Build with Patience and Focus
Speaker: Reid S. Monaghan Series: Build: The Book of James Topic: Exposition Passage: James 5:7–5:12
Introduction
On Repentance
Past, Present, Future
- IDENTITY from our Past
- The CENTRALITY of the Now
- The POWER of Eternity
Build with Patience and Focus
Be Patient (Verses 7, 8)
Until the Coming of the Lord
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
A Harvest Coming
James 1:2-4
Established Hearts
Be Focused (Verses 9-11)
Losing Focus
Staying Focused
The _________ of God
The _________ of God
Lamentations 3:22-26
Wisdom, Speech, Kingdom (Verse 12)
The Power of a Promise
Community Meditation
Know
- FACTS: The coming of the Lord will wrap up history. His judgments will be righteous and final. His Kingdom will be unending. These truths are the most real facts about our future. In what ways are you conscious of these things from day to day?
- Read 2 Peter 2:8-13. Why should we exhort one another to live with patience in light of his coming? Why do you think Jesus has yet to return?
Feel
- Where do you feel impatient with your present circumstances?
- Where do you feel impatient about the state of your family, our community, our nation, our world?
Live
- In what ways are you tempted to sin when you experience difficulty? In your relationships, family, work, MC?
- In what relationships and contexts do you need to be steadfast and persevere? Your marriage? Job? Kingdom leadership? MC?
- Trick question: When life is hard or you are unhappy, what do you do?
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2014
Build Faithfully
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May 18
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May 4
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