Adding Patience: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:12 Thank you. In the seventh session we are going to take a look at how important it is to add patience to your self-control to your knowledge to your goodness and to faith patience being the ability to wait and relax. During provocation annoyance. Misfortune delays pain without getting angry and without getting irritated and responding back badly.

▶ 1:09 Patience is important in personal relationships. The first area we’re going to look at Romans 15:4. Whatever things were written beforehand were written for our learning that we through patience. That ability to wait and relax during provocation annoyances. Misfortune delays pain and without complaining and without losing our temper. And the comfort of the scriptures that they might have hope comfort is the relief from pain and worry and. The scriptures give us patience and comfort that we might have hope and he goes on to say now may the God of patience and comfort God is patient and God is a comforter grant you to be like-minded one toward another.

▶ 2:21 Hope is the confident expectation of success. Patience and comfort will bring us to a place where we have confident. Of expecting. Success in our life and remember he says God is a God of patience and comfort and he will grant to us to be like-minded one to another and so not only Christians need to be patient with one another and comfort one another but. Everyone in our neighborhood in our community and our marriage and our family we need to exercise patience and comfort humanists will not succeed in the end but those who follow scriptures will succeed because they have hope through patience.

▶ 3:21 We are to build a relationship with like-minded people and use patience use comfort and hope of the scriptures to persuade others to be like-minded like us. You see now the second area patience is necessary for bearing fruit in Luke 8:15 the seeds the scripture. That fell on the good ground are those who having number one.

▶ 4:02 Heard the word you got to hear the word so the words got to be preached and taught number two they hear the word with a noble and good heart see they’ve added goodness to their faith number three they not only hear the word with a noble and good heart but these people keep the word they follow the word they obey the word and then number four they bear fruit with patience and you’ve got to give yourself some time to bear fruit and I found that out as a young Christian that just because I got saved just because I got water baptized and just because I got filled with the Holy Ghost with speaking in tongue I hadn’t arrived I needed to bear this fruit and it took I had to be patient with myself and so we got to be patient with ourselves and we got to be patient with others especially in our family our neighborhood and our church for them to bear fruit so we need to be patient with others and yourself realizing it takes time and proper conditions to produce Bible fruit remember a plant has to have water oxygen fertilizer a good ground to bear fruit and time humanists and their followers cannot produce Bible fruit as

▶ 5:33 they reject Jesus. And his Bible morality. The Bible morality fruit comes from God and his word and so we want to be people that are fruit producing Christians and fruit producing citizens of America. And to do that we’ve got to accept Jesus and his Bible morality. Now the next area we’re going to get into we’re going to see that patience is necessary in persecution. Or rejection. By family members. Patience is very necessary in persecution it will come and rejection by family members it will happen in Luke chapter 21 verse 16.

▶ 6:36 You will be betrayed by parents. You will be betrayed by brothers. You will be betrayed by relatives and friends. And they will put some of you to death some of you okay not everybody but some will pay the price you will be hated by all for my name’s sake you who follow Bible morality and follow Christ are going to be hated not by your relatives but everybody else in the neighborhood isn’t going to like you. But not a hair of your head shall be lost except for some and by your patience possess your soul that ability to relax and wait during delays provocation.

▶ 7:31 And so forth patience possess your souls the word soul there is that spirit that living part of you that spirit inside you that lives forever. Humanism promotes the betraying of parents that follow scripture. And the public schools remember they took the [unclear] the public schools they’re going to teach you that your Bible believing parents are idiots. They’re ignorant and they’re going to come against the home and they they do not not only are they are coming against the home humanists and their followers hate the Bible. They hate Jesus and they hate their followers. But they twist hate to make it sound like Christians are the haters.

▶ 8:24 But in reality it’s the humanist and their followers the free thinkers the liberals the hedonists the atheists the religionists the environmentalists and the homosexual activists they hate the Bible because it exposes them they hate Jesus because he exposes them and they hate anybody that follows them. And then they turn it around and say we are haters. Because we stand for Bible morality and right living patience is important and choosing friends and people to follow or imitate. You know you got to be patient and not just run with anybody that comes along or anybody that wants to get acquainted with you you you got to choose friends and people to imitate and to follow very wisely and so you need to exercise patience until you find them and then Hebrews tells us what to look for all right.

▶ 9:35 Hebrews 6:12 do not become lazy. But imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises okay I add to my faith goodness I add to my faith and goodness knowledge I add to my faith and goodness and knowledge self-control. And then I add to them patience. And so patience is that ability to relax and wait until you find what you’re looking for and you want to find people that have inherited the promises. And we showed you and Peter here and this is the scripture we’re using that the promises are you add to your faith goodness knowledge self-control and patience and you need to find people that have some self-control you need to find people that have patience you need to find people that have knowledge you need to find people that are living good and follow them and imitate them.

▶ 10:44 And it takes patience because they’re hard to find. You know they just want to wear a button that says be patient with me God isn’t finished with me yet and they’re 30 years old in God it only takes three years in the Bible to be fruitful okay and so we can inherit the promises but we must exercise patience. Okay James tells us the faith without actions is dead and so we got to have active faith and find people that actually are possessing the promises of God and get around them and their nature will rub off on us and we will become. Inheritors of his promise.

▶ 11:36 We also need patience in times of testing it’s very vital that we have patience in times of testing. James 1, chapter 1 verse 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. The testing of your faith producing patience so every one of us are going to be tested tempted tried. Let patience have its perfect work patience works on us for our good to make us mature Christians to make us complete Christians that you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing. You lack none of these promises. Because God is faithful to add these promises to you especially if you build right relationships.

▶ 12:35 And you surround yourself with people that you can follow and you can imitate patience will do a work in you. It’s like the hands of the potter shaping you but you need to exercise patience remember Jesus was touched with the feelings and infirmities in all points he was tempted as we are yet without sin Hebrews 4:15. Jesus felt every lust every desire every. Desire to sin like we but except he didn’t sin. It’s not the temptation that is punishable sin that it’s not a punishable sin when you are tempted you have a desire to do wrong but the acting out of the temptation that’s.

▶ 13:30 When you deserve to be punished and corrected Jesus felt like sinning but never sinned it’s just because you feel like doing something wrong doesn’t mean you are wrong until you act it out don’t give in to desires you see be patient don’t give in to those desires be patient let those desires die. Those wrong desires humanists. Promote moral crimes. Encouraging people to violate Bible morality and accept moral crimes as acceptable lifestyle. The humanists and their followers that’s exactly what they’re doing. They are promoting. Lifestyles. That violate Bible morality.

▶ 14:37 Thank you. Thank you.