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  PATIENCE OF PERSEVERANCE
  by Hugh Black
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of patience and endurance
in living a life of faith and obedience to God.

Topics: "Persevering Faith", "Christian Endurance"
Scripture References: Jeremiah 12:5, Romans 5:3, 1 Corinthians 16:13, Hebrews 10:36, James 1:12

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Hugh Black preaches on the importance of endurance and unwavering
resolve in the face of challenges, drawing inspiration from Jeremiah
12:5. He emphasizes the need for a heroic soul that can withstand
difficulties and continue to fight for what is right, even when faced
with overwhelming obstacles. Black highlights the biblical concept of
true patience, which involves bearing, suffering, sacrificing, and
enduring all things without giving up, ultimately showcasing the power
of resilience and perseverance.

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"If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how
canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein
thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling
of Jordan?"

(Jer. 12:5).

Does it seem an unfeeling answer? It was the answer Jeremiah needed. He
needed to be braced, not pampered. He is taught the need of endurance.
It is a strange cure for cowardice, a strange remedy for weakness; yet
it is effective. It gives stiffening to the soul. The tear-stained face
is lifted up calm once more. A new resolution creeps into the eye to
prove worthy of the new responsibility God appeals to the strength in
Jeremiah, not to the weakness. By God's grace I will fight, and fighting
fall if need be. By God's grace I will contend even with horses; and I
will go to the pride of Jordan though the jungle growl and snarl. This
was the result on Jeremiah, and it was the result required. Only a
heroic soul could do the heroic work needed by Israel and by God, and it
was the greatest heroism of all which was needed, the heroism of
endurance.

Nothing worth doing can be done in this world without something of that
iron resolution. It is the spirit which never knows defeat, which cannot
be worn out, which has taken its stand and refuses to move. This is the
'patience' about which the Bible is full, not the sickly counterfeit
which so often passes for patience, but the power to bear, to suffer, to
sacrifice, to endure all things, to die, harder still sometimes to
continue to live. The whole world teaches that patience. Life in her
struggle with nature is lavish of our resources. She is willing to
sacrifice anything for the bare maintenance of existence meanwhile. Inch
by inch each advance has to be gained, fought for, paid for, kept. it is
the lesson of all history also, both for the individual and for a body
of men who have espoused any cause.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/hugh-black/patience-of-perseverance/
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