Text: 2 Peter 1:5-8 Topic: Growth In Christian Virtue. Thesis: Believers Must Work Out

Text: 2 Peter 1:5-8 Topic: Growth in Christian Virtue. Thesis: Believers must work out their own salvation. Title:

Climbing the Christian Construct,

Step Five-Patience

Patience is a ____________ lacking in American society today.

Patience is a commodity lacking in American society today.

Patience is a commodity lacking in American society today. Patience is that ____________ Program producing results, or any other goal worth attaining in your life, or your _______.

Patience is a commodity lacking in American society today. Patience is that Diet/Exercise Program producing results, or any other goal worth attaining in your life, or your church.

Patience is waiting for the right person to ______.

Patience is waiting for the right person to marry.

Patience is waiting for the right person to marry.

Patience is not ___________...

Patience is waiting for the right person to marry.

Patience is not multi-tasking...

Jacob needed _________. His name means, “heel grabber or supplanter.” God used his ____________________________ ________.

Jacob needed patience. His name means, “heel grabber or supplanter.” God used his circumstances to cultivate his character.

Patience means… 1. _________

Patience means… 1. Slow Burn “When 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 not done in our country — giving the younger before the firstborn.” (Gen. 29:25-26 NRSV)

Patience means… 1. Slow Burn “When 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 not done in our country — giving the younger before the firstborn.” (Gen. 29:25-26 NRSV)

Patience means… 2. ___________

Patience means… 2. Self Restraint “He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall ___________________; if you will do this for me, I will again feed your flock 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 among the goats; and _______________________.”

Patience means… 2. Self Restraint “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 your flock 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 among the goats; and such shall be my wages.” (Gen. 30:31-32 NRSV)

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Kingdom Point: _________ produce patience.

Kingdom Point: Problems produce patience. “And not only that, but we also boast in our ________, knowing that ________ produces endurance,” (patience)

(Romans 5:3 NRSV)

Kingdom Point: Problems produce patience. “And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,” (patience)

(Romans 5:3 NRSV)

Patience means… 3. ________

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 changed my 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 labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."” (Gen. 31:41-42 NRSV)

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 changed my 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 labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."” (Gen. 31:41-42 NRSV)

“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)

“For if these things are yours and are increasing among you, they keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2 Peter 1:8 NRSV)