Faith, Hope, & Love

1/6/10 Faith, Hope, and Love
Hebrews 11:1-2; 1 Corinth 13:8-13
Faith is the under girding, substance, foundation, confidence that hope sits on. It is when we no that what we are believing God for is going to happen no matter what the circumstances are, what people say, or whatever else happens. The combination of hope and faith are unshakeable.
 
You can have hope without faith.
 
Love trumphs both hope and faith and as Christians a lot of times we have forgotten that and our faith has led to wars and killing others instead of showing them the love that God so frequently asks us to show in his word.
 
Reasons that hope is still important when it is just hope:
1. (Rom. 8:24-25) hope is the key to salvation.
2. (Heb. 6:19-20) hope is the anchor for my soul (emotions).
3.(1 John 3:2-3) hope motivates- causes us to purify ourselves as well as the purification that God does on the inside of us.
 
We are to put childish things away: the idea that anything will be perfect while we are here or try to view things in a way that it is not what it really is (nothing is perfect while we are here and we only have a glimpse because of our sinful nature. God's understanding as well as prophecy can only be revealed in part and we as Christians have to listen to shepherds, prophets, and teachers with that fact in mind)