371: Andy Bilello - Exhortation - Patience (Luke 21)

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   Welcome to Good Christophian Talks. Thank you for joining us this week on this podcast. We select one talk a week to help us get the Bible in our Daily News feed. Each week we post a talk that we previewed from suggestions sent in by listeners from around the world. Then we record a short intro beforehand as a personalized recommendation to you on why we are sharing the talk. And now?

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   Let’s talk more about this week’s talk. Hi, it’s Levi. This week’s talk is an exhortation by Brother Andy Bolello from the Baltimore Ecclesia in Maryland that he gave on September 28th. And this was suggested a couple times from the audience in that ecclesia. The title is Patience, and I would say it’s wide-ranging, but I super enjoyed it.

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   He touches on a lot of different topics, goes a lot of different places throughout the Bible, but everything ties back to the idea of patience. And I’m I’m stealing a point just right from the beginning of the agitation, which was verse 19 of Luke 21, which was the reading on that day that in your patience possess your souls. And Andy’s opening point is how much of A wide-ranging statement that is, just how everything, our salvation, everything trails back to patience.

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   Andy’s been on the show before. He gave a really excellent episode, episode 208, which was the weird Ecclesia. It was much more about kind of recovery from the pandemic. And he has a really, really great style for the podcast. Or, and maybe it’s just my bias, but I have a really easy time listening to brother Andy giving, you know, giving his thoughts. And I thought this was a great excitation that I was excited to share.

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   Thank you to the people that suggested it. We really do live on those suggestions and I appreciate the getting them. So please, if you hear a good excitation or a talk, please do send it to us. We’re very happy to share it. Thank you also to our three new hosts. It’s been really great to have a team of 6 now and it’s nice it’s done a break from back in the day when it was just Chris and I and even in in back to that pandemic time when we were each going once a week.

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   It’s been really nice to have six weeks to prepare for this. So thank you to them and all the volunteers on Good Dress Loving talks. I really appreciate it. So here is Patience by brother Andy Bellolo. When considering what would be a good topic to speak to everyone about this morning, I usually start by looking at daily readings and. And I also, after reading Luke 21, which was the New Testament reading for On this date, I also was giving some thought to some of the ideas that we’ve shared and our early studies in the book of Psalms.

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   And I thought perhaps there’s an opportunity to connect with some very simple lessons from the New Testament or our discipleship with some of the poetic language and presentation of the Old Testament. And So what I’m going to do with our time this morning is have a consideration of the idea of patience using a New Testament passages and some of the Old Testament presentations in the Psalms and and one in the Ecclesiastes. Now patience is a common theme.

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   I think of some of exhortations and Bible classes and I am certain that I have exhorted on this in past, but I I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who doesn’t need a reminder about patience so well, except baby Shelly been on medication lately, which is the only reason why I should spend a nation.

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   But one of the ideas that struck me when reading Luke 21 was slightly different than the manner which I had explored the topic previously. If you would go to verse 19, it’s a a very succinct, typical of Scripture, very powerful phrase used here. Luke 21 verse 19 and I believe reading from the new King James and will for all of my references, but I think Madar didn’t read from the new King James. It was very similar in the version that he read for us a few moments ago.

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    In your patience, possess your soul. Meditate on that phrase for a moment. The importance of patience is such that it impacts our salvation. It influences our lives the way God they looked at us, but it’s also something that we own.

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    One of the issues that we’ll explore in dealing with developing our own patients is sorting through the things in our lives that we can control versus the things that we cannot control. The circumstances should just arrive that we might find ourselves. Patience is a quality to some degree, we’re told we can possess it, we can hold it, we can have it.

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    We can control our patients life. We find ourselves in so many circumstances of which we really had no expectation. We could not have determined how things would unfold. But we can’t control our attitude and our reaction, the way we respond. Patience is part of that. So there’s a power in valuing what patients means to what. Now the patients that is referred to here in Luke 21 is not simply something that is or you’re waiting. It’s not like when you’re in line at the store and take your little number at the deli counter and I’m going to be up in three more people.

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    It’s not a matter of just waiting without complaint. The manner which it’s referred to here speaks to something greater. It speaks to aspects of our character that include endurance, resilience and perseverance where you’re willing to hold back your own anxiety and and difficulties to to meet a greater challenge. And I think the context of of Luke 21 is, is very, very helpful. This is a conversation between Jesus and some of his closest followers, which he’s talking about the future and some of the difficulties that they will face. If you would actually turn to Mark chapter 13, which is the parallel account in Mark’s Gospel of, of these discussions. And it one thing that’s different in the Mark account in Luke, in Mark and in Matthew, there’s there was a a day which they were in Jerusalem, Jesus and his followers, and they noted the beauty of the temple.

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    And Jesus made a comment like, despite the grandeur of this building and what it’s history means to our people, there’s going to be a day that is going to be destroyed and there are implications for what it means for us and how we look at our challenges as preaching the gospel. And in Luke, does he, he had a further discussion about what are the signs, what are going to be the indications of that event occurring? But in Luke it keeps it very gentle. And in Matthew it says he talked privately with some of his disciples in Mark, actually we read verse 3 of Mark chapter 13. Now as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately. I don’t know that even all of the 12 of the larger group were There seems like four of his closest followers who were going to be given some of the greatest responsibility when Jesus has passed and departed the scene.

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    They had this smaller conversation. So this is the way I envisioned it. It’s as if they’re off the side on the mount. They’re overlooking the city. And while they’re perhaps resting, sitting, you know, on the hillside, Andrew, Peter, James and John come up to Jesus. We’re talking about it a little bit. When will the temple be destroyed? How will we know that those events are going to occur? And I think he’s speaking in a very intense way for the benefit of these men who are going to have to accomplish remarkable things in their life.

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    He’s preparing them for it. So the verse that matches in, you know, with your, in your patience, you possess your souls in the Mark account. We would go then down to verse 13. And you, you shall, you will be hated by all men for my name’s sake. Picking up another part of what Luke’s account has, but in particular the last part of that verse.

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    But he who endures to the end shall be saved. Rather than saying your patience would possess your social If you endure to the conclusion of your life of your responsibility, you will be saved. Another way of seeing that word endures, patiently perseveres. But there’s and there’s there’s a greater weight to the idea of patience, as the Gospels are referencing it in this incident, and just passive willingness to hold back. It’s about being tough mentally and emotionally to handle difficulty.

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    If you do that, you control your spirit. You control who you are and your character and the way God wants you to live. Now how do we get there? How do we improve our patience and and the quality of patience that has a deeper impact in our salvation? And I’ll offer a few thoughts for us to consider.

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    The first is to stay in the moment. So often when we are impatient, when we become frustrated or annoyed, whether it’s in with circumstance or with another person and with ourselves, it’s because we are thinking too far ahead. We think, well, if I can’t get past this, then I can’t do this and this and this and this.

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    I just handle the moment. Whatever presents itself, deal with that. Do that the right way. Do that with the proper attitude. Don’t go too far ahead. Sometimes we have a fear of missing out. If if this doesn’t finish up soon, then I can’t go do this other thing or I’m not going to be able to attend this other activity.

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    In my job, I deal with parents. There’s nothing that is more intense emotionally than a parent fearing for an experience for their child. And even in youth sports, one of the most common challenges the family will have is trying to put their child into too many activities because they fear that their child, if they don’t attend this particular event, they’re not going to be getting, you know, whatever benefit is necessary. Maybe it’s viewed by people who can advance their careers or their opportunities, or it’s an experience that will improve their performance.

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    Life does not have a a linear progression where like just because you do one thing, the next thing is an improvement. Sometimes you just you make the most out of what is available at that moment and then you’ll determine what is the next best decision to make. So staying in the moment means don’t thinking too far ahead. Don’t have a fear for what is not available. Be a focused on the immediate here and that something that you can in fact keep your your mind, your attitude, your emotions present and calm.

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    You would turn to Luke chapter 12. Luke 12 is a passage which Jesus is speaking about God’s care for us and to maintain the proper perspective in focusing our time and attention and he tells us essence do not work. The Matthew account is is often referred to when considering this topic, but we’ll look at just the way the words are phrased here in Luke and I I recognize that depending on what version you might read and it might be slightly different presentation. Sometimes as Chris Delphians, we get so enamored with the definitions of words, we look at the Greek and the Hebrew and we forget, like don’t focus just on on that definition. Think about the idea that is being expressed, which can be expressed in several different ways. And if you meditate on that, then you get more of the lesson that can impact your thinking.

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    But in Luke 12, we’ll pick up reading in the 29th verse. This is Jesus speaking. And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink or have an anxious mind for all these things the nations of the world seek after. And your Father knows that you need these things, but seek the Kingdom of God and all these things shall be got added to you. And I feel like I’ve read this passage and the one in Matthew frequently, usually focusing on the idea of like, don’t worry about money and job and where you live. The Lord will see to your your knees in life if you’re focusing on your character and you’re focusing on your contributions to do his will.

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    But I also know that the way Luke phrases this, and it’s not just about worrying about those basics about. And sometimes those worries are understandable and reasonable. You should worry about caring for your family. You should worry about providing resources for your future and for those you love. But it’s more than just those resources. It’s nor have an anxious mind,

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    but don’t let even a a reasonable and natural concern overtake you where that anxiety and that uncertainty becomes debilitating. What prevents you from functioning properly and gets staying in the moment?

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    Well, let’s go to the Old Testament and I’d like us to read a passage from Ecclesiastes. Go to Ecclesiastes, the 7th chapter. And sometimes, especially in the the sobs and the provinces and the Ecclesiastes, you don’t always need full context to take away a verse or a phrase that really can influence our mindset. Ecclesiastes 7.

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    I’m just reading verse 8. The end of a thing is better than its beginning, and the patient and spirit better than the proud and spirit. So often we obsess over the new thing we want to begin, the thing that we want to experience, and we neglect to appreciate the journey. So much of what is satisfying about things that we can experience in life is the process.

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    And we’ve been so focused on results that we don’t think about the progression, the improvement we can make. Even the simple joys of like learning something new. That is part of those steps. Of course, a greater goal that we can’t control. Appreciating what we’re experiencing it while we’re experiencing it, that will reduce our anxiousness, our tendency to be impatient and the negative feelings that can come from that.

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    And so to appreciate that the conclusion, like where we’ve fully appreciated and gotten the most out of the experience, that’s sometimes better than what we were impatient to begin.

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    And sometimes the proud and spirit of people who go too far to who want to be recognized or take personal, either personal identity to an accomplishment. They are worried about the line on their resume or the way people will speak about them and not be experienced itself and how that can change them and help them stay in the moment. That’s my first thought for us to consider it enhancing our patience.

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    The second, I think a critical thing in many aspects of life is just know what is in your control. Recognize the aspects of our life that we can influence. As I mentioned previously, our attitude and our response.

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    We don’t always have the right skill, we don’t always have the right knowledge, but we can present ourselves in a way that is humble and understanding and caring regardless of circumstance. Sometimes our impatience is due to our self belief that we know better than them. Like why can’t this person do this more efficiently?

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    Because they’re incompetent, that’s why. Because they don’t know what I know, but they’re not as capable as I know. And a little humility and willing to just to step back, put yourself in that other person’s position and and consider what they might be dealing with that could be helpful.

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    Our anxiousness and concern. You would turn with me to the first chapter of James towards the end of the New Testament. James is one of the letters to the 1st century believers that has a great deal of practical wisdom. Not all of it is written in the poetic form. The book of James has a great deal of influence in the Old Testament poetry. There’s a taking these ideas, but raising them in a way that is very practical and down to earth. You would let’s pick up in James the 1st chapter, the 19th verse. Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, low to speak, slow to wrath, for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Simple ideas.

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    Be quick to listen to what’s going on, but that’s it’s not just a matter of to listen to what someone says, but to observe the situation, the circumstance.

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    Be slow to speak is again, not just about don’t open your mouth too quickly, but take in what’s going on. Consider it so that when you it is time for you to talk and to contribute that it is thoughtful and insightful. That is based on what you know, information you have available. And of course, be slow to anger. Don’t let your worry or your anxiousness overtake you to something that is unhealthy.

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    It is unnatural, both in terms of upsetting yourself and your inability to to react and to to compose yourself. But also you might escalate a situation when you get A and

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    note that as long as you’re talking usually means you are not listening. It’s very difficult to learn anything when you’re speaking. You’re focused on your words, your thoughts, not taking in information and evaluating it

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    more than even simply. Again, talking is anxiousness, worry, an exercise of our imagination that is unnecessary. These are distractions both to proper performance, but also more importantly, proper character. Just continue James chapter one, just the next two verses 21 and 22 read therefore. So be quick to listen, be careful and slow before you speak and certainly control your emotions. Therefore, verse 21, lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness.

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    Push aside the things again that unfortunately are just instinctive that can be destructive and harmful. Put them to the side and receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your soul. Be doers of the word, not hearers, only deceiving yourself. So receive with a humble attitude. Implant implanted word what you already know.

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    That’s in your heart. It’s in your mind. All too often, the solution to reducing our anxiety, to handling a problem or difficult situation that may cause us to be impatient or unable to be resilient, we already have the answer. Usually it’s tapping into some experience we’ve had before, some example that we’ve witnessed from family or friends.

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    Or sometimes it’s just simply recalling the Council of Scripture and the lessons of men and women of faith that can inform the decisions we have to make. So use that word and it’s working. You know, our patience. We possess our souls. The Word can save our souls. We know that in a larger sense, our understanding of God’s plan of purpose, that’s what leads us. I believe that there’s an opportunity for everlasting life.

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    But the Word of God, the counsel and wisdom of Scripture also, they help us. It helps us in the little things that cause us to be anxious concerning to make errors in our daily lives. Two well, let’s go to the Psalms and we’ll read Psalm 19 verse 7. The 19th Psalm, verse 7 reads the law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul.

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    The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple, the law of the Lord. The word is perfect. It has what we need If we search for it, if we consider it, we make an effort to understand how we can best apply that information. It converts the soul. So our idea from the New Testament is that, you know patience influences our salvation that the word can impact the saving of our souls here the law of the Lord, it converts. Converts can be like restores.

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    It brings health to us, to good nuts, just to our physical frame, but to our attitude. And it’s about change. So much of our progression in life that please the Lord to prepare ourselves for the challenges that He may bring. Our way is to be better today than we were yesterday. And it’s a constant process. So be mindful that perhaps the moment that you need to employ patients that you might find yourself annoyed, frustrated, even becoming upset and angry.

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    Perhaps that’s a lesson that you require to change yourself, become better prepared, be a disciple that the Lord might have some greater need for you to deploy in the future. Patience, however, does not mean being inactive. It’s not just a passive thing. OK, I’ll be patient. So I’ll just sit here quietly and I won’t do anything.

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    And I I do sometimes, you know, have, you know, difficulty when we feel like we express it, you know, patience or or part of our our discipleship is that we just pray to God, but we don’t do anything we expect the solution to be delivered to our front door. Patience can mean, well, what can you control while you’re waiting for the greater situation to resolve itself or other opportunities to develop.

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    What can I do? What can I do get to convert my soul to improve myself to maybe, maybe I can’t change everything that I’m impatient or frustrated about, but maybe I can affect one or two smaller items that are part of this larger issue. So when we know what we can control, we should be mindful of of emphasizing that. And part of that control is to be aware of change, improvement, and development of our character. So patience also means adjusting, revising, planning but not being anxious about it.

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    So often we can do the right thing with the Lord, we are guaranteed. And we cannot possibly go to all the references of scripture that express this confidence. The Lord will help us. It’s just often not on our timeline. Unfortunately. When we want something, we want it then, and that’s why this topic is has universal thing that we live in an age site that we become conditioned to be less patient than men and women in times past. Do you get frustrated when you’re at your laptop computer and something doesn’t load like that? Or when you you’re sitting in the car and you miss the green light and you have to wait again? So those are modern challenges that impact the way we think and the idea of patients that.

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    But human character hasn’t changed at all. That’s why the relevance of the Psalms and the Ecclesiastes and the Gospels still very much real for us, because human character and the need to have immediate gratification is the same in the 21st century as it was 3000 years ago.

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    So we control what we can control. We recognize that we employ those techniques to keep our emotions in check. But at the same time, we are active, We do, we do work to improve what we are capable of improving so that we’re better ready when circumstances do change. And for the things that we cannot control, accept that it don’t, doesn’t mean you have to always be happy about it or but you have to know how to differentiate between something that you can impact and influence versus or something that has absolutely nothing to do with you. Part of that is again, humility that you maybe you are not the most important person in the world. And I know that could be, I mean, that’s very hard for all of us to understand, but accept that and except that that’s where our faith instructs us to believe that God will provide some measure, if not a specific answer to our problem, some measure in which we can bear the situation, we can handle it, that we’ll be OK.

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    You would turn with me. Now back to the Psalms and we’ll look at Psalm 94. Psalm 94, I’ll just read verse 19 in the multitude of my anxieties within me, Your comforts to light my soul. And we are to impact our salvation by learning what patience is. And we’ve talked about that. We can even change ourselves, impact our salvation and convert ourselves.

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    Look here Psalmist writes that I have a multitude of problems, things that worry me and does that sound like anyone’s life? I mean, it doesn’t sound like mine because I’ve told all of my problems are insignificant and unimportant. That’s the feedback. I usually get it. But for most of us, there’s not just one thing that you worry about. There’s always you think that come to mind. There’s some periods of time in life that things are more difficult than others.

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    But regardless, the multitude, the many anxieties and worries and concerns that we might have, they can pale in comparison with the comfort and the confidence that we have in God’s purpose and knowing that he is working with us. And that whatever difficulty that we can’t find the solution for, even if the solution doesn’t come the way we want, when we want, God has a much greater perspective and purpose for us individually. So we should take comfort next.

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    Part of that process of staying in the moment, being able to separate what we control from what we cannot control, and it’s appropriate to accept those things, is to build experience. We’ve all had discomfort and difficult problems in the past. Draw upon that. Don’t forget those lessons and be prepared to help other people around us based upon that experience. Sometimes by helping other people, by evaluating them with a clear eye, also brings it to focus the best way we can handle our own difficulty.

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    You would. Let’s read some of Paul’s advice to the 1st century ecclesia in Rome in Romans chapter 15. Romans 15. First few verses of this chapter. Paul speaks about the way we work together and the way we live together. We’ll read verses one through 4. We then, who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the week, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.

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    Those of us who feel like strong means those of you think you know how to handle a situation, if you’re intelligent, if you’re capable, if you add experience, help, carry, help, instruct the people who are weak. The and weakness doesn’t does mean people who are not as skilled or capable as you are.

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    Sometimes it’s just who aren’t as experienced. They encourage them. It’s to help them. It’s to maybe do it occasionally do it for them. Sometimes it’s to give them insight. Sometimes it’s really just to give them encouraging word that they’re able to handle the problem too. So if you are strong, you’re capable of providing leadership help. It’s again the new King James versus the scruples of the week is the weaknesses of the week

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    see the shortcomings of other don’t evaluate it like and write them off help them. Verse 3 for even Christ did not please himself. But as it is written the reproaches of those who reproached and fell on me for whatever things were written before were written for your learning that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Sometimes patience is learning to live with and help the shortcomings of other people, whether it’s at our own homes, whether it’s in the athleisure, sometimes at work or maybe it’s at school, wherever you might find yourself. Patience is applied in our relationship and it might be a relationship that is short lived because you’re at the store and you really thought this customer service represented could help you the way you need it to right now because it is a bigger problem with your family.

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    Someone that you really wish was here more often. Somebody you really wish cared about some of the same things you think they should care about. Doesn’t mean that you can always change the other person or the situation, but you can be prepared to help them. Sometimes help is even just being accepting until they’re ready. Ask for help.

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    Let’s go back to the Psalms. You would share with me a verse in Psalm 37, reading Psalm 37 verses, actually verse 7 and 8.

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    Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him. Do not fret because of Him who prospers in His way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. Cease from anger and forsake wrath. Do not fret and only causes harm, right? It’s another word for worry. Anxiousness first. Rest in the Lord and wait patiently.

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    Sometimes again, best response is no response. It’s helpful when it’s not a matter of ignorance or laziness, but a reason choice that you cannot control what you wish you could control, though you are willing. Hold back. Wait. So that’s another thing that I’ve seen at work. Sometimes there are members of like our team at work who they really want to, you know, create a rule because we had one exception to a situation. Sometimes, like, the best thing to do is nothing. Is that situation likely to ever occur it again? Probably not.

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    So why rush into making bold statements, establishing a rule that may only create more confusion or difficulty in the future? Sometimes the best thing to do is to rest and to not fret, to not be concerned in the way Psalm 37 says about those who prosper. Sometimes we get the sense of that we see the evil, the sin around us in life, and we can be concerned because of that, that that is true. Sometimes it’s just not just about what we could all clearly state is something that is wrong and contrary to God’s word. Sometimes it’s just things that annoy us. Sometimes it’s a why do we think like why does everything always work for that other person?

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    That’s not your concern. It’s just a matter of you, you coming to a judgement. Sometimes it’s just look at what you can control and do your best to improve upon it and what you cannot accept it, rest. Sometimes time will present the right solution or give you the proper perspective or information that you need the patient self and is about building upon your experience and knowing when to step back.

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    And the last idea I’d like to share that we maintain hope and our perspective as Bible students is invaluable because we know if we really give it proper consideration that everything we experience is limiting, nothing is going to last forever. The really good things are going to conclude. Really difficult things are going to conclude. Our lives are limited, but they’re also an opportunity. We have that perspective.

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    It helps us be more reasonable and objective to handle the immediate problem or difficulty that might cause us a concern of frustration where there’s that little bit of perspective. That and fuels our patients our ability to persevere and handle the problem. I’d like to read from Psalm 40, which Skip read for us at the beginning of our service.

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    And I chose Psalm 40 because this was an example that we used when we had our midweek class and introduced some of the themes that we would encounter in studying the Psalms. And Psalm 40 for me is an example of how the meaning can change over time based on your life experience and your perspective. This is a song that first captured by attention 40 some years ago when I recognized that it was the same lyrics as a, as a song of a, of a, a popular rock’n’roll band that I was a fan of.

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    And but when I read this over and over again, I realized that the opening verse, I waited patiently for the Lord. I waited patiently. Some of the roots of those phrases I in waiting, I waited. There’s a power in the repetition because you’re willing to hold back to not make a misstep or a rash decision, comment, or action.

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    Because of these ideas, you’re resting in the Lord and you’re prepared though for the right moment. Now to wait patiently for me has meant different things at different points of my life. To wait patiently when I was in college and I was trying to establish myself and you know my career with trying to figure out what direction am I going?

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    Where am I going to get a job? What am I going to do that I’m interested in? Then if it came, am I ever going to find someone that I can share my life with? I met someone who could do that. So then we worried about how are we going to establish our family?

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    What are things that we can do for them? We had worries about jobs and income and homes and place. The principle of waiting patiently and everything that entails. That is a constant. But what it brought to mind, what the emotions were, that can change. I think that’s a great power of the Scripture, and particularly this portion of Scriptures that forces us to think in an abstract way about our life.

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    But to wait patiently for the Lord is also with the confidence that He will hear whatever difficulty or worry that we have. And he inclined to me and heard my cry. He also brought me out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay, set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. That the right understanding of patience in perspective with the manner which God might work with us that can give us a firm foundation.

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    There’s no need to be anxious about every situation and every problem if the Scripture informs us, influences us, is our resource for change. In verse 3 of Psalm 40, he has put a new song in my mouth. Praise to our God. Many will see it in fear and will trust in the Lord.

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    We will be changed. We will have something new where that anxiousness and that concern gives way to excitement and joy. That can happen in our lives, in the resolution of difficulties. Things that cause us impatience and worry will also happen as we search for the day in which the Lord returns and the Kingdom is established.

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    So brothers and sisters and friends, I leave you with just some ideas and how you can consider how to be more in control of your life, how to own what patience is, who influence our decisions and our character for good. And perhaps as we share the bread and the wine, also consider the example of the Lord Jesus quest.

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    We faced the situations of the greatest concern and worry and breath and was able to be patient in that true way of perseverance. Knowing that we’re getting past those moments would be would bring great tidings of joy for all men and women. Thank you.

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