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Our State of Theology – 9i(8)e2
Galatians 5:22-23: Fruit of the Holy Spirit, Longsuffering & Patience
Galatians 5:22–23 (NKJV)
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23gentleness, self-control.
Against such there is no law.
Fruit (karpos) in Galatians 5:22 is singular, not plural, so true believers will manifest all these elements simultaneously.
There are no true virtues and good affections without the grace of regeneration.
Longsuffering = μακροθυμία makrothumia = state of being able to bear up under provocation, forbearance, patience toward others; of human beings.
Slowness of avenging injuries, long-suffering, forbearance, clemency.
Makrothumia = To be long–suffering.
Forbearance, long–suffering, self–restraint before proceeding to action.
The quality of a person who is able to avenge himself yet refrains from doing.
Makrothumía is patience in respect to persons while hupomonḗ (5281), endurance, is putting up with things or circumstances.
Both words are often found together.
Makrothumia (μακροθυμια) is patience exhibited under ill-treatment by persons.
Hupomonē (ὑπομονη) is patience shown under trials, difficulties, hardships.
Makrothumia is a noun formed from the two words makros (3089), “long,” and thumos (2349), “heart, mind” (in the sense of “spirit, feelings, disposition”).
Patience comes from the fruit of the Holy Spirit, not from the fruit of a holy Christian.
“The standing of the believer in Christ is here in view, not his Christian character.
The Father qualified believers to partake of the inheritance of the saints by placing them in Christ,…” - Kenneth S. Wuest
Galatians 4:1–7 (NIV84)
1What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate.
2He is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father.
3So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the basic principles of the world.
4But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law,
5to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.
6Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”
7So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.
The time set by his father.
The time had fully come.
What does the Scriptures say regarding our exercise of patience to God relating to His timing?
What do the Scriptures say about God exercising His patience towards us?
William Perkins: “This must teach us, when by prayer we ask any good thing at God’s hand, not to prescribe any time unto God, but to leave it to his providence.
Again, if thou live in any misery, wait on the Lord, and be content.
For that is the fit and best time of thy deliverance, which God hath appointed.”
We trust God’s timing—God’s providence—for the best time for answers to our prayers.
If God chose the best timing for sending Jesus, how much more will God choose the best timing to answer our prayers.
In the midst of our waiting—even our “misery”—we trust God and remain content.
This waiting is the work of patience.
Psalm 18:30 (NIV84)
30As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is flawless.
He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.
The first thing we need to understand about God’s timing is that it is perfect, just as all of God’s ways are perfect.
God’s timing is never early and it’s never been late.
From before our birth until the moment we take our last earthly breath, our sovereign God is accomplishing His divine purposes.
He is in complete control of everything and everyone from everlasting to everlasting.
No event in history has put so much as a wrinkle in the timing of God’s eternal plan which He designed before the foundation of the world.
Psalm 37:1–11 (NIV84)
1Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong;
2for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.
3Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
4Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this:
6He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
7Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.
Wait patiently = יָחַל yāḥal = to look forward to the occurrence of or arrival of.
Arrival of what?
God’s intervention.
This term was chosen to underline the likely feelings of discomfort and anguish while they waited for God to act in his, rather than their, time.
8Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil.
9For evil men will be cut off, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.
10A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
11But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy great peace.
Patience includes not fretting, trusting in the Lord while doing good, refraining from anger, and turning from wrath.
Colossians 3:12–13 (ESV)
12Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience (makrothumia),
13bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Patience, makrothumia, is patience exhibited under ill-treatment of persons.
How is this patience exhibited or expressed?
Bearing with one another, if one has a complaint against another, forgive each other just like the Lord forgave you.
Job 3:1ff (NIV84)
1After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Job had lost patience with God and cursed the day of his birth.
The book of Job reveals a suffering inflicted on what Scripture call a righteous man, but it gives no explanation as to the reason.
Instead, it brings home this truth: we cannot grasp and understand why a loving God lets troubles come upon his own.
Job’s impatience with God was expressed through his self-righteousness.
Self-righteousness led him to challenge God: Show me the justice of the afflictions you have brought on me! (Job 7:11-21, 12:4, 27:6, 29:14)
The Lord showed him nothing of the kind.
He simply gave him overwhelming proof that he is the All-Wise and the All-Powerful.
(chapters 38–41)
And so he brought Job to the realization that God owed him no accounting for His acts, and that Job had been presumptuous and arrogant in demanding an answer to the question:
Why do you make me suffer?
or, to be more exact: Why do you bring so much greater suffering on me than on others of your own?
Job’s three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, spoke wrongly about God and Job.
Job 19:5–6, 11 (NIV84)
5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
6then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.
11His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.
Job was becoming more and more impatient.
Rashly he accused God of injustice.
He said, “Then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me” (19:6) and, “His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies” (19:11).
Job’s fourth friend, Elihu, speaks correctly for God.
(Job 32-37)
Here are some of the truths that he spoke:
Job had no right to complain because God did not give him an accounting for his doings.
(33:13; 34:29)
God chastens his own, often severely, in order to rescue them from spiritual danger (“the pit”).
(33:22, 24, 30)
God never acts wickedly, never overturns justice.
(34:10)
In finding fault with God’s chastisement, the believer speaks like a fool and becomes guilty of rebellion.
(34:35, 37)
The believer must commit his cause to God and patiently wait for him.
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