BFBC-Glendive | Sunday
The Team of Patience
James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall
into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your
faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its
perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete,
lacking nothing.
● This verse talks of faith and patience being mixed
together. The end result of developing these two
being: perfect, complete, & no lack
● Mark 4:16 These likewise are the ones sown on
stony ground who, when they hear the word,
immediately receive it with gladness; 17 and they
have no root in themselves, and so endure only
for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or
persecution arises for the word’s sake,
immediately they stumble.
● Your faith will only take you as far as your
patience.
● If you quit believing you get the same result as if
you never believed in the first place.
● What you get by being impatient you cannot keep,
what you get by being patient you cannot lose.
○ Ishmael & Isaac
○ You may get what you want, but you may not
want what you get.
The Force of Patience
Heb 6:11 And we desire that each one of you show the
same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the
end, 12 that you do not become sluggish, but imitate
those who through faith and patience inherit the
promises.
● This portion of scripture talks of a force of
patience...not a passive endurance.
● Patience is diligent, not sluggish.
● Patience doesn’t just weather the storm...it swims
to shore.
● Patience seeks the Word, holds fast to the Word,
and it continues to do the Word.
The Availability of Patience
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23
gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
● The fruit are the very attributes of God deposited
in the heart of the believer when that same Spirit
that raised Christ from the dead dwells on the
inside of you.
● Patience is in you...it may need to be “exercised”
● Fruit needs to be developed...we are to bear fruit.
Patience is powerful, it is productive, and it is in you.