Faith, Hope & Love by Kevin Allen June 30, 2024 ยท Centerpointe Apostolic Church (Murfreesboro, TN) Kind: sermon Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:13, Hebrews 6:19, Luke 15, Hebrews 11:6, Hebrews 11, Revelation 21:4, 1 Peter 1:5-9 Source: https://acts238.life/repository/sermons/kevin-allen--faith-hope-love Published by Acts 2:38 Life from the sermon transcript on that page. Free to copy and share with attribution. ------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Corinthians 13 and 13 one verse of scripture and the Lord's help I'll try to deliver the thought I feel like he has for us today it says simply and now abideth faith hope. And love these three but the greatest of these is love now abideth faith hope, and love I want to Simply talk about faith hope and love I feel like. When we read that passage and those of us who have spent some time studying out scripture in our lives we probably read through this, and we may fail to realize that as Paul was writing that passage there he was in no way trying to belittle. Faith and Hope by phrasing it the way that he did and in fact if you if you go in there, and look at it simply means those things with the great they're they're great things faith is great we need faith. And we'll talk about that in a little bit and hope is great we need we need hope we're going to talk about that in a little bit more detail as well. But he was saying of the great things love is the greatest it doesn't take a really spiritual person to understand that spiritual matters are under attack in our day they are and it's not. Just religion but against anything that is spiritual against Faith against hope and against love these things are essential to my existence in my life, and they are being attacked everywhere I look they are oppressive spirits that have risen in the day. And age in which we live in they have risen up in this hour that we are in that are coming against that they somehow ridicule those of us who live by faith. Who choose to have hope who choose to reflect the love of God in our life, and there is not much in this life that seems to remain true to its original purpose it seems as though everything is flexible everything is pliable everything is moldable. For anything to be rigid and hard and set it seems as though society as a whole is against that we live in a world that is constantly in change and flux and flow. And there's not much about our life that does not change there's not much in our life nowadays that seems to be settled uncertainty seems to Simply Be a fact of life we have a vast amount of information that is available to us at any. Given time we can can pull up and research an idea or a thought that we have or a feeling that we may be going through, and experiencing and what more often than not is the case is that we can find some way to support. How we feel what I'm afraid of is by the sheer volume of information that comes our way that we can latch a hold of a website or someone's blog post or someone. Who seems to be remotely credible or uses facts in some way without truly vetting that we stack our claim is that this is how I feel. Now, and someone could spend the equal amount of time online researching for something that stands in quite opposition to that, but who's right who's right. How do we know when we have so much information at our fingertips we have so much available to us there's no way for us to possibly be able to comprehend all the information that is simply available to us today much less. What comes tomorrow and they just keeps humming day after day there's little remains or little that stays the same year after year week after week month after month. But there is something I feel like Paul was trying to tell you and I there in 1 Corinthians 13 and: 13 there is something that does stay the same there's something that abides Paul reminds us that even though life may be changing. And life may alter there's something that stays the same Paul in our text gives us a complete formula for victorious life and they're not. Just virtues to be spoken but they are dispositions and spiritual attitudes and outlooks and decisions that penetrate to the very core of a life that is dedicated to God, and I'm reminded as I read Paul's words that amid all the change. And the flux and the flow in our life faith hope and love remain say that with me faith hope, and love faith faith hope and love remain they abide the world may not be talking about them, but they're there the enemy may want to distract. You from the reality but they're there and there's something about settling some things in my mind there's something about settling some things in my spirit that faith hope, and love will get me through that I can I can build a life on that there's. A lot of stuff in my world and around me that seems to be shaking, and rattling and the Bible talks about everything that can be shaken will be shaken and I'm not going to do a deep dive into that right. Now, but there's a lot of shaking going on so I'm wanting to find something that I can anchor myself into, and I can anchor myself into the word of God I'm going to Anchor myself into the reality the faith hope. And love will last his word said they abide it doesn't matter what's coming my way it doesn't matter whether I even understand all that's coming at me faith hope, and love stay and I need them in my life faith hope. And love are stable faith hope and love are constant faith hope and love have this Common Thread they abide they may be different and diverse in their operation. But they have one attribute and that is they abide they last year after year week after week trial after trial tribulation after tribulation Prosperity or poverty blessing or not these things last not only do they last. But they Outlast they are there they abide they stay if you go in and you do a word study on the word abideth there there there are many things that simply say say this it's there the best way I know in my Wilson County. Vernacular in the country as I am is to say it this way it's just there faith hope, and love they're just there and maybe today you're struggling in your faith and maybe you're struggling in your hope. And maybe you're strg string with love today, but I want you to know just. Because you're struggling does not negate it does not take away it does not mean they're absent they are there, and you may have to feel around for just a minute. But I promise you if you'll do a little feeling you'll find faith is still there hope is still there love is still there it hasn't changed they abide they carry on, and I'm thankful for that in my life they have survived reproach. And slander and lies and heresy today they are as alive as they ever have been they are powerful today this morning as when they were first birthed in the heart of man faith hope. And love and they are needed they are needed if we're going to make it we got to have faith hope and love oh. If you're looking for me to get super spiritually deep today I promise you this is as deep as I'm going. Because it's as deep as I need to go we need faith hope and love okay. If you're looking for me to make some kind of Grand Point I've made my point I'm talking about faith hope hope, and love today much is gained by the person. Who looks to the Future and says I got a good future it may not be what I want it to be right. Now, but I'm hoping in something Beyond this moment I'm anchored into something that's in the future right. Now, oh there may be despair all around me the storm clouds may be rolling in, but I'm not living. Just for this moment I'm living for what's to come I'm living for what's on its way he said he will come back, and he will take me away with him I have hope in that the enemy he can't wait to tear that stuff out. Of us to tear it down to cause you and I to struggle with faith hope, and love Paul in the entire text. If you go back to the previous verses there in that chapter he's contrasting things that are here that are temporary that pass away with time, and the things that don't last these things are only designed to be in your life for a moment to help. You from time to time but Faith love faith hope and love abide they abide they carry on it doesn't matter the economy it doesn't matter. If we have a bull market or recession it doesn't matter the pice price of groceries or gas oh can I get a witness right. Now, those things may be crazy they may be able to be shaken, but faith hope, and love it's there it abides on they don't change with time they're not altered by fads they're not degraded by sickness of man's sin they remain as powerful as they've. Ever been and they are the thing that will get us through this life they don't change with time they remain everyone say they remain they remain. Now, abideth faith hope and love in spite of everything that seems to be changing in the shaky Foundation which so many people are trying to build their lives on God says I'm want to point you back to something I want to give you a little. Tip I want to give you something to give you some insight I want to take you back to something that still works I want to take you back to something that the early church started with it worked in the book of Acts it worked. During the Dark Ages and it still works in 2024 faith hope and love stay it doesn't matter. What happens on your job it doesn't matter what happens in your family it doesn't matter. When you get news that you don't understand about a life that's been cut short, and there's a lot of us processing things right. Now, and we're struggling with you I'm telling you faith hope and love remain Faith Love, and Hope remain everything else may fall away everything else may erode around you in your life. But faith hope and love are there and if you understand the power that God gives us in that Faith love, and hope the Bible declares these things to abide the Greek word translated there is Mino me n o literal translation is to stay in a given. Place a given state or a given relationship they remain they stand in direct opposition to what this world is trying to do they hold out for a better verdict they stay put together against all the lies. And the M the alignment that the world has around us they endure the unfaithfulness of man they continue to stay in force whether you're sick or whether you're well whether you have money in your bank account. Or you're broke as a joke it doesn't matter faith hope and love remain they are unshakable say that with me they're unshakable amidst all the changes. Let perish what's going to perish but I'm telling you faith hope and love will carry you through you can't even begin to do to dive into the riches that God has for us he loves his kids he loves his kids ladies. And gentlemen he loves you he loves you he is there for you, but you got to you got to tap into faith hope, and love you can't even begin to understand all he has unless there is hope in your eyes unless there's love in your heart. And there's faith in your heart there's no way you can understand the love of God that has been shed abroad you got to be there you got to you got to you got to dive into what God has for you faith hope. And love they are needed in the demands of Life anybody else besides me feel the pressure that is there anybody else feel pressure in your life yeah like three nervous people raise their hand yeah I wasn't signing you up for more pressure all right. I don't think the enem is in here keeping list going on is anybody feel the pressure of Life anybody. Then thankful for Faith Hope and love the things don't have to be the way you think they are right. Now, there's there's something to hang on to I'm anchored into something stronger than this my God is able my God is able my God is able he's not shortcoming he he's not less than he he's not taken by surprise he he's my God's not. Worried about the upcoming election he's not worried about that I know a lot of us may be worried about it God's like I don't I don't know. How it's going to happen there he didn't watch the debate and wonder oh my no he's not worried okay and if God's not worried. Then you know what I'm going to put my faith and my hope and my love in him I'm not putting my faith, and My Hope in the government no sir I'm putting my Faith. And Hope in what man can do but I'm putting my trust into something that's higher than man I'm thankful that I have a God. Who whose ways are above my ways who who can outthink the best of us who who who stands at the end looking back at the beginning and saying. Don't give up just because it's dark right now and maybe you don't understand I'm still here. Just keep walking I'm still here just trust in me I'm still here put some hope in what I'm going to do in your situation I'm thankful that I have the ability to have faith hope. And love abiding in my life they help us develop our spiritual life they help us in the process of sanctification as you've heard me say many times. Who those of you who have been with me for a while I'm not a fan of the word saved I say that because saved by purely understanding. How grammar Works means it's been done I'm in the process of being saved because I can still mess up I can still slip I can still fall. But in the process of sanctification he works with me and a part of that process is me hanging on to faith hope, and love with God's help I'm going to make it with God's help I'm going to be there with God's help I'm going. To be saved because I put my faith and my hope and my love in him they they're needed in the in the demands of our crazy life and the pressure we feel. Come in we need faith we need hope we know if we're going to make it you got to possess them and not. Just in word but in deed you got to live a life of Faith yeah words are cheap yeah you can say a whole lot. Doesn't mean it's working are you living a life of Faith are you living a life where God shows up are you living where there's examples around you when all else fails that God is there with you this past couple of weeks. Or we had some moments and I'm not going to get into that today in this message I'm saving it for later. But there's there was a couple of instances where it was God who showed up. Just in time who proved to me again that he is faithful who proved to me again that he hears that he knows that he understands that he sees my God my God sees he knows. What you're going through he sees where you're at he hears your cry don't sell yourself short be sure you tune in, and tap into the power you have through faith hope and love these things are under attack today more severe than they've been in any. Time in my life in my 48 years the devil you know here's the deal he may be smart. But he's not the smartest that's right he not the smartest right no he not, and he's fighting you every day of your life. But here's my question for you and I want you to think about this I want you to let this question settle in your mind for just a minute. Because you need to know you need to know the answer to the question that I'm going to ask you where is he fighting you the most in your life where is he fighting you the most is he fighting your faith is he fighting your hope. Is he fighting your love because chances are he's one of those three he's fighting you in he's fighting your faith whether or not he can be trusted he's fighting your hope whether it's really going to happen. Or he's going to fight your ability to love what is it where where is the enemy fighting you at right. Now, in your life is he causing you to question what it is it cuz. If the devil can shake your confidence if he can if he can make you question your Assurance. If he can make you wonder whether God meant what he said and he'll have you just like he had Eve. Just like he had Adam at the very beginning his tactics haven't changed he wants to mock you he wants to make fun of you he wants to cause you to doubt he wants to cause you to question he wants to cause you to dwell. On things that have no real Eternal consequence, but they cause you to stumble isn't it amazing. How those small things get stuck in our mind and it's all we can think about it's all we can feed on those little bitty things, and in the grand scheme of life itself it's really not that big. But for whatever reason it's holding you back what they said what they did how they hurt you how they mistreated you what. Didn't happen why it went for someone else and not you why they were able to, but you were not able. Why is it that God blesses everybody else, but doesn't bless you and then the enemy jumps in those moments he's like yeah that's right. See, he doesn't love you or you're you're you're not good enough because you keep making the same mistake over, and over again you keep falling to the same Temptation over and over again. And he makes you feel unworthy you're no good you have no value look why would why would you even go back you can't you can't be good you can't live you can't be good enough I want you to know the reality is you're not. Good enough neither was I but it wasn't based on our qualifications it was based off of his he was the perfect one he was the lamb that was slain he shed the innocent blood that covers over our failures that covers over our mistakes that covers. Over our inability it covers over our shortcomings aren't you thankful for that now if that's a true reality and it is then why. Don't you have enough faith enough hope to believe that for you and every time the enemy starts spouting off something about how you're not worthy or how you're not good enough. Won't you tell him I know I'm not, but he was he was it's not about what I can do it's about what he can do through me it's what he can do with me it's not about my ability. But it's about his ability it's always been about him it's never been about me it's never been about you, and the moment that comes up remind yourself it do not about me it's not about me it's about him and he did it already have faith. In that let your hope be in that when we get up in the morning. When we go to bed at night the enemy is going to fight, but you remind yourself it's not about me, and what I have done it's about him and what he has finished it's not about you and what you've done it's about him and what. He's finished what he's finished it's finished that's what he said it is finished done done. Why is that important because because when he finished it all I need to do is have Faith, and Hope in that what he did was enough. What he did was enough what he did was what he did was enough it doesn't matter. What you've done it doesn't matter matter what you failed at it doesn't matter what labels been put on you he did enough hope is mocked in our world it's laughed at simply being a pipe dreamer you Christians you're just a power of positive thinking. I'm here to tell you the hope is more than that Hebrews 6: 19 says this hope we have as an anchor of the Soul both sure, and steadfast which enters in the presence behind the veil I'm hanging on to something greater than this world. I'm hanging on to something greater than this world I'm hanging on to something greater than man can come up with I'm great I'm hanging on something greater than man's imagination I'm hanging on something higher than that I'm hanging on to something that's beyond beyond. This world I'm hanging on to that that's what my hope is the Bible says it's an anchor of the storm. When the storms of life come and how many of you have been through a storm or two in your life. How many of you maybe are in a storm right now I want you to know you keep hanging on to the Anchor keep hanging. Don't let your hope diminish maybe it doesn't look good right now, but I promise you hang on to the hope that you have in him, and what he can do amen I was thinking about this you know you can live several months without food. I know some of you can't go several hours without food, but you can go several months without food in fact there's been multiple documented stories where people have went over a year without food without food over here some of you just like you're feeling. Weak already you can go days without water you can go weeks and months without proper shelter. But you can't survive one minute without hope I've been in the presence with someone. Who Hope was almost gone yeah yeah and they were willing to end it all. Because you can't live one minute without hope, but you were never intended to live without hope faith hope, and love abide they carry on you have to have it the enemy is coming after you he wants to rob that hope the gods of promises. The god of our promises are there he he's given you what you need God's truth is Everlasting. What he has said he will do he will do it may not happen when you want it, but it'll happen. When you need it hey I'm telling you it may not happen when you want it, but it will happen. When you need it when you least expect it when the very moment you think it's all over with that's when my God shows up. Because he's an on time God he's an on time God he knows he sees he he's with you with it don't let your hope in him fade away. Because you can't live one minute without hope love the world loves to attack the word love it's interesting you've heard me say this many times that love that word is used too many times you know we love hamburgers. And we love our kids hopefully you love your kids more than you love hamburgers. Why am I talking about food so much love we throw that around got to be careful. How we use that because scripturally when you get through there was many words for love, and we have one word that we use love and it's an all-encompassing word. But the word the world we've lived in it's taken and perverted the word love it's made it a very selfish thing have you noticed that how it's taken that word love, and it's made it made it where it's just about you it's what you love. It's selfish very one-sided I don't think that's accidental I think it was done intentional by our enemy to cause our affections to be turned to be to be to be twisted to be perverted into things that are there. And what we desire and What We crave and then we love that we love that how many. How many times have we loved something that we didn't really love, but we loved it how many times. When the rest of us in this room were this age right here and we said oh I'm in love you are not in love you don't understand the word fully. Because it's been skewed it's been Twisted it's not because of anything one particular thing. But it's a sum total of How It's been misused how it's been abused, but I'm afraid. When we lose sight of the truth true meaning of love we miss out on the greatest blessing that can ever. Come into our life to understand love we have to understand who love is and the Bible says God is love. Amen and the only way we can really understand love is to understand him the only true connection that we have there with it is we have to connect into where the source of love comes from and how love is defined. And he defined it for us he showed us the greatest sign of Love is when you lay down your life for another. So he showed for what love is to truly understand love is to look at Calvary, and comprehend that and when you're willing to comprehend and apply that same attitude towards love that he had then you truly start to love I've said this before to this. Church you know I had a moment when my oldest daughter Kaylee was born and was there in the living room my wife, and you know she or she arrives and they carry her over to the warmer. And I had one job which was the video you know that was back when you had an actual video camera not your phone you remember those days. Now, thankfully it wasn't the one you had to put on your you know shoulder, and it was one I actually held in my hand and, but I was so caught up in the moment. And God speaking to me as I'm sitting there and I'm instantly smitten with love, and in that moment would have would have died for this the person I had just known for a couple of minutes. And he whispered to me now you understand a little bit about how much I love you thank you Jesus. See, love love gets gets twisted it gets it's turned into something that's very ugly in our world something that was never tended to be because it's all about self and what self wants. And what self desires and how I feel in the moment and I'm telling you that these three things abide that you have faith hope and love. But if you misunderstand love God's love for me is greater than anything I could possibly get my human mind around. Because his love supersedes human love and his love will keep me his love will protect me his love will invite me to come back to his table that's one of the things we love the about the prodical son story that's in the Bible in Luke. Chapter 15 is that when he was as far away from home as he's ever been, and he finally came to himself he willingly went back to the father's table. Why because he knew his dad loved him there was never a question in his mind, and I know sometimes that's very hard for some of you in this room. Who maybe your relationship with your father was either non-existent or broken or perverted into something. Because of sin that it was never intended to be regardless of how your father was don't let that skew. How you view your heavenly father because he's always willing to take you back he never kicks you out of the house you may have willingly walked away, and there was a time in my life. When I willingly walked away but he's always standing there waiting for the moment that you turn around to embrace you, and bring you back to the table and restore you back to where you were prise you Lord oh love of God. How rich how pure how measureless and strong it shall forever more endure oh his love. How do how how do we possibly put a price on the love of God, and what he has for us is there anybody here this morning that's just thankful for the love of God be thankful that it was shed abroad in your heart. Come on lift up your voice right now Lord I love you I'm so thankful for your love in my life I'm getting ready I only got. Just a couple of minutes here I promise and I feel very very sure in my spirit God wants to do something today in a special way for someone Hebrews 11:6 says, but without faith it is impossible. Everybody say impossible impossible so we see an impossibility that's spelled out in scripture here what's the impossibility that if you don't have faith it's impossible to do what you got to have faith ladies. And gentlemen you have to have faith in your walk with him, but not only that but look at what the verse says he who comes to God must believe that is he is what he is God he is God you have to believe that he is God. And that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek after him faith is the foundation of a relationship with God it gives man a new relationship with God it's what you need you have to have it everybody needs faith it is it is the center. Of what we're trying to do in our walk and when you read Hebrews 11 you see Time and Time. Again, by Faith by Faith by Faith by faith I thought it was interesting and if you have time later on I encourage you to read Hebrews chap 11 in the Amplified version, and the reason I say in the Amplified version. Because what I found in it is because it used a different Nuance of the Greek text every time it says one time empowered by faith or it says enabled by faith or it says encouraged by faith all of those words are the works of faith. In our life Faith enables us Faith empowers us Faith encourages us faith will keep us it will sustain us it will help us stand. When nobody else will stand with us faith will keep us on our feet when everything around us isy trying to knock us down Faith helps us amen. Amen faith is what enables us to begin the Journey of God and it's what will keep us through along the way, and keep us moving in the right direction is faith faith has been a shield for thousands of years to those people. Who choose to use it in those perilous times when the enemy is trying to come at you use Faith to stand strong faith hope and love abide hope. What is hope hope is a consequence of faith it is a lively expectation of attaining to those things to which God has purposed, and intended for our lives yes as I tend to stay very say very often around here you were born on purpose. Your parents may not have planned you but you were on purpose with God he created you with a purpose he created you with a plan his desire is that you can have faith. And hope to discover what that is Hope is not presumption hope is not optimism it is grounded on an Everlasting Covenant hope is the desire, and the expectation of a Future Good Hope. And its simplest definition in my mind is this it is waiting on God waiting on God waiting on God to fulfill his purpose in my life waiting on God to fulfill his plan for my life waiting for God. When he comes back to take me to where he wants me to be that's what hope is, and I have to have it in my life hope imparts to our soul at peace. And a comfort amidst all the trials and tribulations that life brings our way it perverts theond despondency of the Mind Adit our trials, and encourages a steadfastness and a diligence to work in his kingdom that I have a Kingdom Purpose I have a Kingdom. Purpose you have a Kingdom Purpose you have a Kingdom Purpose and maybe you haven't found it yet. But it doesn't take away the fact that you have a Kingdom Purpose you have a kingdom plan it was set forth from the beginning he put it in you, and it is the joy of life to discover. What your Kingdom Purpose and plan is that's what hope is that he put something inside of me, and he's going to pull it out at some point. So that I can do something powerful for his kingdom not for my glory, but for his not for my glory. But for his hope neutralizes the misery for the greater afflictions that might otherwise cause us to be destroyed in our life hope is what caused Paul to say as he was writing to the church these light afflictions Paul. And I definitely have a different understanding of light afflictions as he was lifting off lifting off the beatings one of my Fondest Memories of this trip we were just on is I was in Rome. And I got to go visit the prison cell Bishop where they had Peter and Paul in prison I got to go down the stairwell past the hole all the way down to the inside. And I got to sit there on the same floor where Peter and Paul both were in prison there in Rome very surreal moment for me I begin to think to myself as I was working towards this message for today these light afflictions there. Wasn't nothing light about that prison so was nothing there what was it what was it that caused him to carry on it was hope it was hope he had an understanding of maybe things. Aren't the way I would desire for them to be right now, but there's a greater than this coming. Well, I'm preaching to somebody right now you need to understand there's a greater than this coming there's a greater I hope that you're not. Just content with where you are right now because there's a lot some there's a so much more greater that's coming. Don't be intoxicated in Babylon where we're living right now okay this is not our home we're just passing through there are Treasures laid Beyond over there for me, and you coming one day I'm not happy here yeah I got some I got some luxuries. And some things that I get to enjoy in my life, but I promise you Heaven is much better than you, and I could ever imagine than you and I have ever dreamed of I I'm hoping in that in my life yes. But you want to really know what keeps me going and I'm ending the musicians can come it's not. Just what God has done for me and God has been good to me I am a blessed man I have lived a blessed life he's better than me than I deserve he's better to me than I deserve you may think that this is just. Preacher Pastor talk I'm gonna tell you right now I was overwhelmed with emotion when I walked into this building this morning at 5:00. Because my God brought me back home and when I walked into my office he was there I'm going to tell you right. Now, I enjoy traveling but this is what I've noticed every time I go to Europe it's cold I'm not talking about temperature- wise spiritual wise it's cold you can feel it you can feel it, and what I'm afraid of is that we here in America. We're growing cold too and I was so thankful I have an altar in my in my office it's a it's a leather ottoman thing I call it my Altar, and I just I couldn't wait I just fell on it this morning. And I just wept because God is so good to me just to be in his presence. Just to think that the king of kings and Lord of lords would visit with me who am I who am I he would do, but I'm telling you that's what gets me through that, and the word says in Revelations 21-4. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes there shall be no more death nor sorrow crying there shall be no more pain for the former things are passed away there's not going to be any more separation there's not going to be any. More Unexpected death troubles and trials and disappointments and failures it keeps me going I'm hoping in something Beyond this world, and my God loves me and he gave me three things that abide faith hope. And love faith is the attitude of my mind hope is my attitude in the present, and love is my attitude in my heart I'm going to say that again faith is the attitude of my mind hope is my attitude in the present. And love is my attitude in my heart no wonder Paul said we can't live without these things you got to have him Faith unites my weakness with his strength I'm really not a strong man. But I'm not relying on my strength I'm hanging on to him I'm hanging on him Faith educates Hope encourages, and love explains Faith educates Hope encourages and love explains faith faith is the power in our present life. And hope brightens The Presence by throwing light on the future and love is what makes it all possible. Don't miss that I'm going to say it again faith is the power in our present life hope brightens the present by throwing light on the future, and love is what makes it all possible it doesn't matter the year of your age. And it doesn't matter your social status it doesn't matter your race or your gender faith hope, and love will keep you Peter writes this in 1 Peter 1 and5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith into salvation ready to be revealed in the last time wherein you greatly Rejoice though. Now, for a season if need be ye are in heaven in heaviness through manifold temptations that the trial of your faith being much more precious than that of gold that perisheth though it be tried with fire might be found unto. Praise and honor and Glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ whom having not seen you love and whom though. Now, you see him not yet believing you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of Glory receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls there's a lot of pressure in our life today there is there's a lot of Temptations all around. Us a lot of things vying for our attention all of it being used to try to keep you from holding on to the very things that we are told in his word that abide faith hope. And love don't you ever let go of your faith yes don't you ever let go of your hope. Don't you ever let go of your love because it's what keeps you know I was thinking to myself I wonder as about how to end this service I was praying today I wonder. If there's anybody willing to express a little bit of faith and to help those. Who may be struggling with their faith I wonder right now is there anybody that God has performed a miracle in your life that's willing to step out, and just begin to wor worship God around this altar right here is there anybody who's been cured. Of anything anybody been healed yeah come on start worshiping so I need to see people out there that need some Faith anybody here. Who you hung on the Hope in a hopeless situation and God brought you through willing to come down and begin to worship God right. Now, yeah yeah come on start worshiping God faith hope and love look at this. Look, at this now I don't know where the rest of you are right now. But if you need something in your life I invite you to come down push your way in come on up front allow God to do a work in your life allow God to do something special for you today faith hope. And love it's prayer time h.