Gary Antion. Elder, United Church of God. Gary Antion is a long-time minister, having served as a pastor in both the United States and Canada. He is also a certified counselor. Before his retirement in 2015, he was an instructor at Ambassador Bible College, where he had most recently also served as Coordinator. Print this Page.
FAITH, HOPE & LOVE INTRO 1 Corinthians 13:13: “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love ” (NIV) This is really 3 sermons in one! The only way we CAN live as Christians • Only way to survive as Christians • Only way to be fruitful • Only way to have abundant life Anyone who has no faith in God, no hope in God, and no love of God cannot go to heaven because heaven would be hell to him. He could not endure or enjoy the presence of God after death anymore than he did before death. Faith, hope, and charity are the three legs of a single tripod that supports the whole Christian life.

Still, Paul insists that love is greater even than these two bedrock virtues. It will abide, in a sense, even after our faith has become sight and our hope in eternity has been fully realized. Paul's bottom line in this chapter is that, of course, faith and hope are far more important than spiritual gifts and love is greater even than faith and

Love, too, means seeking the other’s best, and faith guides us to understand God’s wisdom as what’s truly best. And love flows a lot easier from a secure heart than a cornered one. Faith leads and empowers us to fight not as the world fights, with hatred, deceit, and violence “according to the flesh” (2 Cor. 10:4), but with prayer
Abstract. This chapter uses a population health perspective to examine the role of the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love in promoting human health and well-being. We begin with an overview of public health’s traditional focus on health-related exposures and outcomes and then summarize growing evidence that religion and spirituality
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