1. Qualities of a pure heart - 4

2. Patience
“Bearing pains and trials calmly or without complaint. Manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain Not hasty or impetuous Steadfast despite opposition, difficulty or adversity

3. Patience
“The capacity to continue to bear up under difficult circumstances. Not hasty or impetuous” (L&N)
Temperance, forbearance, endurance, long-suffering, etc.

4. Patience
While seeking to maintain a pure heart, you will face difficulties. You need patience.
2 Peter 1:5-7 – after temperance with our virtue

5. Patience
While seeking to maintain a pure heart, you will face difficulties. You need patience.
2 Peter 1:5-7 – after temperance with our virtue

6. Patience The patience of God 1 Peter 3:20-21 Nehemiah 9:17 2 Peter 3:9
Romans 15:5

7. Patience
Patience needed to develop faith! Allow God to work in His timeframe
Lack of faith does great damage

8. Patience Gal. 5:22-23, A fruit of the Spirit
Luke 21:19, “By your patience possess your souls”
2 Tim. 2:24, a servant of the Lord

9. Patience 1 Thess. 5:14, Be patient with all
Heb. 12:1, let us run with endurance the race
James 5:7-8, Be patient…until the coming of the Lord.

10. Patience Developing patience Learn self-control
Pause before you react (cf. Jas. 1:19)
Realized the good that can come from patience (Rom. 5:3-4), Jas. 1:3-4

11. Patience Developing patience Get organized
Be thankful to God – count your many blessings

12. Humility
“To make low”
One of a meek and lowly disposition. Non-abrasive in dealing with others. The opposite of arrogance and pride
Meekness, modesty, lowliness, a servant, etc.

13. Humility
Moses, Num. 12:3
John the Baptist, cf. Jn. 1:35-37, 3:30 “He must increase, but I must decrease.”
Jesus, Phil. 2:5-7, John 13:1-9

14. Humility Matt. 5:3, “Blessed are the poor in Spirit.”
Matt. 5:5, “Blessed are the meek.”
Phil. 2:3-4, lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

15. Humility Rom. 12:3, “not to think more highly of himself…”
1 Cor. 13:4, “Love…does not parade itself, is not puffed up”
James 4:6, 10, God resists the proud, gives grace to the humble.

16. Humility 1 Pet. 5:5-7, “be clothed in humility”
Psa. 138:6, “Though the Lord is on high, yet He regards the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.”

17. Humility
Prov. 16:5, “Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord…””
Micah 6:8, “He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God”

18. How to develop humility
Begin with honest evaluation – especially in God’s eyes
Be thankful
Overcome worldliness, Matt. 19:16-22

19. How to develop humility
Do something that will humble you (cf. 2 Cor. 4:5-7, 1 Tim. 6:17-19)
Pray about it
Associate with the humble, Rom. 12:16

20. Does our heart manifest patience and honesty?