There is nothing worth living for unless it is worth dying for.

My grandmother lived a life devoted to Jesus, and today her talks have been made available

in their original form.

So you too can be built up through the insights and mysteries God revealed to her throughout

her ministry.

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliott.

My subject today is love accepts, love accepts.

Love is the gold cord that binds us together.

It's like the string on the beads.

And it's the only thing the love of which the Bible speaks is absolutely the only thing

which can survive the tests that life together is going to dish out.

It's the only thing that can withstand the strain, the love of which Christ speaks and

the love which he demonstrated for us when he gave his life for us on the cross.

The word is sacrifice.

And that is the way that we know what love is, as it says in 1 John 3, 16, here is how

we know what love is.

Christ laid down his life for us.

And a man said to me this morning, is there another word that you might find besides

this word sacrifice?

And I appreciate the desire because we can distort and twist everything, can't we?

And vocabulary gets ruined very often by popular use.

If we are thinking of sacrifice always in terms of loss and deprivation, then we're

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