The Evils of Inpatience
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What is patience?
Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible Patience
Patience. Ability to take a great deal of punishment from evil people or circumstances without losing one’s temper, without becoming irritated and angry, or without taking vengeance. It includes the capacity to bear pain or trials without complaint, the ability to forbear under severe provocation, and the self-control which keeps one from acting rashly even though suffering opposition or adversity.
Ability to take punishment without losing your temper, getting irritated, angry or taking vengeance.
Ability to bear pain without complaining
Self control through opposition, difficulty or hardship
Who here struggles with being patient?
We all do.
Why?
Title for today is the evils of impatience.
Lets imagine for a moment the most impatient person that could possibly exist.
Q: What other kind of traits would that person possess?
How would they act in a restaurant with a server?
How would they act while being in traffic?
Would you want to be friends with this person?
What would it be like to be married to this kind of person?
What would you like this person to be your parent?
Q: Why not?
Most impatient people
Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
Sterling Archer (Archer)
Eric Cartman (South Park)
Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Most Patient people
General Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption)
Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
Q: What do you notice generally about the people in the Impatient list compared to the patient list?
Notice that good guys generally have patience and bad guys are impatient.
Why is that?
Even unbelievers know that patience is good and impatience is bad. If thats the case then why have we become such an impatient society?
Impatience is the opposite of patience, qualities would be opposite.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
Patience is part of being loving and we know that love is the greatest commandment
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
If being patient is loving then what would it be considered if we are impatient?
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Lets look at a biblical story about impatience. This is where the prophet Samuel is speaking to Saul as he is anointing Saul as the new King
Then go down before me to Gilgal. And behold, I am coming down to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.”
Saul goes down to a place called Gilgal
There is a battle between the Israelites and the Philistines
Israelites are losing
Saul feels rushed to go over there and help but he is waiting for Samuel
He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him. So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering. As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.
Right here, what happened?
Saul waited, hes thinking about the other men, them losing etc.
This offering would bring him God’s blessing to win the battle.
Choses to do it his way instead.
Q: Is this a big deal?
What do you think? Why?
Lets see if it is a big deal.
Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash, I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the Lord.’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.” And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”
What happened?
Saul was impatient, he did not trust the Lord and acted himself.
This cost him God’s blessing.
Do you know who God blessed instead to be King over Israel?
David and we will see what faithful patience and waiting on God looks like next week.
What is at the core of impatience?
The impatience person wants everything right now, they believe they deserve or are entitled to it.
Often
In 1 Samuel 16 we see that David is anointed King.
That does not mean that he is King right await. He gets