This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today I am with

Reed Dent to close out this series in an unorthodox format. Yeah, we come to the final virtue,

which is love, which, of course, we can't talk about without talking about

1st Corinthians 13. It's the crown jewel of texts on love. And so in 1st Corinthians,

there are just chapters and chapters. Paul is parsing lots of tricky issues like marriage and

consuming meat, sacrifice to idols and spiritual gifts.

And it's a lot of if this, then that, but unless the otherwise.

But then when you get to 1st Corinthians 13, his writing, it elevates.

It changes.

To me, it suddenly becomes kind of euphoric when he is talking about

he's he's writing this great hymn to love and i think that's because the truth about love

exceeds our ability to inform or to explain this passage it's like a red-tailed hawk i recently

saw one flying by the highway it's soaring it's like a red-tailed hawk. I recently saw one flying by the highway.

It's soaring.

It's full of wonder.

And we are just kind of watching it full of awe.

And it's kind of like what we've talked about with parables in the past, where I'm afraid

that the tendency of many preachers would be to kind of snare it and yank it

to the ground and just dissect it.

Like the Greek word for love is this and that has these components to it.

And this is the application for that.

And like we said before, it's like, yeah, we all understand it

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