longsuffering ezekiel 14:12-23. what is longsuffering? patience steadfastness bearing up under...
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Longsuffering
Ezekiel 14:12-23
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What Is Longsuffering?
• Patience
• Steadfastness
• Bearing up under
• Ability to “stick with it”
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• Three great men– All were longsuffering
– From each we learn something
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Job: How To Acquire It
• Loss of his prosperity– Wife and friends discourage him (2:9)
– Spoke to his friends after seven days (2:13)
– Two grand verses (13:15; 28:10)
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Job: How To Acquire It
• Longsuffering is learned– Job’s teacher was tribulation
– Consider these passages (Romans 5:3; James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 1:6, 7)
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Job: How To Acquire It
• Are we developing longsuffering?– Have we begun to suffer like Job?
(Hebrews 12:4)
– We need to learn to endure
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Noah: Longsuffering In Obedience
• Merriment all around him– He went to work (Genesis 6:1-8; 7:1-5)
– Did they try to discourage him?
– Mocking
– Despised him (Hebrews 11:7)
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Noah: Longsuffering In Obedience
• Need to be longsuffering– Assemble even if others do no
(Hebrews 10:25)
– Teach the lost without compromise (2 Timothy 4:1-4)
– Restore the fallen (Romans 15:1; Galatians 6:1)
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Noah: Longsuffering In Obedience
• Are we longsuffering?– Our friends will make fun of us
(1 Peter 4:4)
– We need to “man up” (1 Corinthians 16:13)
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Daniel: Remaining Faithful
• Lived and worked in a palace– Brought praise from the enemies (1:8)
– Didn’t compromise for seventy years
– Unpopular with some (6:4-25)
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Daniel: Remaining Faithful
• We need this in our lives– Our faith
(Colossians 1:23; 1 Thessalonians 3:22)
– Our prayer (Romans 8:31; Ephesians 6:18)
– In opposing evil (Galatians 1:10; Ephesians 6:10-12)
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Daniel: Remaining Faithful
• What measure do you have?– Do we resist Satan (James 4:7)
– God has restrained him (1 Corinthians 10:13)
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Conclusion
• They had one thing in common- hope
• We must be longsuffering