I was just thinking the same
thing, Todd. Thank you all for inviting me
to be here. It's truly a blessing. I love
your pastor and his wife and joy being in their home and just
been looking forward to this time. So if you'll turn with
me in your Bibles to the 13th chapter of First Corinthians,
First Corinthians chapter 13. I want to try this morning to
scratch the surface of a subject that all of eternity will not
be sufficient to plumb the depths of. That subject is the love
of Christ. The love of Christ. It's a subject
that is too broad and too long and too deep and too high for
us to comprehend. But if the Lord will be pleased
to show us just a little bit of it. And I want to, I want
to begin by warning you not in your mind or in your heart to
change that little preposition O of to the preposition F O R. Don't do it. Just like the hymn
we just sang. It's the love of Christ, not
your love for Christ. If you begin to think about your
love for Christ, you will at best be found wanting, and you
will at worst find yourself under a law that will exact its penalty
in divine justice, a law that you cannot satisfy. Your love
for Christ is not sufficient. We have some of our Florida brethren
here, and we like the beach. We've got a lot of them. And
I told our folks recently in illustration, I said, next time
you go down to the beach, I want you to pick up one grain of sand
and put it in your hand. look up the beach as far as you
can see and look down the beach as far as you can see and know
that it extends for miles beyond what you're able to see, and
then walk up to a perfect stranger with that one single grain of
sand in your hand and say to them, this is what the beach
is like. Herein is love. Here's the definition of love.
Not that we loved God. but that he loved us and gave
his son as a propitiation for our sins. Now that's what I need. I need one to appease the wrath
of God and to put away my sin and to demonstrate his love toward
me. Recently I was working on a light
fixture in my home Wasn't working. We have a box of light bulbs
in our laundry room, and sometimes old bulbs get thrown in that
box, so I never know which ones are good and which ones are bad,
and I thought, well, I'll just change the bulb out in that light,
and I did, and it didn't work. Well, I thought, well, the old
bulb got in that box, I'll change it out again. I changed the three
bulbs I put in that light fixture. None of them worked. I fiddled
with the switch on the fixture, I looked at the wiring on the
fixture, And finally, it dawned on me that perhaps there's a
problem in the source of power coming to the light fixture,
and I went to the breaker box, and sure enough, sure enough,
the breaker was flipped. The source of power to that light
wasn't there. There was nothing I could do
to the light to fix the problem. I had to go back to the source
of the problem. And that's where you and I are.
It's His love for us that causes the light of the countenance
of the face of the Lord Jesus Christ to shine in our hearts. Might He allow us to understand
something of His love for us from this passage of Scripture?
The love of Christ is the first cause of our salvation. It's
the first cause. That's what the Lord tells us
in Romans chapter 8, those that he foreknew, those that he placed
his love on according to his own will and purpose in the covenant
of grace before time began. Those that he placed in Christ,
them he predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, and
all that he predestinated he called, and all that he called
he justified, and all that he justified he glorified. The love
of God is the original cause of our salvation. The love of
God is the cause of our new birth. The prophet tells us that the
Lord saw us polluted in our own blood. And when he passed by,
he said unto us, live for thy time of love has come. It is the love of God that enables
us to persevere in the faith. Thou hast loved them, the Lord
said in John chapter 17, even as thou hast loved me. And the truth is that nothing
can separate God's people from the love of Christ, the love
of God, which is in Christ Jesus. Now our text begins by telling
us what love is not. In verses one, two, and three,
The Lord tells us, though I speak with the tongues of men and of
angels and have not, and I know it's translated charity in your
Bible, that's an unfortunate translation in fact, every place
else this word agape is used in the New Testament, it's translated
love. And it ought to be translated
that way here. Our city, I'm sure your town
as well, your city is full of Christian charities. Men attempting
to prove their love to God in service to other men, and so
far as they help people out, I guess they're fine, but we're
gonna see from this passage that that's not what this is talking
about. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels
and have not love, I am as a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.
I'm a cowbell. That's all I am. People can hear
me coming, but that's about the extent of the message. How many
languages do you suppose there are in the world? 100? 500? 1,000?
You know there's almost 7,000 languages in this world, distinct
languages. And if you could speak in every
single one of them fluently and eloquently, and if you could
speak the language of angels, now that's the heavenly language.
You understand that when we get to heaven, we're not going to
be speaking English or Spanish or French or any of those languages. Those languages are not sufficient.
That's why That's why Paul saw things that were unspeakable.
There's no words in any language sufficient. If you could speak
the language of heaven, if you could speak the language of every
known dialect in this world, and you had not love, you'd be
nothing more than a cowbell. So love is not what you say.
Love is not what you say. Look at verse 2. 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 charity, I am nothing. I met a man one time that had
the entire Old Testament memorized in Hebrew. If you had Had a professor one
time that had five earned PhDs in theology from different well-known
colleges around the world. If you had all of that, you could
understand doctrine and defend doctrine and explain the mysteries
of the Bible. And have not love, you're nothing.
So love not only has nothing to do with what you say, it has
nothing to do with what you have. Look at verse three. And though
I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my
body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
You can make the sacrifices of a Mother Teresa. And if you have
not love, God says it's nothing. It's nothing. So love, according
to what God says here, it 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. So what is love? What is love? Now, every child of God wants
the attributes that are described in this passage of Scripture
to be manifest in their lives. There's no question about that. But if you measure your love
by the characteristics that are listed here in this passage of
Scripture, as I've already said, you're going to be found wanting And if you think that somehow
you can perform these things and make them to be a law, then
you'll be judged by that law, for you'll not be able to satisfy
it. John said in 1 John 4, verse
16, we have known and believed the love that God has to us God
is love. God is love. This is the love of Christ, not
your love for Christ. These are the attributes of His
love. These are the description of
His love for us. Herein is love, not that we love
God, but that He loved us and gave His Son to be the propitiation
of our sins. If love is not what you say,
if love is not what you have, and love is not what you do,
then what is love? Love is having Christ. That's
what love is. God is love. Love is having the Lord Jesus
Christ to be all your righteousness before God. To have love is to
have the Lord Jesus Christ as your advocate with the Father,
the righteous one. To have love is to have the Lord
Jesus Christ as your surety. as your substitute, as your satisfaction
before God. To have love is to have the Lord
Jesus Christ as your Savior. to have him as your sin bearer. To have love is to have the Lord
Jesus Christ to be your high priest whoever lives to make
intercession for you. To have love is to have him to
be your prophet, your priest, and your king. To have love is
to have the Lord Jesus Christ as your life. That's what it is to have love.
And if you have not love, it doesn't matter what you say,
it doesn't matter what you have, and it doesn't matter what you
do. But if you have Christ, you have love. If you have Christ,
Then in the new man, all of these attributes that are described
here are true of you. That's why Paul said, I am crucified
with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet it's
not I, but it's Christ that liveth in me. The life that I now live,
I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave
himself for me. Christ in you is your hope of
glory. To have love is to have the Lord
Jesus Christ as your Alpha and your Omega. The first and the
last, the beginning and the end. And I found that religious people
who say they believe in Jesus will readily have Christ as their
Omega. When we used to sing that song
that was sung earlier that sang it wrong, a hope of our salvation was hung
on once saved, always saved. Jesus Christ was our Omega, but
we were the Alpha. We had to take the first step. And then from there I moved into
a reformed position of doctrine and I came to realize that no,
regeneration is an act of sovereign grace. Jesus Christ must be my
alpha. But in making him alpha, I went back to the law and he
was no longer my omega. He took the first step, but I
had to finish it. Having love is having the Lord
Jesus Christ to be your Alpha and your Omega. Having love is
to have the Lord Jesus Christ as all your salvation. The first
and the last, the beginning and the end, and everything in between. That's what it is to have love.
Oh, that the Lord would be pleased to show us something of His love. That's why Paul said in Ephesians
3, verse 17, that Christ may dwell in your heart by faith. Trusting Christ, resting in Christ,
relying upon the Lord Jesus Christ as all your hope of salvation.
that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend
with all the saints what is the breadth and the length and the
depth and the height of the love of Christ which passes knowledge. It just passes knowledge. How broad is his love. It's broad
enough to reach every single one of His people, regardless
of where they are. What they've done, who they are, it's that
broad. How long is it? Well, it's long
enough to save us to the uttermost, to keep us from falling, and
to present us faultless before the throne of God with great
joy. How deep is it? deep enough to reach into the
mire of your sin and my sin and pull us out of the pit. How high
is it? High enough to take us to glory, to present us before God and
to make us like him. First Corinthians chapter 13
is a precious, precious passage of God's word. And as I've already
said, it's one that believers desire to demonstrate, but this
is the love of Christ. This is His love. Go back to
the source. Make sure the breaker's on. The
light will shine. If you're a child of God, the
light will shine. You know, some of them might only have a 40
watt bulb and some may have a 60 and some may have a hundred,
but the light's going to shine if the power's on. There's nothing
wrong with the light. That person you show that grain
of sand is gonna look at you and say, what's wrong with you? There's the beach. Love, verse four, suffereth long. Suffereth long. That's what I
need. I need a long-suffering love.
I need a love that'll never give up. A love that is patient, a
love that is forbearing, Truth is, if anybody in this
world, anybody treated me, broke as many promises to me as I've
broken with God, I wouldn't be suffering them anymore. This is his long suffering. How
many promises have you broken? How much do you need to be put
up with. You cannot exasperate His love.
It is an everlasting love. And when God uses the word everlasting,
He's not talking about something that starts here and lasts forever. Everlasting love, when He said,
I've loved you with an everlasting love, everlasting to God is God's
way of describing His time. Which in fact is no time at all.
All that's created is in this little bubble of time and space
that we live in. And one day God's gonna take
his finger and like a soap bubble, he's gonna pop it. And eternity
exists outside of that. That's everlasting life. That's
everlasting life. Never had a beginning. Never
has an end. I've loved you with a long-suffering
love. It's kind, you see that? It's
good, it's gracious, it's gentle. In Luke chapter six, verse 35,
he is kind to the unthankful. When somebody's not thankful
to me, it's hard for me to be kind to them. He's kind to the unthankful.
How much do we presume upon God? How little gratitude do we show
for the mercies and the graces and the provisions that He so
abundantly gives us, and yet He continues to be kind to us. He draws us with cords of kindness. This word kind actually is translated
easy, easy to be entreated. Oh, that's what I need. I need
a God that's long-suffering and kind. Look at the next description
of his love. It envieth not. Now, where we live, I can't imagine
it being this way here, as cold as it is, but you can't drive
a couple of blocks down the street in our city without finding somebody
standing on the street corner with a sign, homeless and begging
for loose change or whatever they can get. And I've had feelings
for them. I've had feelings of pity for
them. One thing I've never done, I've never envied them. I've
never envied one of those people before. They don't have anything
that I want. You envy somebody that's got
something you don't have. Now, the God of man-made religion
is a God that would envy you. Why? Well, because He loves you
and He died for you and He wants to save you, but He can't do
anything about it unless you let Him. You've got something
He needs. That's a God that envies. Our
God envieth not. Why? Because He sees us as mercy
beggars. We don't have anything He needs. We're completely dependent upon
Him for everything. He suffereth long. He's kind. He envies not, and he vaunteth
not himself. He's not a self-promoter. He's
not a braggart. He shall not cry, nor lift up,
nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. He doesn't have
to. He doesn't have to. When your
time of love has come, and he passes by you and sees you polluted
in your own blood, He says live. He says live. And He makes you
willing. He doesn't have to beg you. He
doesn't have to manipulate you. That's why we don't do any of
those things in a gospel church. We don't do the things that men
in religion do. We don't try to shame people
and manipulate people to let God have His way in their life. What God opens, no man can shut.
What he shuts, no man can open. When he's ready to have his way
with you, he's going to have his way with you. And you're
going to be happy for it. And he doesn't have to scream
and holler to make it happen. Don't you love that story of
Elisha after this mountaintop experience with the prophets
of Baal and Mount Carmel and Jezebel gets after him. He runs
and hides himself at Mount Horeb. It's the same as Sinai. He's
hiding in a cave in the mountain of the law. And God sends a great,
mighty wind so that the rocks are rent, but God's voice was
not in it. Now that's the thundering of
the law. God sent an earthquake, but his voice was not in it.
God sent a fire, but the voice of God was not in it. The thunderings
of God's law don't speak grace to the heart. All the law can
do is condemn. All the law can do is say guilty. It's the still, small voice. of the Spirit of God that speaks
effectually to the heart through the preaching of the gospel that
breaks our hearts and causes us to come before Him. Love vaunteth not itself. David, thank you for that message.
I look forward to going to the Father's house. And I thought
about, well, if love vaunteth not itself, and the Lord Jesus
Christ is high and lifted up, and His train fills the temple,
and the seraphim hover over His throne and cry, holy, holy, holy
is the Lord God of hosts, and the 24 elders and all the thousands
upon thousands are bowing before Him and praising Him and worshiping
Him and saying, worthy is the Lamb to receive glory and honor
and power and praise, is that not vaunting itself? The Lord Jesus Christ is not
going to be sitting on his throne with his chest puffed out in
heaven as we worship him. You know what he's going to be
doing? The scripture tells us. The scripture tells us. In Revelation
chapter 21, the angel said to John, come hither. And I will
show you the bride, the lamb's wife, as a bride adorned for
her husband. And the song of Solomon, the
Lord Jesus Christ described his church as, thou art all fair,
my love. There is no spot in thee. Thou
hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse. Thou hast ravished
my heart with one of thine eyes. as we are praising and worshiping
Him rightly so as we ought and will and glory in. You know what
He's going to be doing? He's going to do what we do at
weddings. He's going to parade His bride,
the trophy of His grace. And the Scripture says He's going
to serve her. when Adam was made from the dust
of the earth and God gave him the responsibility of naming
every living creature before Eve was made. And one after another, all those
animals, and the Bible says that Adam named every single one of
them. I don't know how long it took. It would have taken a long
while. Each time, he said, he found
none that were meat for him. And then the Lord God put him
into a deep sleep, opened his side, took out a rib, and created
Eve. And Adam awoke and said, behold,
oh, this is now flesh of my flesh, this is bone of my bone, she
shall be called woman. Here's a picture of the Lord
Jesus Christ and His bride, isn't it? From the very side that He offered
in sacrifice to the Father on Calvary's cross comes His bride,
adorned. Beautiful. He loves her, and
he glories in her. This love is, suffers long, it's
kind, it envies not, it vaunts not itself, it's not puffed up. It's not proud. Someone has said
the best definition of sin is the middle letter in the word
sin, and it's also the middle letter in the word pride, isn't
it? Isn't that our problem? His isn't. His love is not puffed up. It's not ugly. It's not self-serving.
It's not offensive. Grace is seen most beautifully
in humility. And the Lord Jesus Christ said,
take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly
in heart and you shall find rest for your souls. This is His love. We're just scratching the surface
of it. We'll spend all eternity trying to comprehend. Getting
one more grain of sand in our hands for all eternity does not behave itself unseemly. It doesn't cause a schism. I've done that plenty of times.
It doesn't draw a line in the sand, it doesn't insist on its
own way. No, His love woos us to His side
and makes us so glad to see things His way. It does not behave itself unseemly,
it seeketh not her own. If you're honest with yourself,
you'll have to conclude the same thing I would conclude, I have
concluded. That song that was written some
time ago, It's All About Me, Me, Me, I could have wrote that
song. If I evaluate the motives of
my actions right down to their core source, I have to confess
it's about me. It's about me. So if love seeks not her own,
I'm not sure how much of that I have, but I know it's true
of him. He said, Lo, I come in the volume
of the book it is written of me to do thy will, O God. When the Lord Jesus Christ came
into this world, it wasn't about him. It was about the Father.
It was about glorifying the Father. It was about obeying God. It
was about doing everything that God required for righteousness. And that's what he did. And it
was about his people. It was about his people. He laid
down his life for the sheep, and greater love hath no man
than this. Then he laid down his life for his friends. It
sought not its own. It was about pleasing the Father
and saving his church. It's not easily provoked. You
see that in verse five? Have you ever noticed that when
you don't love somebody, everything they do aggravates you? And when you do love somebody,
love covers a multitude of sins. You just make excuses for them. You look over it. Isn't that
the way love is? He loves us with a perfect love.
He's not easily provoked. He remembers that we're made
of dust. When the Lord looked at Peter
that night, the night before his crucifixion, after he had
told Peter, Peter, before this night's over, you're going to
die me three times. But Peter, I prayed for you.
And when you're converted, teach the brethren. Well, that night,
Peter did exactly what the Lord told him he was going to do. And the scripture says that the
Lord Jesus Christ made eye contact with Peter as he was being moved
through the praetorium there in Jerusalem and in the emperor's
house. What kind of look was that? Was it a look of condescension?
Was it a look of disapproval? Was it a look of disappointment,
anger? No. No. Peter experienced his time of
love, didn't he? Oh, Peter wept bitterly because
he saw the love of Christ for him. And though he wasn't able
to maintain his love for Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ kept his
love for Peter. I thought at one time that when
Nathan confronted David over his sin, the Lord had let David
go for a long time before he sent the prophet. Remember the
parable that the prophet Nathan gave to David about a man who
steals a poor man's one sheep, and David said, kill him. I used to think, well, Nathan
must have at that point stuck his finger right in the middle
of David's chest and said, thou art the man. I don't believe
that. Nathan, speaking for God, Brokenhearted
with his eyes welled up with tears, said, David, can't you
see that thou art the man? David, you're the man. And David
wrote Psalm 51 after that, didn't he? Brokenhearted. When the prodigal came home from
his rebellion in the world, Father didn't whip him down the driveway
and say, see, I told you so. No, he was standing out at the
end of the road waiting for him, didn't he? And he kissed him,
and he put a robe of righteousness on him, and a ring on his finger,
and shoes on his feet, and killed the fatted calf, and oh, he said,
this my son which was lost is now found. It's the love of God
that breaks the believer's heart. It's the goodness of God that
leads to repentance. It's not the threatenings of
God. His love is not easily provoked. His love thinketh no evil. Your pastor read from Genesis
chapter 6, the beginning of the service this morning. God looked and he saw that every
imagination of the heart was only evil and that continually.
And the Spirit of God has confirmed the truth of that to my heart. He's confirmed that to my heart.
I'm just not, I'm not capable of having a perfect thought.
I just can't do it. to will is present with me, but
how to perform that which is good, I find not. For in me,
that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. And here God says,
love thinketh no evil. If that's true, then I don't
know anything about love. Because my thoughts are full
of evil. This is a description of the
Lord Jesus Christ. He never thought an evil thought.
Never. This is His love for us. Jeremiah
chapter 29 verse 11 says, I know the thoughts that I think toward
you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not evil to give
you an expected end. Oh, I'm glad that His love is
perfect. Look, His love rejoiceth not
in iniquity. Now, when the Bible talks about
iniquity, it's not talking about the kind of sins that we're ashamed
of. It's not talking about the things,
the evil, wickedness, the dark things that we want to hide and
don't want anybody to know. This is the things that don't
equal up to the righteousness of God. These are the things
we're proud of. This is our righteousness. These are things that we want
people to know about. These are things that when we
do, if somebody doesn't acknowledge us for it, we get upset. And the scripture says that God's
love rejoiceth not in iniquity. He will not allow his children
to rejoice in their good works as their salvation. He won't
allow them. He reminds them of how everything
in them is sinful. I'm so thankful for that. There
was a time when I rejoiced in my iniquity and my God rejoiced
in my iniquity. But now I've got a God who doesn't
rejoice in my iniquity. And I'm glad because that's the
only thing that causes me to rejoice in his righteousness. You remember verses 1, 2, and
3? Love is not what you say, it's not what you have, and it's
not what you do. Love is Christ. It rejoiceth in the truth. I am the way, the truth, and
the life. The Lord Jesus Christ told Pilate,
for this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world
that I might testify unto the truth. They that are of the truth
hear my voice. If you know the truth, the truth
will set you free. Christ is the truth. We rejoice
in him. And God rejoices in him. This
is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. He beareth all
things. I'm so thankful for that. He
bore in His body every one of every child, every sin. He beareth all things. He didn't
leave anything unpunished. He carries the burden of all
of our sin. My sin, oh, the bliss of this
glorious thought. My sin, not in part, but in whole,
is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord,
praise the Lord. Oh, my soul. He beareth all things. He believeth
all things. You know our problem is that
our faith is just imperfect. It's the sin that doth so easily
beset us, and it's the sin that causes all of our other problems.
If we believed God perfectly like the Lord Jesus Christ believed
God, we would never sin. We wouldn't. It's our unbelief that causes
all our sin. He believed all things. He believed
God perfectly. to his dying breath when he cried,
Father, into thy hands, I commend my spirit. His faith was perfect
to the end. And that's what God requires.
That's what he requires of you and of me. That's why Paul said
that it's his faith that saves me. He hoped with all things.
He knew that the Father would rise, it would raise him from
the dead. He knew that he had satisfied the demands of the
law. He knew that he had sufficiently put away the sins of his people,
and he had the hope of the salvation of his bride. He endures all
things. Now, this word endures means
that he remains the same. And he said, I change not. I'm
the same yesterday, today, and forever. I change not. I'm immutable. And that's the only reason you
sons of Jacob aren't consumed. It's because I settled it in
my heart to love you with an everlasting love before time
ever came to be. And nothing can change that. And I endure all things. He endured
the contradiction of sinners. He endured the wrath of God. His love never fails. I've loved them to the end. He's
loved us with an air. He shall not fail nor be discouraged. His word shall not return into
him void. It will accomplish the purpose
for which it was sent. He has succeeded in the salvation
of his people. It's finished. It's finished. I love that story about David's
out in a battle and leaves his wife and children behind in Ziklag,
and the Amalekites come in and burn the city, and they take
all of their wives and children. And David comes back with his
men of valor, and they're grieved, and they're weeping. They think
they've lost everything. And they find a person who tells
them where the wives and children are, and they go after them.
And the end of the story is, and David recovered all. He recovered everything. Didn't
lose, didn't lose a thing. Didn't lose a thing. Whether it be prophecies, verse
eight, they shall fail. Whether they be tongues, they
shall cease. Whether they be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, we prophesy in part, we just scratch the
surface. We're just getting a little taste of it. And all eternity
won't be sufficient for us to understand the fullness of his
love for us. But when that which is perfect
is come, when the Lord Jesus Christ comes
and takes us home, then that which is in part shall
be done away. For when I was a child, I spake
as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when
I became a man, I put away childish things." All Paul's saying is,
I'm still a child when it comes to understanding the love of
God. That's what he's saying, I'm still a child. For now we
see through a glass. Now that word means mirror, and
mirrors 2,000 years ago were polished metal, and they were
prone to tarnish. Matter of fact, I've read that
they had towels and sponges attached to the mirror so you could clean
them off and polish them because they were so quick to tarnish.
And if you walked up to a mirror, it was a distorted image. It
wasn't like a mirror we look at today where you get a perfect
reflection of what's in front of the mirror. Between it being
not a flat surface and it being tarnished, you got a distorted
view of what you were looking at. We look through a glass dimly,
darkly, mysteriously. We don't fully comprehend it.
But then face to face, now I know in part, but then I shall know
even as I am known. And now, now abideth faith. These things are believed by
faith. Not our love for God. Oh, we
do love Him, but only because He first loved us. And our love
for Him is a grain of sand compared to His love for us. This is a
description of His love. This is what draws His people
to Himself. When they begin to believe that
He really does love me, John Lennon had it right when he said,
all you need is love. The only problem is, all he could
do was repeat the mantra and say, all together now. But it's true. And repeat the words of another
popular song, looking for love in all the wrong places. You
know what we do? You know what we do? You know what drives us
away from Christ? Wanting to be loved. To be loved
by God. Are you able to believe that
God loves you? Sent his son to be the propitiation for your
sins. I tell you what, if God gives you grace to believe that,
if God be for me, who can be against me? Let the whole world
turn against me. Let my wife, my husband, my children,
my whoever. We've been hurt by so many people
in this world, haven't we? It's the love of Christ, the
love of Christ that binds our hearts to Him and gives us hope. And it's the one thing that's
going to last for all eternity. Our faith won't need faith then. Our faith will be our experience.
Our hope, we won't need hope then. Our hope will be our sight.
But love forever. Him expressing his love to us
and us expressing our love to him.