Title: Faith, Hope, Love
(1 Corinthians 13:13)
1. He said that we should always have faith, hope, and love.
But in most cases, people are obsessed with what they see. They become interested only in what they see, what they touch, and what they feel. Perhaps this is an unavoidable reality.
But any thoughtful person will find that beyond the horizon of reality there are things that cannot be touched, cannot be seen, but are still indispensable.
That is Faith, Hope, and Love.
belief! hope! love! This is not something you can see with the naked eye.
It's not something you can touch with your hands.
It is not even perceived by the skin.
Because it is immaterial, it is spiritual, it is eternal.
So, in fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that people who live a life of faith are already pursuing a noble life because they are not already people who only pursue physical things.
Without faith, naturally, only my body will be nurtured.
If you don't have faith, you will only live by giving values to the things of the real world.
It means that we live by believing that the invisible is more important than the visible. Therefore, the most necessary things in our life of faith are this, , and.
Please think about this for a moment.
Imagine a friend without faith, a home without hope, a couple without love.
How lonely, how desolate, how miserable!
It is the fruit and the fruit that make our life happy.
What do you do with money?
How unhappy would you be without them?
No matter how high your status, what do you do?
Without it, the seat would be a needle cushion.
What is the use of having money and being in a high position?
No one living without it would be so unhappy.
We need to know the relationship between this and it.
They are inextricably linked to each other.
tangled with each other. Neither one can be neglected.
Please consider first.
As long as there is, it will not disappear.
Also, as long as there is , it will not be shaken.
But where these two are, silver will sprout.
Where there is, we will be together,
As long as there is, you will do it.
Please consider an example.
A wife who has faith in her husband perseveres in hope.
Also, as long as there is hope in her husband, her faith will not be weakened.
You will persevere and win in any difficult environment.
Why? Because it makes you love your husband.
Therefore, hope is the root of faith.
In other words, think of the patients in the hospital.
As long as there is hope, you will have the belief that you can live again.
On the other hand, love is the fruit of faith.
As long as you have faith, you will love.
What wife does not love her trusted husband!
When faith is lost, love grows cold.
The heart of a wife looking at her husband with hope is that the husband is reliable,
And as faith goes, you will love him.
These are precious things that cannot be separated from our lives.
2. In our religious life, these three must always exist.
In today's text, , , these three should always exist.
But the best of them was .
Everyone!
How do you understand this?
If you still do not understand this word correctly, I hope you will realize it right away at this opportunity. The Bible is the truth for everyone because it is the word of truth.
Then why are these faith, hope, and love so important in our religious life?
When we think of this, we must first know our relationship with the Lord.
The Bible compares the relationship with the bridegroom and the bridegroom.
It is said that the churches that look to the Lord are the brides of Christ.
The saints who will be saved are compared to the five wise virgins among the ten virgins who are about to welcome the bridegroom. The virgins who were going to meet the groom said that they all slept and slept because the groom was late. But when I suddenly heard the voice telling me to meet the groom, I was shocked that the oil had run out on my back and I was bewildered and asked the virgins who had prepared some oil to share, but we were running out of oil, so we went to the store to buy it.... Meanwhile, the groom came in and said the door was closed.
In this parable, our life of faith is to live while waiting for the day to welcome the bridegroom. What lesson should we learn from this parable?
To sleep and doze off means to be exhausted from life or to be swept away with the rest of the world and lose all sincerity to welcome the Lord, the bridegroom.
Especially, to prepare only the lamp and doze off without preparing the oil signifies the indolence of the religious life. In other words, it means that inertia is attached to the life of faith.
These days, there are a lot of people who live a life of faith while sleeping like this.
Only formal registration as a member of the church,
I want to hear only the false sound of church office,
These are the people who act as Christians only in the form of living a life of faith without being touched by the Holy Spirit, which is the actual oil.
A church member and a believer are two different things.
Church members are people who go to see what the church is doing and neglect to participate for the Lord. That's why they don't come to worship or to come.
The fact that only the lamp was prepared and no oil was prepared means that the relationship between faith, hope, and love was neglected. The triangle of faith, hope, and love must be faithful in order to live our faith life well.
First, think about your life of faith.
What beliefs do I have?
I want you to think about your beliefs first. My faith must be linked to my hope in the Lord.
When our hope in the Lord is clear, our faith is strong.
Because hope is the root of faith.
A strong faith is only when the hope for the Lord who will come again is clear.
Only with such faith can the fruits of love run.
It is love that leads to this and is revealed as this reality. Therefore, love is a realistic expression of faith.
Unless faith manifests itself as the fruit of love, it is an empty lust.
Because self-greed cannot produce love.
Why does the Christian life seem so empty these days?
Because that faith was not grounded in hope in the Lord.
Not the hope of the coming Lord, my eternal savior,
Because everyone is looking at the Lord with my greed for worldly things.
Because it is not based on the world, it is swayed by the wind.
We easily fall for Satan's temptation to show the world's glory and bow down to me.
Christians are actually more easily passed over than people of the world.
Christians are more prone to covetousness than people in the world.
Why?
Because it is not the basis of faith in the hope of the Lord who will come again.
Therefore, our faith must be thoroughly hope-based.
3. Then why did you say that love, hope, and love is the most important of these three?
It's simple.
There must be a root of
It is necessary to achieve , but
This is because it is a realistic fruit that is achieved through faith and hope.
We have hope because we have faith in the Lord Jesus,
I believe in the Lord of hope, so I can live lovingly in the midst of all the contradictions of reality.
It's possible.
Therefore, love is always present tense.
That is, love is the present of faith and the present of hope.
Love is neither past love nor future love.
True love should be love now, in the present, in my life.
Hope is the root of faith, and if the fruit of faith is love, then that love is now
It has to be something that is with me now.
Therefore, the right life of faith means living a life of love in the present.
Loving your neighbor as the Lord,
Serving the church as to the Lord,
Loving your servants, loving your sheep,
Living like that is the right life of faith.
The most certain and eternal thing for us is the present, neither the past nor the future.
The present faith is important to faith, and the present hope is important to hope.
In love, the present love is the most precious and important.
So, we need three things:
Faith, hope, and love, these three things must always exist, but the greatest of them is love.
The present belief is fulfilled,
The day will come when even the present wishes will come true,
Love is the best because it will last forever.
That's why he said that being a person of love is the most precious thing.
Dear saints!
We must always have faith, hope, and love.
"Even if you say the words of an angel, if you don't love it, it's just a ringing croak,
shouting out that he has the power to prophesy,
surprise people,
And even if you know all the knowledge in the world,
And even if you have the zeal to move mountains
Without love, such a thing is nothing.
And he said that it is of no use to me if I do not have love, even if I give alms with all that I have and give my body to be set on fire.
Every time I read these words, I always look back at myself.
I don't think I'm that kind of person....
I hope that we can all sincerely reflect on ourselves, repent, and cherish faith, hope, and love the most, so that we can always and everywhere be people of love. ??