Qualities of a pure heart - 4

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Qualities of a pure heart - 4
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Patience

• Bearing pains and trials calmly or without
  complaint.Manifesting forbearance under
  provocation or strainNot hasty or
  impetuousSteadfast despite opposition,
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Patience

• The capacity to continue to bear up under
  difficult circumstances.Not hasty or impetuous
  (LN)
• Temperance, forbearance, endurance,
  long-suffering, etc.

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Patience

• While seeking to maintain a pure heart, you will
  face difficulties. You need patience.
• 2 Peter 15-7 after temperance with our virtue

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Patience

• While seeking to maintain a pure heart, you will
  face difficulties. You need patience.
• 2 Peter 15-7 after temperance with our virtue

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Patience

• The patience of God
• 1 Peter 320-21
• Nehemiah 917
• 2 Peter 39
• Romans 155

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Patience

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

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Patience

• Gal. 522-23, A fruit of the Spirit
• Luke 2119, By your patience possess your souls
• 2 Tim. 224, a servant of the Lord

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Patience

• 1 Thess. 514, Be patient with all
• Heb. 121, let us run with endurance the race
• James 57-8, Be patientuntil the coming of the
  Lord.

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Patience

• Developing patience
• Learn self-control
• Pause before you react (cf. Jas. 119)
• Realized the good that can come from patience
  (Rom. 53-4), Jas. 13-4

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Patience

• Developing patience
• Get organized
• Be thankful to God count your many blessings

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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.

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Humility

• Moses, Num. 123
• John the Baptist, cf. Jn. 135-37, 330 He must
  increase, but I must decrease.
• Jesus, Phil. 25-7, John 131-9

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Humility

• Matt. 53, Blessed are the poor in Spirit.
• Matt. 55, Blessed are the meek.
• Phil. 23-4, lowliness of mind let each esteem
  others better than himself.

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Humility

• Rom. 123, not to think more highly of
  himself
• 1 Cor. 134, Lovedoes not parade itself, is not
  puffed up
• James 46, 10, God resists the proud, gives grace
  to the humble.

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Humility

• 1 Pet. 55-7, be clothed in humility
• Psa. 1386, Though the Lord is on high, yet He
  regards the lowly but the proud He knows from
  afar.

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Humility

• Prov. 165, Everyone proud in heart is an
  abomination to the Lord
• Micah 68, 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

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Humility

• How to develop humility
• Begin with honest evaluation especially in
  Gods eyes
• Be thankful
• Overcome worldliness, Matt. 1916-22

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Humility

• How to develop humility
• Do something that will humble you (cf. 2 Cor.
  45-7, 1 Tim. 617-19)
• Pray about it
• Associate with the humble, Rom. 1216

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• Does our heart manifest patience and honesty?