Sermon Tone Analysis

Patience

Don’t we all have room to grow when it comes to patience?

Do you struggle with patience to endure in difficult times or situations?

Tonight we have the writers tools to help us to be patiently patient.

Patiently Patient:

In times of trials or testing (Jm1:2-4)

In times of fiery trials (1Pt4:12-13)

In times of oppression (Jm5:1-6)

In our passage last week we see the victims of the oppressors crying out; we see God’s rebuke through James to the oppressors and and now tonight we see the application for the victims, the oppressed on what to do, and not do.

Maybe should give at least one passage from above

May we not only learn some tools for patient but apply them too as we wait for the return of our Lord.

The early church lived with the belief that the return of the Lord was imminent and immediate, they expected him any day now.

We as Christians need to live with the same belief and hope they did, so we need patience until He comes.

Be Patient

Patience needed, and patience is displayed so we can learn and apply.

Patient, maybe better give definition first.

Patience (noun): the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.

Patience is bearing on good soil (Lk8:15)

It comes with perseverance

It comes from good seed (word of God); we need to put it in us for we also know.

Tribulations brings about perseverance (Rom5:3)

Tribulations to perseverance, perseverance to character, character to hope and hope, well, hope does not disappoint!

Our hope is Jesus according to 1Tim1:1

Perseverance because of our hope (Rom8:20-25)

You can find more on perseverance, hope and patience (Rom15:4-6)

The farmer is our example who has to wait for the precious produce, he has hope for his crop.

(Jm5:7)

Application: be patient and strengthen your heart (Jm5:8)

Strengthened in power by Holy Spirit (Eph3:16)

Strengthened by His spirit in the inner man; this comes from the riches of His glory!

Strengthened by Jesus (Php4:13)

For we can do all things, and that would include being patient, through Christ Jesus who strengthens us.

Strengthened through prayer (Col1:9-12)

Turn to Col1:10-12 in your bible James, read from there eventhough it is on the screen

Strengthened when we remember our blessed hope (Tit2:11-13)

Though being patient maybe hard, in lieu of the Lord coming back, we have hope and we have strength when we ask for it, we need that strength in our hearts until He returns and all hope is fulfilled.

So as we are being patient, may we not complain, even if being mistreated, abused or neglected, let us again remember our blessed hope.

Don’t Complain

Paul says “do all things without grumbling or disputing in Php2:14, James has the same attitude.

James reminds them that the prophets could not have accomplished what they did without patiently enduring, so don’t complain, endure!

Don’t complain against each other (Jm5:9; Jm4:11)

Isn’t it easy to complain?

Isn’t it easy to look to blame others or situations?

Don’t complain or blame against brothers, wait!

Complaining hinders our growth when it comes to patience and endurance.

Remember patience, endurance, perseverance is a grace that is developed according to (2Pt1:6)

The judge is standing at the door (Jm5:9)

Ready to give out justice, that is what the oppressed wanted anyways, so don’t complain

Live in readiness of His coming.

What is He going to find when He comes?

(scriptures referenced Lk18:8; Gal5:15; Jm4:1; 1Cor15:58; Php3:20)

Will He find faith (Lk18:8)?

When He returns to bring justice will He find faith?

May we be people of faith who patiently wait for the Lord, persevering until the end.

Will He find people fighting, bickering, devouring (Gal5:15; Jm4:1)

Even within the body people can bite and devour one another, can quarrel with one another too.

Again, in this area when we look with anticipation of the Lord’s return the things, in general, we quarrel about have no eternal value, so why quarrel?

Will He find us serving (1Cor15:58)

Serving while we wait to go from the perishable to the imperishable

Where we go from putting away mortality to put on immortality

Where death is swallowed up in victory!

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Will He find us looking, longing, waiting for Him (Php3:20)

Our citizenship is in heaven, so may we patiently wait, may we lovingly endure with perseverance until the end.

From the instruction to the example (Jm5:10-11)

Who doesn’t like good examples, good bible examples at that.

The bible is full of examples of people who suffered, who endured, learning patience along the way too.

James turns to someone they would know, Job!

Suffering and patience, no one likes to suffer and we may face times when we feel like God has all but forgotten about us, do not feel his presence, Job felt like that, his patience was not a passive sit with hands in his lap waiting calmly.

Job’s patience was the Greek word “hupomone” -

hupomonē

1) steadfastness, constancy, endurance; 1a) in the NT the characteristic of a man who is not swerved from his deliberate purpose and his loyalty to faith and piety by even the greatest trials and sufferings; 1b) patiently, and steadfastly

This is not a passive waiting, it is deliberate, it is purposeful, it is loyal.

That in the midst of suffering still waits for the Lord.

One who lives in readiness, who is is prepared, looking, longing, waiting and even willing to suffer to endure and to persevere until the Lord comes.

I don’ think there is a better example of patiently enduring than Job.

The same God, Lord who showed mercy to Job; who showed compassion to Job in the end, is the same Lord to us, by faith, so don’t complain.

and that leads to the next tool found in the passage.

Don’t compromise

In a world where compromise is the norm, even within the church you are seeing it, James settles it about let your words be true and do not compromise.

Above all: means drawing to a close, summing up all things

Don’t misuse riches

Be patient until the Lord comes

The judge is standing at the door for judgment so

Don’t complain

Follow the examples of the prophets like Job

For you are blessed when you endure

Don’t use the Lords name in a rash oath made in the midst of suffering or persecution.

- Wait patiently for the Lord!

Don’t compromise your faith, persevere, endure, hold on and be patient for judgment is coming.

Be steadfast, unmoveable, unshakeable.

Let your word be true, your yes yes your no no.

In summary: Patience and endurance are to help you in the growing of your faith.

They take effort, sometimes they are not easy to deal with, we need to continue to look for our blessed hope, the return of our Lord and bear fruit consistence with perseverance in the midst of a wicked and cruel world.

Do this until the Day of the Lord.

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