Good morning, everyone. It's good to see everyone. I just want to invite you to stand with us. We'll pray and we'll get started. Well, Heavenly Father, I've got to thank you, Lord, for this day that you've given us, Lord. I just thank you for this time that we can be here to lift your name up, to lift your name on high, God. You are worthy of all praise and your name is above all names,

God. We just want to take this time and return praise to you. God, let us sing out our praises this morning, God. And let's just let your Holy Spirit just do a mighty work in our hearts this morning, Lord. And as Pastor Ryan comes to bring the words, it goes out with power, God, but not return to you void, but accomplish the purpose for which you sent it, God. We love you, Lord,

and we praise you in your precious name. Amen. Go ahead and have a seat and we'll continue on here.

Who can stop the Lord Almighty?

If I let you down, cause all is out to run. A sinner, if it's not one thing, it's another. Burns tangled in lies. You are a Savior and you take brokenness aside and make it beautiful, beautiful. You call. Me, child, I tell you, cause all is out to run. If it's not one thing, it's another. Burns tangled in lies. You are a Savior and you take brokenness aside and make it beautiful, beautiful.

Lost without hope, with no place to begin. So then, you think you won. When death was arrested, my life began. He rose today. He says to you, wash his hands. He says rejoice to snow, But then Jesus warned him to sin, Lord, doesn't start until we come. His life begins with you, Lord. So he washes his hands. Lord, it's your grace that brings us freedom, Lord, and I just thank you, God, for that freedom, God.

I thank you for the new life that you give us, Lord. Lord, I just thank you, God, for the new life. The new life, God. We don't, we don't have to, worry about our old self anymore. We don't have to worry about any of that, Lord. We can put all that away and start a new life in you, Lord. I just thank you, God. Thank you for that freedom. Thank you for that new life

that you bring, Lord Jesus. Lord, this morning I just pray that if there are those here, God, that don't know you, that have never entered into that relationship, that have never began a walk with you, Lord, I just pray that today is that day. I pray that they come to know that freedom. I pray that they come to know the new life that is found in you. I just pray that

they would get to experience that, Lord.

Lord, you are good. You are kind. You're gracious and you're merciful, Lord. I just pray, God, that as Pastor Ryan comes to bring the word, God, that you would speak to our hearts, God. Draw us to you. Change our hearts, God. Let your Holy Spirit do a mighty work in us, Lord. God, change us. Let us experience that freedom, God, that's found in you, that new life.

Lord, we love you, Lord, and we praise you, God, and we just pray all these things in your precious name, Lord. And all of God's people said, Amen. Good morning.

If you would grab your bulletin, and we'll go over a few announcements. Over on the left-hand side of your bulletin, just a few changes to make for this week. First of all, there will be no Wednesday night church or youth group this week because it'll be Thanksgiving the next day. I don't know if you realize that or not, but this is Thanksgiving week. And so we're going to cancel

those. And then, of course, on Thursday, there will be no women's study this week. So those are the things that are canceled. Over here in the center section of your bulletin, you'll take notice of the fact that we've got our movie night coming up on December the 5th. And then also, we are taking a church clothing order. I think we determined maybe the first

Sunday in December will be the last one that you can turn your money in for that. I think that's December the 6th, if I remember correctly. So you've got a couple more weeks for that. And the order forms are out there by where you got your coffee and things like that. So take a look at the sweatshirts and t-shirts and stuff that are out there. And you can rep

Calvary everywhere you go. It'll be a great thing. And then, I think, that's all that I need to announce. I need to have my shoebox come up and share a couple things with you. You've already got a microphone.

Good morning. Hey, a couple of things. What's the overwhelming attitude we see in the United States today? What are we scared of? Everything. Scared of dying, right? We're full of fear, it seems like, right? So people really need to know what's the beginning of knowledge? Fear of the Lord. Yeah. So it's really great that I can come up here and tell you this.

Last year, we did 91 shoeboxes at Calvary. This year, we did 154. So, fantastic. Good job, everybody, putting that together. So a couple of key things. A couple of things. You can see that we had quite a few boxes. We had boxes there in the van, in the suburban, and we delivered them. I don't know if we have a picture at the delivery center, but when we delivered

them there, they said that they were way down on shoeboxes because a lot of the churches just haven't been getting together and putting out shoeboxes. But the important thing I want us all to remember is that that's 154 boxes, right? That's going to go out. They're all going to Denver. So even though the team is going to Dallas to pack shoeboxes, those boxes from Kansas all go to

Denver. And the important thing is, though, is that remember, every box has an opportunity to touch over 100 lives for Jesus. That's 15,000 people who may see and learn of Christ because of these shoeboxes. It's such a small thing that has such a big opportunity to impact people for Christ that we may never see them. So it's really a fantastic thing. So we did great.

And further, we're going to have a meeting in the Agape room right after the service today to talk about the Dallas trip. There's some schedule changes, so we need you to come and meet with us if you can. If not, we'll be contacting you if we don't see you today. But other than that, that's it. So thank you all. Okay, very good. And if you would, just make sure that your mobile

device is silenced. And for our responsive reading, we're going to be in Psalm 142. Psalm 142. We'll be looking at the New American Standard Bible for the responsive reading. If you don't have one, there should be one in your row. And it's COVID, so I'm not allowed to tell you to share, but that's between you and Jesus and your neighbor. So if you would stand in the honor of the reading of God's words,

Psalm 142.

I will read the odd verses if you will follow along with Pastor Allen in the even verses. A mascal of David when he was in the cave, a prayer. I cry aloud with my voice to the Lord, and I make supplication with my voice to the Lord. I pour out my complaint before him. I declare my trouble before him. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way where I

walk, they have hidden a trap for me. Look to the right and see, for there is no one who regards me. There is no escape for me. No one's who cares for my soul. I cried out to you, O Lord. I said, you are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. Give me to my cry, for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

Read verse 7 with me. Bring my soul out of prison so that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me. And Lord, I do thank you that we can rest in you, that we can find our refuge in you, and Lord, that you will deliver our souls. Father, I thank you that we have that kind of hope, and so Lord, I just

ask that as we spend time in your word right now, that you would begin to prepare our hearts for what it is that your Holy Spirit wants to minister to us through 1 Corinthians 13. Lord, that you would begin to convict us in the areas where we need convicted. Lord, that you would encourage us in the areas that we need encouraged, and teach us in the areas where we need to just know what you have for us, and what you want us to do. And we just thank you, Father, for who you are in Jesus' name. Amen.

You may be seated. And if you would open up in your Bibles to the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 13.

This is the third part of our series on the gifts of the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 13 is one of those super recognizable chapters, right? I'm probably, I'm sure the most weddings that you've been to, somewhere 1 Corinthians 13 was up there. But we've been looking at this in the aspect of the gifts of the Spirit. We're going to keep it in its context. So the first thing that we looked at is that there are a

variety of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are many parts, but there's one body. Well, as we come to 1 Corinthians chapter 13, we realize that love is at the heart of all of these things. I entitled this message What's Love Got to Do With It? Because I was thinking about that Tina Turner song. Remember the one? What's love got to do, got to do with it? What's love? Just a second-hand

emotion? That's a terrible song, by the way. But as I was thinking about it, and now as I've said those lyrics, I want you to picture me with Tina Turner's hair, right? It's a beautiful thing. Man, if I could grow that hair, I would do that in a heartbeat. So, my wife praises God every day that I can't, so it is what it is. But it's interesting, the lyrics of that song,

because really, the Bible tells us that love kind of has everything to do with it. Love is not just a second-hand emotion. It actually is a really important aspect of our lives. As a matter of fact, Jesus dealt with this when he was asked, what's the greatest commandment? He said, well, the greatest commandment is that you love the Lord your God with all your heart,

with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. And the second is like unto it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two laws hang, or on these two principles hang all the law and the prophets. Everything in Scripture can be summed up by loving other people and loving God. And so, love has everything to do with it. And as we come here to

1 Corinthians chapter 13, we realize that everything that Paul has been dealing with the Corinthian people about all has a lack of love at the heart of it. Think about it. He has dealt with them on the aspect of division. They've been divided over all kinds of things. He's dealt with them on the fact that they were unwilling to confront sin out of a twisted view of tolerance

within their church. He dealt with them on the fact that they were suing each other frivolously over things that they would have just as well been better off to allow themselves to take the loss on. He's dealt with them on moral issues because they were so lax when it came to sexual perversion within the church. He dealt with them on an improper use of liberty because they were not being willing to put someone else first. Instead, they said, these are my

rights, and so I'm going to do what I want to do. He dealt with them on their improper actions at the Lord's Supper because they were being selfish and not waiting for one another. And now he's dealing with them on the improper use of the gifts, that they were not using them properly to point people to Jesus. Instead, we're drawing attention to themselves. But at the heart of each

of these issues that Paul has dealt with the Corinthian people on was a lack of love. And if you think about it, at the heart of every issue that we deal with in our culture, at the heart of every issue that you deal with in your home, at the heart of every issue that you deal with in a church, always comes down to a lack of love. Someone is not loving the way that God has called for them. And so when we view these things, we need to stop saying, well, this is what the real problem is, stop blaming each other for what the problem is, and start looking at where is my heart in this. And that's what he does

with the people of Corinth here in 1 Corinthians chapter 13, is he gets them back to the heart of love. Now, as we look at the word love, we often in the English language kind of abuse this word, right? We're a little inept with our language, right? We love a lot of different things. I love to go run. I love to eat ice cream, which is why I also love to go run.

I love coffee, but I also love my wife, and I love my kids, and I love the Lord. See, those are differing levels of love, but we have one word for it. Well, the Greeks were a little better with their language than we are, and there's four words. I'm going to talk about three of them this morning. Three main words in Scripture that we view when it comes to love. The first

Greek word is the word eros. It's where we get our English word erotic from, and it is a self-pleasing sort of a love. It's a physical sort of love that pleases oneself. In our culture today, and in that wonderful song by Tina Turner, that is the word that's being used. Most of us refer to love. Most of the culture in the United States and in the Western culture refers to love

in this eros sort of a way. Then there's a second word for love, which is what most of us as human beings shoot for. It's phileo, which is where we get our word Philadelphia from, brotherly love, which we know that right now Philadelphia is not showing much brotherly love in just about anything that they do. That's what we most likely shoot for, because it is a brotherly, family sort of love that we have for people, but it's still not the strongest term for love.

There's another term that's used, and it was actually coined for the New Testament because it's not in ancient Greek literature, and it's the word agape. Agape is a divine love. As a matter of fact, it's a love that is divine in nature. It is sacrificial and only wants what's best for the other person even to the detriment of self. It is very divine in its nature, and it's very

unnatural to us, which also tells us that it can only be divinely given. It can only be given to us by the Father because you and I can't produce this in and of ourselves because in our flesh, in our humanity, we will always defer to who we really are, someone who puts self first. And so if we want this kind of love, it has to be given to us. Well, as we move into 1 Corinthians chapter 13 here, we're going to see three things. The first thing he's going to do is he's going to tell us

the necessity of love. Tell us just how important it is to everything that we do, especially as we use the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The second thing he's going to do is he's going to define for us the character of love, and then he's going to tell us about the unending nature of love. So we start off in 1 Corinthians chapter 13, and he says, if I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy

and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions as to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. He goes with three areas. The first two are gifts, the last of which is an area of self-sacrifice. Three areas that he deals with that if they're

not coupled with true love, they've actually done us no good. So let's take the first one. He says, if I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. Now, as a theological sidebar, I'll point out the fact that this is not a good thing. It's not a good thing. It's not a good thing. It's not a good thing. This is why, one of the reasons why many believe that tongues is not just a known language that God

supernaturally gives you the ability to speak. It can also be an unknown language because here, Paul refers to this gift of tongues as the tongues of men and of angels. It is oftentimes a prayer language between us and God when we just don't know how to express ourselves. And so we say, Lord, I don't know what to do. And God takes over and we pray in the spirit. He says, but if I do

that, if I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but I don't have love in my heart, if it's not because I want to know God with all of my heart, or I want to point other people to a true knowledge of God, then I have become an obnoxious noise. Now, we've got a drummer and he does a great job and he beats on that thing. But I don't know if you ever heard anybody bang a cymbal when it's not done in any kind of a beat and it's done as loud as possible. One of the times that we were up here doing some work, a guy that comes up and works with me quite a bit, his son was up here with us and his son's a little guy. And I love this little guy because

he has so much energy. But we had the, just the little box up there and there was a cymbal sitting right next to it. And there was a little drumstick. And so as me and this other guy are trying to have a conversation, this little dude grabs the drumstick and just starts going, bang, bang, bang. Now I can deal with that for a little bit, but it got to where neither one of us could hear each other. And finally, dad goes,

dude, that's got to stop because the noise becomes so much that you can't even hear yourself think. It becomes an obnoxious noise. He says, if tongues are used in that way, you've become obnoxious. If you're not using that gift in order to point other people to Jesus or in order to yourself grow closer in your knowledge with him, then you've become an obnoxious noise. And right now, there

are many people that are making obnoxious noises because they are self-centered and self-focused and drawing attention to themselves instead of the one that the gift is meant to draw attention to. Because remember, in all of this, what is the purpose of the gifts of the Holy Spirit? They're all to point us to Jesus. They're all to reveal to us that we're not just a little guy. We're not just a little guy.

They're all to reveal Jesus to us. And so if we use these to draw attention to ourselves, if we use these so that people will tell us how spiritual and amazing we are, then we've just become an obnoxious noise in the ears of people. He goes on to say, if I have the gift of prophecy, or if I have the gift of knowledge, or I can understand all mysteries or have all faith, and I can do all of those things, but they're not done out of love, then I am nothing. Can you imagine? God's given you this gift of prophecy. He's given you the

ability to speak the word of God into someone's life in such a way that it's poignant just for them, or he's given some kind of a message to you and you do it so that they will then later come back and tell you how thankful they are that you have been blessed with that gift, or you do it in such a way as to draw attention to yourself. And instead of pointing them to Jesus Christ, you just pointed them to yourself. All of a sudden now, that wonderful gift that God has given you is a useless gift because it didn't do the thing that it was sent out to do. You have this word of knowledge, or you have all this understanding, and you want to explain it to somebody else, but in your explaining it to somebody else, you can't quit talking about

how smart you are. It all of a sudden becomes an obnoxious thing, and it does nobody any good. Or if you've got this amazing faith, the faith to move mountains, you've got this faith that you believe God can do anything that he wants to do, but in expressing this faith, you puff yourself up. You've just made it nothing. It's a good word. Now, in verse three, he says,

hold my possessions to feed the poor, and I surrender my body to be burned, but don't have love that profits me nothing. Verse three has always bothered me a little bit because it seems like who does that if they're not a believer, right? I'm reminded of the rich young ruler who came to Jesus and said, what must I do to inherit eternal life? He calls him good teacher. What must

I do to inherit eternal life? And he says, first of all, why you call me good? There's only one good, but God. Second of all, here's what you need to do. You need to keep all of the law. And he says, don't do all those bad things. He says, I've done that. He says, then this is what you need to do. You need to go and sell all of your possessions and give all of the money to the poor. And it says

that the rich young ruler walked away with his head down because he had many possessions. Now, interestingly enough, what he was doing there was not giving him a work to do in order to be made holy. He was revealing idolatry in his life. Well, here, Paul says, if you give all of your goods, your possessions to the poor, but you don't have love in your heart, it actually profits you nothing. So how do you reconcile the two? I've battled with this this week. And here's what I've

come up with, what I feel like the Lord has shown me, because so many people that don't know Jesus want to do good things, not because they love the Lord, not because they love people, but because they want to appease their guilty conscience. How many people today are being really good people, not because it's in their heart, but because they love the Lord? Not because they have a pure heart to love people, not because they want to show God how much they love them, but because they simply want to appease a guilty conscience so they can continue living in their sin and feel good about it. I was listening to an interview with a guy who has done interviews with lots of different famous people. And he was talking about one particular famous guy. And he

says, you would not believe how nice of a guy this is. He does things nobody even knows that he does because he's such a wonderful human being. Now, if you know anything else about this guy's character, you know he doesn't know Jesus because his life is immoral in every way, shape, and form. And yet he does all of this really nice thing, things, and doesn't even want any attention for it. I said, but Lord, I don't understand. How can that guy not know you? And he said, because he's

trying to appease his conscience, because he wants to live in his sin without any kind of guilt. So he does good things so that his good outweighs his bad. And I was like, ooh. How many people in our culture are living that way right now? How many people have said, as long as I do enough good things, I'll appease my conscience and I can keep living however I want to? That's what's happening in culture right now. And he says,

if it's not out of pure love for God and out of pure love for people, then it has profited you nothing. It may have appeased your conscience temporarily, but it's done nothing for your soul. And then he goes on to say, even if you give your body to be burned. In other words, give yourself up as a martyr. Do you know there was a philosophy in the early church among those who were more

fleshly in their understanding of Scripture that they said that the fires of persecution would cleanse their sins. There's only one thing that cleanses sin, and that's the blood of Jesus Christ. He says, you can do all those things, but if you don't have love in your heart, it's actually profited you nothing. Because without love, all of these things are pointless.

And so from there, he goes on, and he's going to explain to us what this character, of love, actually looks like. So let's look at verse four. He says, love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not arrogant. Love does not act unbecoming. It does not seek its own. It is not provoked, does not take into account wrong suffered. Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.

It bears all things, believes in all things, and is not arrogant. Love does not act unbecoming. All things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. 16 things he tells us to define the character of love. That's a lot of things to define love, right? That's a lot of things to tell us about this. And so he begins to explain this. So I want to take them one by one. Number one, he says that love is patient. The word patient means

long-suffering, enduring long, or bearing ill treatment from others. Love is very patient. In other words, it can take a lot of junk from a lot of people. I'm curious how patient you are, because I wonder if you're about as patient as I am. I can handle it for about five minutes, and then I'm over it. I'm ready to rip somebody's head off. I'm ready to yell at somebody, because I can only take things for so long. But love continues to

endure, because love, I love the way Gail Irwin puts this. He says, love is long-suffering, right? You ever viewed it that way? That's what love is. Love is very patient. I'm curious how patient you are. Now, listen, it's easy to be patient with somebody you've never really met before that does something kind of obnoxious. Here's the real test of whether or not you're

patient. How do you handle your family? As a matter of fact, I would say most of these things with love are not truly love until you can do so with your family, because your family is the great revealer of what goes on on the inside of you. The people you're around the most, are the ones that will reveal how you really feel, because I can deal with you if I know it's only going to be for the next 15 minutes. But if I know I have to deal with you for the next 15 years,

we got war, my friends. We got war. Love is patient. The second thing he says is that love is kind. It's a word that doesn't need a great deal of definition, but it is a word that's very much lacking in our culture today. There's not a great deal of kindness in the culture, right? We've lost that. And unfortunately, we've also lost it in the church. As a matter of fact,

I think we've massively lost it in the church, because in the church, what we've started doing is we've started making sure that everybody knows that we're right and they're wrong. We've made sure that everybody knows that we have the right opinion on everything, and we're not going to be very kind about it sometimes. But it tells us right now that love is kind. That means that everything that comes out of your mouth should be kind. You're like,

Ryan, sometimes I have to tell the truth. Then be kind. Do it in a kind way, because that's lacking in culture right now. I always thought of myself as a pretty nice guy. I always thought of myself as a pretty friendly, kind individual. But over the years, I continue to see revealed in me the lack of kindness. And one story has come back into my mind. I taught a chapter out of Galatians back in March at a little conference that we had over in

Wellington. And part of the chapter, there's just this one little line that stuck out to me that said, and be kind. And I was like, that kind of almost doesn't even fit the context of everything that's said. But I started pondering it. That's what you do with scripture. When something sticks out to you, we're going to do it. And I said, well, I'm going to do it. And I said, well,

do you know that? That's what you should do. Go, why is that sticking out to me? And start praying about it, Lord. What are you trying to show me through this? And I was reminded of when I was a debater in high school. Because as kind as I feel like I can be, what comes out of me sometimes is not very kind. And so when you debate, there's speaker one and speaker two on both the affirmative

and the negative. And so as I was, we got our sheet back, and I think I was speaker two. And this little note always stuck out to me. Because it said, speaker two, try to be a little kinder next time. Because I had made my point, and I realized, dude, I totally am nailing this person on this as I was cross-examining or something. And I got a little bit mean with it. And I remember

thinking, oh, I'm a really nice guy. But kindness doesn't always come naturally to me. And that's what our culture needs right now, is we need a lot of kindness. Because right now, what we see is a love is not only patient, love is kind. Number three, love is not jealous. Now, I don't prefer this particular translation. I prefer the new King James translation on this one, because it says,

love does not envy. Because that one, jealous, we think of like a jealous boyfriend or something like that. Envy carries a whole other set of characteristics with it, does it not? The idea is boiling over with jealousy. That's the idea of the tense of the word there. And so it says, love does not envy. Now, envy, always points this out in his commentary. Envy always seems like the innocent sin, right? Because

we all have it, especially in this culture right now. I'll get to that in just a second. Envy seems like the really innocent sin. He goes, but I want you to think about this. Envy landed Joseph down in the bottom of a well and got him sold into slavery. Envy put Jesus on a cross. Because remember, why were they so upset with him? Because they envied him. Envy is a dangerous sin. And yet envy permeates our world right now. I want you to think

about what happens when you get onto whatever social media you like to get onto. Somebody posts a picture of something, and you see that picture and you go, oh man, I just got this brand new, but they got that brand new. Oh man. And we start getting a little bit upset that they got something that we didn't get, and we start envying them. Oh, I wish I had it. I wish I had what they had.

I can't believe they always get whatever they want. I can't believe this. This is, it's ridiculous. I wish I grew up in a rich family like them so I could get all the things that I want. And pretty soon we start to build up a bitterness on the inside of us. Because as we build up this bitterness, because we envy what they have, there are political parties that make

their entire case on envying what other people have. And it shouldn't be so among us as believers in Jesus Christ. That's why he told us to rejoice with those who rejoice. He says, love does not envy. Brag and is not arrogant. That's number four and number five. Number four, it doesn't brag. It's not boastful. Man, we all know that guy that is really good at things and likes to tell you that

he's really good at things, right? You had that one person on your team that was the absolute best person on your team, and they made sure everybody knew they were the best on your sports team when you were growing up. And then you got a job and you found out that the face looks a little bit different, but you have that same guy working at your job. You're like, what? I thought I left you behind in little league baseball. And now here you are working

right alongside me, and you're better than me here too. And you're going to make sure everybody in the world knows it. And they boast about it. And it's obnoxious. Nobody likes to hear that. And if you're that person, nobody likes to hear that. It says it doesn't boast. Now, I found it interesting that these two words, boasting and arrogant, were put right there

together because they both describe pride, right? But he used two different words to describe it. The next word he uses is arrogant. The word arrogant means to have an inflated, ego. In other words, to be a windbag. You're just really full of yourself, right? And you know what happens when you punch a balloon with a, right? That's what happens to our egos if we

become too arrogant. But I asked myself, why does he use those two different words? Why did he just say love doesn't have pride? Well, because he really makes sure to use two different words to show the need of not having pride because he uses boast, which is an action. And then he uses arrogant, which is an attitude. In other words, he uses arrogant, which is an attitude. And then he

says, love has no pride in it in either action or attitude. He wanted to cover all the bases where that was concerned. Love can't have the actions of pride and love can't have the attitude of pride because pride causes us to focus on ourselves. Being boastful makes sure that everybody looks at me and being arrogant has the attitude that everybody should be looking at me.

And that's the very opposite of what love is. He goes on from there to say, love does not, number six, love does not act unbecomingly. Now, my vocabulary is not overly expanded. And so I don't often use the word unbecomingly. So I looked that one up. I thought, I wonder what, why he used that and what it means. Well, the word unbecomingly means not fitting or appropriate. Now, one of the things I love

about little kids is they can't pronounce words. And I love when they don't pronounce words when they start pronouncing them correctly. I'm like, do you gotta, do you have to start saying that right? So one of the words that we taught our kids is if something wasn't good and it was inappropriate, well, you can't watch that because it's inappropriate or you can't say that because it's inappropriate. Well, Nora always made sure everybody was appropriate and she'd say, dad,

that's not appropriate. Dad, did you hear what they said? That's not appropriate. Now, I don't even like to say inappropriate anymore. I just like to say not very appropriate. But how many of us in life that oftentimes is a little bit inappropriate, let me put it in a little bit more clear terms for you, which is what I kind of like. It's not rude. Oh, man. How many people do you know

that say, I'm not rude, I just speak my mind. And if I just nailed you to the wall, I didn't mean to, it was the Holy Spirit, not me. Because so many of us are just so rude and we hide it under the guise of, well, you just gotta understand, I speak my mind. No, no, you're not speaking your mind. It's called being rude. Because you see, we can tell the truth, but it has to be in the

love. It has to be in such a way that people are willing to take it in, right? There's a proverb in New Living Translation translates it this way. It says, wisdom is only as good as the way in which it's presented. Love's not rude. And we need to check ourselves as far as our attitude and action goes with that too, because God would not have us to be rude to each other. It kind of feels like

we're back in kindergarten again, right? Be kind, don't be rude. So he goes on from there to say, mm, love does not seek its own, number eight, or excuse me, number seven. Love does not seek its own. Literally what that means is it does not insist on its own rights. Oh man, if there was anything that put 2020 up on a billboard, it would be, that's my right. Correct? I mean,

that's what we've heard cried out this entire year. I have a right to not do this. I have a right to do this. You're infringing upon my rights. That's canceled because it offends me, because that's my right. And that's everything that's going on in our world right now. And it creeps into the church sometimes too, because we as believers can sometimes say, but I have a right

to that. Sometimes in your home, you say, I have a right to be angry right now. I have a right to this and I have a right to that. Love doesn't insist on its own rights. Matter of fact, love is the very opposite of that. Love very much lays down its rights. After all, who's our greatest definition of love? Jesus. And what did Jesus do? Did he insist on his own rights? No, he did not. No, he laid down his rights. As a matter of fact,

he laid down his glory so that he could come down and dwell among us to show us what love truly looks like. Love doesn't insist on its own rights. Number eight. Oh man, this one gets me because I screw up at this one a lot. Is not provoked. I prefer the King James translation on this one. It says, is not easily provoked. Is I agree with Chuck Smith. I'm not easily provoked. It takes time, right? I have a long

fuse usually. And so my fuse is really long and then I blow up. But you see, it doesn't say easily provoked. As a matter of fact, if you looked in your King James Bible, you would notice that easily is probably in italics, which means it wasn't in the original translation. It was something that was added by the translators because the true translation of this is that

love is not provoked. The word provoked means irritated or aroused to anger, right? Parents, you hear that? I didn't know that I could get really, really angry with people until I had kids. And then kids came along and my kids know how to push my buttons better than any human being I know. And they can push them really well. I can blow the top of my head off. That's why there's no hair up there. I don't know if you

know that or not. Because oftentimes the flames go shooting out and it completely sucks the hair out of my head. So I don't know if that's a good thing or not. I don't know if that's a good thing or not. As a matter of fact, as I read this this morning, I was thinking about yesterday and I had to say, my bad, Jesus, because I became provoked at my children. You see, I don't like to repeat myself

over and over again about a particular thing. And right now, see, my daughter's not in here. I can tell this story. She, because do you remember I said, can I tell stories about you? And she said, as long as they're good. Well, this one's not good. But she's not in here, so she doesn't know. Um, we go downstairs into the basement and my, my girls just, they struggle with picking up after

themselves. As a matter of fact, my wife said, we just need to take all of their stuff away. I said, but there's still paper and leaves in the yard. They'll, they'll, they'll take the paper and they'll cut it up and throw it all over the basement floor. My youngest daughter makes casts out of toilet paper and blue tape. And then those things end up all over the floor. And I'm

going, do you just invent ways to make messes? How does that happen? And so, I, I blew my head off the top of my body yesterday because I was really upset. I got provoked. And so, as I was reading this this morning and going over it and making my outline and everything, I went, oh dude, I totally screwed that one up. It's not provoked. Love doesn't just lose its temper all the time. See, that's the very opposite of patient, right?

Easily provoked. Love doesn't constantly get irritated or aroused to anger. Number nine, love does not take into account wrong suffered. Literally, it does not store up the memory of things done wrong. Man, this is a hard one. None of these are easy. Some of these are getting harder as we go. Because it's one thing to forgive. It's a whole other thing to forget.

And I'm afraid right now that we live in a culture that doesn't forget. We're like Facebook and we've got that timeline thing. But a year later, we remember that day. And we're like, oh, it comes back up. And we say, oh man, I remember when they, and we fill in the blank here. And we start keeping the record of all those times. You know what? This is the 55th time I've had to deal

with you on this. And I am tired of it. Who on earth keeps track like that? You do. I do. We keep track of those things because it comes naturally to us. I'm envious of people. Sorry, I know I shouldn't. It's love. I'm envious of people who can forget things, right? Like I know some people that don't even remember what they said five years ago. The Lord just convicted me about this

thing. And man, I'm really sorry. And they're like, I don't even know what you're talking about, man. And you're like, oh, that's beautiful. I love forgetful people. Or you go to me like, man, yesterday I said this and I'm really, I'm sorry it was bad. It was in bad taste. It was, it was mean. It wasn't very kind. And they say, I don't remember talking to you yesterday. And

you're like, sweet, let's move on. I'm not that person, right? I have a really good memory, usually, unless it's something really, really important. And I can hold on to things. And I'm afraid that there's a lot of people that go see counselors on a consistent basis who've held on to things. As a matter of fact, I'm convinced that a great deal of the anger and depression and anxiety that we see people going through in the world right now

is that they've held on to things and they can't let go of it. And the reason why they can't let go of it is because they're not willing to forgive. So many people have kept a record of wrongs. And now anytime something happens remotely close to that wrong that was done to them, they lose their business. And the people around them can't figure out why they're so upset

because they don't know what took place 20 years ago that they haven't let go of yet. And I'm here to tell you right now, if that's you, if there is someone that you have kept a record of wrongs about, then it is time to bury the book. It's time to burn the book. Whether that's up here or whether that's something you've actually written down, it's time to get rid of it. Your mental health will immediately increase if you begin to let

go of wrongs done to you in the past, because that's not what love does and it's not healthy for us. It says love doesn't keep a record of wrong. Number 10, love does not rejoice in unrighteousness. And I think there's a couple of different ways we can look at this. First of all, love doesn't rejoice in bad things that happen to other people, right? You know as well as I do,

we have enemies. We don't mean to, we try not to have them, but there's somebody that's given you a hard time in life for a long time. And when something bad happens to them, you're kind of like, it's about ding dong time. Finally, they got what's coming to them, right? Because they have done this to me for years and now they get a taste of their own medicine. Well, my friends,

that's not love. Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness. It doesn't rejoice to see somebody else injured in the same way that we were. But not only that, I think there's another side to this. Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness. Love does not rejoice in sin. You see, what's happening right now in our world is we are told that we need to celebrate that which the Bible condemns. We're consistently told that sins that

the Bible is clearly against are really not that big of a deal anymore. As a matter of fact, we should celebrate those sins and we should rejoice in them. We should rejoice in the fact that there are people coming out of the closet. We should rejoice in the fact that there are people who are changing their genders because after all, they don't feel like that's how God made them.

We should rejoice in people who have finally found the right relationship, even though it's not with their husband or wife, because at least they're happy now. And we're told to rejoice in unrighteousness. And the Bible says that's not love. You see, love wants what's best for you. Therefore, love does not want sin because sin is not what's best for you. Sin is what destroys. And here's the fact of the matter. Sin doesn't care who you are. Sin doesn't

care how much you know the Bible. Sin doesn't care whether or not you grew up in church. If it can get a hold in your life, it will. And if we begin to rejoice in it instead of dealing with it, then we'll never progress as a church. You'll never grow in your walk. Instead, you'll experience destruction. Only does love not rejoice in unrighteousness. It does rejoice in truth. It rejoices in everything

that's true. It rejoices in revealing the truth everywhere it goes. Now, that's not only speaking the truth of God into the lives of people, but it's speaking the truth in love. It's speaking the truth with kindness. You see, there does have to come a point where we have to confront on issues. Paul has done that in this book. He has confronted people on issues. He has confronted people with sin. And love rejoices

to do that because if done in the right way, if done out of kindness and a genuine desire for restoration, then pointing out the truth is the healthiest thing we can do for someone. It's actually the most loving thing that we can do for someone. But if we're going to tell the truth, it has to be with the right heart because love rejoices in the truth and a heart to say, I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you.

You see, there's two different ways I can come to you with the truth. I can come to you out of anger or bitterness and tell you the truth because I'm glad that I finally get to point out that sin in your life. Or I can come to you broken with the understanding that I love you so much that I don't want to see you continue in it, that I love you so much and I want to see you restored. And so I point out the truth of what's going on. One of those drives people away from a church. If you

come to someone and you're angry and hateful, you're not going to see them. You're going to see people in a rude way speak the truth to them. Not only are they probably not going to change their lifestyle, but there's a really good chance they're never coming back to that church. Matter of fact, there's a really good chance they're never going to church again, period. The world

is full of people who say, I will never go to a church again because of how much I've been hurt by God. And oftentimes it comes down to how much they've been hurt by people. And then there's the aspect of telling people the truth in a way that you want to see them restored with a broken heart. And so I want to see people in a way that you want to see them restored with a broken heart. And so I want to see people in a way that you want to see them restored

with a broken heart, with a heart that seeks to see them know the truth. Now, the person you confront in that way may not necessarily right away be your best friend on the face of the earth because you're still telling the truth. But God will use that in a much more powerful way. Love rejoices in the truth. Now, he hits us a little bit rapid fire as we move on from there.

He says, love bears all things. Now, the word bear means to cover. We get the same idea out of 1 Peter when he says love covers a multitude of sins. What does that mean? Does that mean cover it up? No, it's not a cover up. It's a covering. You see, the difference is this. Covering up makes sure that it's never confessed and dealt with. A covering means I will protect you until God is able to deal with that in your life.

You see, if I come to you with my sin, then I expect you to keep that to yourself and not blast it on social media. I expect you to keep it to yourself. I expect you to keep it to yourself. Keep it to yourself and not tell your whole prayer group about it. That's being a covering for that individual until they are healed from their sin and then they can do with that

information what they need to. You see, love bears all things. It covers all things and is willing to be a protective covering for each other. But not only does love bear all things, love believes all things. In other words, it always believes the best. That is so hard to do, especially when you keep getting proven wrong. When you keep getting told this and then they go and do this, it's hard to keep believing the best.

That's what love does. Not only does it bear all things, not only does it believe all things, but it hopes all things. In other words, I think this is important, it never gives up on someone. It never gives up on someone. I can tell you so many people, the reason why they are where they are is because someone wouldn't give up on them. Because someone would not give up on who they were, that God was going to continue to work in

their life. And maybe that's you. Maybe you are here because someone hoped all things and they were not willing to give up on you. Be that way for other people. Not only does it bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, but number 15, it endures all things. I love the way David Guzik put this. He says, in other words, it does all of these things for a really long time. Because it continues to endure.

You see, as a runner, I'm not a sprinter because I'm too slow. I remember the last time that I tried to race a group of young men. And this is about 10 years ago. I was a lot younger then. But I was still a lot older than them. And at one time, I might have considered myself decently fast. And I raced against these three guys. And I wasn't in the same zip code that they were by the time we got

to the end. And I was like, that's right. I'm a distance runner. I'm not a sprinter. And there is a difference. You see, distance runners don't care how fast they get there as long as they get there. Right? Distance runners are in it for the finish, not for the speed. Sure, you set your goal time and all that kind of stuff. But you know, your number one goal is to finish. I fear sometimes

that in our love for people, we're in it for the sprint. Because we live in a sprint culture. We live in a right now culture. We don't live in an endurance culture. We live in an instant one. And God says that love is a marathon. Loving people is a marathon. It's not a sprint. You can't give up on yourself or other people immediately. We endure for a long time.

And then he caps it all off with, love never fails. It's quite the set of characteristics, is it not? It's a lot deeper, I think, than we give love consideration for. We say it so easily. We put it out there. So easily. But he's not done when he tells us about the characteristics, because he's going to continue telling us about this unending nature of love. And so we pick up in verse eight. It says

love never fails. But if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child. Think like a child. Reason like a child. When I became a man, I did away with childish things.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love abide these three. But the greatest of these is love. He tells us that love will never end. It's the one thing that won't. He says, love never fails. That word, love never fails, is the one thing that won't.

The word fails means to fade out, become obsolete, or come to an end. Love will never fade out. Love will never become obsolete, and it will never come to an end. It's the one gift that will continue going. As a matter of fact, he goes on to say, where there are tongues, they will cease. Excuse me. If there is prophecy, they will be done away. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there

is knowledge, it will be done away. Now, many use this verse to try to say that that means, that the gifts have ended, that there is going to come a time on planet Earth when the gifts will end, because they will cease. But I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that understanding of it, and here's why. Because notice what he says, for we know in part, and we prophesy in part,

but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. So here's what we know. There's eventually going to come a point in time where we're not going to need gifts like prophecy, and tongues, and knowledge. But when is that time going to come? When the perfect comes. Because right now, we know in part, and we prophesy in part, right? We know a little bit, and we prophesy a little bit, but all the pictures are still mildly unclear until

that which is perfect comes. Well, what's that which is perfect? Some say it's the canon of Scripture. Now that we've got the canon of Scripture, the complete Bible, we don't need these sign gifts any longer, because the Holy Spirit was just using those to confirm the apostles until the canon of Scripture could come. I disagree with that. I feel like that which is perfect that will come is Jesus himself. Because why do we need the gift

of prophecy? Because it tells us a word about who Jesus is. Why do we need the gift of knowledge? Because it's deeper knowledge about Jesus. Why do we need the gift of tongues? Because it's so that we can connect with Jesus. Why do we need the gift of teaching? So that we can teach about Jesus. Why do we need the gift of wisdom? So that we can have wisdom to understand more of who Jesus is.

All of these gifts that God, gives to us, have one goal and one goal only, to bring us deeper into a relationship with Jesus Christ, to reveal him to us, and to draw us closer to him. So when will I no longer need all of these gifts? When I'm standing face to face with Jesus. Because then I won't need anybody to tell me what he's like, because I'll see him face to face. I won't need to have some other way to communicate

with him, because I'll be able to speak with him face to face. We're told in 1 John chapter 3, verse 2, one of my favorite verses in the Bible, Beloved, now we're the children of God, but it's not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he truly is. You see, one day we'll stand before Jesus. And as we stand before Jesus, all of these gifts that

were supposed to point us to Jesus, we won't need them any longer. The one thing we'll need is love. That will be the gift of love. And as we stand before Jesus, we'll see him face to face. That will be the thing that will continue. Why is that the thing that will continue? Because remember, what do we know of God? We know that God is love. Jesus is the perfect picture of love.

Jesus, it doesn't just fit the category of love. He doesn't just fit the definition of love. He is the definition of love. So as we look at all of these things, all of these characteristics of love, all of them are described in Jesus. And so why, when standing before the epitome of love, the giver of love, the definition of love, why would love? Because we'll be standing with Jesus face to face. He gives about three illustrations here

about what he's talking about. Notice in verse 11, he says, When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think like a child, and reason like a child. But when I became a man, I did away with childish things. You have to understand, as a youth pastor, we never really grow past childish things, right? I read that verse, and I was like, I don't think I've ever done that.

You get a group of youth pastors together, and we're still telling poop jokes, right? I mean, we think they're the funniest thing we've ever heard, right? And we never really developed past 14, because that was our favorite age. That's not what he's talking about here. What he's talking about here is, right now, we are in the midst of the childish things, because we are not as mature as we could be, because we need these gifts to explain Jesus

to us. But there's coming a time where we can put those away, because we'll see him face to face. He gives a second illustration here, where he says, see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now, you could look in a mirror right now, and you can get a perfect image of exactly what you look like. I get it every morning. It's the saddest part of my day, because I look in the mirror. I'm like, well, not much we can do with

that, right? There used to be a point in time I'd look in the mirror, and I'd look at my hair, and I'd go, time to do some work. Now I look in the mirror, and I look at my hair, and I'm like, yep, same as yesterday. So sometimes we can't help those things, but mirrors weren't like that back then. Mirrors weren't these sweet, reflective pieces of glass. They were metal. They were

polished metal. The image that they gave was not the perfect image of your face. It was a distorted view. And you could kind of tell that there was a person. You could see that they had some features, but it was unclear specifically what they look like. You see, right now, when we look at Jesus, we look at him through the filter of the word and through our fleshly understanding,

we get this distorted, fuzzy image of him. And we can see little bits of what he's really like. And we can go, oh, I see how awesome you are. And God reveals more and more things the farther that we go. He reveals more of himself to us, but we never fully get there until we see Jesus face to face. And then we'll no longer see through a mirror dimly. We'll see face to face.

And then it says, this last illustration, we will know as fully as we are known. We will know as fully as we are known. The beautiful thing about walking with Jesus is that it is a continual progression. Every year, I learn just a little bit more about him. Every year, I gain a little bit more knowledge of who he is, a little bit more knowledge of his character, a little bit more

of his nature, and hopefully a little bit of that rubs off on me. But I won't fully know him until I'm there. I'm reminded of my good friend, Truman Page, that I know I've told you about before. He lived at Lakeview Village, and he knew more about the Bible than any human being I've ever been around. I used to go visit with him, and he would share little bits of truth about Scripture

with me. And I remember shortly before he passed away, he said, matter of fact, I believe he was in the healthcare center at the time. I went and visited him, and he said, I am more aware now of my need for God's grace than I ever have been in my entire life. And he knew God better than anybody I knew at that point in time. And he knew the Lord, and he knew the Word. But he realized something.

As much as he knew Jesus, he still didn't know him as fully as he wanted to. And I remember attending his funeral. I remember listening to everybody talk about him and all the things he had to share. Matter of fact, I saw a ton of his notes in my office. And all I could remember thinking was, now he knows him fully. Now he knows him fully in the same way that Jesus

knew him. Guys, that's what we're waiting for. That's our hope. He goes on to wrap it up and say, but now faith, hope, and love abide, these three. Faith, hope, and love, the triplets of the New Testament. I would give you a little challenge. See if you can go through the New Testament, get you a little word study thing, and find all the places that faith, hope, and love are joined together. Or maybe just as you're reading in

Scripture, every time you see faith, hope, and love, just underline those three things, because they're the triplets of the New Testament that are always working together. You see, faith is me believing that God is who he says he is, and that I am who he says I am in Christ. It helps me deal with the guilt of the past, and it helps me deal with the struggle of present, because it helps me to understand who he is and who I am. That's my faith.

And then I've got hope. Hope gives me something to look forward to in the future. We were talking about this Wednesday night. What's missing in people's lives right now is hope. And the hope that they're missing is that we keep thinking in a couple of weeks it's going to get better, right? I remember when pandemic hit and we shut down, and I was like, two weeks, we'll be back.

Dumbest statement I've ever made, right? Like, we'll be done with this thing here for too long, because I'm kind of an eternal optimist. When it comes to things like that. And now I hear people saying, it's going to get better in 2021. I just can't wait. And I'm over here like, while I'm an optimist, I also become a realist at a point in time. And you know what I don't think 2021 is going to be? Better. Matter of fact,

I hate to be the truth bomb here, but I actually think it's not going to get any better at all. I actually think it's going to get worse. Now we can hear that, and we can get pretty discouraged. What do you mean? I thought once January 1 hit, we plugged the computer back in, and we hit reset, right? We do a factory reset on everything, and we go back to the way it was at the beginning of 2019. And it's

going to be awesome. No. No, because the world is still the world. Our hope is still not here. Our hope is still for something beyond here. And you see, right now we have this hope, and we've got to hold on to it. And we've got to keep telling people, your hope is not tomorrow. Your hope is not next week. Your hope is not next year. Your hope is Jesus. And your hope is the future. And he can give you the peace right now

by giving you the hope of the future. He says, these two things, these are abiding. And then, of course, love. We spend a great deal of time defining love. He said, but only one is the greatest of faith, hope, and love. And that's love. Because you see, when I'm standing face to face with Jesus, I don't need faith any longer, because my faith has been made sight. And when I'm standing

before Jesus, I don't need faith any longer. I don't need faith any longer. I don't need faith any longer. I don't need hope any longer, because all my hope is fulfilled in being with him. But I will need to continue to love, because the personification of love will be standing right in front of me. And it'll be the very definition of what exists throughout eternity. Amen?

Now, listen, I need you to understand something. As you have read this, put the Tina Turner wig on yourself, right? And say, what's love got to do with it? In other words, how is this working in my life? How is this working in my life? How is this working in my life? How is this working in my life? How is this working in my life? How is this working in my life? How is this working in my life?

How is this working in my life? How do these things look inside of me? Is there love being produced inside of me? My guess is that you're going to do the same thing that I did and go, man, am I falling short? And you have a choice to make. You can try really hard in and of yourself to start loving people and fail, or you can begin seeking for Jesus, for the Holy Spirit to pour

that love into your heart. We're told in the book of Romans, that the Holy Spirit sheds abroad love into our heart. In other words, literally, he pours love into our hearts. How does that take place? Well, it's a two-step process. Number one, you have a heart full of non-loving things. And if you want something fresh poured in there, then we've got to get the non-loving things out. And I only know one way to do that,

and that's begin to confess these things to the Lord. So as you've taken this list, and as you've looked at it, it's time to begin to empty yourself of all of the guilt of the sin, it's time to begin to empty yourself of all of those non-loving things that you have inside of you, all of that lack of kindness, all of the rudeness, all of the impatience. It's time to start confessing those things to the Lord and clear them out of your heart. And then it's time to ask the Holy Spirit to start to pour it into you, because we are responders to God's love, right? We love because he first loved us. It's time to start asking the Holy Spirit to pour his

love into your heart. He's the only one that can do it. And it can only come if you ask. And so take time to begin to remove the non-loving things and ask God to pour in the love. Amen? Let's all stand. As Jared comes up to share one last song with us, I'd like to remind you that this is Thanksgiving week. And that means, first of all, that you're about to be surrounded by your family, which is going to be a great opportunity for God

to pour love into your heart, because you're going to need it. But I've also noticed something. Usually every November, somebody starts the Thanksgiving challenge, right? And every day they post something that they're thankful for on different forms of social media. And I was just thinking the other day, scrolling through whatever I was scrolling through, I haven't seen anybody do that this year.

Usually I'm like, oh dear God, I don't care that you're thankful for your cat. Like, I get it, okay? That's fine. Because usually by this point in time, you're thankful for the fact that your cat only eats one bag of cat food a month and not two, right? Because you're running out of things to be thankful for. But I've noticed that that's not happening this year. So here's my,

here's my other challenge for you is you don't need to post it on social media. Sweet Jesus, we need to quit posting things. But, but every day I want you to decide that you're going to ask God what you can be thankful for and start thanking him for what you do have in your life. Because I've noticed everybody wants to skip right past Thanksgiving. They're like, I'm just ready to get

to Christmas because I need something happy in my life. Because Thanksgiving's not that happy. Dude, you're eating all day long, okay? There's nothing better than this. But take time every day to be thankful for something. And see how it changes your attitude. Let's pray. Father, we come before you, Lord, and I just thank you for the time that we've had in your word this morning. And God, I thank you that you are

patient and faithful to reveal to us the areas in our lives that need to change. And Lord, that you promise to be faithful to pour that love into our hearts. And so God, as we head out this week, I just ask that your Holy Spirit would do that necessary work in our hearts. Pour into us, Lord, and help us to get rid of all the things that are displeasing to you.

We thank you, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen. Be blessed.

As the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come,

I sing praise to the King of kings, everything, and I will adore you. Of living color, flashes of lightning, and rolls of thunder, blessing and honest strength and glory and peace. Power be to you, the only wise King.

As the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come,

I sing praise to the King of kings, everything, and I will adore you. Yes, I will adore you. Awestruck wonder, mention of your lust. Your name is power. Heavenly, such a marvelous mystery.

As the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come, I sing praise to the King of kings, everything, and I will adore you. Yes, I will adore you. As the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come, I sing praise to the King of kings, everything, and I will adore you. Your name is kalian. Yes, I will adore you.

Lord, we lift praise to your name this morning, because your name is above all names, Lord. You are the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords. We lift your praise to you this morning, Lord. Lord, this morning, I just pray that we would just lead different, that we would not be dis lawful. That we would not be dis lawful. the same. That your Holy Spirit just minister to us, Lord.

Continue to minister to us, Lord, this morning, God, as we leave here. Pray, God, that as we go out these doors, that we would just be a reflection of you, Lord. That we would be a reflection of your love. That you would pour love into us and that we would be a reflection of you, Lord.

Lord, we just love you and we praise you and we thank you, Lord. In your precious name, Amen.