climbing the christian construct, step 05-patience

8/14/2019 Climbing the Christian Construct, Step 05-Patience

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Text: 2 Peter 1:5-8

Topic: Growth in Christian Virtue.

Thesis: Believers must work outtheir own salvation.

Title: Climbingthe Christian Construct,

Step Five-Patience


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Patience is a ____________

lacking in American society today.


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Patience is a commodity



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Patience is that

____________ Program

producing results,

or any other goal worth attainingin your life, or your _______.


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Patience is that

Diet/Exercise Program

producing results,

or any other goal worth attainingin your life, or yourchurch.


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Patience is waiting for the

right person to ______.


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right person to marry.


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Patience is not ___________...


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Patience is not multi-tasking...


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Jacob needed _________. His

name means, heel grabber orsupplanter. God used his

____________________________

________.


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Jacob needed patience. His

name means, heel grabber orsupplanter. God used his

circumstances to cultivate his

character.


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Patience means

1. _________


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1. Slow BurnWhen morning came, it was Leah! And

Jacob said to Laban, "What is this

________________? Did I not serve

with you for Rachel? Why then have you

___________?" Laban said, "This is notdone in our country giving the

younger before the firstborn.

(Gen. 29:25-26 NRSV)

Patience means


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1. Slow BurnWhen morning came, it was Leah! And

Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you

have done to me? Did I not serve with

you for Rachel? Why then have you

deceived me?" Laban said, "This is notdone in our country giving the

younger before the firstborn.

(Gen. 29:25-26 NRSV)

Patience means


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2. ___________

Patience means


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2. Self Restraint

Patience means

He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob

said, "You shall ___________________; if

you will do this for me, I will again feed yourflock and keep it: let me pass through all

your flock today, removing from it every

speckled and spotted sheep and every black

lamb, and the spotted and speckled amongthe goats; and

_______________________.


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2. Self Restraint

Patience means

He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob

said, "You shall not give me anything; if

you will do this for me, I will again feed yourflock and keep it: let me pass through all

your flock today, removing from it every

speckled and spotted sheep and every black

lamb, and the spotted and speckled amongthe goats; and such shall be my wages.

(Gen. 30:31-32 NRSV)


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Kingdom Point:

_________ produce patience.
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Kingdom Point:

Problems produce patience.

And not only that, but we also boastin our ________, knowing that

________ produces endurance,

(patience)

(Romans 5:3 NRSV)


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Kingdom Point:

Problems produce patience.

And not only that, but we also boastin oursufferings, knowing that

suffering produces endurance,

(patience)

(Romans 5:3 NRSV)


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Patience means

3. ________


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Patience means

3. Success

These twenty years I have been in your house;

I served you fourteen years for your two daughters,

and six years for your flock, and you have changedmy wages ten times. If the God of my father, the God

of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been ___

_______, surely now you would have sent me away

empty-handed. God saw __________ and the laborof my hands, and rebuked you last night."

(Gen. 31:41-42 NRSV)


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Patience means

3. Success

These twenty years I have been in your house;

I served you fourteen years for your two daughters,

and six years for your flock, and you have changedmy wages ten times. If the God of my father, the God

of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on

my side, surely now you would have sent me away

empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the laborof my hands, and rebuked you last night."

(Gen. 31:41-42 NRSV)


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For if these things are yours and are

increasing among you, they keep

you from being ___________ and__________ in the knowledge of our

Lord Jesus Christ.

(2 Peter 1:8 NRSV)


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For if these things are yours and are

increasing among you, they keep

you from being ineffective andunfruitful in the knowledge of our

Lord Jesus Christ.

(2 Peter 1:8 NRSV)

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