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Hello and welcome to the
Middletown Baptist Church podcast,

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where we are proclaiming the
truth to the world.

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In this podcast series, we're
going to be looking into biblical

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words that have great
significance to our faith.

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The name of this series is
called the Word of the Week, where

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once a week we will dive
deeper into these words that we are

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familiar with in scripture.

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So come along with me.

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Let's study the Word of the week.

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Pastor Josh here.

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The word of the week is patience.

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I want to look at this word
that we see in scripture quite frequently

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and see what it means for us.

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See what the Bible is saying
when it tells us to have patience.

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And sometimes the word
patience is considered a bad word

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to some people, right?

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None of us necessarily enjoy
exercising patience in our life.

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But the true question is, what
does the Bible have to say about

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patience?

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Because what the Bible says
about patience is what God has to

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say about patience.

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And so patience in our culture
is sometimes accepted only when things

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are going our way.

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But you know what?

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The true test of patience is
not when things are going our way,

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because when things are going
smoothly, just according to plan,

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patience is easy to show in
our life.

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But the.

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The true test of patience
comes when we feel like there is

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something being done
negatively against us or we've been

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wronged, or maybe we're just
inconvenienced or we are in pain.

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Maybe, maybe you could fill in
the blank of, of why your patience

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is hard to demonstrate in your life.

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But really what we're seeing
in that case is that our hearts are

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holding the truth of what we
really believe and who we really

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are.

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And so when we're put to the
test, when the pressure comes in

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and when we're squeezed
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going to be revealed.

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And so some people think we
have a right to lose our cool or

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lose our patience.

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And sometimes we even justify
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As righteous indignation as
some say.

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But the Bible speaks of
patience being a necessity in the

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Christian life.

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It's actually one of the marks
of the Spirit guiding our life, you

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know, when we're saved.

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The Bible says that we are now
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And so we have a choice to
make as a believer.

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Are we going to allow
ourselves to yield our will to the

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flesh, and that's the desires
and the pleasures and what we want

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to have happen in our life
when it comes to the physical realm,

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or are we going to yield or
submit to the Spirit?

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And that's what God wants for us?

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And that's.

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That's The Holy Spirit guiding
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speak.

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And so the Bible says in
Galatians chapter 5, verse 22.

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But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace.

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And in the King James it says
long suffering.

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But that literally means to be patient.

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It means to suffer long, to
allow things to happen and to be

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patient through the difficulties.

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And so one of the marks of a
spirit led believer is patience.

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The Bible says in other places.

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One place that you could look
to is in 1st Thessalonians, chapter

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5, verse 14.

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And it speaks of this idea
that as Christians, patience should

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be produced through our lives.

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And so first Thessalonians
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talking to Christians, warn
them that are unruly, comfort the

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feeble minded, support the
weak, be patient toward all men.

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Meaning this, you're going to
deal with people that have all different

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needs.

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We see here in this case,
there's people that are unruly, there's

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people that are feeble minded,
there's people that are weak.

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All different reasons in where
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But the Bible says, and kind
of summarizes there at the end of

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verse 14 in 1st Thessalonians
5, be patient toward all men.

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And so patience reveals where
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Patience reveals our faith.

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Now all of us have faith.

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We've talked about that before
here in our Word of the week studies.

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All of us have faith in something.

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Sometimes the faith is in ourselves.

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Sometimes our faith is in
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Maybe it's even in an emotion
or a feeling.

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But patience is going to
reveal that our faith is in God and

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in his way, in his plan and
his timing and his power and his

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grace in our lives.

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And so most people consider
patience, at least in our society,

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that it's like this, waiting
or maybe just having tolerance towards

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a situation.

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But if you really look deeper
into that word that's used in the

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Bible as patience, it's
actually an inactive word.

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It's a, it's an active word.

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You could even look at Hebrews
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It says, wherefore, seeing we
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with so great a cloud of
witness, let us lay aside every weight,

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and the sin which does so
easily beset us, and let us run with

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patience, the race that is set
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And so we actually see that
it's an active thing.

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And so how could patience be active?

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Well, one can run a race with patience.

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And so biblical patience is
persevering to a goal, the goal of

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godliness, the goal of being
Spirit filled the goal of enduring

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difficulties, waiting for God
to keep His Word.

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And sometimes a word that's
linked to patience is hope.

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And again, hope can be
misinterpreted when it comes to our

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society today, because
sometimes we think of hope being

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this thing where we're
crossing our fingers and just maybe

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this will happen.

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But biblical hope is a
confident expectation that God will

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keep His Word.

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And so patience is the same thing.

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Patience is demonstrating our hope.

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So if I believe that God will
keep His Word in this situation,

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if I believe that God is going
to stay true to me in my life according

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to His Word, then I will have patience.

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So if you look at it this way,
if a Christian has hope in God, he

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will be patient in the Lord as well.

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And patience is.

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Is a spiritual discipline,
just like all the other things the

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Bible calls us to have in our life.

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It's not something that's just
gonna happen naturally in our flesh.

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Sometimes it takes a process,
development, experience, right?

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I think one of the passages of
Scripture that comes to mind for,

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for me would be Romans, Romans
chapter five.

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And I think sometimes as
humans, as even humans that believe

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in Jesus Christ, we can see
patience as something that's negative,

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right?

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Like, oh, I never want to pray
for patients because that just means

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God's going to send me trials.

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But if we see the opportunity
for patience as just that, an opportunity

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to grow, we'll have a
different perspective when we exercise

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patience.

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And so I want us to see Romans
chapter five.

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We're gonna start in verse
one, and we're gonna see this.

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This context of what it means
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us to have patience.

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So it says In Romans chapter
5, verse 1, therefore, being justified

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by faith, and so we are
declared righteous by faith in God.

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We have peace with God through
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So we're justified by faith
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We know that to be true.

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We believe that is the gospel.

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And so therefore, as
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because He has justified us in.

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In what he has done for us.

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By whom?

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So through Christ also, we
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wherein we stand and rejoice
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So the Bible says, because of
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and because of his grace
through our faith, we can rejoice

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in having hope.

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We can have hope.

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And that's that idea of
confident expectation that God is

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going to keep his word.

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Now let's look at verse 33.

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And not only so, but we glory
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We glory in tribulations.

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Whoa.

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That is something that is
contrary to a popular belief, so

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to speak.

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We can rejoice in difficulties.

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Why?

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Biblically speaking, knowing
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that tribulations are
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And the verse three, if you're
following along with me, you're gonna

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see it worketh.

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Patience or endurance.

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So this idea of patience is
having endurance in a difficulty.

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Because as we go through
difficulties and as we see God working

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through these difficulties,
and as we see God providing and preparing

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and protecting us in these
times of trial, we will see patience

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happening.

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And as we exercise patience,
it says experience.

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So the idea of this would be
as we grow in our patience, we grow

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in our Christian character.

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We grow in the experience of
being more and more like the Lord.

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Not perfect, but we're able to
exemplify the attribute of patience

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in our life.

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And so patience experience and
experience hope.

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And so the trials produce
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And the trials, though it
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us experience experiencing
God, experiencing His character,

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his love, his grace, his forgiveness.

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And through all that, the
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That's all we all really want
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Hope in something.

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The Bible says we can find
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And hope maketh not ashamed.

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So that hope that God gives us
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It doesn't lead us to a place
of brokenness, it leads us to a place

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of edification, of being built
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Why?

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Because the love of God is
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Holy Ghost, which is given
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So if you've been following us
there with the.

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What the Bible is saying is
that as we grow in patience, the

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end outcome of that would be
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Kind of counter intuitive, but
really something that I think is

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important for us as Christians
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James 1 talks about the same
principle, knowing this, that the

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trying of your faith worketh patience.

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But let patience have her
perfect work, that ye may be perfect

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or complete and entire,
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And so part of the Christian
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Christian growth is the
necessity of patience.

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Our patience can be developed,
it can be strengthened only by trusting

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and relying on God's will in
our life, God's timing, God's way

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over and over again.

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We see the call in Scripture
to seek the patience that only God

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can give, seek the endurance
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So we go back to idea of
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We could run the race with
patience, but run the race with endurance,

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we're tempted to quit.

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Sometimes we're tempted to
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The Bible says don't give in.

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And we even see some examples
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James chapter 5, verse 10
talks about this idea of an example.

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Now we know the greatest
example of patience is Christ though,

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no doubt about that.

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You can look at his life and
study out his demeanor and his reactions

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to folks, his reactions to
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But then we see James 5 going
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the prophets.

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So, so there have been people
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So it's not impossible.

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He says, remember all those
prophets that came before you, their,

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their example.

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And James 5, 11, the next
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which endure.

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Ye have heard of the patience
of Job and have seen the end of the

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Lord, that the Lord is very
pitiful and of tender mercy.

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Meaning you're not alone in
this process of seeking after patience.

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You're not alone in this
process of confident expectation

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that God is going to keep his word.

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There's been people like Job,
there's been people like Abraham,

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there's been people throughout
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of history that have gone on
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And the Bible says that
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Philippians 4.

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Rejoice in the Lord always.

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Again I say rejoice.

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And so it's, it's having the
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We remember the promises of
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God, we remember his
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own lives, but throughout all
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God is faithful.

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And if God is faithful to
those that have come before us, and

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if God has been faithful to us
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to be faithful and he will
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And so when you're tempted to
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to exercise the flesh, if
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spirit, go back and remember
what God has done for you.

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Go back and to remember the
examples that came before you and

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go to a place in your life
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control.

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Really the, the Bible speaks
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the spirit.

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When the Spirit is in control,
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When the flesh is in control,
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tempered.

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And the list goes on and on.

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And so really the first step
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with Christ and the spirit
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And the second step is asking
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says, when you lack wisdom,
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And so pray, ask the Lord to
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And I know that's maybe
counter intuitive because maybe you've

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even heard before, don't pray
for patience because God's gonna

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send you trials.

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But let me tell you something,
the trials are gonna come no matter

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what.

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I wish that wasn't the case,
but the truth is the trials are gonna

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come.

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And when we see the trials as
something that's gonna build us stronger

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in the Lord and help us
understand his love more, we're able

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to understand the importance,
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So I hope that this has been
encouraging for you here today, challenging

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for you as it's been for me.

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And I hope that all of us can
rely on the Lord more to have patience

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in our life, to have that
endurance, to have that long suffering

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heart spirit as he's been long
suffering and patient with us and

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you really, truly God's the
greatest example of patience.

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He should have judged us a
long time ago, but yet he's still

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in his love and his grace,
patient, patiently waiting for more

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and more to come to Him.

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And so let's think about that
as we move forward with this idea

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of patience.

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Next week we'll be back
looking more at another Word of the

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Week.

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I hope that you can continue
along with us and I'm so thankful

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for this podcast and the folks
that are listening to this podcast

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appreciate your willingness to
support and to share and to serve

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together.

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So God bless you, have a
wonderful week.

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We'll come back next week with
another word of Hey, I really appreciate

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that you listen to the Word of
the Week podcast.

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If you have any questions
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Middletown Baptist Church, you
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you can contact me directly at
Josh massaro@middletownbaptistchurch.org.

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stay tuned for future Word of
the Week episodes where we dive deeper

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into words that impact our
life according to scripture.

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Thank you so much.

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God Bless.

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We'll talk to you soon.