Hey, church, how you doing? All right. Some of you over here are okay. That's all right.

You'll, it's okay. You'll catch up. It's all right. Hey, we are starting tonight a new series,

and it's called These Three Remain, and it comes out of 1st Corinthians chapter 13 verse 13.

So if you've ever been to a wedding you've

probably heard 1st Corinthians 13 read it's the love chapter love is patient love is kind love keeps

no record of wrongs all that and then it gets to the very end and then at the end of that it says

faith hope and love these three abide and it says, but the greatest of these is love.

And so we're going to talk about faith, hope, and love for the next three weeks in this series.

And why I think this is such a great series to talk about is because I think faith, hope, and love better defines what Christianity is than to say it's a world religion.

Because Christianity is more of a relationship than it is a religion. A religion's about what man does to get to God.

A relationship in Christianity is about what God has done to get to us.

And our response is faith and it's hope and it's love. And so today we're going to talk about

faith. And if you go and you look through the Bible, the Bible cover to cover, if you kind of

put a red thread through the Bible, one of those red threads

could be the word faith. I mean, the Bible talks cover to cover about God's faithfulness. It says

things like in Mark 1122, have faith in God. Jesus says that. It'll talk about walk by faith or live

by faith or have obedience of faith or

faith without works is dead or without faith it's impossible to please God or be encouraged by

each other's faith, be justified by faith, stand fast through faith or whatever does not proceed

from faith is sin. And so faith is this thing that is core to Christianity.

It's core to what it means to be a Jesus follower. But I also think there's a lot of assumptions,

and there are a lot of confusion around what faith is and what faith isn't.

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