1. How to be a Better Lover “Love Trusts”
Rev. Robert J. Smith
Pastor
Colonial Hills Baptist Church

2. Romans 8:24-25
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

3. Pandora’s Box

4. Last week – Love Believes
Review of Series
Love Matter
Love is Patient
Love is Kind
Love Defends
Last week – Love Believes
Today – Love Trusts

5. 1 Corinthians 13:7
7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

6. Different Ways we use the word “Hope”
a desire for something good in the future,
the thing in the future that we desire, and
the basis or reason for thinking that our desire may indeed be fulfilled.

7. The Work of Love that Hopeth All Things
24 For we are saved by hope:

8. The Work of Love that Hopeth All Things
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)

9. The Work of Love that Hopeth All Things
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV)

10. The Nature of Love that Hopeth All Things
but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

11. The Nature of Love that Hopeth All Things
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 (KJV)

12. The Nature of Love that Hopeth All Things
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Hebrews 11:27 (KJV)

13. The Nature of Love that Hopeth All Things
18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. Romans 4:18 (KJV)

14. The Result of Love that Hopeth All Things
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

15. The Result of Love that Hopeth All Things
I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. Psalm 40:1 (KJV)

16. The Result of Love that Hopeth All Things
 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31 (KJV)

17. The Result of Love that Hopeth All Things
12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; Romans 12:12 (KJV)

18. Pandora’s Box
Conclusion