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Add to self-control
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• II Peter 15-11 So make every effort to apply
  the benefits of these promises to your life. Then
  your faith will produce a life of moral
  excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to
  knowing God better. 6 Knowing God leads to
  self-control. Self-control leads to patient
  endurance, and patient endurance leads to
  godliness. 7 Godliness leads to love for other
  Christians, and finally you will grow to have
  genuine love for everyone. 8 The more you grow
  like this, the more you will become productive
  and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus
  Christ. 9 But those who fail to develop these
  virtues are blind or, at least, very
  shortsighted. They have already forgotten that
  God has cleansed them from their old life of sin.
  10 So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to
  prove that you really are among those God has
  called and chosen. Doing this, you will never
  stumble or fall away. 11 And God will open wide
  the gates of heaven for you to enter into the
  eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus
  Christ. (New Living Testament)

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• Hupomone in Greek remaining under pressure that
  God ordains. Not surren-dering to the
  circumstances that are pressuring you.
• Jesus called us to carry a yoke
• Matthew 1129 Take my yoke upon you, and learn
  of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye
  shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke
  is easy, and my burden is light.
• Luke 923 And He said to them all, If any man
  will come after me, let him deny himself, and
  take up his cross daily, and follow me.
• All this demands patience.

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• Patience Toward God
• Psalm 377 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.
• Psalms 731-28 Truly God is good to Israel, To
  such as are pure in heart. 2 But as for me, my
  feet had almost stumbled My steps had nearly
  slipped. 3 For I was envious of the boastful,
  When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For
  there are no pangs in their death, But their
  strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as
  other men, Nor are they plagued like other men. 6
  Therefore pride

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• serves as their necklace Violence covers them
  like a garment. 7 Their eyes bulge with
  abundance They have more than heart could wish.
  8 They scoff and speak wickedly concerning
  oppression They speak loftily. 9 They set their
  mouth against the heavens, And their tongue walks
  through the earth. 10 Therefore his people return
  here, And waters of a full cup are drained by
  them. 11 And they say, How does God know? And is
  there knowledge in the Most High? 12 Behold,
  these are the ungodly, Who are always at ease
  They increase in riches. 13 Surely I have
  cleansed my heart in vain, And washed my hands in
  innocence. 14 For all day long I have been
  plagued, And chastened every morning. 15 If I had
  said, I will speak thus,

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• Behold, I would have been untrue to the
  generation of Your children. 16 When I thought
  how to understand this, It was too painful for me
  - 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God Then
  I understood their end. 18 Surely You set them in
  slippery places You cast them down to
  destruction. 19 Oh, how they are brought to
  desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly
  consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one
  awakes, So, Lord, when You awake, You shall
  despise their image. 21 Thus my heart was
  grieved, And I was vexed in my mind. 22 I was so
  foolish and ignorant I was like a beast before
  You. 23 Nevertheless I am continually with You
  You hold me by my right hand. 24 You will guide
  me with Your

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• counsel, And afterward receive me to glory. 25
  Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none
  upon earth that I desire besides You. 26 My flesh
  and my heart fail But God is the strength of my
  heart and my portion forever. 27 For indeed,
  those who are far from You shall perish You have
  destroy-ed all those who desert You for harlotry.
  28 But it is good for me to draw near to God I
  have put my trust in the Lord GOD, That I may
  declare all Your works.
• PATIENCE TOWARDS GODS WORD
• Luke 815 But the ones that fell on the good
  ground are those who, having heard the word with
  a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit
  with patience.

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• Hebrews 1036 For you have need of endurance, so
  that after you have done the will of God, you may
  receive the promise
• Patience When You Pray

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• PATIENCE TOWARDS GOD DURING PAIN
• Romans 53 And not only that, but we also glory
  in tribulations, knowing that tribulation
  produces perseverance
• James 13-4 For when your faith is tested, your
  endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow,
  for when your endurance is fully developed, you
  will be strong in character and ready for
  anything. (NLT)
• I Peter 219-21 For this is commendable, if
  because of conscience toward God one endures
  grief, suffering wrongfully. 20 For what credit
  is it if, when you are beaten for your faults,
  you take it patiently? But when you do good and
  suffer, if you take it patiently, this is
  commend-able before God. 21 For to this you were
  called, because Christ also suffered for us,
  leaving us an example, that you should follow His
  steps

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• PATEINCE TOWARDS OTHERS
• Romans 154-5 For whatever things were written
  before were written for our learning, that we
  through the patience and comfort of the
  Scriptures might have hope. 5 Now may the God of
  patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded
  toward one another, accord-ing to Christ Jesus.
• Genesis 2615-22 Now the Philistines had stopped
  up all the wells which his fathers servants had
  dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they
  had filled them with earth. 16 And Abimelech said
  to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are much
  mightier than we. 17 Then Isaac departed from
  there and pitched his tent in the Valley of
  Gerar, and dwelt there. 18 And Isaac dug again the

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• wells of water which they had dug in the days of
  Abraham his father, for the Philistines had
  stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He
  called them by the names which his father had
  called them. 19 Also Isaacs servants dug in the
  valley, and found a well of running water there.
  20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with
  Isaacs herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. So
  he called the name of the well Esek, because they
  quarreled with him. 21 Then they dug another
  well, and they quarreled over that one also. So
  he called its name Sitnah. 22 And he moved from
  there and dug another well, and they did not
  quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth,
  because he said, For now the LORD has made room
  for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

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• Gods Patience Toward Us
• I Timothy 115-17 How true the saying is, and
  worthy of the fullest acceptance, that Christ
  Jesus came into the world to save sinners! And
  there is no greater sinner than I! 16 Yet mercy
  was shown me for the express purpose that Christ
  Jesus might exhibit in my case, beyond all
  others, His exhaustless patience, as an example
  for those who were afterwards to believe on him
  and attain Immortal Life. 17 To the Immortal
  King, ever-living, invisible, the one God, be
  ascribed honour and glory for ever and ever.
  Amen. (TCNT)

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• Saddam Hussein or Osama Ben Laden
• Acts 269-12 Indeed, I myself thought I must do
  many things contrary to the name of Jesus of
  Nazareth. 10 This I also did in Jerusalem, and
  many of the saints I shut up in prison, having
  received authority from the chief priests and
  when they were put to death, I cast my vote
  against them. 11 And I punished them often in
  every synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme
  and being exceed-ingly enraged against them, I
  persecuted them even to foreign cities. 12 While
  thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with
  authority and commission from the chief priests

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• Acts 7 Stephen Acts 8 Entered Christians
  homes
• Acts 9 Ananias
• Acts 910-16 Now there was a certain disciple at
  Damascus named Ananias and to him the Lord said
  in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Here I am,
  Lord. 11 So the Lord said to him, Arise and go
  to the street called Straight, and inquire at the
  house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus, for
  behold, he is praying. 12 And in a vision he has
  seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting
  his hand on him, so that he might receive his

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• sight. 13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have
  heard from many about this man, how much harm he
  has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. 14 And here
  he has authority from the chief priests to bind
  all who call on Your name.
• 15 But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a
  chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before
  Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. 16
  For I will show him how many things he must
  suffer for My names sake.

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• Sauls Conversion
• He Heard the words of the Lord Acts 94-5
• He Believed the Lord Acts 96
• He Repented Acts 96
• He Confess his belief Acts 96
• He went to Damascus and waited - praying 3 days
  and night.
• Ananias told him, And now why are you waiting?
  Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins,
  calling on the name of the Lord. (Acts 2216)