Fruit of the Spirit: Patience
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We have been going through the Fruits of the Spirit
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
We talked about Love. We talked about joy. We talked about peace.
We talked about joy
We talked about a few things about the fruit.
We talked about peace
It is contrary to what the flesh produces.
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But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Gal 5:
The fruit of the Spirit can not be picked and obtained it must grow from within you as a result of being filled with the Spirit.
Producing the fruit listed here is a real miracle and while they may not draw the same excitement as walking on the water, healing the sick and the lame, raising the dead, they are way more powerful.
Today we are going to talk about patience.
Today we are going to talk about patience.
New England preacher Phillip Brooks was known for his calmness and poise. His intimate friends, however knew that he, too, suffered moments of frustration and irritability. One day a friend saw him pacing the floor like a caged lion. “What is the trouble Dr. Brooks?” asked the friend. “The trouble is replied Brooks, “that I’m in a hurry, but God isn’t.”
What is biblical patience?
What does it look like?
How can we get it?
Biblical Patience?
Biblical Patience?
Marshmallow Experiment.
Marshmallow Experiment.
Definitions
Definitions
Google: the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
Mirriam Webster: the ability to remain calm when dealing with a difficult or annoying situation, task, or person
Greek: macrothymia - longsuffering. --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.
But it’s Fruit.
But it’s Fruit.
Fruit is intended to look good. It is supposed to be sweet and appealing to the eye.
Those definitions do not seem fun at all.
One person wrote, “To have the quality of long-suffering requires you to be long-bothered.”
But if patience is supposed to be be sweet and appealing to the eye, if it is supposed to be something that the world would look at and desire it as a thing that benefits us so much that they want to make it a part of their life, it has to be more than just grinning and bearing the atrocities that happen to us.
Two frogs fell into a tub of cream. One looked at the high sides of the tub which were too difficult to crawl over and said, “It is hopeless.” So he resigned himself to death, relaxed, and sank to the bottom. The other one determined to keep swimming as long as he could. “Something might happen,” he said. He kept kicking and churning, and finally he found himself on a solid platform of butter and jumped to safety.
Two frogs fell into a tub of cream. One looked at the high sides of the tub which were too difficult to crawl over and said, “It is hopeless.” So he resigned himself to death, relaxed, and sank to the bottom. The other one determined to keep swimming as long as he could. “Something might happen,” he said. He kept kicking and churning, and finally he found himself on a solid platform of butter and jumped to safety.
It should be clear that this kind of patience is not merely passive resignation. It is not the patience which sits down with its head bowed and lets things descend upon it, inactive until the storm is past. Rather, it is the spirit that can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope.
It should be clear that this kind of patience is not merely passive resignation. It is not the patience which sits down with its head bowed and lets things descend upon it, inactive until the storm is past. Rather, it is the spirit that can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope.
This patience comes from the fact that we know that in the end God is in control and we win with Him.
So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, And his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
the enemy comes — stuff happens and we suffer
in the end, the Lord comes in like a flood.
Here’s the standard - God always wins and we win with him.
when we understand that, in the middle of persistent trouble we have persistent hope that keeps us in the battle without acting according to the flesh.
What Patience looks like.
What Patience looks like.
Our World.
Our World.
Necessity is not the mother of invention - laziness is.
Our world is always seeking ways to make thing happen easier and faster and we disguise it by calling it efficient.
Fast food, Fast internet, faster cars.... I had a college professor that refused to go to McDonald’s because it ruined the food industry - of course he wanted food fast and now so he would go to other fast food places - just not McDonald’s.
Fast does not always mean better, it only means faster.
Anything that is worth having is worth waiting for.
Caramelized onions, roasted garlic.
God’s calling in your life. (and mine)
Sometimes that thing that you are suffering under is the very opportunity to receive the glorious thing God is intending for us.
Examples Patience.
Examples Patience.
And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
2 Pe 3:
And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
2 Pe 3:
How to get patience.
How to get patience.
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Ga 5:
If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Ga 5:
Phil 4:
There is a Fake it til you make it component.
There is a Fake it til you make it component.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
rp 12
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
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Mt 16:18-
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
This is the greatest benefit and warning. Can I tell you that this verse is not about talking to the Devil? It’s not about binding sickness or things that cause trouble.... It’s way bigger.
Jesus is telling Peter that the church rises and falls on walking in step with the Spirit and pointing to the fact that Jesus is the Son of God…
Here’s how that works...
In your flesh you will not walk in the Fruits of Love joy, peace, patience.
Instead you are bound by hatred, depression and discouragement, chaos, impatience and frustration… you are bound. Get loosed by walking in the Spirit.
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Watch this, if you lash out in hatred, depression and discouragement, chaos, impatience and frustration, you not only bind yourself, but you bind them.
Instead of being a demonstration of what God does in a persons life, you tie them up.
People will do bad things either through intention or ignorance. You get to determine how to respond. If you respond with impatience (whether they may deserve) you bind them. If you respond with patience, you open a door for them to turn to Him. You loose blessings in heaven.
To be patient is to be someone who can bear with or put up with others.
To have the quality of long-suffering requires you to be long-bothered.
That is the par that we do not wish to learn; in fact, this is what we spend a great effort to avoid.
While we want to teach others and see them learn, share the gospel and see it embraced, and help others who eagerly accept and apply our good advice, we oftentimes grow impatient when they do not.
A patient person remembers how patient God was with us before we were saved and continues to be now where we are.
What does patience look like in the life, personality, and ministry of a pastor?
As pastors, we should strive to be gentle, kind and encouraging.
This is what we must exhort the students we are teaching to model.
We are to represent Christ, and while we must be impatient with willful sin, we must be patient with every effort and heartbreaking failure to leave it behind.