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.