AN ATTITUDE

1st Corinthians 6:19-20 “. . . know ye not . . . ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price. . . .”

Luke 10:38-42 “Martha, Martha. . . .”

Psalm 37:1-5 “Fret not thyself . . . . Commit thy way unto the Lord . . . and he shall bring it to pass.”

Ecclesiastes 7:8-18 “. . . for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.”

1:1-3 “Vanity of vanities . . . all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?”

6:7 “All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.”

Philippians 3:18-19 “whose God is their belly . . . who mind earthly things.”

What thing do we mind? See: v. 16 “. . . let us mind the same thing.”

What is that? See: vs. 14-15 “. . . press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

(This is a description of a “race.”)

1st Corinthians 9:24, 26 “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?”

Don’t you hurry in a race?

Hebrews 12:1-4 “. . . and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. . . .”

Matthew 25:1-13 “They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.”

QUESTION: What were the foolish virgins lacking?

Hebrews 10:36 “For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”

James 5:7-11 “Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it. . . .”

GOD’S WISDOM ON IT

Luke 8:4-15 “. . . having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.”

21:7-19 “In your patience possess ye your souls.”

Romans 5:1-5 “. . . tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience. . . .”

see: 12:12 “patient in tribulation”

8:16-25 “But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”

15:4-7 “. . . that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”

see: 1st Thessalonians 1:2-4 “patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. . . .”

1st Corinthians 13:4-5 “Charity suffereth long, and . . . is not easily provoked. . . .”

2nd Corinthians 6:1-6 “. . . in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience. . . .”

12:1-15 Paul worked in the church “in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.”

Galatians 6:9 “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

Colossians 1:9-11 “Strengthened . . . according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering. . . .”

3:12-13 “longsuffering” is in the company of some other powerful words.

1st Thessalonians 5:14 “. . . be patient toward all men.”

2nd Thessalonians 1:1-10 “So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure. . . .”

1st Timothy 3:2-3 “A bishop then must be . . . patient. . . .”

6:7-11 “But thou, O man of God . . . follow after . . . patience. . . .”

2nd Timothy 2:24-26 “And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be . . . patient. . . .”

3:1-12 “But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience. . . .”

Titus 2:1-2 “But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: That the aged men be . . . sound in . . . patience.”

Hebrews 6:11-15 “And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.”

10:35-36 “For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”

James 1:2-4 “. . . the trying of your faith worketh patience.”

1st Peter 2:19-21 “. . . if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.”

2nd Peter 1:3-11 “. . . add to . . . temperance patience. . . .”

Revelation 1:9 “I John . . . your . . . companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ. . . .”

2:2-3 “I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience. . . .”

2:19 “I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience. . . .”

13:10 “Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.”

14:12 “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”