Michael had scripture reading
this morning, but he wasn't feeling well and asked me if I would
take care of that for him. So if you'll turn with me in
your Bibles to Matthew chapter 25, Matthew chapter 25. And this goes along with the bride and the bridegroom
that we looked at in the first hour. Then shall the kingdom
of heaven be likened unto ten virgins which took their lamps
and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise and
five were foolish. Now I want to be counted among
the wise. They that were foolish took their
lamps, and took no oil with them." The oil of gladness is the Holy
Spirit. Lord, if we don't have your Spirit,
then nothing we do is of any value. While the bridegroom tarried,
They all slumbered and slept. Now the bridegroom right now
is tarrying. The Lord Jesus Christ is not yet returned. He will
come one day. Maybe today, I don't know. But
he's tarrying right now. And those who are waiting for
them, the wise and the foolish, find themselves slumbering. While the bridegroom tarried,
they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry
made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him." I hope the Lord will do that
for us this evening, this morning. Just cry out and cause us to
give our attention to the bridegroom. Then all those virgins arose
and trimmed their lamps, and the foolish said unto the wise,
Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. But the wise
answered, Say not so, lest there be not enough for us and you,
but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that
were ready went in with him to the marriage, And the door was
shut. Afterwards came also the other
virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and
said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. And here's the point of the parable. Watch therefore, for you know
neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we ask that
you would send your Holy Spirit to give us a watchful heart. A heart that is waiting and looking
unto Jesus, who is the author and the finisher of our faith.
We pray that you would cause us, by your Spirit, through the
gift of your faith, to set our affections on things above where
Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Lord, we can't do it. We can't
work it out. We can't work it in. We are completely
dependent upon you to be merciful and gracious to us now. And you've
told us that if we be an evil, know how to give good gifts unto
our Children, how much more your heavenly father give the Holy
Spirit to them who ask him. And so, Lord, we're just pleading
with you. We're just mercy beggars asking
you to send your Holy Spirit cause us to awake from our slumber.
and to be ready for the bridegroom. And that you would comfort our
hearts in causing us to be wise virgins. We ask it in Christ's
name. Amen. Some thank the Lord for friends
and home For mercy sure and sweet But I would praise Him for His
grace In prayer I would repeat Thank you, Lord, for saving my
soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me
whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to
me Thy great salvation, so rich and free. Some thank him for
the flowers that grow, some for the stars that shine. My heart is filled with joy and
praise because I know he's mine. Thank you, Lord, for saving my
soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me
whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to
me Thy great salvation, so rich and free. I trust in Him from day to day. I trust His saving grace. I'll sing this song of praise
to Him until I see His face. Thank you, Lord, for saving my
soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me
whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to
me Thy great salvation, so rich and free. I want to introduce this message
from 1 Corinthians chapter 13 this morning by making it as
clear as I possibly can that I do not want you to think about
your love for Christ. I don't want you to think about
it during this message. I don't want you to leave here thinking
about your love for Christ. Last Sunday we looked at three
passages of Scripture in the New Testament that spoke of the
love of Christ. And I am confident that if the
Lord's pleased to enable us to, through faith, comprehend something
of the love of Christ, then love for Christ will be in our hearts. But if we look in our hearts
for love for Christ, then we will at best be left wanting,
and at worst we will be left under the curse of the law without
any grace at all. Now if I told you this morning
that I wanted you to think about what you're doing for God, most of you would get up and
leave. I wouldn't blame you. I wouldn't blame you. John put it like this
in 1 John chapter 4, herein is love. Here's the definition of
love. Not that we love God. Our love
for Him is so weak, it's so fickled, it's so up and down, it's so
driven by circumstances and feelings. Herein is the love of God, not
that we loved God, but that He loved us and gave Himself as
the propitiation for our sins. I want you and me to think about,
to glory in, to rest in the love of Christ, not love for Christ. for your love for Christ is just
as it would drive you into despair just as much as if I preach the
law to you and told you you needed to measure your salvation and
get hope of your standing before God by based on what you do. It's the love of Christ. how
oftentimes 1 Corinthians chapter 13 has been quoted at weddings,
it has been read as a way of telling men, this is what your
love should look like. And so they either play the part
of a hypocrite, pretending to have this kind of love, or they
find themselves in despair, fearing that they know nothing of the
love of God. We saw in three passages of Scripture
last Sunday, Romans chapter 8, nothing can separate us from
the love of Christ. Nothing. If we're in Christ,
There's nothing that can separate us from His love. No, not tribulation,
not distress, not persecution, not principalities or powers,
nothing if we're in the love of Christ. We saw from 2 Corinthians
chapter 14 that it is the love of Christ, not your love for
Christ, the love of Christ that constraineth us. The only power
that we have against sin is not our love for Christ but the love
of Christ. Oh, I can't distinguish the difference
between these two things strong enough. And then we saw from
Ephesians chapter 3 where the Apostle Paul said, I bow my knees
before God the Father and I pray. that you might be able to comprehend
what is the love of Christ. How wide it is, and how deep
it is, and how high it is, and how broad it is, all the length
of it. That's my hope this morning,
that the Lord will increase our comprehension of His love for
us. And if He's pleased to grow us
in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, that's
what'll happen. That's what'll happen. And as
we have more comprehension of His
love for us, you know what's gonna happen? You know what's
going to happen? We're going to see more and more
of how little and cold our love is for Him. That's just the way it works.
Just the way it works. You're going to see more and
more of your sin, more and more of how unfaithful you are, and
become in the end more and more dependent on His grace. That's our hope. That's our salvation. So let us not read 1 Corinthians
chapter 13 with some thought of, well, if I could just work
that kind of love up in my heart. This is a description of God's
love. You remember the illustration,
standing on the beach, having a grain of sand in your hand?
You don't look at that grain of sand and say, well, that's
what the beach is like. No, you look at the beach and you say,
that's what the beach is like. I have but a grain of it in my
hand. Oh Lord, would you put one more grain in my hand? Would
you give me two grains? But it's such a weak example
of the beach. There's the beach. Herein is
love. Not that we loved God, but that He loved us and gave
Himself the propitiation for our sins. He put away all the
wrath of God for all of our sins. Why? Because of His love. Because of His love. Oh Lord,
enable me to comprehend more of Your love for me and to quit
worrying about how much I love You. Only the love that comes from
God can rise back to God. Nothing ascends higher than its
source. What begins with man ends with
man. So that by the wisdom of man,
no man will know God. You can't know God by human wisdom.
You can't figure him out. You can't noodle out God. You
can't study him out. You just can't. He's got to reveal
himself to you. The wisdom of man will never
discover God. The Lord made that clear when
he said man by wisdom knew not God. God was pleased through
the foolishness of preaching to save them which believe. The
declaration of the gospel through the ministry of preaching is
the means that God uses to open the eyes of our understanding,
to open our ears, and to make himself known to us. Not by human
wisdom. By human works, we will never
be able to please God. It's not by our works of righteousness. Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing,
nothing that you and I have ever done satisfies the demands of
God's righteousness. Truly, man at his very best state,
the things that you're proud of, the things you like people
patting you on the back for, the things that you wouldn't
mind them putting in the newspaper about you, God says, is altogether empty
of any righteousness before God. So, that which starts with man
can only end with man. It cannot rise any higher than
its beginning. And so it is with love. If we're going to know anything
about loving Christ, it'll come only as He's pleased to make
the love of Christ made known to us. Now the scripture says in Romans
chapter 13 verse 10 that love is the fulfillment of the law. The truth is that God rules his
children without the law in the grace of his love. Love rules the kingdom of God
without the sword, without the sword of wrath, without the sword
of judgment. 1 Corinthians chapter 13. Do you
have your Bibles open? I want to read the first three
verses because the first three verses tell us what having love
is not. Verse 1, Though I speak with
the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, now It's a little unfortunate, I
think, that the translators decided in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 to
change the word love to charity. This word is the word agape. It is translated love everywhere
else in the Bible. For some reason, they put charity
here. which has the connotations of
being charitable and how many religious charities have come
on the scene in an attempt to measure up to this sort of charity. And all they are, are man's works
religion trying to get himself into heaven. quote Christian charities, the
hospitals, the, well, you know, the list goes on. Is charity love inaction? Yes,
but it's the action of His love toward us. It's the action of
His love toward us. I am become as sounding brass
and tinkling cymbal, and though I have the gift of prophecy and
understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have
all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not love,
I am nothing." So my question is, what is it to have love?
If these things are What it is not to have love, then what is
it to have love? The third verse, and though I
bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body
to be burned, and have not charity, have not love, it profiteth me
nothing. What is it to have love? Well,
verse one makes it clear that having love has nothing to do
with what you say. It has nothing to do with what
you say. though I could speak with the
tongues of men what that means is if I was able to speak eloquently
in every language known to man and of angels you do understand
that when we get to glory we're not going to be speaking English
or Spanish These languages that we have here in this world are
not sufficient to describe the glory. That's why John, the Lord
had to tell John, put down your pen, John, you kid. There's no
words. There's no words in the human language to describe what
you're seeing. Paul said, I saw things that were unspeakable.
The Lord's going to give us a heavenly language. The language of angels
is what we're going to be speaking. and all the superfluous words
that we have in our vocabulary and all the ugly words that we
have, but we're not going to know anything of them. We're
just going to have a perfect language and what the Lord is
saying is, if I could speak that language. So, having love has nothing to
do with what you say. Verse 2, If I had the gift of
all prophecy, I could just I could prophesy all the events of the
future and understood all mysteries. I had perfect understanding and
all knowledge. And though I have all faith so
that I could remove mountains and have not love, I am nothing.
If verse 1 says that having love has nothing to do with what you
say, verse 2 says having love has nothing to do with what you
have. What you have. If I had knowledge, if I had
understanding, if I had faith, if I had the gift of prophecy
and have not love, I'm nothing. So this having love has nothing
to do with what you say and it has nothing to do with what you
have. Verse 3, I had a man ask me, he said, Three
men in a foxhole and a hand grenade comes in and one of the guys
dives on the hand grenade and blows himself up to save his
buddies. Is that not love? Well, it may be love for man,
but that's not what we're talking about here. I have no doubt that
Mother Teresa had great feelings of compassion for the poor people
of India. No question in my mind that she
had compassionate feelings towards those people, but did she know
anything about the love of God? She would not have been associated
with Roman Catholicism if she did. Though I bestow all my goods
to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,
I become a martyr. I laid on a
hand grenade, I served the poor people and lived in poverty all
my life. Having love has nothing to do
with what you say, it has nothing to do with what you have, and
it has nothing to do with what you do. And right out of the gate, I
mean the Lord under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit gives the
Apostle Paul such clear statements of what love is not. It's not what you say, it's not
what you have, and it's not what you do. So what is it? What is it? It is having, through the gift
of faith, some comprehension of the love of Christ for you. To have love. Doesn't have anything
to do with you. It has to do with you being loved. That's what it has to do with.
You being loved. And I know this about you. I
know this about me. It is the one thing that we crave
more than anything else, and everything we do is an attempt
to be loved. And until we're loved by God,
until we are able to experience through faith His love to some
degree. It may only be one or two grains,
but that'll be enough. That'll be enough to distinguish
you from those who have no love at all. Not the love of God.
Love for man? Love of man? Yes! No question
about it. But the love of God has nothing
to do with what you say, it has nothing to do with what you have,
and it has nothing to do with what you do. And the most extreme
examples are given here in these first three verses, are they
not? Are they not? So just put it
out of your mind, trying to define God's love by what you say and
by what you have and by what you do and by what you feel and
ask the Lord to open the eyes of your understanding and to
give you some comprehension of the love of Christ and how broad
it is and how deep it is and how high it is and how long it
is. because that's what's being described
here what's being described now beginning in verse 4 is the love
of Christ and so faith is believing that this is God's love this
is what the love of Christ looks like this is what I need this is what he has for his people
Lord, would you give me the faith to cause me to believe that this
is your love towards me? Faith is the only evidence we
have. Well, I know God loves me because
He's provided for me, or He's done this for me, or He's done
that, and I can see in my life different circumstances where
God has intervened, and so therefore I... No, don't do that! It has nothing to do with what
you have. It has nothing to do with what you do. It can only
be seen through the eyes of faith in the person of the Lord Jesus
Christ for you. It's faith that is the substance
of things hoped for. It is faith that is the evidence
of things not seen. It is faith that must come from
God. Lord, give me faith to have some
comprehension of Your love for me. And if He does that, you know
what? The rest of it will be okay.
Your love for your spouse, your love for your husband, your love
for your children, your love for your enemies, your love for
your co-worker, you know, that will just take care of itself.
Give all of your focus and attention and hope in Christ's love for
you. What does his love look like?
It suffereth long. Now that's the kind of love I
need. I need a long-suffering love. I need a love that's patient. And this word long-suffering
doesn't mean that, you know, well, the Lord's just going to
put up with us. It means that it's eternal. He said, I've loved
you with an everlasting love. Long to God means forever. His long-suffering love means
it never had a beginning and it'll never have an end. And His love for us is not based
on anything He sees in us. It's because He chose us in Christ
before the foundation of the world. It's because the Lord
Jesus Christ Himself is that Lamb that was slain by God in
the providence of God, the purpose of God, in the covenant of grace
and we were placed in Him so that God has never seen us outside
of Christ. Can you believe that? Can you
believe? Can you love a gospel message
that causes God to love you only for Christ's sake? He doesn't see anything in you.
But in Christ, there's no distinction. Father, I have loved them to
the end, even as thou hast loved me. How
much patience do you need for God to be with you? How many
promises have you broken? For what length of time are you
able to remain in fellowship with him before you're completely
distracted by some trivial matter or by some worldly thing? God's love is forbearing, it's
long-spirited, it's patient, it's long-suffering. That's the
kind of love I need. It's kind. It's the goodness of God that
draws us to repentance. He said, I've drawn you with
cords of kindness. It's his grace. It's his gentleness. And Luke, the scripture says
in Luke chapter six, verse 35, he is kind to the unthankful. How unthankful are you? He's
kind. I'm so glad. He envieth not. You envy somebody who's got something
more than you've got. You know who you've never envied?
You've never envied the guy standing on the side of the street begging
for bread, have you? Never envied him, have you? You
may have pitied him. You may have given him a little
something. But you don't pull up to the stop sign and have
some guy standing there in rags begging for money and you envy
him. Why? Because he doesn't have
anything to envy. He envieth not. Why? There's
nothing in us for us to envy. We're just mercy beggars to him.
He pities us. He doesn't envy us. We envy people
that have got things that we don't have. He's pitiful toward us. He's
moved with compassion toward us. He's not like Joseph's brothers
who were moved with envy to sell him into slavery. No, he envieth
not. His love vaunteth not itself. It vaunteth not itself. Isaiah
put it like this. He shall not cry, nor lift up,
nor cause his voice to be heard in the streets. The Lord Jesus
Christ doesn't go around begging men to let him have his way.
Oh, won't you let Jesus come into your heart? He doesn't do
that. He vaunteth not itself. He's not a braggart. He doesn't
have to promote himself. That's what this word means.
A self-promoter. He doesn't have to do that. Why? Because He has absolute sovereign
control over you and me right now. Absolute, complete, total
control. And when He's ready to make you
willing, His grace is going to be irresistible to you. Now that's the kind of love I
need. Because if I can resist it, I will. If I can spurn it,
I will. If I can sin against it, I will. I need it to be long-suffering.
I need it to be kind. I need it to be the kind of love
that vaunteth not itself. That's not puffed up. He's not
doing this for his own personal interest. I need a love that
has the interest of the one being loved. turns all of his attention towards
his bride, his children, his church. Verse 5, He thinketh no evil. Verse 5, it does not behave itself
unseemly. Now to behave yourself unseemly
means to cause an argument. That's what it means. And the
word here actually means schism. It means to create a schism.
Have you ever behaved yourself unseemly? You ever behaved yourself
unseemly with your wife, with your husband? I know you have.
You've created divisions, haven't you? You've insisted on things
being your way. His love doesn't behave unseemly.
He doesn't have to manipulate or force us. He doesn't create
a schism. He doesn't draw a line in the
sand and threaten us with judgment. It's the goodness of God that
leadeth to repentance. It's not the fear of wrath. And it's not the fear of our
circumstances. How many times I've seen people
show an interest in the things of God only when they're in the
midst of trouble. And when that trouble passes,
so does their interest. The truth is, whatever trouble
you might be in the midst of right now, it will soon pass. It'll change. It's just gonna
change one way or the other. It's gonna change. And if your
interest in the things of God have only to do with that particular
circumstance, then when that circumstance changes, you'll
have no more interest in the things of God. But I know one
thing that won't ever change about you and it won't ever change
about me. And that is our need for a Savior. Your sin is a trouble that you're
gonna live with till you die. And if you don't have a Savior,
You don't want to stand before God having to answer for your
sin. That's why I say if the Lord
ever makes you a sinner, oh, it won't be unseemly. No, he's
not going to draw a line in the sand and threaten you with judgment
and fear. He's going to draw you with cords
of kindness and cause you to see what he's done in order to
put away your sin once and for all. seeketh not her own. He laid
down his life for the sheep." He laid down his life for the
sheep. He said, greater love hath no man than this, that he
lay down his life for a friend. We're talking about God's love
here, not man's love. You remember, what starts with
man ends with man. Nothing can ever elevate itself
above its source. This is God's love. He laid down
His life for God so loved the world, worldlings, Gentiles of
every tribe, nation, tongue and people, people like you and me.
That's why John said, Behold! Behold! Take notice! It is amazing
that God would love me! See, the natural man thinks God
loves everybody. God owes me His love. He's God. It's not true. The believer is
blown away that God would love him. And he says with John, Behold
what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we
should be called the children of God. Why is it so? This is a description of His
love. His love. And it's amazing. It's amazing. Look at verse 5. Seeketh not her own, is not easily
provoked, Well, I tell you, if there's
anything that I need, it's a God that's not easily provoked. If He's easily provoked, I'm
in trouble. If He's long-suffering and patient and kind, if He remembers
that I'm made of dust and loves me in spite of how unfaithful
I am, that's the kind of love I need. You need that kind of
love? This is God's love. Thinketh
no evil. Listen to what Jeremiah said
in Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11. God says, I know the thoughts
that I have for you, saith the Lord. Thoughts of peace and not
evil to give you an expected end. Now that's what I need. I need a God who doesn't have
evil thoughts towards me. That everything He does, though
it may be uncomfortable, though it may be difficult for me, though
I may be confused of what's going on, to know, to know that He
is working all things together for my good and for His glory. to bring me to the expected end. I'm confident of that. I'm just
confident of that. And if you're a child of God,
you know that all things work together for good for them that
love God and those that are called according to His purpose. You
know it's true. And you know that what He's doing
for you is not evil. He never had an evil thought
toward His children. only good to bring them to their
expected end. You see, God sees the end of
the story. He's got the whole thing in view. We only see a
portion of the past and we see the circumstances of the present.
We have no clue. He's got it all worked out. I know the thoughts that I have
for you. Thoughts that are good, not evil,
bring you to an expected end. This is God's love. Oh, we have
evil thoughts, don't we? See how you can't measure your
love by these standards? You're going to be found wanting
if you try to think, well, is that my love? Is that the way
I love God? Is that the way I love men? Or are you going to find yourself
under the law without any grace at all? This is God's love. Verse 1, 2, and 3. It doesn't
have anything to do with what you say, doesn't have anything to do with
what you have, doesn't have anything to do with what you do. This is God's love. Look
at verse 6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity. I need a God. who's not going
to pacify me in causing me to think that my works are acceptable
to him. Now you understand this word
iniquity has nothing to do with the shameful things that you
don't want people to know about. It has everything to do with
those things that are unequal to the righteousness of God.
It has everything to do with your good works. Men rejoice
in iniquities. You do something good, men rejoice
for it. They'll pat you on the back for it. The truth is, it's
not your shameful sins that keep you from Christ. It's your righteousness. It's your iniquity. And the love
of God will not allow you to believe that He rejoices in your
iniquity. Whereas in religion, the God
of religion loves your iniquity. Well, that's all they boast of,
isn't it? What they're doing for God and
how pleased God is with all that they're doing. And that's a false
love. I need a love that will remind
me time and time and time again that I'm a sinner and that my
God's not pleased with me. It's the only thing that drives
me to Christ. It's the only thing that drives
me to Christ. I haven't repeated this in a
long time, but I had a man tell me years ago with teeth gritted
and looked at me with fire in his eyes and he said, Preacher,
I've got one question for you. Do you intend to tell us every
Sunday that we're sinners? Because if that be the case,
I'm not coming back and I'm not going to let my children listen
to this. That's my only hope. You've got to be a sinner before
you're going to need a Savior. You've got to know that the love
of God does not rejoice in your iniquity. He's not pleased with
you. He's pleased with Christ and
only with Christ. And the only way you're going
to find acceptance before Him is to be in the Beloved. Oh,
let the hound dog of your sin chase you right into the arms
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let him drive you into Christ. But rejoiceth in the truth. Oh, there's the love of God.
For this cause came I into the world. For this reason was I
born, the Lord Jesus Christ said to Pilate, that I might bear
witness unto the truth. My sheep, they hear my voice. I am the way, the truth, and
the life. They follow after me. They know the truth. They rejoice
in the truth. Why? Because they love what I
love and they hate what I hate. You know what religion does?
It turns it right upside down. Man-made religion calls that
which is holy profane and they call that which is profane holy.
They call their iniquity good and they call the sovereign grace
of God in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ bad. You know what God's people do?
God's people just love what God loves, and they hate what God
hates. They hate their sin, they hate their iniquity, and they
love Christ. They love having a gospel that
is completely wrapped up in the person and work of the Lord Jesus
Christ. It's their only hope. This is
God's love. He rejoices not in iniquity.
He rejoices in the truth. He beareth all things. I need a God to put up with me. A God who has perfect faith.
A God whose hope never ends and
endures all of my sins. Look at verse 8. We have to move
along through these verses. Love never fails. Never fails. Now I've seen people who were
head over heels in love become bitter enemies and hate one another. I've seen it happen. You've seen
it happen. Perhaps it's happened in your life. Our failed, our love, people
talk about unconditional love. There's no such thing. There's
no such thing. And God's love is not unconditional.
He loves His people on the condition that they are perfectly righteous
in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom He placed them
in the covenant of grace before the world ever began. So it never
fails. It suffereth long. It's from
everlasting to everlasting. Whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail. Whether there be tongues, they
shall cease. Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
All these things are temporary. For we know in part and we prophesy
in part. We have such a small, minuscule understanding of the
wholeness of His glory and His love. But when that which is perfect
has come, When that eastern sky splits,
and the trump of God sounds, and the dead in Christ are raised
from the dead, and those of us which are alive are caught up
together with them in the Lord, and the cataclysmic, terrible
day of the Lord comes and burns this world up, when that day
comes, it does not appear what we shall
be. But we know that when He shall
appear, we shall see Him as He is and be made like Him. the
fullness of His love. Look at the last verse in this,
And now abideth faith. Right now we have a need for
faith, but we won't have a need for faith not when you have sight. You don't have to believe in
something that you can see and touch. That's going to be our experience.
You don't hope in something that you're not yet experiencing.
Once you get involved in the experience of it, you no longer
hope for it. But the greatest of these is what? Is love. Why? Because we're going to be
swimming in the sea of it for all eternity. Here's our hope. The love of
God. The love of Christ. What is it
to have it? What is it to have it? It's to
comprehend through faith some measure of God's love for you,
not your love for Him. Ezekiel chapter 16. I said unto
thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live. I said unto thee, live. When the Lord speaks, He says,
and today was your day of love. Oh, would today be God's day
of love for me? Would He enable me to have living
faith? To look to Christ? and to believe
that He loves me? Our Heavenly Father, we ask that
You would confirm to our hearts Thy love in Christ. For we ask it in His name and
for His glory. Amen. Number 12 and the soft back 10
mil, let's stand together.