THE GRACE OF PATIENCE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 18, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 42.

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THE GRACE OF PATIENCE.

1. A Great Need.

"Ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." Heb. 10:36.

2. Sources of Patience.

"Tribulation worketh patience." Rom. 5:3. "The trying of your faith worketh patience." James 1:3.

3. Not to Be Hindered.

"Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." James 1:4.

4. A Source of Hope.

"Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope." Rom. 15:4; also chapter 5:3, 4.

5. To Be Commended in Christians.

"We ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure." 2 Thess. 1:4. "If, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God." 1 Peter 2:20.

6. Examples in God and Christ.

"For even hereunto were ye called; because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps." 1 Peter 2:21. "Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to [margin, "after the example of"] Christ Jesus." Rom. 15:5.

7. A Feature of Christian Growth.

"Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness," etc. 2 Peter 1:5-8. "Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith." Heb. 12:1, 2.

8. Essential to the Ministry.

"In all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses," etc. 2 Cor. 6:4.

9. Essential to Contentment.

"If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it." Rom. 8:25.

10. Essential in the Trials of the Last Days.

"Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." James 5:7, 8.