LIMITS OF PATIENCE

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Patience

a) We have often heard it said that you should never pray for patience because when you do, the Lord is sure to give you something to try your patience. Patience is a word and a concept that is used a lot in the Bible. 

b) An Old English word for patience is “longsuffering”.  Some other synonyms for patience or patient are: tolerance, forbearance and resignation.  

2. Limits Of Patience

Genesis 6:3 
Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”

Proverbs 29:1 
He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Ecclesiastes 8:11 
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

Jeremiah 44:22 
The LORD could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Matthew 25:41 
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels…”  

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