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wait: another 4-letter word James 5:7-11

wait: another 4-letter word James 5:7-11. 250,000 times more likely. 25,000 times more likely. 1,300 times more likely. 18 times more likely. 3 times more likely. wait: another 4-letter word James 5:7-11. Job 5:7 For man is born for trouble, As sparks fly upward . Complain Fight

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wait: another 4-letter word James 5:7-11

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  1. wait: another 4-letter wordJames 5:7-11

  2. 250,000 times more likely

  3. 25,000 times more likely

  4. 1,300 times more likely

  5. 18 times more likely

  6. 3 times more likely

  7. wait: another 4-letter wordJames 5:7-11

  8. Job 5:7 For man is born for trouble, As sparks fly upward.

  9. Complain Fight Escape Hoard Blame Natural responses to suffering

  10. Patient Endurance

  11. Patience “prolonged restraint of passion or anger” “to bear up under provocation w/o complaint” Endurance “to remain under” “to maintain a belief or course of action in the face of opposition, hostility or suffering” Patient Endurance

  12. Steadfast hope Deuteronomy 11:14 He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil. Patient Endurance

  13. Steadfast hope Jeremiah 5:24 “Let us now fear the Lord our God, who gives rain in its season, both the autumn rain and the spring rain, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Patient Endurance

  14. Steadfast hope • Christ will come to bless Ezekiel 34:26–27 “...I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing. Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on their land.” Patient Endurance

  15. Steadfast hope • Christ will come to bless • Christ will come to vindicate Patient Endurance

  16. Steadfast hope Reverent fear 1 Peter 4:17 For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God.... Patient Endurance

  17. Steadfast hope Reverent fear 2 Corinthians 5:10–11 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men... Patient Endurance

  18. Steadfast hope Reverent fear Diligent labor Patient Endurance

  19. Application • recognize suffering is normal • dwell on the appearing of Jesus • give thanks for what you have now

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