The Bible…God’s Owner Manual for Living

Part 35The Truth about the Surest

Thing and the Hardest Thing in Life

Introduction

This is the main reason why life is so difficult and painful today.

The Truth about the Hardest

Thing in LifeThe hardest thing in life is ______.• ___________________________________.

Matthew 543 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’44 “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,”

LOVE

Love must be extended to your enemies

The Truth about the Hardest

Thing in LifeThe hardest thing in life is LOVE.

• Love must be extended to your enemies.

Romans 1221 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

The Truth about the Hardest

Thing in LifeThe hardest thing in life is LOVE.

• ______________________.

John 1513 “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”

*Life = psuche (Greek) = soul (mind/heart) = breath

Love must be from total

The Truth about the Hardest

Thing in LifeThe hardest thing in life is LOVE.

• _________________.

Ephesians 432 Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

*Forgiving = charizomai (Greek) = give grace

Love must forgive

The Truth about the Hardest

Thing in LifeThe hardest thing in life is LOVE.• _________________________.

Ephesians 525 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

*Love = agapao = to love unconditionally (not because…, not in spite of…, not if you…)

Love must be self-sacrificial

The Truth about the Surest

Thing in LifeThe surest thing in life is ______.

• ________________________.

John 316 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”

LOVE

Love is divinely bestowed

The Truth about the Surest

Thing in LifeThe surest thing in life is LOVE.

• _____________________________.

1 Corinthians 138 Love never fails….

Love is unstoppable/irresistible

The Truth about the Surest

Thing in LifeThe surest thing in life is LOVE.

• Love is unstoppable/irresistible.

True stories:• The American war prisoner who gave a New Testament to his cruel captor

• Grace SungEun Lee

Love Is Irresistible

• Grace SungEun Lee

• 28 years old• Terminally-ill with

brain cancer• Stricken in early

Sept., 2012• Sustained by feeding

tube and ventilator• Won judgment

against parent’s lawsuit but…

The Truth about the Surest

Thing in LifeThe surest thing in life is LOVE.

• ____________________.

1 Corinthians 1313 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Love is unsurpassable

The Truth about the Surest

Thing in LifeThe surest thing in life is LOVE.

• ____________________________________.

1 John 419 We love, because He first loved us.

Love is divinely supplied and sustained

Closing Thoughts

• What is your response to the surest thing and the hardest thing in your life? Are you excited about embracing this truth or will you disregard it?

• Are you ready to see how, with God’s help, the surest thing in life will bring victory and transformation to the hardest places in your life?