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There was this call Herbert who was so very slow because a lot of traffic but her but always vote below.

You should talk to her when you get to work.

Word for you.

When Herbert was much younger he often got in trouble for getting that he was a snail, he did things on the double, keep crash to every spider.

I kill one day her birth father.

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As you can.

Well, imagine there's some of you may find yourself.

Think about this title song and take a patient at patient.

Don't be in such a hurry when you get impatient.

How many you remember that song?

The rest of you will not forget it.

Now it just gets in your head and it starts rotating at the weirdest times usually out.

And I got to tell you this be I don't I can't remember the last time I was late to church but it was today.

I don't really I get excited.

When my my message.

Preach three times already and I just have to tie it together to show you how it all fits together and I'm just ready.

And you guys are busy having cupcakes and talking to each other over there.

And and and and oh I got to tell you.

This is the best one.

Yet I have a new job.

I I got I got hired on as the Director of operations for western Canada for Marketplace care Canada which means it's the same company I've been with and I get to do some administration at it.

Basically, I get to connect with the encourage the encouragers and stay connected to the companies that were working at and I can't wait to get started, but Home office down in Texas, created a computer for me and got it all set up and I lost access to everything on my own computer until this new computer gums.

And it's coming Friday and Friday is my busiest day all week.

I don't know.

Either.

It's just it's one of those things that just kind of like

You have to smile God sometimes because I know God is laughing up in heaven because he will not allow me to teach on anything that I haven't.

Currently relearn.

You know, I can't take Mana from yesterday and serve it to you today.

It's got to be fresh today.

and, What?

I think I have to share is something that I've had to be learning.

And relearning.

Because I think we have patience wrong.

We'll get to that in a second.

We the scripture tells us to be patient to each other.

Fusions 4123 says, therefore I a prisoner for serving the lord beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling for you have been called by God.

Always be humble, and gentle, be patient with each other making allowances for each other's faults because of your love.

Make every effort to keep yourself United in the spirit finding yourself together with peace.

Can I pray?

Heavenly father, I thank you.

That you are at work with us and you are going to finish the good work.

You started in US.

And Lord give us the confidence today to know that proof that you will finish the good work.

You started in US.

And Lord, let give that revelation, we need to know that we can ask that same hoop on the others and be confident that you Lord are going to finish the work.

You started in that and you are going to work well.

In your name we pray.

Amen.

So, scripture tells us that we should be patient with one.

Another also tells us that we should be patient in trouble, Romans 12:1, I don't know.

Where is that 12:10?

11:50 does love each other.

With genuine affection, take the light in honoring each other.

Never be lazy.

But work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically rejoice in our confidential patient in trouble and keep on praying.

We need to be patient when we have trouble, we know that God is patient with us 2nd.

Peter 39 says, The Lord isn't really slow about his promise is something that no he's being patient for your sake.

He doesn't want anyone to be destroyed.

He wants everyone to repent.

And we know the patience isn't something or we should know patience.

Is it something that we can just do it ourselves with ourselves?

It's not just simply a choice for us to make Colossians 3. Colossians 1:10 to 12 Where is 1:10 to 12?

The way you live.

Then the way you live, with always, honored and pleased the Lord, and your lies will produce every kind of good fruit.

All the while you will grow to learn to know, God better and better, we pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so that you will have endurance and patience you need.

You will have all the endurance and patience you need me.

He may you be filled with joy always thanking the father.

Always thinking father he is an able to share the inheritance that belongs to his people who live in liked.

Now.

We may think we know everything we need to know about patients.

We learned that song when we were a kid.

We made.

Think we know everything about having patience.

And that's really the problem that we face right here.

The problem with patience is that.

We don't have a Christian or biblical view of patience.

Most of us have a stoic view of patients.

Let me explain Have you ever heard the joke?

And I know I've told this joke, you never pray for patience because God's going to make you wait

that's not Christian, that stoicism it's not a Christian attitude.

Okay, stoicism was the school of helles.

The Hellenistic philosophy that started in the third Century BC by Xeno he started a school in Athens and it fry for 36 years until the third Century, a deep and Marcus.

Aurelius was emperor of Rome.

He was a stoic and it it.

What happened was, when Christianity became the state religion, stoicism was kind of absorbed by it.

A lot of things.

Christian writers were writing really appeared filled the stoics, you know, treat all hardship as discipline.

You know, the testing of your faith produces endurance.

I have run the race, I have finished.

The course, these kind of statements would appeal to the store scism in and Christianity.

Basically, co-opted it was his immune to it.

But there's a difference between Christian thought and stomach fat.

And as I've been studying stoicism, there are some drastic differences that have infiltrated.

The church.

One of them is the word patience in the understanding of patience.

We're still Alex, patience is a fundamental virtue one that arises from yet.

Also sustains the reason Detachment crucial to stoic ethics, basically it's a shut up and suck it up and Buttercup attitude.

Suck it up, buttercup.