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The Patience of God PATIENCE
An active endurance of opposition and suffering, not a passive
resignation to the inevitable, and not accompanied with grumbling or
complaining. Patience and patient are used to translate several Hebrew and Greek
words. Patience is endurance, steadfastness, longsuffering, and forbearance.
God is patient, and gives us His Divine example: Rom 15:5-7
(KJV)
Now the God of patience and
consolation
grant you to be likeminded one
toward another according to Christ Jesus:
{6} That ye may with one
mind and one mouth glorify God,
even the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
{7} Wherefore receive
ye one another,
as Christ also received us to the
glory of God.
Exo 34:6-7 (KJV)
And the LORD passed by
before him, and proclaimed,
The LORD, The LORD
God,
merciful and
gracious,
longsuffering, and abundant
in goodness and truth,
{7} Keeping mercy for
thousands,
forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin,
and that will by no means clear
the guilty;
visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children,
and upon the children's
children,
unto the third and to the fourth
generation.
Psa 86:5-7
(KJV)
For thou, Lord, art good,
and ready to forgive;
and plenteous in mercy unto all
them that call upon thee.
{6} Give ear, O LORD, unto my
prayer;
and attend to the voice of my
supplications.
{7} In the day of my trouble I
will call upon thee:
for thou wilt answer
me.
2 Chr 30:9
(KJV)
For if ye turn again unto
the LORD,
your brethren and your
children shall find compassion
before them that lead them
captive,
so that they shall come
again into this land:
for the LORD your God is
gracious and merciful,
and will not turn away his
face from you,
if ye return unto
him.
Psa 86:3-7
(KJV)
Be merciful unto me, O Lord:
for I cry unto thee daily.
{4} Rejoice the soul
of thy servant:
for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift
up my soul.
{5} For thou, Lord, art
good, and ready to forgive;
and plenteous in mercy unto all
them that call upon thee.
{6} Give ear, O LORD, unto
my prayer;
and attend to the voice of my
supplications.
{7} In the day of my
trouble I will call upon thee:
for thou wilt answer
me.
God's patience
with sinners allows time for them to repent, especially in the apparent delay of
the return of Christ. However, God's patience with sinners will have a
limit: inasmuch as His justice must be satisfied against evildoers and the
unrepentant at a designated time. This time is called, "The Day of the
Lord".
Rom 2:4-13 (KJV) Or despisest thou the riches of
his goodness
and forbearance and longsuffering;
not knowing that the goodness of
God leadeth thee to repentance?
{5} But after thy hardness
and impenitent heart
treasurest up unto thyself wrath
against the day of wrath
and revelation of the righteous
judgment of God;
{6} Who will render to
every man according to his deeds:
{7} To them who by patient
continuance in well doing
seek for glory and honour and
immortality, eternal life:
{8} But unto them
that are contentious, and do not obey the truth,
but obey unrighteousness,
indignation and wrath,
{9} Tribulation and
anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil,
of the Jew first, and also of the
Gentile;
{10} But glory, honour, and
peace, to every man that worketh good,
to the Jew first, and also to the
Gentile:
{11} For there is no
respect of persons with God.
{12} For as many as have
sinned without law shall also perish without law:
and as many as have sinned in the
law shall be judged by the law;
{13} (For not the hearers
of the law are just before God,
but the doers of the law
shall be justified.
2 Pet 3:8-15a
(KJV)
But, beloved, be not ignorant of
this one thing,
that one day is with the
Lord as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one
day.
{9} The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise,
as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to us-ward,
not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to
repentance.
{10} But the day of the
Lord will come as a thief in the night;
in the which the heavens shall
pass away with a great noise,
and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat,
the earth also and the works that
are therein shall be burned up.
{11} Seeing then
that all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner of persons
ought ye to be
in all holy
conversation and godliness,
{12} Looking for and
hasting unto the coming of the day of God,
wherein the heavens being on fire
shall be dissolved,
and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat?
{13} Nevertheless we,
according to his promise,
look for new heavens and a new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
{14} Wherefore, beloved,
seeing that ye look for such things,
be diligent that ye may be
found of him in peace,
without spot, and
blameless.
{15} And account
that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation;
Heb 10:36-39
(KJV)
For ye have need of patience,
that, after ye have done the will
of God,
ye might receive the
promise.
{37} For yet a little
while,
and He that shall come will come,
and will not tarry(G=delay).
{38} Now the just
shall live by faith:
but if any man draw
back,
my soul shall have no pleasure in
him.
{39} But we are not
of them who draw back
unto perdition{G=spiritual
damnation};
but of them that believe to the
saving of the soul.
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