God’s Attribute of Long-suffering
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we look at the attribute of God's love, we see that this was expressed in five different ways.
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- Grace, mercy, longsuffering, kindness, and forgiveness. We've looked at grace and mercy, and now we look at longsuffering, which simply means to suffer long.
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- God's love expressed in the patient bearing of the stubborn wills of mankind.
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- Longsuffering is God's patience towards sin and sinners. God's longsuffering is to allow more people to benefit from his loving grace and mercy.
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- He persists to love believers, is seen in his forgiveness to men.
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- You see this in 1 John 1, 8 and 9. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
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- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
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- We see that he's faithful in that. He's going to be longsuffering. We see this in 2 Peter 3, 9.
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- The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish.
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- We see that he has patience. He says to Peter that we should forgive 70 times 7. Aren't you glad that God is longsuffering with you?
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- We don't have a great amount of tolerance, but God is a God of great tolerance. He expects man to be longsuffering as well, just as he is longsuffering with us, so we should be longsuffering with others.