This be the parting cry my heart
shall raise. This, my Jewish friend, shall
be, Lord of all Christ to Thee. Lord of to Thee, Lord of to Thee, Alright, go back to 1 Corinthians
13. 1 Corinthians 13. We've looked
at this over a dozen times together. And yet, we would do well to
look at it constantly, wouldn't we? Constantly, over and over
again. We need to learn this. We need
this written on our hearts. Each time I look at it, I feel
like I've learned something. I hope I do. I listened to a
message by him on this text today. I wanted to hear what he had
to say, and I'm glad I did. I was blessed by it. There were some in every place
who challenged him being an apostle. Corinth especially, some men
came in and were saying that he was an apostle and that these
men had gifts and so forth and challenged him. And he had to
defend himself. And he's talking about these
apostles and so forth. He says up there in chapter 12, Verse 29, are all apostles, are
all prophets, are all teachers, are all workers of miracles?
No. God does give those gifts and it's wonderful. That's Ephesians
4. Christ, when He ascended up on
high, He gave gifts to men. Apostles and prophets and apostles
and so forth. Evangelists, pastors, teachers.
And He talked about different ministries there in chapter 12. Giving was a ministry. how that
all should seek in some way to serve. Verse 31, he says, covet
the best gift. Covet those gifts. Ask the Lord
that you be of some service. It is a wonderful thing to preach
and to teach. It's a wonderful thing. It's
a good thing. It's a good thing. But, he says, I'm going to show
you something better than all that. Something that everyone
doesn't have the gift to stand up and speak or play the piano
or whatever, okay? But all of God's people who have
the love of God shed abroad in their hearts, they have this
gift called love. Love is not something you have
to strive to obtain. It's something God sheds abroad
in your heart, even the happier you don't. It's a possession.
It's the fruit of the Spirit. It's the first fruit. And everyone
has this. He says, this by love serve one
another. And this is what is going on
to tell us all, to exhort all of us to grow in this grace,
grace of love, gift of love. Use it. Use it. Ask the Lord
to enable you to use it. More good can be accomplished. by this thing of love. He said
in verse 1, Though I speak with the tongue of men and of angels,
and have not charity or love, I am a sounding brass and a tinkling
cymbal. I may talk a good talk, and a
lot of people do. But without love, that's all
it is. It's hollow. It's empty talk. That's all it is without this
love. Verse 2, he says, Do I have the gift of prophecy and understand
all mysteries, or think I do? Paul did say, If any man thinketh
he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing, yet is he ought to know.
If you're not many masters, or don't be a master, don't think
you know everything, he said. But though we may think we do
and have the gift of prophecy and understand mysteries and
all knowledge and doctrine, though I know doctrine, know scriptures,
can quote scriptures and can preach well, or think I can.
And verse 2 says, Though I have all faith, though I do seemingly
wonderful works that men are impressed by in the eyes of men,
and remove mouths, I have not charity, Love? I'm nothing. I'm of no value to anybody. No
value. I thought about myself here.
If I preach this message well, and yet I don't learn from it,
I'm Mr. Sounding Brass, aren't I? If
I don't show it, if I preach it well and don't show it, You do like the Lord said about
the Pharisees. Do what they say, but don't do
what they do. Verse 3, he says, "...though I bestow all my goods
to feed the poor, though I give my body to be burned and become
a martyr, and have my love or charity, it profiteth me nothing. It gives me no title to heaven,
though I do many humanitarian works, even die for the faith
as a martyr." Without this love, I have nothing. No title to heaven. No good to anybody or anything.
That makes it serious, doesn't it? Now, this message I mentioned,
I was going to deal with it Sunday. I was talking to one of the brethren
and he hung his head. And we all do when we think about
this. immediately think, oh my, I've come so short of that. Well,
yes. So do I. How do you think I feel?
I've got to teach it. And I'm less than the least.
I mean that. But that's precisely why we look
at it. Because we've come so far short.
We need to learn on it. That's precisely. If we didn't
need this, don't need to look at it. If it didn't convict us,
well, oh my. If the Word of God ceases to
convict us, we're in bad shape. We're in bad shape. So this is
not to discourage, but rather encourage. This is not to discomfort,
but give comfort, to exhort us that we might learn and grow.
It's the desire of every true child of God to grow. in the
grace of love, isn't it? Don't you? Like our God loves
us. Listen to 1 John 4. Brethren,
beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. How? Like He loved us. Christ
said, This is my commandment. One of the last things He said
before He went to the cross to His disciple, This is my commandment. Not good advice. It's not just
good counsel. This is my commandment, that
you love one another. How? As I have loved you. We've got a long way to go. So
it's good that we studied it. How important is this? I never
really thought of this. In reference to 1 John, I didn't
write the verse down, chapter, it says, He that loveth not knoweth
not God. He that loveth not knoweth not
God. 1 John 4.8. That is, loveth not
like this. That's how serious it is. Love like this. He that loveth
not. knoweth not God. And none do perfectly, except
our Lord, huh? And His perfect love casteth
out our fear. And so He gives us this word
to grow thereby. Listen, let me read you some
Scripture. You don't have to turn. But you
know these verses. Ephesians 1, He says, He's chosen
us in Him before the foundation of the world that we should be
holy and without blame before Him. in love, before him in love. He did it in love, and that we
might be in love with him, with his people. Listen to this. It
says that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, you being
rooted and grounded in love. In love. Listen to this. To know
the love of Christ. To know the love of Christ. Listen
to this. He says, speaking the truth in love. That's how we're
to speak the truth. That's how I'm to speak the truth.
Listen to this. That we might edify that the
body might make increase of itself in love. Edify one another in
love. Build up one another. Listen
to this. Be followers of God as dear children and walk in
love as Christ also hath loved us. So that's how important it
is. On and on it goes. Do you remember
this? He said, this I pray that your
love may abound more and more. And I could go on and on. So that's how vital it is. He
that loveth not, like this, knoweth not God. Knoweth not God. Alright. Alright, here's the
description. Here's the character that our
Lord gives of true love. And we look at our Lord as He
loved us, don't we? This way. Verse 4. Charity. And by the way, charity is a
word. What do you think of when you
think of charity? When we say charity, what are
we talking about? Giving. Well, that's a good word. It
says, Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church, and
with what gave himself. So it's synonymous. Love gives. Love gives itself. Love
seeks to bestow the best it has on the object of its affection.
End of quote. Seeks to bestow the best it has
on the object of its affection. Love. Charity. Suffereth long. He's patient with the faults
of others. Puts up with them. Oh, my. How longsuffering is our Lord
with us? Peter said it this way. You need to account that the
longsuffering of the Lord is salvation. That He's going to
put up with us. Suffer long until the day we
die. He's going to suffer with us.
How long must I suffer with you? He said, Oh, you have little
faith. That's not the right attitude. But like a father who loves his
children, having loved his own, he loved them to the end. Suffered
long. Put up with the faults. Patient
with the loved one. Love is kind. Love is kind. Merciful. The word mercy and kind go together. Kindness. Tender. Compassionate. The Lord calls his mercies tender
mercies. Tender mercies. The Lord is merciful,
full of mercy. The Lord is so kind. Oh, He's
so kind. He said, Be merciful as your
Father in heaven is merciful. Be kind, tenderhearted, forgiving
one another, forbearing one another. Paul wrote, Love envieth not. Verse 4, Love envieth not. Real love doesn't envy the prosperity
or the good of the one you love. It prefers it. Mike, what if Davis has more
than you and is more talented than you and on and on it goes?
Can you envy somebody you love? No, you want that. You prefer
that. You rejoice over the prosperity
of a loved one. That's love. Love envieth not.
Envy is another word for wickedness, is what it is. Wickedness is
another word for jealousy. It's another word for self-love.
I want that. Why should they have that? It's
horrible. It's ugly, isn't it? It's ugly.
It's like little children. Little children see something.
And that's our old nature. Like a little child sees something
another child has. They have plenty, but you see
that? They want that. Envy. Another word for covetousness. It's wicked. Envy. My, my. Love vaunteth not itself. Vaunteth not itself. You know,
self-love loves to talk about itself. People that love themselves
love to talk about themselves. Do you love people like that?
Nobody loves to be around somebody that loves to talk about themselves.
And I know some older men that are such good examples in this.
I don't know if I've learned, but watching them as they're
interested in other people. And that shows love, doesn't
it? That you're genuinely interested
in somebody besides yourself. If you hate yourself, you shouldn't
find anything interesting about yourself. This is love. It doesn't vault itself. Love
is not puffed up. Not puffed up. Listen to Romans
12. Listen to what he says here.
Romans 12, verse 3. He says, I say through the grace
of God given unto me, every man among you, not to think of himself
more highly than he ought to think, but think soberly. Think
right thoughts of yourself. How's that? Low. Real low. Listen to this. He said, Be kindly
affectioned one to another with brotherly love in honor, preferring
one another. If we really prefer one another,
if we really prefer one another, esteeming others better than
ourselves, we won't be envious, will we? We won't be envious. We won't vaunt ourselves. They
say, what about you? I say, let's not talk about that. Let's talk about you. Let's talk
about the Lord. And there's one thing that keeps
us from all of this. One thing. Self-love. That's
another word for self-righteousness. And only when self-love dies
will this true love grow. And there's only one way for
that to happen. Look to Christ. I only look to Christ for help.
Lord, kill, kill self in me. Kill this self-loving me. Kill
this self-righteous in me. Make me love my brother. But
also, seeing him love as he loved us, that'll kill self-love, Lord. It's the only thing that will.
The only thing that will kill self-love is selfless, sacrificial
love when he loves the unlovely like us. We shouldn't have any
trouble loving someone just like us. When he could love a worm,
we sing that song, How can it be that thou, my God, should
love a soul like me? When we consider that he would
love such an unlovely wretch as us, like Gomer. I keep bringing
up Gomer. I guess I'm preaching it Bits
and pieces aren't enough. But Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea,
go down and love that forlorn woman. She doesn't love you.
But you go love her. She's unlovely. She's ugly. She's
ugly. She's sold to sin. You go down
and you love her. That's the love. Behold what
manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us. While we were
yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly. And that old picture
of Hosea and Gomorrah is Christ's love for His church, isn't it?
My, my. So that's the only thing that
will keep us from being puffed up and vaunting ourselves and
being envious and so forth. Verse 5 in our text. Verse 5.
Love doth not behave itself unseemly. Now, I started this by saying,
this is not to discourage anyone. Because if it did, I'd be the
most discouraged fellow here. Alright? I wouldn't deal with
it. I would not deal with it. This is not saying that someone
who never does these things. Alright? Never does these things. This is talking about someone
who is the tenor of their life. Right? This describes their character,
envious, covetous, puffed up. Oh no, that's not God's people.
But they do act like that sometimes, don't they? Who doesn't? Who
can say they don't? Who can say they have not behaved
themselves unseemly at times? Who can say that? Not anybody
in here, starting with me. Nevertheless, this is the rule.
This is the goal, isn't it? This is the lesson. Love does
not behave itself unseemly. What that means is it's not rude
and inconsiderate and disrespectful and discourteous. You know, we ought to greet and
treat people like we would have them greet and treat us. I'll
tell you how we ought to greet and treat people, like that little
granddaughter of mine does when she sees me. That's right. When she sees me,
she acts like I've made her day. She's so excited. And vice versa. Well, greet one another with
a holy kiss. It's so good to see you. Long
time no see. Well, it's just Sunday. It's
been too long. And salute. The word salute means
say goodbye. Salute one another like it's
the last time. It has been the last time, hasn't
it, for brothers and sisters? And it will be the last time.
And we don't know when the last time will be. And every one of
us have regrets about people, don't we? Like to do something
over again. As a parent would tell his child,
behave yourself. Love is not discourteous, not
rude, moodiness. That's another word for self-love. I'm not happy and I don't want
anybody else to be happy until I'm happy. moodiness. You know, we shouldn't make everybody,
because we're miserable, that gives us no right to make everybody
else miserable. I remember Bob and Carrie, you
know, Bob and Becky, my sister, I told you this, but their daughter,
when she was a real young girl, just what, three years old, four
years old maybe, Isabella's age, came down to bad mood, you know,
woke up on the wrong side of the bed. which is both sides
if you're a son of Adam. She came downstairs and all,
and my sister, such a good parent, she said, Cary Grace, you don't
have any right to make us unhappy. We're her happy. You go back
upstairs and don't come down until you're happy. Or at least
act like it. And she learned that lesson.
You know Cary? You'll rarely see her without a smile on her
face. Does she have trials? She lost that mother I was talking
about when she was just a girl. Of course she does. But she learned
that lesson. Don't behave yourself like you're
unseemly, moody and depressed and unhappy and all that. Our
purpose is to make other people happy. That's right. Life doesn't
exist. This is a lesson we need to teach
our babies. Life doesn't exist for you. This
world doesn't revolve around you. There's millions of others. It's not about you. And the quicker
we all learn that, babies and adults, the quicker we learn
that. It's not about me. God put me here, not for my happiness,
but to serve His cause, His people. And that's happiness. Our Lord
said, it's more blessed. Blessed means happy. It is more
blessed. And He knows. He's that blessed
man in Psalm 1. It's more blessed, more happy.
You want happiness? Here's how you have it. He said,
it's more blessed to give than to receive. You want to receive
happiness? Give it. You'll get it back.
That's from wisdom. That's wisdom from above. Love
does not behave itself unseemly. Our Lord had the weight of the
world on His shoulders. He was facing Calvary, facing hell, and was all the time saying,
be of good cheer. Wasn't He? All the time, wasn't
He, Gabe? Facing hell. be separated from
his Father. We all have responsibilities
and troubles and things that weigh us down, don't we? And
that's generally what causes us to be sulky and moody and
all that. The Lord hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all and recoiled his nature, recoiled against
it. He was facing that from the day he was born. A man of sorrows
and acquainted with grief facing that. We can't even enter into
that. I can't describe it. And yet,
he was all the time, peace, be of good cheer, be of good comfort,
it's okay. What have I got to cry about?
And he was doing that to take away all my sin, to take away
death, so that I have eternal happiness. Love does not behave itself unseemly. Christ is love personified. He
did not behave Himself. Rude, inconsiderate. His whole
being was pitiful and courteous and kind and considerate and
preferring others and serving others and so on. Right? That's
Him. That's Him. Even though the weight
of the world was on His shoulder. Love seeketh not her own. Verse
5. Seeketh not her own. I never thought of it in this
respect, but Brother Mahan brought this out. He said, love has to
have somebody to share, to show love, to share things with, to
do things with. That's what love loves. Love
loves fellowship. You can't be alone. Love can't
be alone. Love can't be alone. The nature of it is that you've
got to have an object. Unless you really love yourself.
And that's mighty poor company. You don't want to spend... That's
bad company. And everything's more enjoyable
together. That's why the Lord generally blesses us, mostly
blesses us when we're together as a group, doesn't it? We have
times we're blessed in private and study of the Word and so
forth, communion with our Lord. But it's nothing like this, is
it? Well, that's by design. That's by purpose. Because heaven's
going to be Congregation. A great congregation of people.
And He's united in our hearts in love right now. With Him. With one another. Hereby we know
we pass from death unto life. We love the brethren. Love to
be around them. And our fellowships with the
Father, with the Son, with one another in it. Love loves to
share a thing. You know, like food. It may be the best food on earth,
but if you eat it alone... Boy, I wish somebody was here
to share that, don't you? And you come, you hear a message,
or hear one on tape. I hear one, I say, boy, that
was good. I wish I had somebody to tell it to, or share it with,
or hear it with. Love seeketh not her own. It
just doesn't seek to be alone. Nor does love seek its own rights
and happiness, me, mine, and ours." No, no. The Lord is putting
aside those fleshly, earthly relationships. That's not growth
in grace. Growth in grace is without partiality. It goes above flesh and blood. Heathen love flesh and blood.
The mafia love one another. Family, you know. Oh, my. This
is how you know. This is the true love of God.
That's what our Lord said. Who is my mother? He's my mother. This is my brother. Seeketh not
her own. Love is not easily provoked,
verse 5. And if I'm adamant and dogmatic,
I'm trying to pound this. I want the Lord to pound this
in my chest. Love is not easily provoked. Oh, our Lord. Aren't you glad
he's not easily provoked? Aren't you glad he's slow to
wrath, slow to anger? Isn't that him? Not easily provoked. That's love. Not touchy or resentful,
easily offended. Now, again, that's another word
for self-love. Not easily provoked. Thinketh
no evil. Love thinketh no evil. Not suspicious
of or looking for faults. What does he mean by that? What
does she mean by that? She didn't speak to me. And we're
all guilty of this, aren't we? If we know one another for twenty-some
years or ten, why would we think that? Why would we think that? That's just self-righteousness
right there, self-love. We ought to think, I don't deserve
to be spoken to. I put that in the back of my
Bible, not this one, another one, about killing, denying self. Anonymous writer, denying self.
One of the things was, when you're slighted, when you're ignored,
when nobody pays attention to you, you're not offended. You're not offended. That's self-denial. If you really hate yourself, if you really
think you're less than the least, not fit to be called a disciple,
you won't be easily offended. I'll tell you this story. This
is wonderful. I've told you all I know. Brother Charlie Payne
was such a wonderful man. He was a man, wasn't he? A teacher
and preacher and example in the church. I grew up in and loved
him dearly. Tammy knew him well. Mandy's
dad and maybe some others knew him well. You probably knew him. One time, one of the couples
were having a barbecue at their house. invited a bunch of people from
the church, and he realized that he didn't have enough food, enough
barbecue for all the people. So he called Charlie. He called Brother Charlie and
said, Brother Charlie, I hate to ask you this, but he said,
I don't have enough. I've invited too many people.
He said, I don't have enough food. He said, would you mind
not coming tonight? And Charlie said, you've paid
me the highest compliment I've ever been paid in my life. That you would think I would
not be offended by that. And he wasn't. You knew him,
didn't you? He's just the man to ask not
to come. I want to be like that. I don't deserve to be invited.
I don't deserve. Not easily provoked. Thinketh
no evil. Verse 5, Love thinketh no evil,
not suspicious, looking for false. He didn't mean that. Rejoiceth not in iniquity. Verse
6, Rejoiceth not in iniquity. Love is never glad when someone
fails, someone falls, someone sins. That's not possible. Not only in your It shouldn't
be. It's not possible in your family
and those you really love. It shouldn't be that way even
among people out in the world, our enemies and all that. I remember
there was a man, a business owner, and one of our men worked for
him for many years. He mistreated him terribly. He
didn't pay him as he ought to. He just wasn't a very good employer. And our brother was a very good
employee and he mistreated him something awful. Our brother
found a better job. And I thought, you know what
my thoughts were? I thought, I hope the Lord closes
that man's business down. That was my first thought. But
that's not a good way to think, is it? He's got a wife. He's got children maybe, grandchildren. He's got employees. Other people
suffer. That's no way to think. Our Lord
said, Love your enemies. Don't rejoice in wanting it. The disciples one time said,
Let's call down fire from heaven. The Lord said, You know not what
manner of spirit you are. That's the wrong attitude. That's
the attitude Paul was talking about in verse 11. He said, I
was a child, understood as a child. Paul was a child. He's not talking
about toys per se. He's talking about his understanding. He's talking about his speech.
He's talking about his thoughts. He's talking about his attitude.
It's a childish thing. Over in verse 14, he says, Don't
be children in understanding, in malice, yes, but not in understanding. Be men. But let's understand that we
don't rejoice in anybody falling. Anybody. Iniquity. The next thing, love rejoiceth
in the truth. Let me go on to the next that
goes along with this, beareth all things. Love wants to get
to the bottom, wants to know the truth, not hearsay, not rumor,
not innuendo, not gossip. I want you to turn with me to
Proverbs 10. It talks about bearing all things, love beareth all
things. Proverbs 10. The word beareth there means
covereth. That's what it means. Proverbs
10. The word beareth, love beareth
all things. It means covereth. Love covereth. Hideth. It doesn't expose it. Love covers it. Proverbs 10, verse 12. Hatred
stirreth up strife, but love covereth. What sins? All sin. Isn't that our Lord? When He went to Calvary's tree,
made sin for us, it says He opened not His mouth. Look at chapter 11, verse 13.
We need to commit these to memory. Mark your Bible here. Don't forget
this. Verse 13, a tailbearer reveals
a secret, but he that is of a faithful spirit, a Christlike spirit,
concealeth the matter. One more. Chapter 17, verse 9. These are
vital Scriptures. All Scriptures are profitable.
But chapter 17, verse 9, here it is, verse 9, "...he that covereth
the transgression seeketh love, but he that repeateth the matter..."
Why would he do that? There's only one reason to make
yourself look bad. Isn't it? There's only one reason
to make ourselves Did you hear what he did? I haven't done that. The Lord, they brought in a guilty
woman one time. Everybody knew she was guilty.
And she was the talk of the town. Everybody was talking about her.
Martha. Everybody. Whispering, talking,
there she is. And she was so ashamed. When
it was all over, the Lord exposed them all and covered her. He covered her sins and exposed
them all. You need your sins covered? You
need the Lord to be silent? He knows you. He knows us. The thoughts and intents of our
hearts. It's what we've thought since we've sat here. He knows
us. You want Him to keep silent? Come. Oh, my. Lord, help me. Lord,
help me. I had a brother whose son was in an awful sin. Terrible fall. Just terrible.
It's the worst you can imagine. There was someone who was on
the phone telling other people about it. I thought, if that was my daughter,
I would not want it told. Would you? Would you? Let's just
keep it quiet. And, you know, don't even listen. Don't ask. Don't tell. Don't
even listen. Who's worse? The one who commits
the sin or the one who perpetuates it? I keep telling it and revealing it. When we love somebody, we
want to cover it. Love believeth all things. Back
in our text, verse 7. Love believeth all things. Brother
Mahan said, it's better to believe the best about a brother and
be disappointed than believe the worst and destroy
your friendship. Because if you're suspicious
and misconstrue and misunderstand
all that, you're hurting the relationship. Better to believe
the best and be disappointed. And we will disappoint one another.
All of us will. Terribly. Misunderstandings are like a
communication, aren't they? Verse 7, love, hope with all
things. Oh, love never gives up, does
it? Never gives up. Oh, I hope, I
hope, I hope. Yeah, they're in bad shape now,
but God's graces. He's done that for me. Consider
in thine own self. Brother or sister. No, I'm not. Scripture says provoke one another
to love. There have been times when I've
thought a brother and sister didn't even like me, but I thought
somehow or another I want to make them like me. That's the
attitude. I want to somehow provoke them. Love begets love. Love breeds
love. God's love breeds love in us. And our love breeds love in others.
You can't help but love somebody that's loving you. You can't
help it. It's like you can't stay mad at somebody you're praying
for. Pray for them. All those things will fade, won't
they? Endureth all things. Love endureth
all things. Oh my! To the end. Vow when we're married, don't
we, in sickness or in health, in poverty or wealth, till death
do us part? Well, that applies to brotherhood. That assured our Lord, didn't
it? Loved him to the end. Endureth all things. His love
endures to the end. And we shouldn't expect much
out of our brethren because our Lord doesn't expect much out
of us, does He? That's a good way to think about it, isn't
it? We shouldn't expect much out of sinners like us. And our
Lord doesn't. Verse 8, charity, love never
faileth. Never faileth. Endures to the
end. Endures to the end. And oh, how I'd love to... You
know, our Lord is love. What the world says about His
love is a lie. God doesn't love everybody. If he did, then there would be
nobody in hell. Right? Love never fails. You love somebody, you're not
going to let them perish. You're not going to let them perish.
If it was in my power to save all my loved ones, I would. Wouldn't
you? It is in God's power. His love
never fails. Never fails. And this love, and
for your comfort, that love is there. I see it in you. I see
it in you. And that love will not fail. The Lord will perfect that which
concerneth us. Yes, He will. What was it David
said? Lord, perfect now the work of
my hand. Establish now the work of my
hand. Your work in me, Lord, perfect it. I want to grow up
in love. I want to grow up into Christ
in all things. I want to love like He loves.
There is only one way. Not by striving. Not by might. Not by power. But by His Spirit. That's the fruit of the Spirit.
And we ask Him, Lord, cause me to grow in grace in the knowledge
of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who loved me like this. I want
to love like that. And He will. He will. It doesn't
happen overnight. I told men then, I'm sorry, Dad,
I'm going to say this. And I said, you know, love growing
and gracious and lovely, it must take 85 years. I watch them, how they treat
people, and I think, well, if it takes that long, so be it. Let me live 85 years. That's
how long it takes. But it does happen. The Lord
sheds abroad this love in the hearts of His people, and it
will never fail. It will accomplish that. So he says down in closing, he
says in verse 12, we see through a glass darkly. We preach in
part, and my, my, we'll have to preach this again in six months,
won't we? We'll learn something more. And I'll fail. You'll fail. So we come back
again, Lord teach me. And now verse 13, abided faith,
hope, and charity, these three. But the greatest of these is
love. It's a fulfillment of the law.
It's a royal law of Christ. It's a commandment. This is my
commandment. Okay, stand with me.