Date: December 3, 2023
Bible Text: Acts 13:13-25 | Todd Dugard
Series: The Book of Acts
I wonder if you think about your relationship with God in this way: that most of the time he is simply putting up with you. That’s pretty much the heart behind the idea of God’s patience or what has often been translated as long suffering. God suffering long over our many frailties and failures, forgiving our continuing sins, dispensing his abundant grace to the undeserving. It is a good reminder for us lest our egos become too inflated and think too highly of ourselves. Humility and brokenness are the marks of a genuine son or daughter of the King. In Sunday’s message in Acts 13:13-25 we’ll hear the first part of a sermon that the Apostle Paul preaches in a synagogue in the Pisidian city of Antioch (a different Antioch than the one they had come from in Syria). In that sermon, Paul unapologetically exalts the Lord and makes the note that God “put up with” his people in the wilderness. We’d be naïve to think it was any different today with us. There’s a ton for us to mine out of this passage…all of it pointing to the Lord’s great patience with us.
Series: The Acts of the Apostles (Chapters 11-16)
Todd Dugard
Message: 33 – He put up with them
Harvest Bible Chapel
Text: Acts 13:13-25
December 3, 2023
God patiently puts up with me (v. 13-16, 18)
He chooses; I am chosen (v. 17a)
Romans 10:13
John 15:16a
Ephesians 1:4a
1 Peter 2:9a
He makes me great; I receive his kindness (v. 17b)
1 Corinthians 4:7b
James 1:17a
He leads; I follow (v. 17c)
He promises; I benefit (v. 19)
2 Corinthians 1:20
He delivers; I am secure (v. 20)
1 Corinthians 15:26
Revelation 21:4a
He gives me what I want; I get what I deserve (v. 21)
He fixes it; I am loved (v. 22)
He saves; I am forgiven (v. 23)
He calls; I respond in faith (v. 24)
He alone is worthy; I am not at all (v. 25)
Maps in this series are taken from The MacMillan Bible Atlas by Yohanan Aharoni and Michael Avi-Yonah (out of print)
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