Patience (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Some believe you’re either born with patience or not. But that’s not what Scripture teaches. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg shows us how God models patience and explains how He uses trials—the very things that test our patience—to develop our it.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Some people think you're either born with patience or you're not. |
| 0:31.0 | But that kind of thinking doesn't square with what the Bible teaches. |
| 0:34.6 | And today on Truth for Life, Alastair Begg illustrates how God models |
| 0:38.9 | patience for us. We'll learn today how trials, the very thing that test our patients, are used |
| 0:45.9 | by God to develop our patience. |
| 0:59.0 | Matthew chapter 18, and we'll read from verse 21. |
| 1:08.9 | Then Peter came up and said to him, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me and I forgive him? |
| 1:29.5 | As many as seven times. Jesus said to him, I do not say to you seven times, but 77 times. Jesus is pointing out that this is matter of forgiveness is not a matter of calculation. It is an affair of the heart. Therefore, the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him, |
| 1:35.0 | who owed him 10,000 talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold |
| 1:41.1 | with his wife and children, and all that he had and payment to be made. |
| 1:46.1 | So the servant fell on his knees imploring him. Have patience with me and I will pay you everything. |
| 1:52.9 | And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. |
| 1:58.6 | But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants |
| 2:01.9 | who owed him a hundred denari, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, |
| 2:08.4 | pay what you owe. So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, have patience with me, |
| 2:13.9 | and I will pay you. He refused, and went and put him in prison until he should pay the |
| 2:21.1 | debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and he went and |
| 2:27.5 | reported to their master all that had taken place. Then his master summoned him and said to him, |
| 2:33.2 | you wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt, |
| 2:36.7 | because you pleaded with me. And should now you have had mercy on your fellow servant as I had |
| 2:42.6 | mercy on you? And in his anger, his master delivered him to the jailers until he should pay all his |
| 2:49.4 | debt. So also my Heavenly Father will do to every one of you |
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