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Qualities of a pure heart - 4

Qualities of a pure heart - 4. Patience. “Bearing pains and trials calmly or without complaint. Manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain Not hasty or impetuous Steadfast despite opposition, difficulty or adversity. www.meriam-webster.com. Patience.

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Qualities of a pure heart - 4

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  1. Qualities of a pure heart - 4

  2. Patience • “Bearing pains and trials calmly or without complaint.Manifesting forbearance under provocation or strainNot hasty or impetuousSteadfast despite opposition, difficulty or adversity.www.meriam-webster.com

  3. Patience • “The capacity to continue to bear up under difficult circumstances.Not hasty or impetuous” (L&N) • Temperance, forbearance, endurance, long-suffering, etc.

  4. Patience • While seeking to maintain a pure heart, you will face difficulties. You need patience. • 2 Peter 1:5-7 – after temperance with our virtue

  5. Patience • While seeking to maintain a pure heart, you will face difficulties. You need patience. • 2 Peter 1:5-7 – after temperance with our virtue

  6. Patience • The patience of God • 1 Peter 3:20-21 • Nehemiah 9:17 • 2 Peter 3:9 • Romans 15:5

  7. Patience • Patience needed to develop faith! Allow God to work in His timeframe • Lack of faith does great damage

  8. Patience • Gal. 5:22-23, A fruit of the Spirit • Luke 21:19, “By your patience possess your souls” • 2 Tim. 2:24, a servant of the Lord

  9. Patience • 1 Thess. 5:14, Be patient with all • Heb. 12:1, let us run with endurance the race • James 5:7-8, Be patient…until the coming of the Lord.

  10. Patience Developing patience • Learn self-control • Pause before you react (cf. Jas. 1:19) • Realized the good that can come from patience (Rom. 5:3-4), Jas. 1:3-4

  11. Patience Developing patience • Get organized • Be thankful to God – count your many blessings

  12. Humility • “To make low” • One of a meek and lowly disposition. Non-abrasive in dealing with others. The opposite of arrogance and pride • Meekness, modesty, lowliness, a servant, etc.

  13. Humility • Moses, Num. 12:3 • John the Baptist, cf. Jn. 1:35-37, 3:30 “He must increase, but I must decrease.” • Jesus, Phil. 2:5-7, John 13:1-9

  14. Humility • Matt. 5:3, “Blessed are the poor in Spirit.” • Matt. 5:5, “Blessed are the meek.” • Phil. 2:3-4, lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

  15. Humility • Rom. 12:3, “not to think more highly of himself…” • 1 Cor. 13:4, “Love…does not parade itself, is not puffed up” • James 4:6, 10, God resists the proud, gives grace to the humble.

  16. Humility • 1 Pet. 5:5-7, “be clothed in humility” • Psa. 138:6, “Though the Lord is on high, yet He regards the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.”

  17. Humility • Prov. 16:5, “Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord…”” • Micah 6:8, “He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God”

  18. Humility How to develop humility • Begin with honest evaluation – especially in God’s eyes • Be thankful • Overcome worldliness, Matt. 19:16-22

  19. Humility How to develop humility • Do something that will humble you (cf. 2 Cor. 4:5-7, 1 Tim. 6:17-19) • Pray about it • Associate with the humble, Rom. 12:16

  20. Does our heart manifest patience and honesty?

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