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GOD GIVES YOU PATIENCE- Minister Max Lucado · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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Speaker 1: If you're a guest or new to Okill Church, let
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Speaker 1: me tell you what we're up to. We're working our
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Speaker 1: way through the thirty Big Ideas of the Bible, the
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Speaker 1: ten Major Doctrines, the ten Teachers of Behavior, and currently
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Speaker 1: in the ten Essential Virtues, using a topical Bible that
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Speaker 1: Randy Frazy, our senior minister, put together. It leads us
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Speaker 1: through the major sections of scripture that deal with the
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Speaker 1: thirty big ideas of teaching in Scripture. One of those
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Speaker 1: has to do with patience. And that's where we are today,
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Speaker 1: and we're asking the question, how does God provide the
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Speaker 1: help I need to meet with stress? And the answer,
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Speaker 1: I am slow to anger and you're patiently under the
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Speaker 1: unavoidable pressures of life. Here's our key scripture. Whoever is
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Speaker 1: patient has great understanding, but one who is quick tempered
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Speaker 1: displays fall. So what's our keyword for the day. Let's
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Speaker 1: all say it together. Patience. Patience. We're going to pray
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Speaker 1: and then see what the scripture has to say about patients.
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Speaker 1: We're praying for a church called nineteen ten. They're one
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Speaker 1: of the fourteen churches in the South Texas area that
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Speaker 1: are working through these thirty ideas with us' want to
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Speaker 1: pray for Pastor Jason Brown. And so Lord, we come
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Speaker 1: to you now in the name of Christ, to ask
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Speaker 1: your blessings to be poured abundantly on the nineteen ten Church,
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Speaker 1: the wonderful work they do in Bernie. We pray for
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Speaker 1: Pastor Jason, that you had strengthened that fellowship, and that
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Speaker 1: we could unite our hearts with theirs.
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Speaker 2: In the pursuit of you.
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Speaker 1: Our speaker is in need of forgiveness.
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Speaker 2: Forgive his sins.
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Speaker 1: There many help us to see Christ, just Christ, through Christ.
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Speaker 2: We pray, and all the church said.
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Speaker 1: Young cowboy pushed us stroller through the mall. The baby
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Speaker 1: in the stroller was howling at the top of his lungs.
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Speaker 1: The nervous dad was overheard saying, Homer, just be calm, Homer,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be okay, Homer, control yourself. A woman
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Speaker 1: noticed his anxiety and had compassion on him and came
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Speaker 1: over and said, you're doing such a fine job of
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Speaker 1: fathering young men. I just want you to know you
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Speaker 1: know just how to speak to infants. You're so calm,
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Speaker 1: so assuring, with such great patience. And then she said,
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Speaker 1: how old is little Homer anyway, and he said, oh.
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Speaker 3: No, I'm Homer. That's Luke.
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Speaker 1: All of us have been in Homer's boots, but not
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Speaker 1: all of us have known what to do what Homer did.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes we yell at the person who who's testing our
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Speaker 1: patients instead of talking to ourselves. The better approach is Homer's,
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Speaker 1: and he helps us understand the power of patience and
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Speaker 1: self control. The Apostle Paul once wrote a letter to
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Speaker 1: a church that was in complete chaos. At the heart
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Speaker 1: of the epistle is the heart of the problem. They
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Speaker 1: needed to love one another. And so the apostle picks
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Speaker 1: up the pen of a poet and he writes this
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Speaker 1: beautiful paragraph. Love is what patient. Love is kind. It
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Speaker 1: does not envy, It does not boast. It is not proud,
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Speaker 1: It is not self seeking. It is not easily angered.
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Speaker 1: It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight
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Speaker 1: in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects,
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Speaker 1: It always trusts, It always hopes, It always perseveres.
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Speaker 2: Love never fails.
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Speaker 1: This is the armad of love, Like a fleet on
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Speaker 1: the Pacific, These virtues are a flotilla of devotion.
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Speaker 3: Every virtue is a ship.
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Speaker 1: Every ship has a sail and emblazoned on each vessel,
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Speaker 1: or these virtues of divine love forgiveness and kindness and
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Speaker 1: hope and trust. But at the very beginning, at the
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Speaker 1: vanguard of this flotilla of ships is the ship called patience.
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Speaker 1: Before any love is anything else. The apostle says, love
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Speaker 1: is love is patient.
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Speaker 3: It is patient. I'm getting impatient. We would love it.
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Speaker 1: If the apostle would add a few adverbs, it would
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Speaker 1: have been so much kinder of him to say love
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Speaker 1: is occasionally patient, usually patient, even typically patient.
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Speaker 3: But alas.
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Speaker 1: Love is just patient and no nouns either. It would
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Speaker 1: have been nice for him to say love is patient
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Speaker 1: with good drivers, or love.
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Speaker 3: Is patient with attentive spouses.
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Speaker 1: Or love is patient with respectful employees. But there are
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Speaker 1: no adverbs to qualify. There are no nouns to quantify,
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Speaker 1: just this command that mystified. Love before it is anything else,
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Speaker 1: is patient. Am I right when I say we struggle
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Speaker 1: to be patient? We struggle with patience. We hate to wait.
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Speaker 1: We're slow to slow down because of two things, time
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Speaker 1: and expectations. We don't have much of the first, and
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Speaker 1: we sure have a lot of the second. We're running
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Speaker 1: law on time, and we have high expectations that things
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Speaker 1: will be done in a timely fashion so that we
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Speaker 1: can go on with life. And when you're running law
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Speaker 1: on time and your expectations are not met, you end
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Speaker 1: up not having your super duper mango mango juice. At
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Speaker 1: least that's what happened to me. The super duper mango
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Speaker 1: juice has served at a really nice little juice bar
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Speaker 1: that's right next to a sandwich shop. I didn't have time,
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Speaker 1: there's the first element for a sandwich. But I did
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Speaker 1: have time to buy a super duper mango mango juice
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Speaker 1: and drink it in the car on the way to
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Speaker 1: an appointment. So I hurried in, walked right past the
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Speaker 1: sandwich place, went right up to the juice bar.
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Speaker 3: And guess what, there was no attendant.
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Speaker 1: There's the collision, running out of time, high expectation. Don't
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Speaker 1: you expect an attendant to be behind the counter when
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Speaker 1: you want to order a super duper mango mango juice.
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Speaker 1: I looked and I found him. He was eating a
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Speaker 1: sandwich in the adjacent sandwich shop. Well, to his credit,
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Speaker 1: he noticed that I was there, and he stood up,
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Speaker 1: walked around the counter and was just about to take
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Speaker 1: my order when he looked at me and he said.
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Speaker 3: Excuse me, and he disappeared. He went behind the wall.
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Speaker 1: I think to wash his hands. But for the time
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Speaker 1: it took, he may have gone to a day's ball,
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Speaker 1: may have gotten a facial may have gotten a manicure.
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Speaker 3: So I waited.
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Speaker 2: I waited.
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Speaker 1: I drummed my fingers, I cleared my throat, I paid
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Speaker 1: my taxes, I attended the graduation of my yet to
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Speaker 1: be born great granddaughter. I grew impatient, and when he
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Speaker 1: finally returned, I had run out of time and out of.
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Speaker 3: So I, with no.
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Speaker 1: Small irritation in my voice, said I don't have time.
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Speaker 3: And I turned.
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Speaker 1: Yes, your preacher turned and walked out. Don't you look
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Speaker 1: at me that way?
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Speaker 3: You've done the same thing.
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Speaker 1: Right who needs confession?
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Speaker 3: Right now?
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Speaker 1: Be ye forgiven, be ye forgiven. You've done the same thing.
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Speaker 1: Not with super duper mango mango juice, necessarily, but when
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Speaker 1: the traffic was too slow, when the report was too late,
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Speaker 1: when the kids were too negligent. We've run out of patience.
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Speaker 1: Is that to say we shouldn't have expectations? Is that
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Speaker 1: to say the world shouldn't operate in a certain fashion.
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Speaker 1: Is that to say that we are wrong to expect
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Speaker 1: a person to be behind the counter not saying that
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Speaker 1: at all. Then when is impatience a problem? Well, the
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Speaker 1: apostle Paul helps us here. You're gonna love this. When
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Speaker 1: he and one Corinthians thirteen says love is patient, he
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Speaker 1: uses the most novel Greek word. The word literally means
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Speaker 1: takes a long time to boil, takes a long time
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Speaker 1: to boil. Now, I don't do much in the kitchen,
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Speaker 1: but I do know how to boil water. Are you impressed?
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Speaker 1: I know how to boil water, and I know that
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Speaker 1: water by itself doesn't get hot, and I know that
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Speaker 1: the pot may contribute to the heating of the water.
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Speaker 1: But if you want water to get hot, you have
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Speaker 1: to have a flame. And so if you want the
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Speaker 1: water to get hot to boil quickly, you make the
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Speaker 1: flame high. But if you want to kind of let
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Speaker 1: it simmer, if you want it to take a long time.
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Speaker 2: To boil, you keep the flame low.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure anybody can make it through life, even
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Speaker 1: make it through a week, without feeling the flame of impatience,
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Speaker 1: right or wrong.
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Speaker 2: But we can keep the flame low. We can check it.
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Speaker 2: We can sense it, we can turn the knob down.
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Speaker 1: We can say Homer, Homer, Lord, Lord help me, and
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Speaker 1: God will. He will help us with patience. And one
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Speaker 1: of the ways he helps us is by reminding us
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Speaker 1: that every person we meet is an unfinished project. There
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Speaker 1: are no completed the people on the planet. Every person
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Speaker 1: is a work in progress. The apostle Paul said this
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Speaker 1: about people when he wrote a church in Philippi. He said,
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Speaker 1: I thank my God every time I remembered you, always
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Speaker 1: praying with joy for all of you. I thank God
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Speaker 1: for the help you gave me while I preached the
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Speaker 1: good news, help you gave me from the first day.
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Speaker 3: You believed until now. Now look at this.
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Speaker 1: God began doing a good work in you, and I
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Speaker 1: am sure He will continue it until it is finished.
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Speaker 1: When when Jesus Christ comes again? Has Jesus Christ returned?
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Speaker 1: Have we experienced the Second Coming? Have we been raptured?
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Speaker 1: Have we entered into the New Age?
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Speaker 3: No? Not yet? So what does that mean.
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Speaker 1: That every person is still a work in progress?
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Speaker 3: Every person?
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Speaker 1: A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet
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Speaker 1: a brilliant sculptor by the name of Jerry mckinna. He
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Speaker 1: lives in nearby Bernie, Texas. He's gained a reputation as
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Speaker 1: one of the finest craftsmen of our generation, and his
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Speaker 1: sculptures adorn college campuses and arenas and colise ins and
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Speaker 1: church sanctuaries.
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Speaker 3: All over the world.
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Speaker 1: He allowed me the opportunity to tour his workshop. I
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Speaker 1: asked him many questions about the creative process.
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Speaker 3: His workshop is fascinating.
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Speaker 1: It's a vast collection of statues in progress, unfinished projects,
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Speaker 1: partially completed statues are everywhere. There are heads with nobodies,
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Speaker 1: and there are bodies with no heads. Now, how shortsighted
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Speaker 1: would it have been for me in the studio to
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Speaker 1: tell the artisan, Hey, Jerry, this statue's missing an arm. Jerry,
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Speaker 1: aren't you glad I'm here? You forgot to put a
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Speaker 1: nose on this guy, Jerry, Look at this, These horses
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Speaker 1: still need legs. Were I to say that, Jerry would
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Speaker 1: rightly say to me, duh.
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Speaker 3: Do you not know where you are?
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Speaker 1: This is not a gallery of completed works. This is
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Speaker 1: a workshop of works in progress. When you go to
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Speaker 1: God and say God, my husband is missing a few things,
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Speaker 1: I'll let you fill in the blanks. And you say,
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Speaker 1: my wife is coming up short on God's response to
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Speaker 1: you might be duh, do you not know where you are?
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Speaker 1: All of earth is God's workshop. Every every person, the
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Speaker 1: one who checks out your groceries, the one who takes
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Speaker 1: your blood pressure, the one who.
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Speaker 3: Delivers your babies.
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Speaker 1: The one who's running for president, the one who teaches
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Speaker 1: your kids in school, every person. They may have forgotten,
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Speaker 1: but you can remember they're just works in progress. And
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Speaker 1: once we understand that we are not in a gallery
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Speaker 1: of com pleanted work, but we're in a studio, a
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Speaker 1: workshop of works in progress, that gives us then the wherewithal.
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Speaker 3: To be just a little more.
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Speaker 1: Come on, I'm getting impatient, a little more patient. You
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Speaker 1: have a tool now, and you can say, okay, that's right.
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Speaker 1: God still working on her. On the modest tombstone marking
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Speaker 1: the burial place of Billy Graham's wife, Ruth, or the
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Speaker 1: self selected words end of construction, thank you for your patience.
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Speaker 1: She chose her epitaph some years earlier when she saw
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Speaker 1: highway sign that bore the same message, and she told
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Speaker 1: her husband that phrase captures the promise and the meaning
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Speaker 1: of the Christian faith. End of construction, Thank you for
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Speaker 1: your patience. Finding it hard to like some unlikable people,
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Speaker 1: well maybe it'd be good to focus on where they
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Speaker 1: are in where we all are, and that is in
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Speaker 1: a workshop, not a gallery. God is not finished with
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Speaker 1: that person. He is ever dipping the tip of his
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Speaker 1: brush in his palate, ever wearing his apron, ever adjusting, correcting, shaping.
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Speaker 1: Someday he'll be finished, Philippians won success. It is finished
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Speaker 1: when Jesus Christ comes again. There will come a day
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Speaker 1: in which God will remove his apron, in which the
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Speaker 1: artist will set down his palate, and all of these
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Speaker 1: projects will be brought into God's gallery. We will be
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Speaker 1: brought into God's gallery. Another translation of the passage says.
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Speaker 3: That God, who started this great.
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Speaker 1: Work in you, will keep at it and bring it
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Speaker 1: to a flourishing finish on.
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Speaker 2: The very day Christ Jesus appears.
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Speaker 3: Why don't you remember this.
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Speaker 1: The next time the snores of your husband wake you
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Speaker 1: up before you elbowing, Remember someday angels will pause to
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Speaker 1: hear him sing.
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Speaker 3: That's going to be a work of God, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: The next time your wife explodes in a fit of anxiety,
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Speaker 1: just envision the day.
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Speaker 3: That she will be.
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Speaker 1: The picture of perfect peace. The next time your children
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Speaker 1: get irresponsible with their dirty clothes or their homework, just
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Speaker 1: remember God's doing something special in them.
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Speaker 3: And there will come a day.
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Speaker 1: In which even the angels would pause to hear what
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Speaker 1: they have to say. And that day will come when
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Speaker 1: Christ comes. It's not come yet. So how do we
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Speaker 1: know that someone is still in the workshop of God?
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Speaker 1: Check to see if they have a pulse. That means
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Speaker 1: that God is still working on them. And you step
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Speaker 1: out on the path of patience when you begin praying
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Speaker 1: for God to work in them instead of doing the
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Speaker 1: work yourself. He may ask you to help, But then
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Speaker 1: again he may say, I can fix that person on
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Speaker 1: my own. Some of you are thinking, Max, I've been
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Speaker 1: waiting for God to fix that person for.
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Speaker 3: A long long time.
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Speaker 1: Could it be that the calendar that God has is
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Speaker 1: more important than the calendar that we have. That He
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Speaker 1: knows the pace, the rate, the correct speed at which
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Speaker 1: to bring about change in a person's life. And could
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Speaker 1: it be that the best response for you is the
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Speaker 1: response of patience. The apostle Paul said, be what's the
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Speaker 1: word patient? Bearing with one another. Great sculptor Michaelangelo reportedly
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Speaker 1: once saw a large rock and declared, there's an angel
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Speaker 1: in there. Just felt to somebody to chip away the
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Speaker 1: unnecessary parts. God is chipping away the unnecessary parts in
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Speaker 1: all of us. Until then it does us well to practice.
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Speaker 1: Patients have four questions with which we will conclude, And
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Speaker 1: these are four questions to take us on the path
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Speaker 1: of patience. The first question is a bit abrupt question
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Speaker 1: number one, Who died and made you?
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Speaker 3: God?
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Speaker 1: Is your agenda the one around which the world revolves?
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Speaker 1: Is it your calendar that Heaven consults for future decisions?
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Speaker 1: Isn't impatience the child arrogance? We hate to wait because
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Speaker 1: we have our plans, we have our schedules, we have
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Speaker 1: our agendas.
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Speaker 3: Be careful.
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Speaker 1: You may design a room in the house that God
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Speaker 1: is the architect of the house. People may make plans
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Speaker 1: in their mind, but the Lord decides what they will do.
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Speaker 1: Question number two, have you asked God to help you?
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Speaker 1: Have you asked God to help you? Did you know
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Speaker 1: that patience is a fruit of the spirit. It's right
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Speaker 1: there in Galatians five and verse twenty two, that beautiful
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Speaker 1: orchard that lists all of the fruits of the Holy Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience.
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Speaker 3: In other words. When you say.
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Speaker 1: Yes to God, he deposits his Holy Spirit within you,
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Speaker 1: and as you grow in faith, God grows in you,
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Speaker 1: and these fruits begin to be manifest from you. And
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Speaker 1: someone who has the privilege of living near you benefits
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Speaker 1: from your love, your joy, your peace, and yes, your patience,
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Speaker 1: because it's really the patience of the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 3: So no longer can we say, well.
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Speaker 2: I'm just an impatient person.
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Speaker 3: You can't say that anymore.
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Speaker 1: If you've said yes to Christ, because now Christ is
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Speaker 1: in you.
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Speaker 3: It's no longer you who live.
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Speaker 1: It's Christ who lives in you and through you, and
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Speaker 1: discipleship as letting Christ grow larger and larger as the
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Speaker 1: self dies, more and more right, and so you have
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Speaker 1: now access to the patience of Heaven. So the new
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Speaker 1: you that God is creating is going to be a
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Speaker 1: patient person. And it is your birthright as a child
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Speaker 1: of God to say God, could I have some more
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Speaker 1: of that patience please? And God will be quick to answer. Now,
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Speaker 1: since the devil loves for us to be impatient, he's
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Speaker 1: going to interrupt and create tests and create difficult circumstances.
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Speaker 3: All you need to do is remember.
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Speaker 1: Every person who is a work in progress. No one
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Speaker 1: died and made you God and your one prayer away
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Speaker 1: from patience. And God never grows impatient with your prayers
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Speaker 1: for patience. You may grow impatient for your lack.
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Speaker 2: Of prayers for patience.
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Speaker 1: And since it's the fruit of the spirit, ask and
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Speaker 1: you shall receive. Question number three, do you understand the situation?
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Speaker 1: Do you understand the situation? Do you know why some
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Speaker 1: people are more patient than others? It has to do
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Speaker 1: with understanding patient people. Proverbs fourteen says, have great understanding
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Speaker 1: patient people have great understanding. What does this mean? Well,
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Speaker 1: a few years ago we took the church staff to Louisville,
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Speaker 1: Kentucky for a church growth conference. It was a wonderful weekend.
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Speaker 1: I remember one message in particular. I wanted to hear
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Speaker 1: a workshop. I showed up early, as in a relatively
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Speaker 1: small classroom, and I sat on the front row. I
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Speaker 1: really wanted to hear what this speaker had to say,
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Speaker 1: but I could hardly focus because there was a disruption
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Speaker 1: going on in the classroom. About five or six rows
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Speaker 1: behind me. I could hear two guys talking. You couldn't
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Speaker 1: discern what they were saying. It wasn't that loud, but
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Speaker 1: they were mumbling back and forth, and so I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to listen to the teacher in the background. Well, it
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Speaker 1: was irritating, distracting. I was just about to turn around
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Speaker 1: and give some buddy a glaire when the teacher said,
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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, I forgot to give an explanation. You've
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Speaker 1: all probably heard those two guys talking in the back,
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Speaker 1: and I nodded my head. He said, we have a
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Speaker 1: special guest today, an elder from a small church in
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Speaker 1: Romania who flew all the way here just to attend
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Speaker 1: this conference. But he doesn't speak a word of English,
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Speaker 1: and so we have a translator.
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Speaker 3: See what happened?
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Speaker 1: What happened understanding when I understood the context or the situation,
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Speaker 1: that opened the door for.
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Speaker 2: Patience.
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Speaker 1: When you find yourself impatient, ask yourself the question, do
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Speaker 1: I understand? Maybe there's something more going on here than
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Speaker 1: I thought. As one of our friends says, it takes
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Speaker 1: an all fully thin board to just have one side,
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Speaker 1: and so there's probably another side to this source of
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Speaker 1: conflict that you haven't heard. Wise is the boss the
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Speaker 1: employee who makes it a employer who makes it a
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Speaker 1: habit of saying to his or her employees, help me understand.
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Speaker 1: Just help me understand why this is late. Help me
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Speaker 1: understand why this is awful or why this didn't get done.
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Speaker 1: Patience does not endorse misbehavior. Patience first tries to understand
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Speaker 1: how misbehavior happened, and then responds accordingly, and then question, oh,
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Speaker 1: a passage before I go to the next question, A
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Speaker 1: man of understanding Proverbs eleven twelve says keeps silent. The
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Speaker 1: wise man says, a man of understanding is even tempered.
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Speaker 3: Don't you like that?
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Speaker 1: Proverbs twenty four to three says it takes wisdom to
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Speaker 1: have a good family, but understanding to make it strong.
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Speaker 1: One last question? Have you forgotten God's patience with you?
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Speaker 1: How many of you would say God has been patient
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Speaker 1: with you? Just curious both hands some of us?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 3: When was he patient with you?
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Speaker 1: Was there a season in your life when the only
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Speaker 1: time you mentioned God's name was in vain? Was there
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Speaker 1: a season in your life when the only time you
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Speaker 1: went to church was because He made you or she
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Speaker 1: made you and the last thing you did was listen
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Speaker 1: or worship? Was God not patient with you?
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Speaker 4: Then?
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Speaker 1: Has He not been patient with you even today? Since
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Speaker 1: God is so patient with us, does it not behoove
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Speaker 1: us to in turn be patient with others. Can we
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Speaker 1: not agree with the apostle Peter who said we are
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Speaker 1: saved because our Lord is patient and God is being
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Speaker 1: patient with you. So if God is being patient with you,
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Speaker 1: can you not find it within yourself to be patient
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Speaker 1: with others.
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Speaker 3: Let's be people.
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Speaker 1: Let's be a community of people that values patience. Let's
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Speaker 1: keep the burner low. Heat's going to happen, but we
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Speaker 1: can control it. Let's remember that every person is a
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Speaker 1: work in progress. Let's remember we're in the workshop, not
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Speaker 1: the gallery. And let's remember that God will help us
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Speaker 1: because this is his promise. It's a fruit of the
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, and he's been patient with us.
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Speaker 2: We can be patient with others.
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Speaker 1: Amen, Lord, help us now as we receive your teaching today.
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Speaker 1: Let that teaching, let these words sink deep in our
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Speaker 1: hearts and create a different understanding of life. That you
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Speaker 1: could shift us from impatience to patience, that we could, Father, God,
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Speaker 1: be more like you, patient, patient with your work, patient
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Speaker 1: with your work and others, and patient with your work inners.
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Speaker 5: This is our prayer in Jesus' name, all the church
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Speaker 5: said at.
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Speaker 1: A U.
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Speaker 2: Loving you alone.
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Speaker 5: Feels so beautiful, and yet.
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Speaker 2: It hurts the most.
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Speaker 6: You became my quiet sunrise, the dream I never dared
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Speaker 6: to say. Every smile you gave so freely took my
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Speaker 6: breath a little away. I held this love like fragile glass,
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Speaker 6: so precious, soft and true, but every being inside my
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Speaker 6: heart was only reaching out to you. Unspoken is sweet
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Speaker 6: and painful, like honey mixed with rain.
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Speaker 2: Let's send the whole.
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Speaker 7: Bial so tightly while it slowly breaks me loving you
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Speaker 7: from just one side. Now leave my soul in silent blue,
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Speaker 7: because the deeper that I fall along, the lonelier I do.
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Speaker 6: I can't blame my heart for choosing someone it could
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Speaker 6: never keep, so I smiled through hidden heartache.
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Speaker 3: Hell love you quietly.
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Speaker 4: Spoke in Love is sweet and painful, like hone ee
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Speaker 4: mixed with rain. Let's send the whole bial so tightly
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Speaker 4: walid slowly breaks me. Loving you from just one side.
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Speaker 8: Now leave my soul in silent bloom, because the teeper
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Speaker 8: that I fall.
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Speaker 1: Alone the only I do.
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Speaker 2: Maybe loving you in silence it's the closest DA can stay.
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Speaker 8: Though leaves behind the sorrow that may never fast away.
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Speaker 8: I spoken love is sweet and painful. Honey, mixed with rain,
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Speaker 8: A tender whole, bild so tightly while it slowly breaks me.
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Speaker 8: Loving you from just one side.
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Speaker 4: Now leave my soul inside, because the deeper there.
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Speaker 3: I followed the lorly
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Speaker 7: Her to