{"id":2690,"date":"2022-11-10T19:18:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/?page_id=2690"},"modified":"2022-11-16T19:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T19:32:37","slug":"13-november-2022-the-challenge-of-being-patient","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/?page_id=2690","title":{"rendered":"13 November 2022: The challenge of being patient"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:17% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221113.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2691 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221113.png 340w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221113-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221113-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221113-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221113-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/20221113-48x48.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-090a7876-6b6f-475f-bd24-2fdf9d5343ad\"><strong>Bethel Baptist Church<br>Worship Service @ Home<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-090a7876-6b6f-475f-bd24-2fdf9d5343ad\"><strong>13 November 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/?page_id=2682\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"15\" height=\"10\" class=\"wp-image-1006\" style=\"width: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/leftarrow.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/leftarrow.png 120w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/leftarrow-24x16.png 24w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/leftarrow-36x24.png 36w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/leftarrow-48x32.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 15px) 100vw, 15px\" \/> <strong>Previous Service<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/?page_id=2699\"><strong>Next Service<\/strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"15\" height=\"10\" class=\"wp-image-1007\" style=\"width: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rightarrow.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rightarrow.png 120w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rightarrow-24x16.png 24w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rightarrow-36x24.png 36w, https:\/\/bethelmacclesfield.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rightarrow-48x32.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 15px) 100vw, 15px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Welcome<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Remembrance Sunday \u2013 let\u2019s remember all those and their families who served and made the ultimate sacrifice in giving their lives to defend our freedom and way of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Picture<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Stella had a picture of a bird with a broken wing that needed lots of loving care, patience, protection, and a safe place for its wing to heal and enable it to fly again. Then a picture of a tree being pruned of branches in order that it might go on to produce fruit more abundantly and of a better quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Worship<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"All hail the Lamb\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kC-cEsuXsfw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else. Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God\u2019s will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit.<\/p><cite>1 Thessalonians 5:14-19<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We are called as Christians to do many things that don\u2019t come naturally to us. We all have areas we struggle with, how about <em>\u201cBe patient with <strong>everyone<\/strong>\u201d<\/em> and the <em>\u201ceveryone\u201d<\/em> here means not only those in church but those outside as well; or <em>\u201calways strive to do what is good for \u2026. <strong>everyone<\/strong>\u201d<\/em> &#8211; how many have later testified as to one of the reasons that they became a Christian was that Christians helped them, were kind to them, showed Jesus\u2019 love to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that is what it always comes back to \u2013 Jesus\u2019 love, In love He died to deal with our sins and our old sinful nature:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f8e9c8\">\u201cIt is easy enough to be well disposed toward those who treat us well, but it is of the essence of the Christian attitude that \u2018<em>agape<\/em>\u2019, self-giving love, be practiced toward all, even the unkind and vindictive. Our Master, for our salvation, endured patiently the insults and the injuries of wicked men. He, the Just, died for the unjust. In both these ways His example is important for His people. As the servant is not greater than His Lord, we must expect to be called on to show the same kind of patience under provocation. And since He came to die for sinful people, we must expect that our meekness is to be by way of ministering to the needs of the sinful also.\u201d<br><br>Leon Morris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And to live out this Christian life daily and continually we need the continual empowering of the indwelling Holy Spirit, Paul writes <em>\u201cDo not quench the Spirit\u201d<\/em> (1 Thes 5:19) which is another key to enabling us to carry out these exhortations e.g. <em>\u201cRejoice always\u201d<\/em> \u2013 such joy is a fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22) and he wasn\u2019t writing to Christians who had an easy life rather,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message<strong> in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit.<\/strong><\/p><cite>1 Thess. 1:6<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, <em>\u201cPray continually\u201d<\/em> doesn\u2019t mean we have to be saying prayers continually throughout the day, rather prayer includes fellowship and friendship with God \u2013 when we go for a walk with a friend there are moments of silence, of just appreciating their company, and likewise we can always be aware of the Presence of the one who said <em>\u201cSurely, I am with you always\u201d<\/em> (Matt. 28:20 and cf. Heb. 13:5(c)). Likewise with thanksgiving, he exhorts these believers going through persecution for the sake of the gospel, to <em>\u201cgive thanks in all circumstances\u201d<\/em>, for they, being right with God, could be certain that, He, in all things, was working out His good, pleasing, and perfect will. The same for ourselves, Amen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Quote of the week<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f8e9c8\">\u201cTo be able to give thanks in all circumstances presupposes a recognition of God\u2019s sovereignty, that in all these circumstances (whatever the appearance might be) He is working for the good of those who love Him.\u201d <em><br><\/em><br>D. J. Williams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Verse of the week<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord,&nbsp;continue to live your lives in Him, rooted&nbsp;and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught,&nbsp;and overflowing with thankfulness.\u201d <\/p><cite>Colossians 2:6-7<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Let\u2019s Pray<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Heavenly Father, thank You that You never ask us to do something that You don\u2019t equip us to do. Lord empower us by Your Spirit to be more like Your Son, in our relationships with one another and the world in general, in Jesus Christ, Amen<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Remembrance Sunday \u2013 let\u2019s remember all those and their families who served and made the ultimate sacrifice in giving their lives to defend our freedom and way of life. 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