WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.240 All right, our text for this morning is 1 Corinthians chapter 13 verses 4 through 7. 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:06.440 ! So if you'll turn with me there. 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:11.900 1 Corinthians 13 verses 4 through 7. 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:17.559 Now, while you're getting there, before we study this text, I want to remind you of one thing and inform you of another. 00:00:18.660 --> 00:00:24.280 The reminder is that our teaching on Sundays has been working in concord with CFC's Bible reading plan. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:27.800 Because we want you to see the connectivity of the text. 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.839 We are believing that the beauty of the scripture will come alive to you across the year. 00:00:32.100 --> 00:00:35.759 And that you will have a greater grasp of its narrative arc. 00:00:36.219 --> 00:00:37.340 And we want you to read your Bible. 00:00:37.700 --> 00:00:41.920 We want you to fill in the gaps in between the teaching you are receiving. 00:00:42.120 --> 00:00:44.480 We want you to be hungry for this. 00:00:44.980 --> 00:00:50.659 You can read the entirety of your Bible this year for 10 to 15 minutes of effort each day. 00:00:50.760 --> 00:00:53.540 It doesn't take much time to do this. 00:00:53.539 --> 00:00:58.200 And I would encourage you to be in your Bible even more than 10 or 15 minutes each day. 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:02.460 And if you're not already doing so, we hope that you'll consider doing so. 00:01:03.299 --> 00:01:07.420 Secondly, to inform you that the teaching this morning will be brief by design. 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:11.980 So that you can take time with the discussion questions already posted on Slack for you. 00:01:11.980 --> 00:01:18.400 Also, as some of us are gathered in this larger group, we do not want anyone to watch children. 00:01:18.500 --> 00:01:21.460 We just thought that would be so sad if we had to have some child care. 00:01:21.600 --> 00:01:26.719 So for the sake of the children, too, we're also keeping comments short this morning. 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:30.040 So 1 Corinthians chapter 13, beginning in verse 4. 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:34.140 Love is patient and kind. 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.000 Love does not envy or boast. 00:01:37.420 --> 00:01:39.719 It is not arrogant or rude. 00:01:40.219 --> 00:01:42.560 It does not insist on its own way. 00:01:43.240 --> 00:01:45.380 It is not irritable or resentful. 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:50.240 It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 00:01:51.160 --> 00:01:58.500 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 00:01:58.500 --> 00:02:04.420 We find ourselves living in days of such turmoil. 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:07.079 If it's one thing, it's another. 00:02:07.299 --> 00:02:11.259 The troubles just seem to be compounding on top of each other. 00:02:11.939 --> 00:02:16.560 Confusion and uncertainty seems to reign right now. 00:02:17.139 --> 00:02:21.120 At every turn, we are faced with animosity of all varieties. 00:02:21.460 --> 00:02:25.560 And I expect this will get worse and not better. 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:31.060 There will be for American Christians a growing discomfort in the coming years. 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:34.920 We will likely experience this even in the coming months. 00:02:35.819 --> 00:02:38.900 None of this should be of any surprise to us. 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:44.400 We have labored here to help you develop a robust theology of suffering. 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:53.020 If you have been with us for very long, you have heard references to passages like John chapter 15, verses 18 and 19, where Jesus says, 00:02:53.180 --> 00:02:58.280 If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:02.140 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:08.879 But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:13.579 Or 2 Timothy chapter 3 and verse 12, where Paul wrote, 00:03:13.900 --> 00:03:20.900 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:28.840 It is not the abnormal experience of a Christian to be treated with hostility, but rather the normative. 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:33.359 And we should be found rejoicing at this. 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:37.320 Paul wrote in Colossians chapter 1 and verse 24, 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:48.300 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. 00:03:49.220 --> 00:03:52.200 Paul was pleased that he had been given opportunity to suffer, 00:03:52.720 --> 00:03:59.360 so that the sacrificial work of Jesus Christ would be displayed in him for the sake of the church. 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:05.200 Now you may be wondering what this has to do with today's text, and that is a fair question so far. 00:04:05.780 --> 00:04:12.700 I've been thinking a lot these past weeks about how I and we ought to be acting in a time such as this, 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:17.280 and in a time I anticipate is coming our way. 00:04:17.620 --> 00:04:23.000 And my mind was drawn to Jesus' words in John chapter 13 and verse 35. 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:24.020 He said, 00:04:24.019 --> 00:04:31.439 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. 00:04:32.500 --> 00:04:46.680 Well, I think that the trouble of our day and the future affliction I anticipate we will experience has and will afford us opportunity to declare who we belong to through the way that we love one another. 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:53.000 It's a chance for us to make much of Christ, and this is a thing to rejoice in. 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:58.459 So let's take some time to think about what that love should look like. 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:04.259 What characterizes our pursuit of Jesus as we love one another? 00:05:04.259 --> 00:05:14.300 This text is a beautiful text to read at a wedding, but its exhortations extend beyond marriage to every relationship within the church. 00:05:14.599 --> 00:05:17.480 It's not just a marriage text. 00:05:18.180 --> 00:05:25.699 May we be a people who are unmistakably disciples of Jesus Christ because we love the way he loved. 00:05:25.699 --> 00:05:31.599 We love by giving of ourselves for the sake of others. 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.539 We love sacrificially. 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:41.759 So in these four verses, Paul describes sacrificial love 15 different ways. 00:05:41.860 --> 00:05:47.680 And so, yes, this is a 15-point sermon, but we'll move really quickly through each of them. 00:05:48.339 --> 00:05:54.759 So number one, and they'll all follow this format, sacrificial love is patient. 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:56.939 Sacrificial love is patient. 00:05:57.300 --> 00:06:03.099 The Greek word here, rendered patient, comes from two words meaning long-tempered. 00:06:03.659 --> 00:06:06.180 If you're patient, you're slow to anger. 00:06:06.699 --> 00:06:09.740 You endure personal wrongs without retaliating. 00:06:10.300 --> 00:06:14.199 You bear with others imperfections, faults, and differences. 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:21.860 You give them time to change, room to make mistakes without coming down hard on them. 00:06:21.860 --> 00:06:26.720 Do you do that, men, with your wife and your children? 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:35.800 During the late 1500s, Dr. Thomas Cooper edited a dictionary with the addition of 33,000 words and many other improvements. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:37.439 It's a big work. 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:51.139 He had already been collecting materials for eight years when his wife, a rather difficult woman, went into a study one day while he was gone and burned all of his notes under the pretense of fearing that he would kill himself with study. 00:06:51.540 --> 00:06:52.879 Eight years of work. 00:06:53.579 --> 00:06:54.180 Up in smoke. 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:59.339 Dr. Cooper came home, saw the destruction, and asked who had done it. 00:06:59.939 --> 00:07:01.860 His wife told him boldly that she had done it. 00:07:01.860 --> 00:07:05.400 The patient man heaved a deep sigh and said, 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:10.060 Oh, Dinah, Dinah, thou hast given a world of trouble. 00:07:10.980 --> 00:07:17.600 And he quietly sat down to another eight years of hard labor to replace the notes which she had destroyed. 00:07:19.180 --> 00:07:24.000 Sacrificial love is a patient love. 00:07:24.379 --> 00:07:28.819 It bears with people for their good. 00:07:28.819 --> 00:07:32.579 Second, sacrificial love is kind. 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.259 Kindness is sort of patience in action. 00:07:36.819 --> 00:07:39.500 The Greek word comes from a word meaning useful. 00:07:40.159 --> 00:07:42.579 A kind person is disposed to be helpful. 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:48.539 He seeks out needs and looks for opportunities to meet those needs without repayment. 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:51.680 He is tender and forgiving when wronged. 00:07:51.680 --> 00:08:08.319 The word was used in Greek of mellow wine and suggests a person who is gentle, who has an ability to soothe hurt feelings, to calm an upset person, to help quietly in practical ways. 00:08:09.019 --> 00:08:14.180 Note that it is the kindness of God that leads us to repentance. 00:08:14.740 --> 00:08:17.660 Romans chapter 2 and verse 4. 00:08:17.660 --> 00:08:20.840 So sacrificial love is kind. 00:08:21.900 --> 00:08:25.100 Third, sacrificial love does not envy. 00:08:25.840 --> 00:08:31.380 The word means to eagerly desire and it is used both positively and negatively in the Bible. 00:08:32.100 --> 00:08:37.139 Envy or jealousy in the negative sense is related to greed and selfishness. 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:40.320 The jealous person wants what others have. 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:42.560 He wants things for himself. 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:48.559 He does not want to give of what he has or of himself for the sake of others. 00:08:48.619 --> 00:08:48.719 Right? 00:08:48.819 --> 00:08:51.539 It's self-seeking, self-serving. 00:08:51.719 --> 00:08:54.059 And this is not love. 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:57.479 Sacrificial love does not envy. 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:03.919 Fourth and fifth, sacrificial love does not boast and is not arrogant. 00:09:04.739 --> 00:09:07.739 These two ugly twins are related. 00:09:07.740 --> 00:09:13.899 They both stem from selfishness and are the flip side of jealousy or envy. 00:09:14.700 --> 00:09:16.820 John MacArthur in his commentary on this text said, 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:19.139 Jealousy is wanting what someone else has. 00:09:20.340 --> 00:09:23.180 Bragging is trying to make others jealous of what we have. 00:09:23.899 --> 00:09:25.460 Jealousy puts others down. 00:09:25.860 --> 00:09:27.980 Bragging builds us up. 00:09:28.779 --> 00:09:33.240 So boasting is an outward manifestation of pride. 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:39.680 The bragger tries to impress others of his great accomplishments in order to make himself look good. 00:09:40.340 --> 00:09:42.759 But love isn't trying to build up me. 00:09:43.060 --> 00:09:45.000 Love is trying to build up the other. 00:09:45.740 --> 00:09:47.259 Love is humble. 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:54.100 The humble, loving person is aware that everything he has is an undeserved gift from God. 00:09:54.299 --> 00:09:57.220 See 1 Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 7. 00:09:57.220 --> 00:10:04.139 So he doesn't boast, but thankfully uses what God has given him to serve others. 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:08.899 Sacrificial love does not boast and is not arrogant. 00:10:09.779 --> 00:10:13.340 Sixth, sacrificial love is not rude. 00:10:14.560 --> 00:10:17.940 Love does not needlessly offend. 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:23.340 At times the truth is offensive, but love is not needlessly offensive. 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:26.160 Love has good manners. 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:31.719 It is courteous, polite, sensitive to the feelings of others, and always uses tact. 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:39.879 The reason we are not courteous when we are not courteous is that we are thinking only of ourselves and not of others. 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:42.719 Sacrificial love is not rude. 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:48.539 Seventh, sacrificial love does not insist on its own way. 00:10:49.539 --> 00:10:54.259 It is not selfish, does not demand its rights. 00:10:54.259 --> 00:11:11.120 Selfishness is the root problem of the human race. 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:15.720 It is the antithesis of love, which is self-sacrificing. 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:22.080 Elizabeth Elliott was once speaking on the subject to an audience that included some young children who were sitting right in front of her. 00:11:22.500 --> 00:11:27.120 As she spoke, she wondered how she could make this plain to them so that they could apply it. 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:31.560 Later, she got a letter from one of those children, a six-year-old boy who wrote, 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:50.279 That little boy was learning the importance of sacrificial love. 00:11:50.279 --> 00:12:15.839 Aren't you glad that Jesus didn't insist on his own rights? 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.120 He would have stayed in heaven. 00:12:18.620 --> 00:12:24.940 He would not have come to serve you and I by suffering in our place for our sin. 00:12:25.420 --> 00:12:27.000 Jesus, after all, was God. 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:29.759 He did not have to do this thing. 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:36.920 Just as Jesus laid down his life for us, we are to lay down our lives for one another. 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.639 He is our supreme example. 00:12:40.180 --> 00:12:41.200 Sacrificial love. 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:44.960 Sacrificial love does not insist on its own way. 00:12:46.340 --> 00:12:49.879 Eighth, sacrificial love is not irritable. 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:55.820 The Greek word here, rendered irritable, means to sharpen, stimulate, rouse to anger. 00:12:56.420 --> 00:12:57.820 It is not touchy. 00:12:58.460 --> 00:13:01.700 Love does not have a hair-trigger temper. 00:13:02.560 --> 00:13:06.660 Some people make everyone around them walk on eggshells. 00:13:06.659 --> 00:13:11.779 They're easily offended and they use their temper to intimidate and to punish. 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:17.159 When you're angry, you are usually not loving, right? 00:13:17.219 --> 00:13:19.860 There are some occasions for righteous anger. 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.679 But most often, when we're angry, we are not being loving. 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:27.579 Sacrificial love is not irritable. 00:13:28.959 --> 00:13:32.500 Ninth, sacrificial love is not resentful. 00:13:32.500 --> 00:13:39.980 Love does not keep a tally of wrongs and bear a grudge until everyone is paid for. 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:45.840 It doesn't try to gain the upper hand by reminding the other person of past wrongs. 00:13:46.299 --> 00:13:48.159 One married man said to a friend, 00:13:48.340 --> 00:13:52.120 You know, every time my wife and I get into a conflict, she gets historical. 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:54.039 His friend said, Historical? 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:55.480 Don't you mean hysterical? 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:58.259 And he said, No, I mean historical. 00:13:58.259 --> 00:14:03.519 She rehearses everything I've ever done wrong in the whole history of our marriage, right? 00:14:03.860 --> 00:14:05.360 That's keeping score. 00:14:05.539 --> 00:14:07.939 That's not love. 00:14:08.259 --> 00:14:10.360 Love forgives. 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:14.019 Sacrificial love is not resentful. 00:14:15.179 --> 00:14:16.679 Number 10 and 11. 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:22.539 Sacrificial love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:25.819 These qualities are the flip side of one another. 00:14:25.820 --> 00:14:31.980 To rejoice in the truth means to be glad about behavior in accordance with the truth of God's word. 00:14:32.760 --> 00:14:35.900 If someone you don't like falls into sin, you don't gloat. 00:14:36.060 --> 00:14:38.860 You grieve because God is grieved over sin. 00:14:39.220 --> 00:14:41.300 If they repent, you rejoice. 00:14:42.420 --> 00:14:45.400 There's a fine balance to love. 00:14:46.060 --> 00:14:49.280 Although love is kind and overlooks the faults of others, 00:14:49.560 --> 00:14:54.680 it does not compromise the truth or take a soft view of sin. 00:14:54.679 --> 00:15:00.620 To allow another person to go on in sin, whether it is known sin or a blind spot in their life, 00:15:00.620 --> 00:15:06.539 is not seeking his or her best and therefore is not love, right? 00:15:06.620 --> 00:15:15.639 Sometimes we must confront people and sometimes we can't do it with the measure of kindness we would like. 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:25.279 Love will, when possible, sensitively confront and correct precisely because it cares deeply and knows that sin destroys. 00:15:26.100 --> 00:15:29.439 Love rejoices with the truth. 00:15:29.580 --> 00:15:33.580 Love gets excited when it hears of growth in people's life. 00:15:34.199 --> 00:15:36.980 It seeks after that very thing. 00:15:36.980 --> 00:15:43.159 Love encourages by expressing joy over little evidences of growth, right? 00:15:43.379 --> 00:15:50.980 Valuing the good that God is working in people as you minimize those things they still need working on. 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:53.920 The Apostle John wrote in 3 John verse 4, 00:15:53.919 --> 00:16:07.299 Sacrificial love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 00:16:08.379 --> 00:16:09.099 Twelfth. 00:16:09.719 --> 00:16:10.879 I don't say that often, do I? 00:16:11.659 --> 00:16:14.719 Sacrificial love bears all things. 00:16:15.599 --> 00:16:21.159 The word can mean either to bear up under or to protect by covering. 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:26.799 If it has the first meaning, then it would be the same as endures all things. 00:16:26.899 --> 00:16:30.959 I, for a long time, have wondered, how is bearing and enduring different? 00:16:31.819 --> 00:16:37.699 I prefer the second meaning for this reason, that Paul's trying to communicate something different here. 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:40.699 That is, to protect by covering. 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:45.019 Love doesn't broadcast the problems of others. 00:16:45.019 --> 00:16:49.740 Love doesn't run down others with jokes, sarcasm, put-downs. 00:16:49.740 --> 00:16:56.320 Love defends the character of the other person as much as possible within the limits of truth. 00:16:57.060 --> 00:17:02.720 Love won't lie about weaknesses, but neither will it deliberately expose and emphasize them. 00:17:03.340 --> 00:17:05.099 Love protects. 00:17:05.380 --> 00:17:07.559 You can think of it in those terms. 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:11.279 Sacrificial love bears all things. 00:17:12.380 --> 00:17:12.920 Thirteenth. 00:17:13.259 --> 00:17:15.700 Sacrificial love believes all things. 00:17:16.339 --> 00:17:17.599 Love trusts. 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.779 This does not mean gullibility. 00:17:21.339 --> 00:17:27.399 It does not mean that love is not suspicious and doubting of the other person's character and motives without good reason, 00:17:28.179 --> 00:17:30.359 even if his actions offended you. 00:17:31.179 --> 00:17:36.859 If trust has been broken, then it needs to be earned again, step by step. 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:40.819 But love believes the other person is innocent until proven guilty. 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:42.919 Not guilty until proven... 00:17:43.539 --> 00:17:44.319 That doesn't make sense. 00:17:44.500 --> 00:17:46.279 That's a nonsensical sentence I wrote. 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:48.720 Love believes the other person is innocent until proven guilty. 00:17:49.019 --> 00:17:49.200 Period. 00:17:49.740 --> 00:17:54.279 If there's a problem, love doesn't jump immediately to blame the other person. 00:17:54.500 --> 00:18:00.480 Love assumes the best of a person instead of assuming the worst. 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:02.299 Fourteenth. 00:18:03.579 --> 00:18:06.779 Sacrificial love hopes all things. 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:09.819 Love is not pessimistic. 00:18:09.819 --> 00:18:18.599 This little phrase in this chapter I have to go over again and again in my head because I am a born pessimist. 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:21.419 Love is not pessimistic. 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:27.319 It does not expect the one loved to fail, but to succeed. 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:30.960 Love refuses to take failure as final. 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:34.279 It exudes a godly optimism which says, 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:39.660 I know you can do it because God in you is able to do it. 00:18:40.579 --> 00:18:42.360 It does not ignore reality. 00:18:42.460 --> 00:18:46.960 It does not close its eyes to problems, but it rests on the promises of God. 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:52.960 That he is working all things together for good for those who love him and are called according to purpose. 00:18:53.100 --> 00:18:53.240 Right? 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:59.539 It is confident that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Christ. 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:03.220 Sacrificial love hopes all things. 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:05.200 Fifteenth. 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:06.240 And finally. 00:19:07.259 --> 00:19:09.859 Sacrificial love endures all things. 00:19:10.940 --> 00:19:17.240 The word endures is a military word in the Greek, meaning to sustain the assault of an enemy. 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:22.900 It has the idea of holding up under trial, of perseverance in spite of difficulties. 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:26.720 It means that love hangs in there, right? 00:19:26.779 --> 00:19:28.059 It hangs on. 00:19:28.180 --> 00:19:30.339 It's not just a passive stoic attitude. 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:35.180 It's a positive triumphant spirit that sticks it out. 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:40.059 There's an epidemic among Christians of bailing out of tough situations. 00:19:40.500 --> 00:19:43.299 People get a bit uncomfortable and they run. 00:19:43.380 --> 00:19:46.120 All areas of life this happens. 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:50.359 Love hangs in and love gets to work. 00:19:51.019 --> 00:19:54.259 Sacrificial love endures all things. 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:57.839 That's how love acts, right? 00:19:58.079 --> 00:19:59.279 Such an opportunity. 00:19:59.419 --> 00:20:01.099 And always have had, to be clear. 00:20:01.259 --> 00:20:09.000 But we have such an opportunity today and a day out ahead of us to be characterized differently as God's people. 00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:10.699 This is love. 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:12.259 It is sacrificial. 00:20:12.259 --> 00:20:17.079 Wholly directed to building up others for the glory of Christ. 00:20:17.819 --> 00:20:21.379 Of course, nobody can love like this on their own, right? 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:22.460 God is love. 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:29.339 But put Christ in verses 4 through 7 instead of love and you have a description of him. 00:20:29.339 --> 00:20:32.379 Jesus Christ is patient and kind. 00:20:32.939 --> 00:20:34.259 He does not envy or boast. 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:36.099 He is not arrogant or rude. 00:20:36.439 --> 00:20:38.699 He does not insist on his own way. 00:20:39.179 --> 00:20:40.959 He is not irritable or resentful. 00:20:41.339 --> 00:20:45.379 He does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 00:20:45.980 --> 00:20:52.480 Jesus Christ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:21:05.240 If we are to love one another sacrificially as we ought, we must focus on his perfect love for us and walk in a spirit who produces his love in us. 00:21:05.740 --> 00:21:06.740 Let's pray together. 00:21:06.740 --> 00:21:06.740 00:21:06.740 --> 00:21:06.740 00:21:06.740 --> 00:21:06.740