And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest is charity. (1 Cor 13:13)
Faith is enlisted first in these 3 words. But the greatest is love!
Faith comes from hearing God's Word, "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Romans 10:17) We believe the Bible is the very and inspired Word of God, it is important to hear the Word of God! And to teach the Word of God correctly.
The Word of God is needed!
But, listen carefully, how important is love, compare to hearing the Word of God, the greater is love, the greatest commandment is loving God and second greatest is loving man. The Greatest sin in the world is lack of love to God and man.
Love is needed far most!
Hearing the Word of God is important, please put after charity, and some choose to pursue a perfect underlying text until they hate one another and sue one another in civil court, this is hurting the body of Christ. But they put up a show of devotion and mixed with fist in the church, they are not the street fighters but they are the church fighter! Fighting in the church! Spiritually!
After faith, enlisted hope, hoping the second coming of the Messiah, this is a hope, not a worry for tomorrow, hope, for things unseen, rather than seen and temporary in the world. Hope in Christ.
Hope is needed!
The Word is nigh thee, in your mouth.......which we preach.....that word is "...if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
So tenderly speak to yourself, "I do not need a perfect underlying text in Greek and Hebrew, I do not need the perfect text! I can live better without the perfect underlying text, say this in your heart and hears." How great is God's love compare with my little faith!
"I do not need these perfect KJV only. The VPP is not needed, the perfect underlying text is not needed, the perfect TR is not needed. Say this aloud! Say this to your friend, say this again and again, the greatest sin is lack of love! This is about our heart situation. I am not lack of any Bible verses! We need all the Bible verses, still love is greatest.
"Whosoever beliveth on him shall not be ashamed" (Romans 10:11) Shall ashame of our CUV, NIV, NKJV?
In other place in the gospel, The Word of God had been sown to the four types of soils, but only the good ground, come the good tree and bear good fruits! Do not blame the Word of God and the sower! Or how much seeds had been sown in.
And then, in another place, Paul said, "I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase." (1 Cor 3:6) Is Paul more important in the increase? Is Apollos another important factor in the increase? No, But God is!
The church building is not mine, the Bible college is not mine, the country is not mine, my money is not mine, everything there, they are not belong to me, they belong to God, if the things belong to God, please return to God, if the thing belong to the Caesar, then return them to Caesar, the church people is not mine, they are God's people! If any one wanted to take them away, we must say, "go ahead," and we say again, "may God bless you, we give the blessing." Since God is taking care of everything. Are you a Calvinist? Not one can pluck the believer away from the hands of God! Be very sure!
We are only a servant of God, faithfully serving the Lord. Teaching the right doctrine! Peter said, "feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly......and NEITHER AS BEING LORDS OVER GOD'S HERITAGE!" (1 Peter 5:1-3).
Stewardship is given to you, not ownership. The Owner is Christ. We must rightly dividing the Word of God, but do not forget the greatest is love!
If I am lack of love, lukewarm! What happened, vomited out? (Rev 3:16-19)
How great is my love compare to God's love?
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