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Here\u2019s Wheaton College President, Dr. Philip Ryken. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> A man in that situation, who really wants to honor God and continue in that marriage relationship, will not expect that trust will be rebuilt immediately because that\u2019s going to take a <em>long<\/em> time to rebuild that. It\u2019s not going to be the wife\u2019s weakness or unwillingness to trust\u2014it\u2019s going to be the damage that sin does\u2014and how trust can be restored\u2014but that takes time to restore. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Wednesday, August 14<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We\u2019ll look today at what love ought to look like when relationships get sideways. Stay tuned. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. You know, I think there are some people who are a little concerned about love being too soft. Do you know what I mean? I think there are folks who are afraid\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I\u2019ve had that thought. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014that if you are loving, you are a push-over\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014you\u2019re just a wimp. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, there is a segment in Christianity that misunderstands what it means for God to be love. They think that somebody, who is loving, just puts up with everything. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. I remember\u2014and I\u2019ve read through this before\u2014you read through First Corinthians 13, which is this great passage where Paul gives attributes of love. He is talking about <em>agape<\/em> love. It\u2019s really a full definition of it. At the end of that, he talks about love \u201cbearing all things, believing all things, hoping all things, and enduring all things.\u201d And you think: \u201cReally?! You\u2019re supposed to believe all things, supposed to <em>endure<\/em> all things?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Kind of sounds like that love has no boundaries. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Like you roll over and pretend, in the face of evil. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, let\u2019s ask the guy who didn\u2019t write the book\u2014not First Corinthians 13\u2014by the way\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That\u2019s right. [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014but Dr. Phil Ryken, who joins us again on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Phil, welcome back. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> You know\u2014I appreciate you guys. It\u2019s good to talk to you about these important, biblical principles of love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It is. Phil has written a book called <em>Loving the Way Jesus Loves<\/em>. What about it, Phil? Does love have boundaries? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes, it definitely does. True love, actually, insists on boundaries, in certain kinds of circumstances. This is one of the reasons why we need to study the Bible carefully because you could take just a part of a verse like that\u2014take it out of its context\u2014maybe, not understand, even, the true terms behind the verse\u2014and not think about it in connection with other important, biblical teaching. You could run away with it in all kinds of directions. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>So, I mean let\u2019s just take \u201cLove bears all things\u201d because that\u2019s the first part of that series in First Corinthians 13. The vocabulary word there has to do with supporting\u2014lifting up. It\u2019s sort of this kind of bearing of a burden\u2014that that\u2019s really\u2014I mean\u2014that is the kind of language or vocabulary that is used there. Here\u2019s how one scholar describes the term: \u201cLove is able to bear all burdens, all deprivations, all troubles, all hardships, all toils occasioned by others.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> It\u2019s really an endurance word. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> It\u2019s an endurance word for sure. It doesn\u2019t mean, \u201cYou know, I should put up with things that are ungodly,\u201d or that, \u201cI shouldn\u2019t act, on behalf of justice, if somebody is mistreating somebody else.\u201d I mean, I think there is a place for turning the other cheek\u2014Jesus talks about that. There may be certain things that we are called to endure. It doesn\u2019t mean that a woman, who is in an abusive relationship with her husband, should just stay there and take certain kinds of beatings\u2014because there are other biblical principles that apply here about the preservation of life and about, actually, what\u2019s in the best interest of your husband, which is not to allow him to continue to treat you in an ungodly way. So, we have to understand the bigger context here; but it is saying, here, that love has an amazing capacity for enduring and for continuing to love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, just to continue with the example I just gave. If, for reasons of safety, you need to be separate from somebody, who is dangerous to you, you need to do that\u2014but that doesn\u2019t mean that that\u2019s the point at which God now calls you not to love that person anymore because\u2014it just changes what love looks like, in that relationship, and, \u201cWhat is the wise way to love, at that point, in a relationship?\u201d But you still continue to love. That\u2019s the point that Paul is after, here, in First Corinthians 13. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, bearing all things\u2014with an abusive husband or with a child who is starting to use drugs\u2014bearing all things in that situation means loving that husband\u2014that child\u2014not allowing the behavior to continue, but not hardening your heart toward that person in the midst of that kind of abuse. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes, that\u2019s a great way of saying it. Let\u2019s talk about this child, now, that is maybe, going in a wrong direction in life. \u201cLove bears all things\u201d does not mean love <em>allows<\/em> all things. There may be circumstances, where for the interests and health of the family, a child\u2014particularly of a certain age\u2014should no longer live in that family household. There are circumstances like that for reasons of safety\u2014even, for just what\u2019s safe for the child himself or herself. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut the responsibility\u2014to continue to love, to reach out to that child, and have those open arms\u2014that\u2019s what continues. That\u2019s the principle, here, in First Corinthians 13\u2014that love does not give up on somebody but continues to love. What that love looks like\u2014it\u2019s going to depend a lot on the circumstances. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I like the description, and I can\u2019t say that I\u2019ve ever thought of it before. The idea of a load-bearing\u2014it\u2019s like the pillars that hold up a bridge. It\u2019s a load-bearing architectural design to keep that bridge in place. Bob, you added, \u201c\u2026to make sure your heart doesn\u2019t become hardened\u2026\u201d\u2014but you keep on going across that bridge to love that other person\u2014and invite them out of their sin\u2014invite them out of the abuse, or, perhaps, drug abuse, or behavior that\u2019s harmful to them. I like that picture. And that is, to me, what a Christian family ought to be. We shouldn\u2019t have hardened hearts toward another person. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> When we talk about loving the way that Jesus loves\u2014you used a nice phrase there, Dennis. I probably should have used it in the book. It\u2019s a load-bearing love. I think we can take it to the deepest possible level when we remember all of the biblical vocabulary about Jesus bearing us and bearing our sins: \u201cSurely, He has born our griefs and carried our sorrows\u201d\u2014that\u2019s a load-bearing love. \u201cHe bore the sin of many,\u201d\u2014the Scripture says. \u201cHe, Himself, bore our sins in His body on the tree.\u201d It\u2019s a similar kind of language here. It\u2019s talking about Jesus doing the heavy lifting of our salvation. You are absolutely right\u2014we are, now, called to that kind of load-bearing love in our family relationships and everywhere else in life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You know, as you were talking, too, Phil, I couldn\u2019t help but think: \u201cIn a normal marriage,\u201d\u2014you\u2019ve been married 25 years. Barbara and I have been married 40. Bob\u2019s coming up on 35\u2014\u201cthere is a load-bearing because two sinful, selfish, broken human beings disappoint each other\u2014miss each other, don\u2019t meet one another\u2019s expectations. There is and are emotional flinches that we go through, day-in and day-out, that I think what the Scripture is calling us to do is to bear\u2014bear those emotional disappointments and not lash out and\u2014back to Bob\u2019s illustration\u2014not become hardened toward our spouse just because they don\u2019t do everything the way we\u2019d like them to do it, or to meet all of our needs, or all of our expectations.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> I had a great conversation with a communication class at Wheaton College, just last week. The professor invited me to come in. They\u2019ve been talking about communication in relationships. They were up to the topic of forgiveness and reconciliation. They are really spending the semester on communication in difficult, conflictual situations\u2014that\u2019s what the class is on. It\u2019s part of our Communications Department. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>One of the students asked me\u2014I had spoken, from the Scriptures, about forgiveness and reconciliation and given them some principles. They were really saying: \u201cThere are things that you have in your relationship\u201d\u2014maybe, with the people you live with, in a roommate situation\u2014and we could apply it, of course, to family life\u2014\u201cand are we obligated to sort of bring up every issue we have with a person? I mean, does speaking the truth in love really demand that kind of transparency?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI said: \u201cBefore you get to that point, you need to ask this question, in your conversation with the Lord: \u2018Is this an issue?\u2019\u201d\u2014probably, not a sin issue. A lot of the little issues in life aren\u2019t sin issues. Some of them just are kind of the way people do things. The way people do things may not be sinful, in and of itself; but it may be irritating to us: \u201cIs this something that God can give me the grace to overlook and live with, and just have a generous disposition to the other person, acknowledging that maybe it\u2019s a little hard for me to deal with\u2014but God can give me grace for it\u2014and I don\u2019t need to go have a conversation with you about it?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think there needs to be a lot of things like that in marriage\u2014you know, those little things that, maybe, early on, you were hoping to kind of <em>fix <\/em>in the other person\u2014but maybe, a better approach, for a lot of those things, is to go to the Lord in prayer and ask for His help in <em>bearing<\/em> with them\u2014exactly what we\u2019re talking about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well, and Proverbs says, \u201cIt is a man\u2019s glory to overlook an offense.\u201d There are going to be a lot of offenses\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> There are more offenses that my wife has overlooked in me than that she has confronted in me over a lifetime of marriage; and that\u2019s more often the case. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Phil:<\/strong> And here\u2019s another great verse, along similar lines: \u201cLove covers a multitude of sins.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That\u2019s right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> At a certain point in our family life, my sister put that up on our refrigerator. [Laughter] She probably had an agenda behind it. I don\u2019t know exactly what the agenda was, but it stayed there for a pretty long time. I thought it was just a great perspective on family life, day-in and day-out: \u201cLove covers a multitude of sins.\u201d It\u2019s love that does that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, no one wants to sit underneath a microscope\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014and have another person just magnifying their faults, their weaknesses, how they\u2019ve failed. I think, early in our marriage, I was way too quick to point out faults and point out how Barbara was late, <em>again<\/em>. I\u2019m just kind of watching, now, in our 40<sup>th<\/sup> year of marriage\u2014it\u2019s kind of like: \u201cSo, you walk in late. Okay. Choke down your pride and do your best to love your wife and, maybe, help her be on time next time; but just keep on loving and <em>bearing<\/em>\u2014again, bearing the other person\u2019s weaknesses.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Let me ask you about the next phrase, \u201cLove believes all things,\u201d because this just sounds like <em>Pollyanna<\/em> to me. It sounds like a naivety. What do you do if you\u2019ve got a wife, who you suspect hasn\u2019t been telling you the truth\u2014and maybe, hasn\u2019t in the past and you\u2019ve got evidence\u2014or a child, who you think is lying to you? Do you just believe all things? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes. So, what is the Bible saying here; and what isn\u2019t it saying? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> I mean, you could very quickly\u2014and obviously, reach the conclusion it <em>doesn\u2019t <\/em>mean\u2014believe anything whatsoever. I mean, obviously, God is not calling us to believe things that are false about Jesus or to believe things that are ungodly. So, I mean, that\u2019s, obviously, the case; but then, you still have the question, \u201cOkay, what, actually, does it mean?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are actually a couple possibilities here. You could translate it, \u201cLove believes all things.\u201d Then, it would be along the lines of really believing the best about somebody\u2014not sort of being cynical and suspicious but giving somebody the benefit of the doubt. It would kind of be along those lines. But I think it\u2019s, actually, better to take it\u2014not so much \u201call things\u201d but \u201calways\u201d. So, it\u2019s not like you believe in some principle, or proposition, or truth. It\u2019s, actually, \u201cIn all kinds of circumstances, you\u2019re holding onto this loving disposition.\u201d I think that\u2019s a better translation. It\u2019s not so much about the object of your love\u2014it\u2019s about the <em>perseverance of faith<\/em>, in the life of the lover. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd with everything in this passage\u2014everything in First Corinthians 13, which is what the book is really centered around\u2014I think it\u2019s very helpful to look at the person and work of Jesus Christ as the perfect illustration as filling out this portrait of love that we have in First Corinthians 13. I think we have an <em>amazing<\/em> example of this in the life of Jesus\u2014that\u2019s love <em>believing always<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, if I\u2019m applying this, then, as a dad, who has a teenager\u2014who, I\u2019m wondering if this teenager is telling me the truth; and the teenager hasn\u2019t always told me the truth. I know that; and now, he\u2019s saying one thing, and I\u2019m wondering if I can believe this\u2014I think what I hear you saying is: \u201cNothing wrong with having healthy suspicion, investigating, digging in\u2014but I need to keep believing\u2014in what God can do, might do, will do in the life of that child\u2014what God\u2019s ultimate purpose is being accomplished in all of this are. I need to stay faithful, to God, in the midst of hard circumstances.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I think there\u2019s a passage in Jude; isn\u2019t there? \u2014that talks about contending for the faith? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> That\u2019s the picture that I think is being illustrated here. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes. You know, I think that\u2014Bob, that\u2019s a great description of what\u2019s going on here: \u201cWhere am I putting this faith and trust?\u201d It\u2019s not in a failed, fallen, flawed human being because there are a lot of times we can\u2019t believe other people. You talked about a kind of healthy suspicion, and looking a person, in the eye, and saying, \u201cYou know, I really don\u2019t think you\u2019re telling me the truth here.\u201d But even in that moment, there\u2019s a sense of love and trust in what God is going to do, in a redemptive way, in this relationship. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I have a friend of mine\u2014who, her husband has just confessed to her a long pattern of infidelity. She is, now, wondering\u2014not only about that\u2014what\u2019s going on in that relationship\u2014but she\u2019s starting to wonder if there\u2019s some financial stuff that\u2019s been hidden away, as well. She\u2019s wondering about other patterns that she\u2019s seen that she\u2019s\u2014she\u2019s not becoming convinced of these things, but she\u2019s wondering if he\u2019s been hiding other stuff. It\u2019s not inappropriate for her to wonder those things\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Not at all. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014and to investigate. She\u2019s not violating First Corinthians 13 by being skeptical. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> No. I totally agree with that. In fact, you know, deception tends not to be limited to one area of life. So, I think\u2014just knowing what we know about human nature\u2014that would be important. I think what can happen, in a situation like that\u2014particularly, under shepherding care in the life of a local church\u2014ideally, that husband, then, opens his life up in a transparent way so that other people can verify what the financial circumstances are or whatever. Assuming that he is somebody\u2014I mean\u2014we don\u2019t need to go into the details of the situation\u2014but a man in that situation, who really wants to honor God and continue in that marriage relationship, will not expect that trust will be rebuilt immediately because that\u2019s going to take a <em>long<\/em> time to rebuild that. It\u2019s not going to be the wife\u2019s weakness or unwillingness to trust\u2014it\u2019s going to be the damage that sin does\u2014and how trust can be restored\u2014but that takes time to restore. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Okay, we\u2019re talking about how love believes all things. Is this next one in the passage, \u201cLove hopes all things\u201d\u2014is that similar to love believing all things? Is it continuing the life of faith in God\u2014expecting Him, hopeful that He is going to do something? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes. It\u2019s God-centered. I think that\u2019s a little more obvious for us to see because we don\u2019t really talk about putting our hopes in people. When we talk about hope, we\u2019re talking about what we trust to God, and about His promises, and what we believe to be true about the future because of what God has promised to us. It\u2019s a God-centered hope. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSimilarly, hope believes in all circumstances. Even in the most remote and difficult times of hardship, we continue to have hope in what God will do\u2014even, if in the outward circumstances, we don\u2019t see it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And this last phrase, \u201cLove endures all things,\u201d is that back to bearing all things? Is it similar? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes, it\u2019s similar. There is a kind of reinforcement in\u2014I think there is a value in looking at each one of these terms and kind of studying that\u2014but there is also a value in seeing, \u201cWhat\u2019s the thrust of this thing, as a whole?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe endurance of love really points us to the eternality of love. I mean, there are other things\u2014even things like faith and hope\u2014that eventually, in one sense, disappear because we\u2019re not just trusting God for it\u2014we see the reality of it\u2014but love is forever. And that\u2019s one of the\u2014I think, you know, when we talk about God is love and how closely identified with the character of God love is\u2014that\u2019s just a reminder that this is something that\u2019s forever. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I don\u2019t want to be guilty of adding to the Scriptures; but it seems to me, that if I could just remember the little preposition, \u201cin\u201d\u2014that love bears in all things, believes in the midst of all things, hopes in the middle of all things, and endures in the midst of all things\u2014maybe, I\u2019ve got the essence of what\u2019s being said here. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes, that\u2019s a good way of thinking about the passage\u2014or just saying, \u201c\u2026bears always, believes always, hopes always, and endures always.\u201d That sense of ongoing\u2014that would be another way of getting, I think, to a similar place in thinking about, \u201cOkay, what does this mean; and what doesn\u2019t it mean?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And think about what other kind of love could truly fulfill the marriage covenant. It\u2019s going to take this kind of love to make that work. It\u2019s why so many relationships today are failing\u2014they\u2019re not based upon the love of Christ. They\u2019re based on a human approach to love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well, and I\u2019m just wondering: \u201cYou\u2019ve already confessed, to us, that you write books, based on where you need to grow and do better. So\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I want to look up the list of the other books he\u2019s written\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> See where\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014to find out where he\u2019s been growing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> So, it\u2019s assorted. Yes. It\u2019s assorted. You know, actually, somebody recently asked me if I planned to write a book on parenting. I actually laughed out loud because there are so many struggles you go through in the life of parenting; but now, as I think about it, \u201cYes, maybe, I will because that\u2019s another area where I\u2019m working on\u2014so, why not?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Are you a more loving person after having written this book? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> You know, I\u2019ve done a lot of soul-searching, actually, on that question. I\u2019m also\u2014so, this book is <em>Loving the Way Jesus Loves<\/em>. This year, in Chapel, at Wheaton College, I\u2019ve been taking a slightly different aspect of love. I\u2019ve been challenging us with the question, \u201cHow can we love Jesus more?\u201d This book is focused more on the love of Jesus that comes to us and how we live that out in our horizontal relationships. But here is another area I wanted to grow\u2014which is loving Jesus more. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>We come to the end of the year\u2014I mean, we\u2019ve been working on it. We\u2019ve been talking about it. I\u2019ve been studying and praying about it. I don\u2019t know! I don\u2019t know. But that\u2019s the direction I want to go in my life is\u2014loving Jesus more, loving other people. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m more encouraged when I look back\u20145, 10, 15, 20 years\u2014\u201cAm I a more loving person than I was as a college student?\u201d Absolutely; without doubt, I can say that before God. I absolutely think that\u2019s the case. \u201cAm I more loving person, now, than when I was first married?\u201d Yes. \u201cAm I more loving, now, than when I began the process of parenting?\u201d Yes, I think so. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, I think, sometimes, we look back. We can be at least a little encouraged in what the Holy Spirit is doing; but I also say this: \u201cThat if we ask ourselves that question, \u2018Am I a more loving person?\u2019 and we\u2019re not sure or maybe the answer is, \u2018No,\u2019 part of the longing that ought to produce in us is a longing for that time when we are finally, and totally, and perfectly delivered from sin. It will not happen in this life, but it is promised to us in the life to come.\u201d Even our sense of weariness, with the areas where we fail in the Christian life\u2014there is a silver lining in that cloud, which is\u00a0 the hopeful expectation of our own perfect sanctification in the life to come. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cHe who began a good work in you\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> <em>Will<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cwill be faithful to complete it.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> \u201c\u2026<em>will<\/em> be faithful\u2026.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. And when the perfect comes, all the imperfect will be done away with. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I\u2019m looking forward to seeing Him\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Come on\u2014bring it\u2014face-to-face. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Phil\u2014 thanks for being on the broadcast. You just need to be glad that we\u2019re running out of time because I was thinking about calling Lisa on her cell phone and asking her the question that Bob had for you there [Laughter]: \u201cIs Phil a greater lover because he wrote this book?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> I\u2019m speechless. I don\u2019t know\u2014but I\u2019ll tell you this. I\u2019ll tell you this. She\u2019ll tell it like it is. I know that for sure. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, we\u2019ll have you back again sometime, and we\u2019ll make that call. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes. I love this conversation, and God bless you in your Kingdom work. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Thanks. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And appreciate you, as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Hope our listeners will get a copy of your book. It\u2019s called <em>Loving the Way Jesus Loves<\/em>. We\u2019ve got copies in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. Go, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com for more information on how you can order <em>Loving the Way Jesus Loves<\/em>. Again, the website: FamilyLifeToday.com; or call, toll-free, 1-800-FL-TODAY, 1-800-358-6329. 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are the defining marks of love?","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2013-08-14.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> First Corinthians 13, verse 7\u2014the verse that says that \u201cLove bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things\u201d\u2014is that a verse that applies when a husband and a wife have experienced infidelity in a marriage relationship? Here\u2019s Wheaton College President, Dr. Philip Ryken. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> A man in that situation, who really wants to honor God and continue in that marriage relationship, will not expect that trust will be rebuilt immediately because that\u2019s going to take a <em>long<\/em> time to rebuild that. It\u2019s not going to be the wife\u2019s weakness or unwillingness to trust\u2014it\u2019s going to be the damage that sin does\u2014and how trust can be restored\u2014but that takes time to restore. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Wednesday, August 14<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We\u2019ll look today at what love ought to look like when relationships get sideways. Stay tuned. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. You know, I think there are some people who are a little concerned about love being too soft. Do you know what I mean? I think there are folks who are afraid\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I\u2019ve had that thought. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014that if you are loving, you are a push-over\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014you\u2019re just a wimp. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, there is a segment in Christianity that misunderstands what it means for God to be love. They think that somebody, who is loving, just puts up with everything. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. I remember\u2014and I\u2019ve read through this before\u2014you read through First Corinthians 13, which is this great passage where Paul gives attributes of love. He is talking about <em>agape<\/em> love. It\u2019s really a full definition of it. At the end of that, he talks about love \u201cbearing all things, believing all things, hoping all things, and enduring all things.\u201d And you think: \u201cReally?! You\u2019re supposed to believe all things, supposed to <em>endure<\/em> all things?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Kind of sounds like that love has no boundaries. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Like you roll over and pretend, in the face of evil. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, let\u2019s ask the guy who didn\u2019t write the book\u2014not First Corinthians 13\u2014by the way\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That\u2019s right. [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014but Dr. Phil Ryken, who joins us again on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Phil, welcome back. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> You know\u2014I appreciate you guys. It\u2019s good to talk to you about these important, biblical principles of love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It is. Phil has written a book called <em>Loving the Way Jesus Loves<\/em>. What about it, Phil? Does love have boundaries? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes, it definitely does. True love, actually, insists on boundaries, in certain kinds of circumstances. This is one of the reasons why we need to study the Bible carefully because you could take just a part of a verse like that\u2014take it out of its context\u2014maybe, not understand, even, the true terms behind the verse\u2014and not think about it in connection with other important, biblical teaching. You could run away with it in all kinds of directions. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>So, I mean let\u2019s just take \u201cLove bears all things\u201d because that\u2019s the first part of that series in First Corinthians 13. The vocabulary word there has to do with supporting\u2014lifting up. It\u2019s sort of this kind of bearing of a burden\u2014that that\u2019s really\u2014I mean\u2014that is the kind of language or vocabulary that is used there. Here\u2019s how one scholar describes the term: \u201cLove is able to bear all burdens, all deprivations, all troubles, all hardships, all toils occasioned by others.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> It\u2019s really an endurance word. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> It\u2019s an endurance word for sure. It doesn\u2019t mean, \u201cYou know, I should put up with things that are ungodly,\u201d or that, \u201cI shouldn\u2019t act, on behalf of justice, if somebody is mistreating somebody else.\u201d I mean, I think there is a place for turning the other cheek\u2014Jesus talks about that. There may be certain things that we are called to endure. It doesn\u2019t mean that a woman, who is in an abusive relationship with her husband, should just stay there and take certain kinds of beatings\u2014because there are other biblical principles that apply here about the preservation of life and about, actually, what\u2019s in the best interest of your husband, which is not to allow him to continue to treat you in an ungodly way. So, we have to understand the bigger context here; but it is saying, here, that love has an amazing capacity for enduring and for continuing to love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, just to continue with the example I just gave. If, for reasons of safety, you need to be separate from somebody, who is dangerous to you, you need to do that\u2014but that doesn\u2019t mean that that\u2019s the point at which God now calls you not to love that person anymore because\u2014it just changes what love looks like, in that relationship, and, \u201cWhat is the wise way to love, at that point, in a relationship?\u201d But you still continue to love. That\u2019s the point that Paul is after, here, in First Corinthians 13. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, bearing all things\u2014with an abusive husband or with a child who is starting to use drugs\u2014bearing all things in that situation means loving that husband\u2014that child\u2014not allowing the behavior to continue, but not hardening your heart toward that person in the midst of that kind of abuse. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes, that\u2019s a great way of saying it. Let\u2019s talk about this child, now, that is maybe, going in a wrong direction in life. \u201cLove bears all things\u201d does not mean love <em>allows<\/em> all things. There may be circumstances, where for the interests and health of the family, a child\u2014particularly of a certain age\u2014should no longer live in that family household. There are circumstances like that for reasons of safety\u2014even, for just what\u2019s safe for the child himself or herself. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut the responsibility\u2014to continue to love, to reach out to that child, and have those open arms\u2014that\u2019s what continues. That\u2019s the principle, here, in First Corinthians 13\u2014that love does not give up on somebody but continues to love. What that love looks like\u2014it\u2019s going to depend a lot on the circumstances. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I like the description, and I can\u2019t say that I\u2019ve ever thought of it before. The idea of a load-bearing\u2014it\u2019s like the pillars that hold up a bridge. It\u2019s a load-bearing architectural design to keep that bridge in place. Bob, you added, \u201c\u2026to make sure your heart doesn\u2019t become hardened\u2026\u201d\u2014but you keep on going across that bridge to love that other person\u2014and invite them out of their sin\u2014invite them out of the abuse, or, perhaps, drug abuse, or behavior that\u2019s harmful to them. I like that picture. And that is, to me, what a Christian family ought to be. We shouldn\u2019t have hardened hearts toward another person. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> When we talk about loving the way that Jesus loves\u2014you used a nice phrase there, Dennis. I probably should have used it in the book. It\u2019s a load-bearing love. I think we can take it to the deepest possible level when we remember all of the biblical vocabulary about Jesus bearing us and bearing our sins: \u201cSurely, He has born our griefs and carried our sorrows\u201d\u2014that\u2019s a load-bearing love. \u201cHe bore the sin of many,\u201d\u2014the Scripture says. \u201cHe, Himself, bore our sins in His body on the tree.\u201d It\u2019s a similar kind of language here. It\u2019s talking about Jesus doing the heavy lifting of our salvation. You are absolutely right\u2014we are, now, called to that kind of load-bearing love in our family relationships and everywhere else in life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You know, as you were talking, too, Phil, I couldn\u2019t help but think: \u201cIn a normal marriage,\u201d\u2014you\u2019ve been married 25 years. Barbara and I have been married 40. Bob\u2019s coming up on 35\u2014\u201cthere is a load-bearing because two sinful, selfish, broken human beings disappoint each other\u2014miss each other, don\u2019t meet one another\u2019s expectations. There is and are emotional flinches that we go through, day-in and day-out, that I think what the Scripture is calling us to do is to bear\u2014bear those emotional disappointments and not lash out and\u2014back to Bob\u2019s illustration\u2014not become hardened toward our spouse just because they don\u2019t do everything the way we\u2019d like them to do it, or to meet all of our needs, or all of our expectations.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> I had a great conversation with a communication class at Wheaton College, just last week. The professor invited me to come in. They\u2019ve been talking about communication in relationships. They were up to the topic of forgiveness and reconciliation. They are really spending the semester on communication in difficult, conflictual situations\u2014that\u2019s what the class is on. It\u2019s part of our Communications Department. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>One of the students asked me\u2014I had spoken, from the Scriptures, about forgiveness and reconciliation and given them some principles. They were really saying: \u201cThere are things that you have in your relationship\u201d\u2014maybe, with the people you live with, in a roommate situation\u2014and we could apply it, of course, to family life\u2014\u201cand are we obligated to sort of bring up every issue we have with a person? I mean, does speaking the truth in love really demand that kind of transparency?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI said: \u201cBefore you get to that point, you need to ask this question, in your conversation with the Lord: \u2018Is this an issue?\u2019\u201d\u2014probably, not a sin issue. A lot of the little issues in life aren\u2019t sin issues. Some of them just are kind of the way people do things. The way people do things may not be sinful, in and of itself; but it may be irritating to us: \u201cIs this something that God can give me the grace to overlook and live with, and just have a generous disposition to the other person, acknowledging that maybe it\u2019s a little hard for me to deal with\u2014but God can give me grace for it\u2014and I don\u2019t need to go have a conversation with you about it?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think there needs to be a lot of things like that in marriage\u2014you know, those little things that, maybe, early on, you were hoping to kind of <em>fix <\/em>in the other person\u2014but maybe, a better approach, for a lot of those things, is to go to the Lord in prayer and ask for His help in <em>bearing<\/em> with them\u2014exactly what we\u2019re talking about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well, and Proverbs says, \u201cIt is a man\u2019s glory to overlook an offense.\u201d There are going to be a lot of offenses\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> There are more offenses that my wife has overlooked in me than that she has confronted in me over a lifetime of marriage; and that\u2019s more often the case. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Phil:<\/strong> And here\u2019s another great verse, along similar lines: \u201cLove covers a multitude of sins.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That\u2019s right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> At a certain point in our family life, my sister put that up on our refrigerator. [Laughter] She probably had an agenda behind it. I don\u2019t know exactly what the agenda was, but it stayed there for a pretty long time. I thought it was just a great perspective on family life, day-in and day-out: \u201cLove covers a multitude of sins.\u201d It\u2019s love that does that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, no one wants to sit underneath a microscope\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014and have another person just magnifying their faults, their weaknesses, how they\u2019ve failed. I think, early in our marriage, I was way too quick to point out faults and point out how Barbara was late, <em>again<\/em>. I\u2019m just kind of watching, now, in our 40<sup>th<\/sup> year of marriage\u2014it\u2019s kind of like: \u201cSo, you walk in late. Okay. Choke down your pride and do your best to love your wife and, maybe, help her be on time next time; but just keep on loving and <em>bearing<\/em>\u2014again, bearing the other person\u2019s weaknesses.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Let me ask you about the next phrase, \u201cLove believes all things,\u201d because this just sounds like <em>Pollyanna<\/em> to me. It sounds like a naivety. What do you do if you\u2019ve got a wife, who you suspect hasn\u2019t been telling you the truth\u2014and maybe, hasn\u2019t in the past and you\u2019ve got evidence\u2014or a child, who you think is lying to you? Do you just believe all things? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes. So, what is the Bible saying here; and what isn\u2019t it saying? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> I mean, you could very quickly\u2014and obviously, reach the conclusion it <em>doesn\u2019t <\/em>mean\u2014believe anything whatsoever. I mean, obviously, God is not calling us to believe things that are false about Jesus or to believe things that are ungodly. So, I mean, that\u2019s, obviously, the case; but then, you still have the question, \u201cOkay, what, actually, does it mean?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are actually a couple possibilities here. You could translate it, \u201cLove believes all things.\u201d Then, it would be along the lines of really believing the best about somebody\u2014not sort of being cynical and suspicious but giving somebody the benefit of the doubt. It would kind of be along those lines. But I think it\u2019s, actually, better to take it\u2014not so much \u201call things\u201d but \u201calways\u201d. So, it\u2019s not like you believe in some principle, or proposition, or truth. It\u2019s, actually, \u201cIn all kinds of circumstances, you\u2019re holding onto this loving disposition.\u201d I think that\u2019s a better translation. It\u2019s not so much about the object of your love\u2014it\u2019s about the <em>perseverance of faith<\/em>, in the life of the lover. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd with everything in this passage\u2014everything in First Corinthians 13, which is what the book is really centered around\u2014I think it\u2019s very helpful to look at the person and work of Jesus Christ as the perfect illustration as filling out this portrait of love that we have in First Corinthians 13. I think we have an <em>amazing<\/em> example of this in the life of Jesus\u2014that\u2019s love <em>believing always<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, if I\u2019m applying this, then, as a dad, who has a teenager\u2014who, I\u2019m wondering if this teenager is telling me the truth; and the teenager hasn\u2019t always told me the truth. I know that; and now, he\u2019s saying one thing, and I\u2019m wondering if I can believe this\u2014I think what I hear you saying is: \u201cNothing wrong with having healthy suspicion, investigating, digging in\u2014but I need to keep believing\u2014in what God can do, might do, will do in the life of that child\u2014what God\u2019s ultimate purpose is being accomplished in all of this are. I need to stay faithful, to God, in the midst of hard circumstances.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I think there\u2019s a passage in Jude; isn\u2019t there? \u2014that talks about contending for the faith? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> That\u2019s the picture that I think is being illustrated here. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes. You know, I think that\u2014Bob, that\u2019s a great description of what\u2019s going on here: \u201cWhere am I putting this faith and trust?\u201d It\u2019s not in a failed, fallen, flawed human being because there are a lot of times we can\u2019t believe other people. You talked about a kind of healthy suspicion, and looking a person, in the eye, and saying, \u201cYou know, I really don\u2019t think you\u2019re telling me the truth here.\u201d But even in that moment, there\u2019s a sense of love and trust in what God is going to do, in a redemptive way, in this relationship. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I have a friend of mine\u2014who, her husband has just confessed to her a long pattern of infidelity. She is, now, wondering\u2014not only about that\u2014what\u2019s going on in that relationship\u2014but she\u2019s starting to wonder if there\u2019s some financial stuff that\u2019s been hidden away, as well. She\u2019s wondering about other patterns that she\u2019s seen that she\u2019s\u2014she\u2019s not becoming convinced of these things, but she\u2019s wondering if he\u2019s been hiding other stuff. It\u2019s not inappropriate for her to wonder those things\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Not at all. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014and to investigate. She\u2019s not violating First Corinthians 13 by being skeptical. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> No. I totally agree with that. In fact, you know, deception tends not to be limited to one area of life. So, I think\u2014just knowing what we know about human nature\u2014that would be important. I think what can happen, in a situation like that\u2014particularly, under shepherding care in the life of a local church\u2014ideally, that husband, then, opens his life up in a transparent way so that other people can verify what the financial circumstances are or whatever. Assuming that he is somebody\u2014I mean\u2014we don\u2019t need to go into the details of the situation\u2014but a man in that situation, who really wants to honor God and continue in that marriage relationship, will not expect that trust will be rebuilt immediately because that\u2019s going to take a <em>long<\/em> time to rebuild that. It\u2019s not going to be the wife\u2019s weakness or unwillingness to trust\u2014it\u2019s going to be the damage that sin does\u2014and how trust can be restored\u2014but that takes time to restore. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Okay, we\u2019re talking about how love believes all things. Is this next one in the passage, \u201cLove hopes all things\u201d\u2014is that similar to love believing all things? Is it continuing the life of faith in God\u2014expecting Him, hopeful that He is going to do something? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes. It\u2019s God-centered. I think that\u2019s a little more obvious for us to see because we don\u2019t really talk about putting our hopes in people. When we talk about hope, we\u2019re talking about what we trust to God, and about His promises, and what we believe to be true about the future because of what God has promised to us. It\u2019s a God-centered hope. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSimilarly, hope believes in all circumstances. Even in the most remote and difficult times of hardship, we continue to have hope in what God will do\u2014even, if in the outward circumstances, we don\u2019t see it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And this last phrase, \u201cLove endures all things,\u201d is that back to bearing all things? Is it similar? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes, it\u2019s similar. There is a kind of reinforcement in\u2014I think there is a value in looking at each one of these terms and kind of studying that\u2014but there is also a value in seeing, \u201cWhat\u2019s the thrust of this thing, as a whole?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe endurance of love really points us to the eternality of love. I mean, there are other things\u2014even things like faith and hope\u2014that eventually, in one sense, disappear because we\u2019re not just trusting God for it\u2014we see the reality of it\u2014but love is forever. And that\u2019s one of the\u2014I think, you know, when we talk about God is love and how closely identified with the character of God love is\u2014that\u2019s just a reminder that this is something that\u2019s forever. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I don\u2019t want to be guilty of adding to the Scriptures; but it seems to me, that if I could just remember the little preposition, \u201cin\u201d\u2014that love bears in all things, believes in the midst of all things, hopes in the middle of all things, and endures in the midst of all things\u2014maybe, I\u2019ve got the essence of what\u2019s being said here. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes, that\u2019s a good way of thinking about the passage\u2014or just saying, \u201c\u2026bears always, believes always, hopes always, and endures always.\u201d That sense of ongoing\u2014that would be another way of getting, I think, to a similar place in thinking about, \u201cOkay, what does this mean; and what doesn\u2019t it mean?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And think about what other kind of love could truly fulfill the marriage covenant. It\u2019s going to take this kind of love to make that work. It\u2019s why so many relationships today are failing\u2014they\u2019re not based upon the love of Christ. They\u2019re based on a human approach to love. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well, and I\u2019m just wondering: \u201cYou\u2019ve already confessed, to us, that you write books, based on where you need to grow and do better. So\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I want to look up the list of the other books he\u2019s written\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> See where\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014to find out where he\u2019s been growing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> So, it\u2019s assorted. Yes. It\u2019s assorted. You know, actually, somebody recently asked me if I planned to write a book on parenting. I actually laughed out loud because there are so many struggles you go through in the life of parenting; but now, as I think about it, \u201cYes, maybe, I will because that\u2019s another area where I\u2019m working on\u2014so, why not?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Are you a more loving person after having written this book? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> You know, I\u2019ve done a lot of soul-searching, actually, on that question. I\u2019m also\u2014so, this book is <em>Loving the Way Jesus Loves<\/em>. This year, in Chapel, at Wheaton College, I\u2019ve been taking a slightly different aspect of love. I\u2019ve been challenging us with the question, \u201cHow can we love Jesus more?\u201d This book is focused more on the love of Jesus that comes to us and how we live that out in our horizontal relationships. But here is another area I wanted to grow\u2014which is loving Jesus more. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>We come to the end of the year\u2014I mean, we\u2019ve been working on it. We\u2019ve been talking about it. I\u2019ve been studying and praying about it. I don\u2019t know! I don\u2019t know. But that\u2019s the direction I want to go in my life is\u2014loving Jesus more, loving other people. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m more encouraged when I look back\u20145, 10, 15, 20 years\u2014\u201cAm I a more loving person than I was as a college student?\u201d Absolutely; without doubt, I can say that before God. I absolutely think that\u2019s the case. \u201cAm I more loving person, now, than when I was first married?\u201d Yes. \u201cAm I more loving, now, than when I began the process of parenting?\u201d Yes, I think so. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, I think, sometimes, we look back. We can be at least a little encouraged in what the Holy Spirit is doing; but I also say this: \u201cThat if we ask ourselves that question, \u2018Am I a more loving person?\u2019 and we\u2019re not sure or maybe the answer is, \u2018No,\u2019 part of the longing that ought to produce in us is a longing for that time when we are finally, and totally, and perfectly delivered from sin. It will not happen in this life, but it is promised to us in the life to come.\u201d Even our sense of weariness, with the areas where we fail in the Christian life\u2014there is a silver lining in that cloud, which is\u00a0 the hopeful expectation of our own perfect sanctification in the life to come. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u201cHe who began a good work in you\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> <em>Will<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014\u201cwill be faithful to complete it.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> \u201c\u2026<em>will<\/em> be faithful\u2026.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. And when the perfect comes, all the imperfect will be done away with. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I\u2019m looking forward to seeing Him\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Come on\u2014bring it\u2014face-to-face. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Phil\u2014 thanks for being on the broadcast. You just need to be glad that we\u2019re running out of time because I was thinking about calling Lisa on her cell phone and asking her the question that Bob had for you there [Laughter]: \u201cIs Phil a greater lover because he wrote this book?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> I\u2019m speechless. I don\u2019t know\u2014but I\u2019ll tell you this. I\u2019ll tell you this. She\u2019ll tell it like it is. I know that for sure. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Well, we\u2019ll have you back again sometime, and we\u2019ll make that call. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yes. I love this conversation, and God bless you in your Kingdom work. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Thanks. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And appreciate you, as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Hope our listeners will get a copy of your book. It\u2019s called <em>Loving the Way Jesus Loves<\/em>. We\u2019ve got copies in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. Go, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com for more information on how you can order <em>Loving the Way Jesus Loves<\/em>. Again, the website: FamilyLifeToday.com; or call, toll-free, 1-800-FL-TODAY, 1-800-358-6329. 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