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1 Corinthians chapter 13 · Scripture Unscripted

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  First Corinthians chapter 13. Let us pray.
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  Thank you, Father, for another day to come and worship you.
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  Lord, we sit at your feet. Lord, we want to learn from you.
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  God, we want to touch from the hem of your garment.
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  Lord, we lay like dead men at your feet.
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  Father, we desire you and you alone.
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  Well, we cover our eyes, God, because you're so holy.
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  The train of your robe fills this temple.
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  God, we cry out. Worthy, worthy, worthy is the
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  Lamb who was slain before the foundations of the earth.
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  Thank you, God Almighty, for the gift of our salvation, that we
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  can be holy because you are holy.
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  God, we put on your righteousness.
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  Yes, Holy Spirit, come fill this temple.
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  Yes, Father, I pray in the name of Jesus for fresh fire and
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  fresh wind. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you will come and help us to see you correctly.
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  Eyes like fire and hair like wool.
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  The voice of the many multitudes, King of kings and
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  the Lord of Lords. We see the sea of glass mingled
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  with fire. We see the rainbow God.
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  We see the elders casting their crowns.
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  God, we just desire to be ushered up into your presence.
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  We come in to the holiest of holy places.
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  God, We dine, we Sup with you. Father, I pray that you'll
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  prepare a banquet in front of our enemies.
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  God, I pray that you'll lead us by the still waters.
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  God, your rod and your staff, they comfort us.
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  Though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
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  we do not fear evil. God, We fear you and you alone.
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  We workout our salvation with fear and trembling.
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  God, you are omnipotent and omniscient.
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  You are the Most High God, Elyon.
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  We love you. Father, I pray that you will be
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  well pleased with the reading of your scripture today.
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  I decrease as you increase. It's all about you, King Jesus.
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  Hide me and hide my words. It's not about me, it's all
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  about you. So, Father, we love you, Father,
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  us well today, teach us your eternal paths today, God, take
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  us up to new heights and allow us to feel the depths of your
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  love for this world. Father, I pray that we'll be
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  filled with the Holy Ghost today.
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  I pray, Father, that you will be here in our midst, God, where
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  two or more gathered, there you are, Father.
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  So I pray for your presence, Father.
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  God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, three and one,
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  we love you. We thank you for the complete
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  authority of Scripture. God, we thank you that you're
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  coming back soon and we cry out Maranatha spirit and the bride
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  say come, we love you Father. It's in Jesus Christ, holy and
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  precious name that I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and I have
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  not charity, I am become a sounding brass or a tinkling
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  symbol. What you need to understand is
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  that love covers a multitude of sins.
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  Love is God, God is love, and we cannot even know love unless we
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  know God. Everything else that we've
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  labeled love is just lust, friends.
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  Everything else that we've labeled love is just selfish
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  ambition. God is love.
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  And that is what you need to understand is that all of the
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  gifts of the Spirit pale in comparison to the increase of
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  the love that we need. And God loved us even while we
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  were yet sinning, while we were still sinners.
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  God sent his only Son, Christ to die for us.
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  Friends, and that is what you need to understand is that if we
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  do not have love, then everything that we say, all the
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  religious vocabulary, all of the religious language is nothing
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  without the love of God. It is the love of God that this
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  world is in desperate need of. And God's love reaches them in
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  the darkest places. It reaches them in their sinful
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  lifestyle. And it's the same for you and
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  for me. We came to the Lord God Almighty
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  while we were still sinning. Don't forget that, friends.
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  It's easy to think that we've always been this way, but if you
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  go back and you remember your salvation story, you were once
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  dead in your trespasses. You were once hell bound
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  friends, but it was the love of God that changed us.
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  Hate never changed anybody and we should not be propagating
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  hate to this world. We need to be showing this world
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  the love of God and that is what will change men and women's
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  hearts for all of eternity. Friends to and though I have the
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  gift of prophecy and all understanding and all mysteries
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  and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could
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  remove mountains and have not charity, I am nothing.
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  That is what you need to understand is that all the gifts
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  of the Spirit don't mean anything if we're not operating
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  out of the Spirit of love. Friends, if you just hit people
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  over the head with prophecy but you don't have love, it does
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  nothing. If you can speak in tongues, but
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  you are not edifying and loving your brothers through it.
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  It means nothing, friends, if you are just going around and
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  wielding all of the gifts of the Spirit without love, it profits
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  you nothing. Three.
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  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I
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  give my body to be burned, and I have not charity, it profits me
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  nothing. So you can see that all of the
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  outward workings of a religious life, all of this giving away of
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  our money, the humanitarian efforts, these philanthropists,
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  friends, all those that sacrifice their time and energy
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  and effort and resources and money, it means absolutely
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  nothing if it is not done in light of the love of God for his
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  people all around this world, friends, it profits us nothing.
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  And those are the ones who will stand before God and say, Lord,
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  Lord, I prophesied in your name. I cast out demons in your name.
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  I perform miracles in your name. And he says, depart from me, for
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  I never knew you. It's because you never had the
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  love of God in it, friends. It was all about a show.
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  It was all about showing people all of your religious
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  activities, friends. And it profits you nothing.
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  For charity suffers long and is kind.
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  Charity envies not charity vaunt is not itself is not puffed up.
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  So in this little section, you can replace all of the times
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  that it says charity with Jesus. Jesus suffers long and is kind.
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  Jesus envies not. Jesus does not vaunt himself,
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  and he is not Jesus is not puffed up, 5 does not behave
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  itself unseemly, It seeks not her own, is not easily provoked.
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  It thinks no evil. These are the characteristics
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  that will truly mark a man or woman who is completely sold out
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  to the Lord Jesus Christ with all of their strength, with all
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  of their might, with all of their wisdom.
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  Friends, this is what it will look like as it is revealed into
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  the world. We will see.
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  Men and women of faith suffering long.
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  We will see kind men and women of faith.
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  We will see men and women who refuse to envy will receive.
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  We'll see men and women who do not puff themselves up and try
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  not. They will not try to elevate
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  themselves higher than others. You will see men and women of
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  faith who are not behaving unseemly.
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  You will see men and women of faith who do not seek their own.
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  You will see men and women of faith who are not easily
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  provoked. You will see men and women of
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  faith who do not think on evil. They set their minds on things
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  that are good and wholesome and lovely and holy and pure.
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  Friends 6 rejoices not an iniquity, but rejoices in the
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  truth. Seven bears all things, believes
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  all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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  Are these the characteristics that mark your life, friends?
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  And if not, we've got to go back to the drawing board.
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  If you have developed a critical spirit, if you have developed a
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  negative spirit, if you are cynical in your approach to this
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  life, that is not from God, that is from the evil 1.
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  If you are truly indwelled with God Almighty and if you're
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  walking in the spirit, friends. These are simple applications,
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  friends, and they are natural overflow friends of the life
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  that is filled and marked with the Holy Ghost.
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  Friends, you will be able to rejoice.
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  Not an iniquity. You won't sit around thinking
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  about all the evil in the world. You will not do that, but you
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  will be rejoicing with truth when truth gets told.
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  You won't laugh and snub the nose at the little white lies in
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  the gossip. Friends that will not become
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  part of your character. You will bear all things
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  friends. You will believe all things.
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  You'll think the best of people. You will not sit around thinking
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  every single person is out to get you or out for evil friends.
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  You will give every single person the benefit of the doubt
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  friends. You will endure all things.
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  You will get slapped on the right side and turn the left
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  side. You will give them more and more
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  and more, and when you don't think you have anything else to
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  give, you will give even more. Friends, a charity never fails,
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  but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail.
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  Whether there be tongues, they shall cease.
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  Whether there be knowledge that shall vanish away.
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  He's talking about eternity. All of the giftings of the
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  Spirit are going to go by the wayside whenever we're ushered
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  into His presence, friends, and the only thing that is going to
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  increase is our love for all of eternity.
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  Our love is going to grow. Love never fails.
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  Love is eternal because God is love.
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  And we're going to spend eternity getting to know God and
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  He is love. All these prophecies, all of
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  these tongues, all of this knowledge is not necessary in
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  Eternity 9 For we know in part we prophesied in Part 10.
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  But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in
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  part shall be done away with. When we finally get our
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  resurrected bodies, our immortal bodies, friends.
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  When we're finally ushered into all of eternity, into new heaven
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  and new earth, when we're ushered into the New Jerusalem,
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  friends, we will see fully right now, we can only see in Part 11.
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  When I was a child, I spoke as a child.
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  I understood as a child, I thought as a child.
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  But when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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  That is whenever you finally wake up to the reality of what's
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  going on all around you and you put away all of these worldly,
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  carnal, fleshy things that keep dragging you off, that keep you
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  immature, that keep you from growing in God.
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  All of these habits and hang ups and hurts.
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  Friends that we hold on to, friends, we've got to let them
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  go. Those are childish.
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  Those are immature. And when you finally come into
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  the full knowledge of Jesus Christ and who He is and what He
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  did on the cross, you'll put away with all of the childish
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  things. You'll quit going back into
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  slander and gossip and lies. You'll quit going back into
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  theft. You'll quit going back back into
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  the sexual immoralities, you'll quit going back into the greed
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  and the selfishness, friends. And you will finally wake up to
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  the reality of what's going on all around you, friends.
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  And you notice there's not a teenager stage.
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  You're either a child or you are a man.
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  And God calls us to act like men.
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  Friends, we are not called to be animals and we are not called to
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  be boys. We are not called to be women.
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  We are called to be men. It's time for men to act like
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  men, Friends, Put away all of the childish things. 12 for now.
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  We see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.
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  Now I know in part, but then shall I know even as I also am
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  known? Are you known by Jesus Christ or
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  do you just know Him? I pray in the name of Jesus
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  Christ today that you will see the fullness of who He is.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus Christ today that one day we
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  will see Him face to face. That will be the most glorious
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  day in our entire existence. Friends, we'll end on 13.
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  And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three.
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  But the greatest of these is charity.
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  The greatest of these is love. Out of the faith and out of the
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  hope and out of the love. The greatest is love.
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  Our faith is going to diminish as we get into eternity.
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  We will not need it. Our hope for what is to come
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  will diminish as we are ushered into His presence.
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  But the reason that the greatest of these is love is because God
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  is love. Friends, wake up to the reality
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  that you cannot even know love unless you know God.
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  I pray that you do today. I pray that you step into the
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  reality of what's happening all around you right now.
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  Friends, increase the love that you have, and God is the only
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  one that can help you to increase the love for Him.
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  Ask Him today to increase your love for Him and to increase
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  your love for this neighborhood that we find ourselves in, this
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  global neighborhood. I love you and I'm praying for
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  you. I hope you that you've been
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  blessed by this chapter here. What an amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. This is one of the hallmarks.
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  This is the Hall of Fame of God's Word.
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  Even unbelievers have this chapter on their wall somewhere
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  in their house. What an amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. Be blessed today.
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  Stay prayed up, walk in the Spirit.
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  Do not satisfy the lust of the flesh.
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  He always provides a way out. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.