Berean Studies / Ber05 - Patience

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1. What is the importance of Patience as an element of Christian character?

2. What is the common significance of this word?

3. What is the deeper significance of this word as used in Scripture, especially in Rev 3:10 and Luke 8:15?

4. Why is ‘patient-endurance’ so necessary?

5. What is the relation between patient- endurance and self-control ?

6. How should we endure our trials and thus ‘possess our souls’?

7. What is the relation between faith and patient-endurance?

8. Why should we ‘glory in tribulation’?

9. What particular thoughts constantly kept in mind will enable us to be ‘patient in tribulation’?

10. Does faithfulness to our covenant of self- sacrifice demand patience?

11. How should we meet persecution and opposition?

12. How can we be ‘patient toward all ‘?

13. Why is there special need of patience in the Harvest of the Gospel age?

14. Is it possible to pervert the grace of patience?

15. Why does the Apostle rank patient-endurance above even Love ?

16. What is the relation between patience and ‘enduring hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ’?

(1Pe 5:10) But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.

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The Apostle, out of the fulness of his love and sympathy for all his comrades in the army of the Lord, adds to his earnest exhortation this parting benediction--"The God of all grace who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." It is only through endurance of hardness as good soldiers of Christ that this desirable condition can be attained--viz., perfect self-control and ability to resist evil, established faith, patience and virtue, settled, abiding rest in Christ, and hope through his word of promise. This undoubtedly was the Apostle's own experience as he grew old in the Master's service, and so may it be ours. Let each departing year find us nearer the glorious summit of perfection!

17. How are we to run the race for ‘the prize of our high calling of God in Christ Jesus’?

18. Why is patient-endurance the final test ?

19. How is God’s promise to those who ‘keep the word of his patience’ now fulfilled?

20. What lessons do we learn from Jesus’ example of patience?

21. What other notable examples of patience are recorded in Scripture?

22. Is patience an essential quality in an Elder?

23. How can we cultivate patient-endurance?

24. What additional thoughts are suggested by reference to the Topical Indexes of ‘ Heavenly Manna ‘ and the ‘ Watch Tower Bible ‘?