Embodying God's Character: Faith, Hope, and Love

kingdom living means very simply living in the character and power of God may I give that to you and ask you to try to hold on to that kingdom living means living in the character and the power of God it means that inwardly we take on the qualities of God and we of course we see that in Jesus Christ that's where we primarily see it and we see them that expressed in 1st Corinthians 13 [00:00:14]

faith is confidence you know sometimes we need to just sort of take our Bible and go through and write another word faith is confidence how you doing with your confidence could you use a little more possibly a faith is confidence my word when you look at life you and all of the things that it contains one might say how can you have confidence [00:01:05]

hope hope is joyous anticipation of good joyous anticipation of good see your life full of hope Paul describes God as the God of hope the God of hope why because he's a good God and he's a God who himself is full of joyous anticipation you ever think of God like that that God is actually full of joyous anticipation [00:01:32]

there is not a more hopeful being in the whole universe than God you have to sort of let that soak in I think a while you we sort of think of God as sort of wringing his hands and dismay you know well what am I going to do about these sinners here like Rick what am I gonna do I'll tell you he's he's very hopeful about Rick [00:02:24]

and he's very hopeful about all of us who have put any kind of confidence in him at all you know God is so generous and so good he's hopeful and then there's love Faith Hope Love what's now when love is simply the will for the good of others now you've got to have faith and hope to sustain that and love is really what it's all about [00:02:44]

when you get the center of this great amazing universe down what you find is not some black hole sucking everything in and spewing out debris on the other side it's love the very center of it all is love a community of loving persons who simply will the good of everything and everyone in the whole universe [00:03:24]

kingdom living means living in the character and the power of God it means that inwardly we take on the qualities of God and we of course we see that in Jesus Christ that's where we primarily see it and we see them that expressed in 1st Corinthians 13 and you can take those last words in first Corinthians 13 as a way of spelling out the character of God [00:00:26]

faith is confidence you know sometimes we need to just sort of take our Bible and go through and write another word faith is confidence how you doing with your confidence could you use a little more possibly a faith is confidence my word when you look at life you and all of the things that it contains one might say how can you have confidence [00:01:10]

hope hope is joyous anticipation of good joyous anticipation of good see your life full of hope Paul describes God as the God of hope the God of hope why because he's a good God and he's a God who himself is full of joyous anticipation you ever think of God like that that God is actually full of joyous anticipation [00:01:32]

there is not a more hopeful being in the whole universe than God you have to sort of let that soak in I think a while you we sort of think of God as sort of wringing his hands and dismay you know well what am I going to do about these sinners here like Rick what am I gonna do I'll tell you he's he's very hopeful about Rick [00:02:24]

and he's very hopeful about all of us who have put any kind of confidence in him at all you know God is so generous and so good he's hopeful and then there's love Faith Hope Love what's now when love is simply the will for the good of others now you've got to have faith and hope to sustain that and love is really what it's all about [00:02:44]

when you get the center of this great amazing universe down what you find is not some black hole sucking everything in and spewing out debris on the other side it's love the very center of it all is love a community of loving persons who simply will the good of everything and everyone in the whole universe [00:03:24]