GOD's Patience!

 

GOD’s Patience!

 

“Now may The GOD of Patience and Comfort grant you to be like minded toward one another, according to Christ JESUS,” Romans 15:5

 

This statement alone should shame many of us who get frustrated with others and become impatient because they do not meet our standards! This includes me.

 

So what is Paul talking about? Romans 15:1-7. “We then who are strong ought to bear with the weaknesses (a scruple of conscience - infirmity) of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good (love your neighbor as you love yourself, 1 Peter 4:7-10), leading to edification (building up). For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, ‘The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.’ (Psalm 69:5-12) For whatever things were written before, were written for our learning, that we through the Patience and Comfort of The scriptures might have Hope (1 Corinthians 10:1-13). Now may the GOD of Patience and Comfort grant you to be like minded toward one another, according to Christ JESUS, that you with one mind and one mouth glorify The GOD and Father of our LORD JESUS Christ. Therefore receive one another just  as Christ also received us, to the Glory of GOD”

 

GOD is Mercifully Patient with us, the Body of Christ, so why are we so divided? As the Body of Christ, as Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 12, we should function as one under our head, JESUS Christ, just like our natural body does.

 

Why is GOD patient? Remember it took GOD about 1500 years before He destroyed almost every living thing on the earth; Genesis 6:5-8 “So then The LORD GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So The LORD said, ‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I made them.’ But Noah found Grace in the eyes of The LORD.”

 

For GOD time is not an issue, He created time and controls it according to His Purpose. He saved Noah because He still had to fulfill His purpose in creation. At that time there was no repentance, it was not the time for JESUS The Messiah to be born, die, rise and ascend (Hebrews 9:24-26). 2 Peter 3:8-9 “But beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with The LORD, one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The LORD is not slack concerning His Promises, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

 

“And they overcame him by The blood of The Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. He who leads into captivity must go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and faith of the saints. Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of GOD and The Faith of JESUS.” Amen! (Revelation 12:11, 13:10, 14:12)

 

Psalm 133 “Behold how good and how pleasant it is for the brethren to dwell together in Unity! It is like Precious Oil upon the head, running down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, running down to the edge of his garments. It is like the dew of Hermon, descending upon the mountains of Zion; for there The LORD Commanded The blessing – Life forevermore.”

 

Ephesians 4:11-16 “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the Saints for the Work of Ministry, for the edifying (building up) of the Body of Christ, till we all come to the Unity of The Faith and of The Knowledge of The Son of GOD, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but speaking The Truth  in Love, may grow up in all things into Him Who is The Head – Christ – from Whom the whole Body, joined and knit together by what every join supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in Love.”

 

This is the very reason there is no revival in this nation, much less in the world. There is no Unity in The Church – The Body of Christ in the earth! JESUS made it clear in his Teachings to the apostles that is where the Blessing’s of GOD are for His Servants; David made it clear in his psalm on Unity, that is where GOD’s Blessings for Israel is; Paul made it clear in his letters that is where GOD’s Blessing are for the Church!

 

When The Church of the first century was in Unity Preaching The Gospel and making disciples of JESUS Christ they conquered the world, since the third century the Church has been divided and at war with the world and itself (we should only be at war against the devil); and the world and the devil have crept in and just keep us divided and against each other. Now we preach our denomination and add members to our church rolls.

 

GOD’s patience has a time limit, He has set a time that only He knows when the Great Tribulation will start and when JESUS will return to the earth for His thousand year reign over the nations of the earth!

 

If you truly believe we are in the Last Days this should be your life’s goal: abide in JESUS Christ, be in Unity with His Body – The Church, study His Word The Bible and watch for his Return as you obey GOD’s Purpose for your life! Amen!

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