Plymouth Haven Baptist Church

What Is Patience?
God’s Patience Towards Us
Why is God so patient with us?
- So That Satan Might Not Sift Us When We Fail
- So There’s No Distance Between Us and Him When We Fail
- So That Our Failures Aren’t the Final Word
- So That Our Failures Won’t Disqualify Us
- So That Our Failures Will Lead Us to Repentance
Our Patience Towards Each Other

God’s Version of Peace
Romans 5:1-2: Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Colossians 3:14-15 But above all these put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you were called in one body; and be thankful.

1. Joy comes from pressing through chaos into a place of protection and revelation. 2. True joy is found when one moves from difficulty (waters of chaos) into the security of God's presence. 3. The emotional part of joy, on our part is the celebration of reaching the destination of God’s presence.

1. Love comes from the Father 2. The Love in us must be revealed to us and to others 3. Love helps us deal with crisis 4. The opposite of Love is NOT hate, but fear 5. Love starts internally and ends externally