Things that help increase patience!
A. More love = more patience!
1. 1 Cor.13:4à Love is patience!
2. Ro.2:9à Love must be sincere. Hate what s evil; cling to what is good.
3. 1 Tim.1:5à The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart
good a good conscience and a sincere faith.
A heart that is free from corrupt desires.
A conscience, soul, that is free from disguised.
The soul awakened by what is pleasant.
A faith that is genuine.
The kind of love comes from human spirit, soul and healthy physical desires working together to produce!
4. Do you know how the world love its own?
a. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own… Jn.15:19
b. You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is
hatred toward God?
Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. James 4:4
5. Now I really know, why Hollywood describes their kind of love that way!
And I really know, why their kind of love produce so much divorces!
Now I know why James put it this way--> You adulterous people, don’t you
know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?
Yes, adulterous people flock together with adulterous people!
Adulterous people kind of love can’t produce patience!
6. A love which comes from a pure heart and a good
conscience and a sincere faith is patience!
***B. More faith = more patience!
1. The faith that is produced this way! 1 Peter 1:22-25
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that
you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable,
through the living and enduring word of God. For, "All men are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and
the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the
word that was preached to you.
a. Obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers.
b. Born again through the living and enduring word of God.
2. This is the formula: Sincere faith produce sincere love which is patience!
C. Stay in touch can increase patience too!
1. We are talking about person to person physically stay in touch!
Someone reminded me, if I want to keep the God given privilege to share the
gospel in China, I have to call the friends in China once a while!
I cannot just at the time when I want to go to China then call!
2. Heb.10:25--> Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit
of doing, but let us encourage one another-- and all the more as you see
the Day approaching.
3. Holy kiss and bear hug are helpful for increasing patience too!
a. Greet one another with a holy kiss. Ro.16:16, 1 Cor.16:20, 2 Cor.13:12.
c. Greet one another with a holy kiss. 1 Pe.5:14
d. Acts 17:11-12
Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians,
for they received the message with great eagerness and
examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.
Many of the Jews believed, as did also a number of
prominent Greek women and many Greek men.
May the Lord bless you and keep you always!
Preach this on December 5, 2010.