- Feel bigger than our faith, and the very ground
- 00:25:59.437 --> 00:26:02.574
- On which we stand seems to be shaking.
- 00:26:02.574 --> 00:26:05.410
- But over the years, i found there's
- 00:26:06.177 --> 00:26:08.246
- Something that never changes.
- 00:26:08.246 --> 00:26:11.383
- God keeps his promises.
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- This book is designed to help you hold on to that truth
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- Every single day, 24/7.
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- Standing on the promises is a 365 day
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- Devotional short, practical, rooted in scripture,
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- Created to meet you right where you are.
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- Whether you're starting your day or ending your day, or
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- Or just needing encouragement in the middle of your day,
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- Each reading reminds you
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- That god's word is reliable.
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- His presence is real.
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- His promises are working even when you can't
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- See the results yet,
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- And you don't know which promise to claim.
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- My prayer is that this book becomes a daily companion.
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- Strengthen your faith.
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- Restore your confidence, and helping you stand firm
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- No matter what comes your way.
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- I invite you to call the number on the screen and order
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- Standing on the promises today, and discover
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- The peace that surpasses all human understanding
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- That comes from building your life
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- On god's un.
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- Changing word.
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