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“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy

• r boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does

not insist on its own way.”

1 Corinthians 13:4

Patience is one of the hardest fruits of the Spirit when it comes to loving one another.

“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.”

—Julius Caesar

What does patience look like in the face of difficult people?

• 1. What is patience?

Greek word for “patience”: μακροθυμία

“It is choosing to move at the other person’s

• pace. It doesn’t push to match our pace; it is

a decision to pause rather than push. It is not

• natural. Our pace is natural; that is why we

think people should run at our pace.”

—Andy Stanley

“Patience is bearing under difficult circumstances without giving up or giving into bitterness.”

—Tim Keller

What does patience look like in the face of difficult people?

1. What is patience?

• 2. What does patience look like in action?

1. People who do not like you. 2. People who have hurt you. 3. People who hurt you and want to continually seek to hurt you.

“Do not repay evil for evil, do not be

• vercome by evil, but overcome evil

with good.”

Romans 12:17

“If someone wrongs you if you do not respond with forgiveness, with kind and gracious answers and by willing their good you have been overcome by evil, you have been defeated, you have become a part of the problem.”

—Tim Keller

Do Good

• Bless those who curse you.
• Forgive them.
• Don’t avoid them.
• Will their good.
• Oppose them humbly.

What does patience look like in the face of difficult people?

1. What is patience? 2. What does patience look like in action?

• 3. Where do we get the strength to

practice patience?

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an

• pportunity for the flesh, but through

love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ’You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

—Galatians 5:13