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• Review from last week - Persevering faith is demonstrated by daily:
  • Acknowledging God’s sovereignty over our lives.
  • Obediently following the will of God.
  • Confidently trusting in the justice of God.
• Persevering faith is demonstrated by daily:
  • Practicing patience in suffering.
    • In light of this suffering you are experiencing, and the judgement coming to those rich oppressors, be patient until the Lord’s coming.
• Patience – enduring under provocation.
  • Waiting with the right attitude.
  • Staying put and standing fast, even though you want to quit or run away.
  • Endure and expect.
• The example of the Farmer:
  • Understands the process.
    • Waiting on the Lord is normal – suffering for the Lord is normal.
  • Relies on things out of their control.
    • Honour God with what we can control and patiently leave with God those things that are outside our control.
  • Continues to work while waiting.
    • Keep working even as we patiently wait.
  • Understands the value of the crop.
    • We are waiting for Jesus.
• Stand firm, strengthen your heart.
  • Our hearts are strengthened by each other, by the church, by doing life in community with other believers.
• Do not grumble against one another.
  • Impatience with God can lead to impatience with each other.
  • Don’t allow impatience in your suffering to lead to infighting in the church.
• The example of the prophets:
  • They all suffered greatly at the hands of other people.
    • Even though they were in the will of God.
  • Obedience to God is not a guarantee of a life of ease and pleasure.
    • We are called to continue witnessing and sharing the Gospel, even in the midst of suffering.
• The example of Job:
  • He was righteous, yet God allowed him to suffer greatly.
  • He persevered.
  • God restored him fully.
  • In our suffering God is at work to give us something much better than what we want - Paul David Tripp.
  • There is no perseverance without trials, no victory without battles, no peaks without valleys.
• Persevering faith is demonstrated by daily:
  • Simply speaking the truth.
  • Let your speech be trustworthy, consistent, reliable, and dependable.
  • In our Christian community, the family of God, we need to avoid the flippant use of oaths.
    • Practice plain speaking.
    • Let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no.
    • Be people of integrity.
    • Remember that the way we speak reveals our spiritual condition.
• Living for Jesus – Walking the Talk – Persevering in our Faith.
  • Practice patience in your suffering and simply speak the truth.

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