All these texts I'm giving you are simply illustrations of how hope, faith, confidence, satisfaction, and future grace liberates love.

That's the point of all these texts.

I hope that when we're done with this unit, there's just ringing in your mind.

My goodness, there are a lot of places in the Bible that say the main battle to be fought in the quest for love is the battle to trust God for future grace.

That's what I hope will be left ringing. Hebrews 10. Remember the former days when after being enlightened, you endured a great struggle of sufferings.

That's what happens when you become a Christian.

In most places of the world, being a Christian costs.

It costs.

I get these stream of emails from Aultle in Uzbekistan, this documenting month by month,

the cost for him and all of his converts.

You had sufferings when you were first enlightened enlightened that means converted partly being made a public

spectacle through reproaches tribulations partly now they made some choices here to identify with those

who were in trouble partly by becoming sharers with those so treated.

What'd that look like?

For you showed sympathy to the prisoners.

Okay, get the situation, right?

Persecution came, some is just reproach, and some is just tribulation, but some went to jail. Now, what do the people outside jail

do when some of them, new converts, are in jail? And the jails in those days were not like our

jails. They depended on who brings you food. We're not going to bring you food. If you're

going to live in here, friends will bring you food. We're not going to bring you food. If you're going to live in here,

friends will bring you food. We'll slide it under the door, but we don't pay for prisoners.

So if you take them food, you get identified with their faith, and you might wind up in the prison that's why he highlights

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