"Love bears all things. Love believes all things. Love hopes all things. Love endures all things."
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Hey everybody, I hope you're doing well today. We are wrapping up today the section on the perfection of love. If you'll remember our first section versus one through three, we're on the primacy of love. Our middle section that we've been talking about for some time is about the perfection of love and then we'll jump into after this versus eight through eight through through 13 will be on the, uh, the permanence of love. So looking forward to that. But this is an important section because it really, uh, it really encapsulates what Paul is trying to say here and he just blows through these phrases really fast. You ready? Love bears all things. Love believes all things. Love hopes all things and love endures all things. Um, of course the last little phrase of that is love never ends, but that gets us into our next section. This, um, however, he is trying to communicate and you can kind of get the feel for this because he really repeats this phrase all things over and over and he's trying to show that this really is completeness and wholeness. Love is touching all of life and every part of it and it, it does not, there is not a part of life that love does not touch. It is absolutely essential and critical to our understanding of who God is, who Jesus is and what life looks like and what it ought to mean. Okay. Love bears all things believes and hopes and endures. I want to talk about each of these phrases tomorrow, but I want you to think about this idea of love being complete and love having a perfect wholeness to it. Last thing about this, um, that I think is important to our whole conversation for this day is that all of these phrases are verbs in the present tense. It's if love is complete and, and, um, it is whole, then it is complete and whole for today. Whatever you find yourself going in, there's not a part of your life right now that's happening that does not need a love. There is not a part of your life that is happening today that does not require or does not require or demand love of you or that God's love is not touching in your life in some way. Are there places where you feel like love doesn't need to be involved in where we don't need to really have this discussion of love? I know we've been talking about it for a while, but love really is this important. It was that important to Jesus. It was that important to the God of the old Testament and the God of the new Testament. He does not change. And Paul is saying, Hey, look, love is, is this critical? It's this essential and it's this all encompassing and it's for today. Where does love need to touch your life where you have wanted it to not get involved in your life where you've not wanted to let it in or let it be a part of a conversation about some part of your life. Take this to the Lord. Peace friends.
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