Longsuffering

Neal Frisby, Fruits of the Spirt Series, 1977

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Exodus 34:6

The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth

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Psalms 86:15

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

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Numbers 14:18

The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

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Neal Frisby, Qualifications, 08/18/1999 AM

PATIENCE — Be patient unto the coming of the Lord (James 5: 7). With each outpouring, the church thought the Lord was coming. Many will be called but few will be chosen. Patience is running out, but this is when it is needed, the time when the Lord will do great things for His people. The Lord will shake everything loose that is not nailed to Him.

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Luke 8:15
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

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James 1:3-4

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting [lacking] nothing

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James 5:7-8

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, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

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Luke 21:19
In your patience possess ye your souls.

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The Crowning Light | Neal Frisby’s Sermon CD#1277 | 08/27/1989 AM

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Let’s get into the heart of the message here. The bible…speaks of various crowns, but all are crowns of life and distinction. You have different ways that you will go to get this crown. Now, your patience in Him will win you a crown (Revelation 3: 10). If you keep the word with patience, in that patience, you will win a crown. The reason why He wants you to have patience in the time that we live in is that if you have no patience, you will get into an argument. If you have no patience, you will be in strife. If you don’t have patience, the next thing you know, everything will go wrong and the devil will have you so full of anxiety that you will jump into anything that moves…. Have patience now, He said. Those that have kept the word of My patience will receive the crown. James also said that the end of the age, it is not the time to hold grudges. It is not the time to have arguments. It is not the time to be in those things. That is the time that the Lord will come. The people that are left in all those things will be left [behind], the bible said. The parable said this: when they begin to drink and smite one another; that is the hour that the Lord will come…the hour that He is coming for His saints.

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It is incredible, a crown that will never fade away; not made out of natural or material things, but made out of something beyond. It is made out of the Heart of God. It will never die. It has to be part of God. Therefore, you are with Him everywhere. Glory, Hallelujah! Then it [the bible] tells you how to receive it. Bro. Frisby read 1Peter 5: 6. “Humble yourselves…under the mighty hand of God….” Patience now, see? Patience now, humble thyself that He may exalt you in due time. There is that patience coming again for that crown. 

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1 Peter 5:1-6

1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: 2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. 4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

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Psalms 27:14

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

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Neal Frisby, How to Trust, 07/08/1979 AM

People don’t understand why they have trials and suffer, sometimes. It is revealing that joy and more of it is coming. It is revealing that blessings and more blessings are coming. If he doesn’t test you, you cannot hold it; you will get high-minded, backslide and get out of the way of the Lord. He knows what is coming and He is teaching you to have faith and obedience. That is the main thing: to obey Him, if you are in joy or trial or if somebody has antagonized or criticized you–it is to know this—hold on and He will build your faith. If you do it the scriptural way, you will come out on top every time. Trust is this: when something happens, you still trust the Lord all the way through it and you come out the other side with the same trust. He will stay right there with you. But if you don’t, you didn’t have trust when you started. A Christian should be sober about these things and he will have a better understanding of why events take place.

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Longsuffering includes forgiving others even when then don't ask you for forgiveness.  When you forgive you are doing yourself a favor.

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Matthew 6:14-15

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: 15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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Luke 17:3-5

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. 4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

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Matthew 18:22

Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

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Mark 11:25-26

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. 26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

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