Introduction
- Acts 26:1-3 – We want people to be patient with us!
- Ephesians 4:2
- Colossians 3:12
Makrothymia – patience, longsuffering
God is patient with us!
- Romans 2:4
- I Peter 3:18-20
- II Peter 3:6-15 – God is absolutely just and trying to get all to come to repentance.
- Paul: I Timothy 1:16; II Timothy 3:10
Now it’s our turn to be patient with others.
- I Corinthians 13:4
- II Corinthians 6:3-6
- I Thessalonians 5:14 – Be patient with everyone!
- II Timothy 4:2 – Preach the word with patience.
- James 5:7-11 – Farmers understand patience. They don’t have any choice! We need to slowly be developing patience and other virtues in ourselves over time.