Spiritual Gifts part 241: A patience for people, a patience for pain.

Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Thursday,
March 15, 2012

Gal 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control;

1 Cor 13:13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Running the race:

FAITH is the strategy
HOPE is the vision
LOVE is the destination

The greatest of these is love, but love takes time and patience to arrive into, 2Ti 3:10-11.

After years of absorbing the teaching, day by day, and then living in the conduct, the royal family honor code, something starts to emerge!

prothesis
a setting forth, i.e. (figuratively) proposal (intention); that which is planned or purposed in advance -

First stop is FAITH.
And from there the only way to get to LOVE is through patience!

The Greek word is makrothumia.