Will Galkin and his team are ministering evangelists this week at our church. Sunday night he spoke on the "Danger of Discouragement". All Christians are tempted to be discouraged, as the last part of verse 3 in Hebrews chapter 12 reads, "lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds." He used Elijah to illustrate from the Bible how one man of God became discouraged. Found in 1st Kings chapter 19. Elijah lost hope and felt he was a failure, he wanted to die, he had a wrong view of success, he lost motivation in his life, and he felt like he was all alone. The solution is staying in the Word and filling our minds with Christ.
Tonight his message was on "Love in the family" from 1st Corinthians chapter 13. Will reminded us that the word teaches that even if we have enough faith to move a mountain, but it is done without love, then it is nothing. We must surrender to God's will in order to have true love.
The chapter begins with two of love's responses: longsuffering and kindness. Then the chapter lists five self-denials: 1)love is not jealous (envy) 2)love does not boast 3)love is not proud 4)love is not unbecoming 5)love is not self-seeking. Chapter 13 continues with three refusals: 1) love refuses to be provoked 2)love refuse to keep accounts of wrongs suffered 3)love refuses to rejoice in unrighteousness
The love chapter ends with these four universal statements: 1)love bears all things 2)love believes all things 3)love hopes all things and 4)love endures all things.
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