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The Love of God Bears All Things, Believes All
Things, Hopes All Things, Endures All Things
God’s Word tells us that when we walk in God’s love we can do four
positives: bear, believe, hope, and endure all things.
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We are to bear all things the Word of God says we can bear; we believe all things the Word instructs us to believe; we hope for all things that are not presently available but will be available in the future according to God’s Word; we endure all things that the Word says we are to endure.
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People are to be loved. At times it’s the love of God demonstrated
toward them that helps people get out of the elements of their old-man nature
and into being their best. The love of God bears all things and believes all
things according to the Word. And even when circumstances are less than ideal
or even austere, love also hopes.
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We hope for all things that are not presently available but will be available sometime in the future according to God’s Word. Our great hope as Christians is the hope of Christ’s return, which includes the rewards we will receive for doing God’s Word.
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Our response to His great love is to renew
our minds to His Word and manifest His love in the world.
In studying I Corinthians 13:4-6, we have
looked at what characterizes God’s love.
We’ve learned that the love of God suffers
long and is kind.
It absolutely does not envy, vaunt itself,
get puffed up, behave itself unseemly, act selfishly, get provoked, reckon evil
done to it, or rejoice in injustice.
Rather, it rejoices when truth prevails.
I Corinthians 13:7 tells us what else we
are able to do as we walk in God’s love.
I Corinthians 13:7:
“[Charity — the love of God in the
renewed mind in manifestation] Beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
Let’s learn about these four
characteristics and see how Jesus Christ lived them so that we are inspired to
bear, believe, hope, and endure all things according to God’s Word.
First let’s note how all four statements in
I Corinthians 13:7 end with “all things”
in the King James Version.
In the Greek text, “all things” is translated from only one
word, which is repeated at the beginning of each statement: it reads, “[Charity, or the love of God] all things
beareth, all things believeth, all things hopeth, all things endureth.”
The repetition of the same word at the
beginning of successive phrases is the figure of speech anaphora.
This figure of speech adds emphasis to the
statements made by calling special attention to them.
In I Corinthians 13:7 the word “all” is referring to “all with
distinction.”
We are to bear all things the Word of God
says we can bear; we believe all things the Word instructs us to believe; we
hope for all things that are not presently available but will be available in
the future according to God’s Word; we endure all things that the Word says we
are to endure.
Now let’s look at the Biblical usage for
each of these four positives that love does, paying attention to how we can
apply them in the Body of Christ.
Doing this profits us now and in the
future.
I Corinthians 13:7: “Beareth all things….”
Love bears all things according to God’s
Word.
“Beareth” is the Greek word stegō,
which means to cover over, shelter, protect.
Stegō comes from a word meaning “roof.”
As a roof provides shelter and protection
from the elements of nature, so we provide shelter and protection for people
with the love of God.
People are to be loved. At times it’s the
love of God demonstrated toward them that helps people get out of the elements
of their old-man nature and into being their best.
Love also believes all things according to
God’s Word.
I Corinthians 13:7: “…believeth all
things….”
“Believeth
all things”
does not mean that we believe everything we hear.
We are to be wise, not foolish; we prove
all things according to the standard of God’s Word; and we believe and hold
fast to the good.
Proverbs 14:15: “The simple [foolish] believeth every word:
but the prudent man looketh well to his going.”
I Thessalonians
5:21: “Prove all things; hold fast that
which is good.”
We see others as the Word says they are,
not as the five senses may suggest.
The love of God bears all things and
believes all things according to the Word. And even when circumstances are less
than ideal or even austere, love also hopes.
I Corinthians 13:7: “…hopeth all things….”
“Hopeth” is the Greek word elpizō.
It means to expect something.
We hope for all things that are not
presently available but will be available sometime in the future according to
God’s Word.
Romans 8:24 and 25:
“For we are saved by hope: but hope that
is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for [how can
one hope for what he already sees]?”
Our great hope as Christians is the hope of
Christ’s return, which includes the rewards we will receive for doing God’s
Word.
Staying focused on the Hope frees us to love big. It helps us take the long view because we know that we are gaining rewards to enjoy forevermore when we make the effort to walk in love toward one another….
This
is an excerpt from the July/August 2017 issue of The Way Magazine.
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