The Triangle of Life

The eastern coast of the United States lies one of the most famous, or some might say infamous, areas of water on Earth. Depending on where the outer boundaries are drawn, it covers an area of water ranging from 500,000 square miles up to 1.5 million square miles. It is an area that is heavily traveled. In fact, it is one of the most heavily traveled waterways on the planet.

This particular area has been popularized by articles, movies, books. It's become a mix of myths, facts, and speculations. The area is roughly marked off as a triangle. The triangle is formed by drawing three lines. You draw a line from Miami, Florida to Puerto Rico, a line from Puerto Rico to Bermuda, a line from Bermuda to Miami. These three lines form the triangle. In the 1960s, this area was given a name, the Bermuda Triangle.

People seemed like a good mystery, don't they? For instance, the plane that went down in recent times and they searched all over for it and basically determined that it's crashed in the ocean. But look how that was followed. It's a tragedy any time something like that happens. People seem to like a good mystery and this particular area has provided more than its fair share. The area is noted for a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft.

Two of the most famous are Flight 19, sometimes called the Lost Squadron and the USS Cyclops. Flight 19 was a squadron of five US Navy TBM Avenger torpedo bombers on a training flight out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida on December 5, 1945. They disappeared without a trace. A Navy search and rescue seaplane that went in search of them was also lost and never found. The USS Cyclops was a 500-foot US Navy freighter with 309 passengers and crew. Shortly after leaving Barbados for Baltimore on March 6, 1918, they vanished without a trace.

Despite the capability for such, no wireless or radio communication was received from them. Additional famous accounts include a Douglas DC-3 aircraft containing 32 people that went missing in 1958. No trace of the aircraft was ever found. And a yacht that was found in 1955 that had survived three hurricanes but was missing all its crew. And the accounts continue. Some have an explanation, some don't. Due to the nature of this area, it has also been called the Devil's Triangle.

That name has been applied both because of, number one, the mystery surrounding some of the situations, and two, the number of deaths involved over the years. In fact, there is a third name that is sometimes applied to the area, and that is the Triangle of Death. So you have those three names, the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Triangle, the Triangle of Death. They all three go together, but especially the second and third ones, the Devil's Triangle and the Triangle of Death because the Devil deals in death.

Death and the Devil go together. Spiritually speaking, there is a Triangle of Death, spiritually speaking. And there is, spiritually speaking, a Triangle of Life. There is a triangular configuration that if you live in it, is a Triangle of Life. Outside this Triangle is failure and death, the Triangle of Death. So a good title for the subject I'm dealing with today, this morning, is the Triangle of Life.

The Triangle of Life, because the Triangle of Life is a configuration that contains life. It is a configuration that God can put His life into. If you are standing in, if you're living in the Triangle of Life, you're standing in a configuration, you're living and being in a configuration that God can put His life into. That brings up the obvious that because it is a configuration in which God puts His life, it's a configuration that Satan wants broken. Because it defeats Him.

Because if it can be broken, it means death. Death lies outside this configuration, and death is what Satan wants for us, not life. The last thing that Satan wants for any of us is life. In fact, it's not the last thing because he doesn't even want it to be on the list. His is the Triangle of Death.

So in one sense, I'm going to focus on the two triangles, but very lesser, more by inference and all, to the Triangle of Death. Because basically, if I focus on and give the greater and prime focus on the Triangle of Life, it tells you the configuration in which you find life, in which God can infuse you with life. And by understanding that, then you know that if you break that Triangle, you've automatically lost the Triangle of Life, and that puts you in death's mode.

So I don't have to deal with the lesser one in a direct way, necessarily. But I want to talk first about triangles. I took geometry in school. I enjoyed it, dealing with triangles and circles and rectangles and squares and all of that. And of course, each has its own distinctive, unique differences from others. Triangles, one thing that all triangles have, are three sides. You can't have a triangle with two, you can't have a triangle with one side, you can't have a triangle with four sides. You've got three. Not one less, not one more. And again, there are different types of triangles.

An equilateral triangle is one where each side of the three sides is the same exact length. But in a triangle, one of the things about a triangle that is different than a square or a rectangle or whatever is that pick any side you want in a triangle. It automatically connects with the other two sides. Every side connects to the other side fully and equally.

And that's not true of any other design. Also, the triangle is the strongest design. Beekeepers know, and you don't have to be a beekeeper to know, honey is very heavy. You ever pick up a gallon of honey and a gallon of water? Now, I'm not sure what a gallon of honey weighs, but it's a lot more concentrated than the water.

It's heavy. Honey is heavy. And if you look at a beehive, the sails are hexagons. And a hexagon is the strongest design for carrying volume. You know, carrying volume like you've got to have in a hive. It's interesting. I wonder how the bees figure that out. You know, smart little critters, aren't they? Anyhow, hexagon is the best combination for both strength and volume. But for just pure strength, the triangle wins hands down. And if you look in construction, in the different building trades, in construction, whether it's buildings, whether it's bridges, whatever, the bracings that are used for securing, for maintaining, the most often seen design for securing is the triangle.

Or a series of triangles. Notice how that most roofs are a type of triangle. And if you look at trusses, where the ceiling joists and the rafters are prefabricated, preformed, put together, so they can just be taken out on the job site and hoisted up and fastened into place, you will see that the way that they're braced is a series of triangles. And it's extremely strong doing that way.

It's amazing, just with two before trusses, not even two to six or two to eight trusses, but two before trusses. It's amazing how much of a load-bearing capacity they have the way trusses are built. Turn with me to Hebrews 3, please.

God is a builder.

Verses 1-6, Hebrews 3, 1-6, God is a builder. Paul said, And Moses truly was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after, but Christ as a son over his own house. You know, I've often thought it would be a wonderful thing, which I don't think I'll ever have a chance to do, but it would be a wonderful thing if I could lay out a house exactly like I wanted and build it.

But age, time, responsibilities, energies, money, all kinds of things keep me from being able to do that. But a lot of people have a dream, and maybe it's not a lot of people, but quite a few. Men think, you know, if I could be nice if I could build my own house or plan it out exactly like I wanted and build it. Christ as a son over his own house, whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end, whose house are we.

Ephesians 2, verses 19-22. Ephesians 2. Ephesians 2, verses 19-22 says, Now therefore you are no more, and he's talking to the Ephesians who were Gentiles, and he's talking to the particular Ephesians who, as Gentiles, were now being grafted in to spiritual Israel, being made part of the church. Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints. And notice, and of, the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom all the building, fitly framed together, grows unto a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through his Spirit.

I have always found it interesting that Christ's livelihood experience for 30 years, as such, of course he wasn't doing it when he was a baby or toddler, but let's say, for an appreciable part of his flesh and blood human life with us on this planet, that the livelihood experience that he had indirectly with his father and also directly in working with him as he got old enough to, was in construction, as a carpenter, building, framing things together.

So, that tells me he's had building experience as God and as man, as God and as a human being. And in building a spiritual house, would he not know how to properly brace it? Would he not know how to secure it and maintain it? He knew how to physically brace and secure things to where they'd be secured and maintained. Wouldn't he know what it takes with a spiritual house to brace it, secure it, maintain it? Sure he would, and that's just what he does. And we're part of that building, that spiritual house or temple, and we are being built.

And we must be properly and securely braced. So, if you're taking notes, I would suggest that you draw a triangle. Because we will name those sides. Or you can draw one line, and I'll tell you what that line is. And then when I tell you the second one, you can draw a second line, do whatever you want, and then do the third one, and you can put it in.

Whichever you have or wish to do, we're going to call this, again, the triangle of life. And we're going to fill it in. Because this is the securing bracing that must be maintained, that you must, with God's help, maintain. That I, with God's help, must maintain. And when I cover what I cover, we'll see why it's the triangle of life. And we'll see why it's the configuration that has to be maintained, because it's the only configuration in which God pours his life. So what is the first leg of the triangle that God nailed into place, put into place, helps you to get in place?

I'll give some hints, just see if you guessed what the very first thing would be. God has to work on it. He has to help us with it. He's got to get us in a certain state of mind. There's a part of us that's got to be put in place before anything else can follow. He's got to work with us to prepare this in us, and it's something that we can never afford to lose. It starts with an A. Anybody want a venture?

What is it about the frame of... There's a word we use for a frame of mind, a framework of mind, attitude. Attitude. Attitude. Think about it. If God is going to give us life, if he's going to put his life through Christ in us, for the purpose of eventually being able to give us the fullness of eternal life, he's got to have a state of mind, a frame of mind with us that he can work with. If you think that just anybody has that frame of mind, go try to work with people regarding some of God's very important truths to God. See how far you get. There may have been a time, of course, and was. We could just say there was when we were in that same basic condition of not having the kind of attitude that God could really work with. But with God's help and our responding to him, the time came that we had the attitude that God could work with. Now, that attitude, we would say that that attitude could be described as teachable, yielded, open. It's teachable of God's things. It's yielded to the things of God, to God, and to the things of God. It's open. It's receptive to the things of God. John Ford. John Ford. Christ was doing a double whammy.

He was not only talking to a woman, which, at least for some of the Jews, was either taboo or not looked favorably upon. Sadly, but she was also a Samaritan. That made it even worse, because a good Jew just didn't have dealings with Samaritans. And the subject, it got into the subject of worship. And she tells him about how her fathers, some of her ancestors, worshipped there and a mountain over there. Christ told her something that is extremely important for true worshipers at any time. John 4, verses 23 and 24. Christ told her, he says, but the hour comes, and now is, actually already is in a very true sense.

When? The true worshipers. And he does emphasize true worshipers. True worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeks such to worship Him. God is a spirit. And they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. In spirit. We have said over the years, and accurately so, that spirit has to do with attitude, it has to do with heart, it has to do with state of mind, it is a framework of the spirit of the mind, of the attitude of the heart.

It is a necessity that above all things must be maintained. You might keep your place here if you wish. I'm going to flip back to Psalm 51. David had some egregious sins. He caved in to temptation. And you know the account with Bathsheba and Uriah. He had lost, he had broken the triangle of life. He was headed towards death.

He was able to be redeemed to his senses and to see it in the light it truly was in and to repent. Psalm 51 is an acknowledgment of his deep, better repentance in the aftermath of those sins. But notice something that David says, which tells us, it emphasizes this issue of attitude. Psalm 51, verses 10-12, he says, Create in me a clean heart, O God.

And notice, and renew a right spirit within me. He had gotten into a wrong spirit, a wrong attitude. He had lost the kind of attitude that was truly teachable and yielded and open and receptive. Renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence. I don't want to lose a relationship with you. I want to stay connected and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me with your free spirit. David understood what a necessity it was above all things to maintain that proper attitude. The attitude is the window that the light comes through. We talk about God's truth, his light, coming into our minds. If you have a house, and forget artificial lighting like we have with electricity and all, and you just talk about natural light from the sun, and you have a house, the light comes into the house through the glass. It comes in through the windows. Generally, we will open the shades and the blinds wide to let the house be flooded with as much light as possible.

The attitude is the glass. The attitude is the window that the light of God comes through. So God, first and foremost, prepares an attitude that he can truly work with. That window needs to be as clean, as clear, as unobstructed, and needs to be as good an attitude as possible. For God to do his work in us, he comes into our mind, our heart, our fiber, and he works with us as deeply as we will receive him.

For God to do his work in us, he must come inside. He has to come deep into our mind, he has to come deep into our fiber. His work with each of us is an inside job. And the attitude is the entry point. The attitude is the entry point. If the attitude goes sour, if the attitude goes bad, the entry point is closed.

I said a few years, two or three years ago, in a sermon that I gave on the subject, that the one thing that I as a minister, and I've heard others voice it as well, the one thing that I most dread having to try to deal with is the root of bitterness in somebody. A root of bitterness that has grown to where their attitude is defiled, the entry point, the receptivity, if shot.

Sadly, I move into a church area, I come to love people, to know their brethren and love them, and then wind up having experience sometimes one or more becoming bitter about something and just cut me off. And that's just part of the pain that goes with it. And we've all seen that happen at times with people, sadly.

But it's so crucial. That frame of mind, that mindset that God helped us to come into to be framed in, is so important. And that's why the first leg of the triangle of life, to be laid, is attitude. It's the wind of the mind. But attitude alone is insufficient. Because, as with a triangle where one leg cannot form the triangle of itself without the other two legs, attitude alone cannot be complete of itself. I don't care how skilled you are. You can't take one side and one line and make a triangle out of it.

It's not possible. So that brings us to the second leg of the triangle. And there's a word I will use for it. If you kept your finger in John 4, notice, true worshipers. Shall worship the Father. It mentions two things. It says, in spirit and in truth. And he repeats it in verse 24. In spirit and in truth. If we took the truths of God, because there are many truths of God, and as we probe those truths, there are also certain realizations that come from what we read. But if we just wrapped it all up with one word that would kind of, in one sense, be comprehensive of the truths of God, we could use a word that starts with a K.

What do we have to have to grow in, be fed, increase in? As God brings the light into our minds through that right attitude, he feeds us his truth, which is K for na-ledge. You have to have knowledge. Knowledge must go with attitude. Attitude is never an end in itself. I have used a number of times the simplest illustration that, on my personal banking checks, it says, Rick R.

Angela, Beam. So I can walk into the bank, and I can write a check and cash it. Or she can walk in and write a check and cash it, because it says, Rick R. Angela. If the checks were to say, Rick AND Angela, and I walked in, and the teller is paying attention, and I fell out a check and signed it, she'll say, I'm sorry, I can't cash that. Why not? Your wife's name is not on there. She hasn't signed it.

Or if she walked in and they're paying attention, sorry, ma'am, we can't cash that. Your husband's name is not on there. Because when it's AND for the check to be valid, it takes both signatures. True worship, to be valid, has to have both signatures. True worship has to involve both attitude and knowledge, God's knowledge, the truth.

Attitude is set in place so that knowledge can be taken in, can be received. Attitude without knowledge is incomplete, even as sincerity without direction is incomplete. You know, you could turn down a dead-end street, and you could do it very sincerely, very meaningfully, but when you get down to the dead-end and realize it's the dead-end, that's as far as you're going.

You gotta turn and go back. You know, somebody could give you a map to someplace. I know we got GPS and all that now, but let's say in the older days, somebody could give you a map to go someplace, and if it had been misprinted, you could follow the map exactly until it didn't match with the roads, like the old farmer said. You can't get there from here.

Okay, if I can't get there from here, I may as well stay and have supper with you, you know? But anyway, you could follow very sincerely a misprinted map, but you won't wind up where you should be. You could have a great approach, but no direction. So knowledge is absolutely essential. Again, you might keep your finger in the book of John. Hosea 4 bears out how essential knowledge is. Hosea 4 verse 6 says this, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

That is one insight, and to have valuable knowledge is in this triangular configuration of life. Somebody might say, My attitude is great! My attitude is so good! I say good! I say great! But, sir, it doesn't stop there. There's more to it than just that. Let's look at John 4 again. It says, In Spirit and, notice, In Truth. This is one of those cases for sure. Let's let the Bible define itself. Let's let the Bible define Truth. With a very simple statement. It's John 17, 17. John 17, 17. Okay. Truth. Sanctify. John 17, 17. Sanctify. That means set apart. Those you're working with.

Father. Sanctify them. Set them apart. Through Your Truth. We're to worship God in Spirit and Truth. Your Truth. What is Truth? Your Word. This Bible. Your Word is Truth. We're dealing with a book that is so full of knowledge. It explains so much about how human beings are. What their makeup is. It's got some, it's got true science in it. It's got physiology in it. It's got psychology in it. It's got all kinds. It's got nutrition statements.

It's got obviously more than replete spiritual statements. But my point is, it's brimming with knowledge. God's knowledge. And what is God's Truth and His Word other than the knowledge that's true and essential for us to have a life beyond this life? 2 Timothy 3. 2 Timothy 3. Verses 15-17. 2 Timothy 3. Verses 15-17. Paul, in writing to Timothy, says that from a child, Timothy, you have known the Holy Scriptures. Now, it's interesting that when Timothy was a child, the only Holy Scriptures that were available that they had at that point in time was the Old Testament. So, this is a statement also of the validity, the veracity, the enduring quality of that which too many say has been done away with.

It's a statement of validity regarding the Old Testament. And the New Scripture, the New Testament, as time is rolling along, is already being added to that. But it wasn't there when Timothy was a child growing up. It was the Old Testament. So, that was Scripture plus more Scriptures being added through the Apostles and the writers like Luke, for instance. That from a child, you have known the Holy Scriptures and what lies as a potential and a possibility within them which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

And he says, all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and it's profitable. It's good for what? For doctrine? For reproof? For correction? For instruction in righteousness? For knowing the right thing to do? In human relationships? In your relationship with God? That the man of God or the woman of God may be perfect or it means complete or it means mature, thoroughly furnished or equipped unto all good works. And when Peter knew that his days were numbered and he knew he didn't have much time left and he wrote the little books of 1 and 2 Peter, he closed out the second book during 2 Peter 3.18.

Remember what he said in 2 Peter 3 and verse 18? He closed out, he says, grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ. It's not just the knowledge about Jesus Christ, it's the knowledge that Jesus Christ owns and has and that He's full of. The knowledge of Him and the knowledge He possesses, the knowledge that He's inspired, that He and the Father have, they're inspired to be written in the Bible. But the main point I want to make is that Peter signed off, admonishing them with the one thing of growing but growing in the grace and knowledge.

Don't quit growing in your knowledge of God's truth, God's Word. Continue to increase in knowledge. And yet, as with only two legs or sides, you still can't make a triangle. There's no way, because a crucial leg is still missing. So the same is with attitude and knowledge, something absolutely crucial is still missing. So that brings us to the third, final and completing leg of the triangle of life.

Now, you've got attitude, you've got a state of mind that's very receptive to God, that's very yielded to God, that's very open to God. And it's a window through which God can bring his light, his truth, his knowledge. And God wants you to do with that knowledge, doesn't he? He wants you to live it. He wants you to practice it. He wants you to put it into operation in your life.

What, in a sense, do you need to move you to apply it in living practice in your life? You have to be... it starts with an M. You have to have... I heard it somewhere. Motivation. You've got to be motivated. You know, you could actually have a mindset, an attitude produced in which you could receive knowledge, but what will determine how much or how well you even pursue the knowledge, not to mention how much you use what you're given or just tend to sit on it, comes very heavily down on that leg of motivation.

Motivation. Now, let's do something very basic when it comes to motivation. I'm just going to reference you to 1 Corinthians 13. 1 Corinthians 13. You've got some verses there in 1 Corinthians 13 that define love. Now, the word love is agape. It's godly love. And if we start... it gives a definition, and we use this in our marriage ceremonies. What is love? Well, in the most basic, fundamental definition of love, you've heard us say it's outgoing concern for others.

Yes, that's true. But also, as the most fundamental basic definition, you can say it's the motivating force of God. It's the motivating force of God. It's what bubbles up in him. It's what he vibrates with. It's what just moves him, compels him, pushes him, drives him. See, when John... and we're well familiar with the Scripture in 1 John 4, verses 8 and 16. I won't turn there. But in 1 John 4, verses 8 and 16, when John was inspired to pick one word that would most sum up God, he picked agape, which is translated love.

Total, pure, 100% outgoing concern for the well-being and welfare of others to the point that you will sacrifice in order to help their well-being and welfare. It's what moves him. It's what powers him. It's what drives him. If you turn with me back to John 3 this time, we just came through the season of Passover and Unleavened Bread.

And we read this more than once. John 3, verse 16, for God so agape'd the world. God had such an outgoing concern for the well-being and the welfare of humanity because he wanted them not to be stuck in death. He wanted them to have an opportunity for eternal life. And, of course, through his plan and the steps and stages of it, that's exactly what he is providing for them.

And there had to be a way of opportunity which has to come through a sacrifice which has been provided. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. That love is what motivated the Father and motivated the Son, drove them, compelled them, moved them, so that the effect is today we have a sacrifice that sits at the right hand of God. And we have hope. We have life to look forward to as long as we continue faithfully before God. You know, when I read the statement of Christ in John 4, verse 34, to me it speaks to what a forceful, motivating drive there was in him.

John 4, verse 34, Jesus said to them, think about this statement. And again, this is there with the Samaritan woman, the Samaritans, and it's time to eat, and they're hungry, and I'm sure that Christ was physically hungry also, but he used it as an opportunity to make a point. He said to them, my meat, my bread, my sustenance, what feeds me, what nourishes me, what drives me, what moves me, what energizes me, is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.

He's speaking of motivation. Motivation is the urge, compulsion to move on the things you know. It's the desire and need to maintain. It's that pressure to move, to act on, to use, to apply, to go forward. It's the power that propels you. And when that leg is laid in place, then the triangle of life is complete. And it's interesting that just as with the triangle where each and every leg supports and relates to the other two, so it is with this. When you take attitude, knowledge, motivation, obviously they're interrelated, they mutually support, they mutually strengthen each other.

You can't weaken one of those legs without it beginning to have a weakening effect on the other two. You can't start losing true knowledge and it not affect attitude and motivation. You cannot start losing motivation and it not affect knowledge and attitude. And you absolutely cannot begin to lose a proper attitude and it not affect drastically knowledge and motivation. You've got attitude, window into the mind, the deep fiber, knowledge, nourished and fed with such, and motivation, moving on it, accomplishing, using.

So crucial. That's the triangle of life. I didn't design it. God did. He designed and ordered it. This is the triangle of life that has to be maintained. Again, bear something in mind that's crucial about a triangle. Remove one leg. You no longer have a triangle. Remove one leg from the triangle of life and it's no longer a triangle of life. It now has become what remains is a death.

I think we've all probably heard the saying, when the attitude goes, so does everything else. When the attitude goes, everything else follows suit. I'll turn to Titus 1, verses 15 and 16 because this is a scripture that speaks to that reality. Titus, because Paul saw it, saw it happen in his day and he's warning Titus about it. Again, we have that saying that when the attitude goes, everything else follows suit. He talks about, in verse 15 here, Titus 1, he says, "...until the pure, all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled." He talks about a progression of events, kind of like a chronology, how they profess they know God, but in works and what they live and do, they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient.

He's expressing how, that in that process, there are cases where a person descends into the kind of debauchery, into every good work reprobate. So, a bad attitude has the power to spoil everything. And again, if the knowledge that we have, if we begin to lose what we have and go back into a spiritual type of ignorance, it has the power to destroy. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

And I've seen some of God's people be destroyed for lack of knowledge, and it's very sad. As was said one time here in a sermonette, something of this effect, never give up what you do know, and I may not be wording exactly like it was worded, but the essence is, never give up what you do know because of what you don't know.

I don't have every, every, every single question in my mind totally answered on every single thing I could think of. But I do know what I do know, and I refuse to give up what I do know over or because of something I don't yet know. And denial and rejection feeds ignorance and brings destruction and death. With the third-leg motivation, when the godly motivation of love and zeal is lost, the life truly does help a way.

Two Scriptures I want to turn to in closing. The first one is Revelation 2. At the end of that first century, that first era of the church and the message to the church of God, John was told to write this. You find that message to Ephesus beginning in verse 1 of Revelation 2. But you come down to verse 4 and notice what God says, I have against you.

There was a problem in the church of God, a major problem at the end of that century. Nevertheless, I have somewhat against you because you have left your first agape. In other words, you have lost your motivation sufficiently that it is a problem. Because one of the most outstanding things about the church in those early years and early decades was their absolutely sacrificial love for each other and how they put out to help each other.

But that motivation that moved them, they had lost. They either lost enough of it or enough of them had lost it that it had become a major church problem. The second Scripture is Daniel 7 in verse 25 because I couple this with what I just read in Revelation 2 because though Revelation 2 speaks of something that we're not immune to, even though it was referencing the early church, we're not immune to it either. It's been a problem down through the ages. But in our day and time, as the age moves closer and closer to its wrap-up, there is something that's going to be pounded upon us more and more by the unseen spirit of this world that hates that triangular configuration of life.

Daniel 7 in verse 25, and just breaking into it into the context, but it's a prophecy, but it also addresses a current as well and ongoing reality, He shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall, and notice this phrase here, we've pointed this out before, wear out the saints of the Most High.

Wear out the saints of the Most High. A loss of love, when you put those two scriptures together, a loss of love, a loss of zeal, burned out, worn out. Do you know anybody among the people of God that are simply wearing out, burning out? You probably do. Pray for them, encourage them, try to help them to see, out of true love and concern in a loving, tender-loving way, what's happening to them.

As long as you maintain the triangle of life, you will have life. God's life will live in you, and in due time, you will be eternal forever with God the Father and Jesus Christ in their family and with each other.