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Announcements: Bible Study, Women’s Meeting After Service
Prayer
How many of you know what this is all about?
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We all know what it’s like to - WAIT......and WAIT.......and WAIT
This is actually EXACTLY what it’s like for me when I go to my doctor’s office…*
And so know this - IF anyone in here needs to HEAR this message today - IT’S ME!!
and the reason is because - I don’t like to wait!
According to Scripture, “PATIENCE” is a fruit of the Spirit...
which means it’s something that is SUPERNATURAL...
the kind of PATIENCE that we’re talking about here, is the kind of PATIENCE that can handle the most difficult of situations… or circumstance
So let’s look at this fruit of the Spirit.
And seeing that it is a fruit that the Spirit Himself possesses, and so....
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let’s look at the Patience Under God…His Patience Toward Us
The Patience of God
Patience Under God
Exodus
We read this passage and maybe it’s lost on us that this is actually the 2nd time that Moses had met God on the mountain to make a covenant with the people of Israel.
And this is actually AMAZING…why?
Because when we look at the WHOLE picture....we see the sheer PATIENCE God has with His people...
These people were UNBELIEVING at the Red Sea...
They GRUMBLED and MURMURED in the wilderness...
AND NOW - they come to Mt. Sinai, and God makes a covenant with them...
It went like this: SLIDE
"If you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine, and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation"
But what happened…?
Before Moses could even get back to the people to proclaim to them this COVENANT...
they construct for themselves…an idol - a golden cow (worship)
And so NOW - in , we see Moses going back up the mountain to receive another chance....
What does God say in verse 6?
The God we serve is a MERCIFUL God...
Fast-forward through Scripture and what we continue to see is...
The people of God continually falling away - going off to serve OTHER things...
And YET - He is merciful....and patient with us!
Have you felt God’s PATIENCE with you this week?
MEANING - how many of us have NEGLECTED to pursue Him this week?
neglected to SEE Him in the moments of our days…?
How many of us - LIKE the israelites…have worshipped the idols that we create?
If so - He has been PATIENT with you…merciful to you...
Which HOPEFULLY would lead us to change ourselves!
Slide: Patience Under God - Our Patience Toward Him
Patience Under God
One of the hardest things to do as a Christian is this - WAIT on the Lord...
We know that we’re called to WAIT on the Lord...
We’ve heard of the need to DO THIS...
We’ve read the verses...
WAIT on the Lord - this says -
But isn’t PATIENCE an interesting thing...
It seems that our PATIENCE is very closely tied with - OUR EXPECTATIONS!
When you go to Cedar Point, in the middle of the summer - you EXPECT to - WAIT in lines...
and so you seem to have - PATIENCE...
What happens when you go thru the DRIVE THRU and Arby’s…and it takes them 10 minutes to get your food to you…??
Patient?
NO - why? Expectations!
We go thru the DRIVE thru because we want to - HURRY
It’s CALLED - Fast Food!
NOW- how do you think the apostle Paul handled this?
Here you have Paul, Silas and Timothy, wanting to preach the Gospel to those in Asia, and the Holy Spirit wouldn’t allow them...
Anyone ever WANTED to DO something for the cause of Christ...
…only to find that God closes the DOOR??
Is that FRUSTRATING??!!
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And it’s in these times that we have to KEEP from getting frustrated...
and instead to just TRUST that God knows better and He has a plan!
It makes me think of Jim Elliot..
the missionary to the Auca Indians in Ecuador...
Think about his story...
he finally makes contact with the tribe...
and yet before any real work gets done…the tribe kills Jim and his 4 companions...
They never got to see the fruit of their labor...
Many, if not most all of the members of that tribe ended up coming to know the Lord...
thru the work of Jim’s wife Elizabeth Elliot...
And isn’t that often the case...
We strive, and press on to advance the kingdom of God, and yet it seemingly is FRUITLESS....
When all along, God’s plan is being played out...
REMEMBER:
SLIDE: God Wants Faithfulness: Leave the Fruit to Him
God Wants Faithfulness
Think about it - “Converts is NOT a fruit of the spirit - but faithfulness is”
And we see prime examples of this in
Over and over again - we see those who REMAINED faithful…PATIENT with the Lord!
Joseph waited 13 years...
Abraham waited 25 years...
Moses waited 40 years...
Jesus waited 30 years...
And so DON’T THINK IT STRANGE if you find God making you wait...
He wants to MOLD you into the person He wants you to be...
God wants to see if you will continue to TRUST Him while you wait...
And so just like in the case of Joseph, Abraham, Moses and many others...
we see this...
SLIDE: Patience Under God: The Language of Hope
Patience Under God
With these verses hanging overhead, let’s think back to the story of Joseph!
It starts with Joseph being obedient to his father…out pasturing the flock with his brothers...
He tells them his dream, they don’t like it...
They begin to hate him...
He goes out later looking for them, again, being obedient to his father...
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