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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
lacking in American society today.
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Patience is a commodity
lacking in American society today.
Patience is that
____________ Program
producing results,
or any other goal worth attainingin your life, or your _______.
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Patience is a commodity
lacking in American society today.
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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Patience is waiting for the
right person to marry.
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Patience is waiting for the
right person to marry.
Patience is not ___________...
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Patience is waiting for the
right person to marry.
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)