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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Power of Love | May 27, 2025
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- Pastor ed young: i thought, what if you and i had a gps system by
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- Which it was directed right to almighty god, and we'd ask god
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- To give us the way to live, the way to life.
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- We'd say, god, i know you're there, i'm sending you this
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- Message straight to your throne room.
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- Give to me, give to us the way to live, the way to life.
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- Would you be interested in the answer?
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- I know exactly what the answer would be.
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- In the bible, he talks about the broad way that leads
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- To destruction.
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- He talks about the narrow way that leads to life.
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- And his son, jesus, says, "i am the way, the truth, and
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- The life."
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- So, lord, show us the way we are to live, the way from here to
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- Life forever.
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- Now, we come to the 13th chapter, and it is a
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- Parenthesis, it is within a parenthesis.
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- Look at it if you would, if you have your bibles with you.
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- We go to the 13th chapter, and we go to the last verse of the
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- 12th chapter.
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- Paul says, "and yet i will show you the most excellent way,"
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- That's our word, right?
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- Way, "i'll show you the excellent way," that's one end
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- Of it.
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- The other end of it is the 1st verse of chapter 14, "follow the
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- Way of love."
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- So, you have 1 corinthians 13 defines and tells us about love,
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- And it says, "find the most excellent way," and then there's
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- All the chapter on love, the other end the parentheses, it
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- Says, the master way, the excellent way is love.
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- So, we gotta talk about love.
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- Love is like sex.
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- We talk about it, we think we know everything about it, but we
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- Really don't.
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- I'm going to have several series of messages on that, so hang on,
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- Bring your asbestos suits with you.
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- But love is so confusing to most people in the modern world, and
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- Especially was there in corinth, and it also is today.
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- You find some people say in the greek language they had nine
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- Different words for love, some say eight, some say six, various
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- Understandings of love, but in the bible there are only three
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- Different words used for love.
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- Eros is used in the old testament, that is that
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- Sensual love.
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- In the new testament, we find the word phileo, friendship
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- Love, i love you as a friend.
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- And then you find that big, broad, pregnant, magnificent
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- Word called agape, and that word, according to j.i. packer,
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- Is almost, almost unique--
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- That's not really good english, but i think it fits--it is
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- Almost unique to christianity.
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- It is a sacrificial love, it is a total serving love, it is a
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- Total unselfish love, it is a love willing to lay down your
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- Life, it is a love that will go to any extreme at anytime and
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- Anyplace for anybody.
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- Agape is not an emotional thing, it is an action thing.
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- That's where we get confused.
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- How do we get agape?
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- Man, i found in 1 john a very little verse there that says,
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- "when we obey and live by the word of god, we receive god's
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- Love," agape, "and we are complete."
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- And we're going to run to the word complete in just a minute.
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- We obey god and receive this kind of supernatural love, it's
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- Not such an emotional thing, it's something that we can do,
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- We can practice, we're motivated by.
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- When christ comes into our life, the holy spirit dwells in--
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- We just begin to overflow with this kind of selfless love.
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- And it's supernatural, and this is what paul describes to us
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- Magnificently in the little parentheses there in the
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- 13th chapter.
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- Look at it, and it tells, first of all, that love is
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- Indispensable, and paul begins by talking about himself in the
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- First person, look at him.
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- "if i," paul, "speak with the tongues of men or of angels and
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- Do not have love, i'm only a resounding gong or a
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- Clanging cymbal."
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- In other words, if i speak in the tongues--in corinth, they
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- Had people all over the world.
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- They spoke every language, every dialect, paul said, if i had the
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- Ability to speak in whatever language, whatever tongues
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- Somebody would have, man, 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, and by the
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- Way all of this is hyperbole.
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- It's an exaggeration to get everybody's attention, to wake
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- Everybody up.
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- Paul was saying, if i had this kind of ability to orate and
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- Speak in any language and anytime, but i don't have this
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- Agape love in my life, all that i'm doing is a gong, boom, boom,
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- Boom, chow, or clashing cymbals; in other words, it's just noise.
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- If i if i don't have love, though i have this great
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- Ability, it's just noise.
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- Then he goes on, he said, and he said--another "if" is there.
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- He speaks up, he said, "if i have the gift of prophecy and
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- Can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, if i have a faith
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- That can move mountains, but i do not have love, i am nothing."
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- What's he saying there?
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- He's saying, if i could understand gnosticism, big in
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- That day, if i could understand mysterious things about god and
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- All the workings of the world, he said, that would be good, but
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- If i don't have love, wouldn't mean anything.
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- He said, if i had the faith to move mountains, and that means
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- That if you had the ability when you're in a meeting or in a
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- Situation where everybody was boxed in, it seems there's no
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- Way out, and this suggestion, that suggestion, paul said, if
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- You had the ability to see through that and have the faith
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- To find answers in that situation, he said, that would
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- 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 move that mountain as a
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- Tremendous leader, he said, if i don't have love, it doesn't mean
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- A thing in the world, you have nothing.
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- And then he says, "if i give all i possess," verse three, "to the
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- Poor and give my body to hardships that i may boast, but
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- Do not have love, i am nothing."
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- Listen, what's he saying?
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- Take everything you've got, everything i've got, and we give
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- To the poor people, they have less, they have nothing, we just
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- Empty all of our resources, say, here, i give it all to you.
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- Boy, we would say, man, there's a christian.
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- Boy, 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, you don't get one point with
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- God, one point with god.
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- And if i go out and l become a martyr for the faith, i stand up
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- When everybody else is sitting down, and i stand for god and
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- Christ on this biblical principle, and i am martyred, he
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- Said, that doesn't amount to anything either.
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- Because he's talking about motivation, ladies
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- And gentlemen.
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- When you check motivation.
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- Well, edwin, why do you preach sermons?
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- Huh. oh, why do you sing solos?
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- Oh. why do you give money?
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- Whoa.
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- You know, why do you visit the sick?
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- Hello.
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- Why would you listen to people, why do you counsel, why do you
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- Reach out, why do you--why do we do all these wonderful things
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- That we do in the body of church, but if we do it without
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- Love, it's just noise, has no meaning, no significance.
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- Let me give a little simple illustration, it's from charles
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- Haddon spurgeon.
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- Spurgeon said there was a great king, and a man had a little
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- Garden, and in his garden he'd had for many generations in his
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- Family, suddenly there appeared a large carrot.
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- It was so beautiful, he said, i'm gonna give that to the king.
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- And he took the carrot, and he went into the throne room, and
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- Told the king because he admired him and he loved him as his
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- Monarch, this is the finest thing that he's ever seen
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- Produced in his garden, and he wanted the king to have it.
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- And the king expressed his gratitude, and the man turned to
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- Go out, and the king says, "wait a minute.
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- I see that you're somebody i can trust.
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- Next to your little garden, i've got a thousand acres of land
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- That i never use.
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- I want to give it to you and let you use it, and your garden can
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- Become a beautiful farm."
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- And the man was overwhelmed.
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- Well, a nobleman was listening in, he said, "ah, for a carrot,
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- He got a thousand acres.
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- Woo, i raise horses."
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- And he said, "man, i've just had this beautiful stallion, i'm
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- Going to give that to the king," and so he took that stallion to
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- The king, he said, "king, i so honor you, i want you to have
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- The most magnificent steed that i have ever bred in my farm, i
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- Want it to be yours."
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- The king says, "i see through you.
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- You saw a carrot for thousand acres and a beautiful horse, you
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- Thought i'd give you more.
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- You brought that horse to me for yourself and not for me."
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- Now, that's a simple story, a simple story, but we have to be
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- So careful about our motivation.
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- And without this agape love flowing through your life and my
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- Life, all of this stuff becomes nonsense.
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- But when that agape love is flowing, man, beautiful things
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- Happen, especially in the body of christ.
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- And then we 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, look at verse number 4, he said, "love
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- Is patient."
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- Time out. we go to church, we hear words.
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- Love is patient, well, i'm not patient.
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- Listen, stay around patience for a while.
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- Love, this kind of supernatural love, is patient.
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- Man, i looked at that, said, oh lord, i've got a million miles
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- To go.
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- Love is patient, and then "love is kind."
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- Don't you love to be around people who are just genuinely
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- Kind, genuinely thoughtful, genuinely listen?
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- "love is kind," are you kind, am i kind, am i patient, are
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- You patient?
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- See, we have to 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 what love is not.
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- "it does not boast," hmm.
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- "it is not proud, it does not dishonor others, it is not
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- Self-seeking, it is not easily angered."
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- Oh, i have a temper, no, no, no, love is not easily angered.
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- "it keeps no record of wrongs."
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- "man, you know this--that's the third time he's done that, i'm
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- Telling you--" no, no, no.
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- Remember, i thought about peter.
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- He went to jesus tryin' to brag, he said, "jesus, are we to
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- Forgive people seven times?"
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- That was a big thing.
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- Jesus said, "oh, no, no, no, you know, you're to give people
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- 7 times 70, 490 times, and there's no end to forgiveness."
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- We do not keep a record, we just are a forgiving people.
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- "love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with truth."
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- Do you ever delight sometime in somebody who had cut you down,
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- Neglected you, deceived you, exploited you, and you hear
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- That, boy, she got what she had coming to her.
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- That ever happen?
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- Oh yeah, delight in evil.
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- And then it says, "it is always protective."
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- In other words, we said, this is what love is, this is what love
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- Is not, this is what love does.
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- It is always protects, it always protects, love always puts an
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- Umbrella over people, i like that.
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- We're protected, love is protective, it's protective,
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- This is what love is, patient, kind, this is what love is not,
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- And then we see what love does, it is protective, it's
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- Always protective.
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- "it always trusts, always hopes, always preserves."
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- Do you see how high this is?
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- But how magnificent it is?
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- What if that operated in your family, in this church, in
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- Relationships, would anything be different?
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- By the way, this is what heaven is like, it's just full of
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- Agape, it's full of love, full of joy, full of celebration.
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- So, we see paul says very clearly, if i have all this,
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- Don't have love, doesn't mean a thing.
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- He uses hyperbole, then he say, this is what love is, this is
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- What love is not, and this is what love does, he gives us
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- Four things.
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- And then he says something that's, boom, over the
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- Top, staggering.
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- Listen to this, "love never fails."
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- Your translation might say something else, it may say, love
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- Never ends, it may say even, love never falls, that's a
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- Strange word, isn't it?
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- But love never does fall, we talked about falling in love,
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- But love never falls away.
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- Love just keeps on coming.
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- The more we practice love, we don't run out of it, the more
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- Love we get.
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- Begin to move with the holy spirit in your life, in my life,
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- In these areas, amazing things began to happen.
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- It's supernatural.
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- Love never fails, never ends, never falls away; the more you
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- Use it, the more you begin to get in this agape sense.
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- And then he moves on and explains it even clearer.
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- He says, but there are-- "when there're prophecies--"
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- By the way, prophecy used in the bible is used to foretell the
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- Future, and it's used to tell forth.
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- Prophecy is more proclamation than it is prediction by
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- The future.
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- When you see the word, well, they're--no, no,
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- It's proclamation.
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- He says, "but where there are prophecies, they will cease;
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- Where there are tongues," maybe glossolalia there, "they'll be
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- Stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."
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- Then i love this 9th verse, "for we know in part and we prophesy
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- In part, but when the completeness comes, what is in
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- Part disappears," and he mentions part again down in the
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- Next to the last verse.
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- In other words, everything we have now is in parts.
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- We got a part of this, we know a part of this, we're gonna
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- Experience a part of this, it's like having a giant puzzle.
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- Then paul says, look at that word, when completeness comes,
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- Remember 1 john?
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- We obey the lord, we get the love of god, and that love
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- Completes us.
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- "or when maturity comes," your word may say perfection, what
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- Does that mean?
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- All these parts, with agape love, they begin to come
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- Together, and there is a completeness there, there is a
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- Maturity there, there's a perfection there, and all of a
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- Sudden, you and i in christ begin to function and live in a
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- Way we never thought possible.
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- That's what happens to us when completeness comes, you see.
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- All of life begins to come together, and there's a maturity
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- There, there's an understanding there, and this part, i didn't
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- Get over here in my life, boy, i began to see how it fits over
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- Here, and that which i could not comprehend, and that which i
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- Thought was terrible, all that completeness comes there, and
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- Then he talks about, well, it says maturity is, he talks about
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- Child, children.
- 00:19:19.748 --> 00:19:23.051
- He said, "but we know in part and when we prophesy in part,
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- But when completeness," there's our word, "comes, what is in
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- Part disappears."
- 00:19:30.592 --> 00:19:32.227
- Then he says, "when i was a child, i talked like a child, i
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- Thought like a child, i reasoned like a child.
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- But when i became a man or a woman," bar mitzvah or whatever,
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- "i put the ways of childhood behind me."
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- Listen, when i was a little guy, i played marbles.
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- Maybe you got it, i just played marbles.
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- I'd climb trees, i built forts, man, i followed everybody that
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- Would come by.
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- I had a little sword. i was a child.
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- You know, i thought like a child, i reasoned like a child,
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- I lived like a child, nothing wrong with that.
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- But you know what?
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- When they showed me a football and a basketball and baseball,
- 00:20:12.567 --> 00:20:17.806
- You know, i didn't spend time shootin' marbles or building
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- Forts or climbing trees, i just--that was all behind me,
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- It was over.
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- That's what happens to us in christ.
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- We grow up, we mature, and there's a completeness there,
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- There is a wholeness there, that's what agape does to us,
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- That when our motivations get proper, that's when our
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- Motivations become pure, that's when our motivations in life
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- Become knowledgeable to god.
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- He says, that's my boy, that's my gal, that's my son, that's my
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- Daughter, that's my family.
- 00:20:52.407 --> 00:20:55.744
- Completeness comes, and then he moves on in this passage, and he
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- Says, "for now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then
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- We shall see face to face.
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- Now i know in part;" another one of those parts, "then i shall
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- Know fully, even as i am fully known," in other words--by the
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- Way, corinth made mirrors, they were known for mirrors, they
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- Would take steel and shine it, and they would look at it, and
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- You would see an image, a partial image, and in that day
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- They would take bone and thats what windows were made out of,
- 00:21:32.848 --> 00:21:36.451
- Bone, you could see out, but it was blurry.
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- You could see an image in that polished steel, but not clearly.
- 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:42.958
- But paul says, once we'll see face to face, face to face.
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- You see a picture, then you see face to face.
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- Oh, that's something, that's the anticipation of us graduating
- 00:21:54.736 --> 00:21:59.341
- And being with god and somehow, someway, we have an image, what
- 00:21:59.341 --> 00:22:03.445
- Experience with god in christ, but one day we'll see face to
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- Face, and as we have known, we begin to know.
- 00:22:07.616 --> 00:22:12.053
- The word know in the bible is an intimate word, a
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- Relationship word.
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- Adam knew eve, boy, that's intimacy.
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- And to know, it says, as we have been known intimately, so we
- 00:22:21.563 --> 00:22:26.134
- Began to know intimately.
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- And we'll see face to face and we'll get assignments from god
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- All the way through eternity.
- 00:22:32.407 --> 00:22:34.743
- And then the last little verse here is a powerful verse, "and
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- Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love.
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- But the greatest of these is love."
- 00:22:48.890 --> 00:22:51.960
- Now, wait a minute, you mean we're gonna have to have faith
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- In heaven?
- 00:22:55.497 --> 00:22:56.832
- It remains, these three remains, absolutely.
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- Because in heaven, you see, we're not just floating around
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- With our wings, folks, i'm sorry to tell you that, that's not
- 00:23:04.005 --> 00:23:07.242
- Gonna be the agenda.
- 00:23:07.242 --> 00:23:09.044
- In heaven, we're gonna be able to fulfill all that we didn't
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- Get to fulfill in this earth.
- 00:23:12.414 --> 00:23:14.683
- Man, all of it, and he goes, and we have to have faith that, boy,
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- The next eon that we'll have, what god will give us faith to
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- Grow and expand.
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- We don't shrivel up, we don't say the same.
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- That's the faith is an act, we have hope of--we can't imagine
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- What will be.
- 00:23:31.166 --> 00:23:32.767
- C. s. lewis said, if we met somebody we've known all of our
- 00:23:32.767 --> 00:23:36.171
- Life, and bang, we'd be before them in heaven, it would be such
- 00:23:36.171 --> 00:23:40.876
- A magnificent specimen that we want to bow down and worship.
- 00:23:40.876 --> 00:23:46.114
- Because there's a whole new resurrection body there, a whole
- 00:23:46.114 --> 00:23:49.951
- New resurrected life there.
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- We'll know as we've been known, and we'll have to have faith,
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- And we have to have hope, and we will have to have love, because
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- All of heaven's domain is filled with agape love, can you
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- Imagine it?
- 00:24:05.767 --> 00:24:07.269
- You know, i thought about just taking people out of the
- 00:24:07.269 --> 00:24:10.839
- Audience here and bring you somebody and say, man, just love
- 00:24:10.839 --> 00:24:14.142
- This person completely, love them, and we'd just go around,
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- And, boy, if that was an atmosphere, whew, it'd be fire
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- And lightning and joy and celebration.
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- When we walk in one another's shoes, we pour ourselves into
- 00:24:25.554 --> 00:24:29.858
- Another life.
- 00:24:29.858 --> 00:24:31.760
- Man, that agape love is overwhelming, and by the way,
- 00:24:31.760 --> 00:24:36.031
- Remember, "this is the way."
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- We're trying to find a way, aren't we?
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- We--gps, sent to god, he said, "the way you live and walk
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- Is love."
- 00:24:47.075 --> 00:24:48.410
- I can't do it, but he begins to love us, and that love flows in
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- My life and your life and it flows out in the lives
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- Of others.
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- It is something we do, it's action.
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- When we decide to live our life god's way.
- 00:25:01.690 --> 00:25:06.995
- Ed: at some point, every marriage will run into
- 00:25:07.062 --> 00:25:09.764
- Tough times.
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- Whether it's miscommunication, money, sex, or in-laws, every
- 00:25:11.299 --> 00:25:14.903
- Marriage goes through a rocky patch.
- 00:25:14.903 --> 00:25:17.706
- Far too often, those rocky patches end up ruining otherwise
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- Great, potentially super marriages.
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- But it does not have to be that way.
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- God designed marriage, and he gave us the keys to have a
- 00:25:27.916 --> 00:25:31.820
- Marriage that works, a marriage that sizzles.
- 00:25:31.820 --> 00:25:34.856
- In my book, "the ten commandments of marriage", i lay
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- Out ten practical principles to make your marriage super.
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- Ed: 1 corinthians 13 gives us a very
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- Practical description of love.
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- It is the essence of the christian life, and without it,
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- Everything else we do and say amounts to nothing.
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- When people talk about you, do they say that love is
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- The characteristic
- 00:26:33.581 --> 00:26:34.916
- That best describes your life?
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- God is love, and love is the very nature
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- And character of god.
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- Therefore, we need to major in love.
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- It is a full time assignment.
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- Would you like to learn more about how you can walk this
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- Beautiful path of love?
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- Call the number on your screen.
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- We want to pray with you and share with you how you could
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- Put 1 corinthians, 1 corinthians 13
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- Right into your life.
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- Thank you for watching.
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- And join me again next time
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- As you take another exciting step on the winning walk
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- With jesus christ.
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