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 DugardMessage: 33 – He put up with themHarvest Bible ChapelText: Acts 13:13-25December 3, 2023God patiently puts up with me (v. 13-16, 18)He chooses; I am chosen (v. 17a)Romans 10:13John 15:16aEphesians 1:4a1 Peter 2:9aHe makes me great; I receive his kindness (v. 17b)1 Corinthians 4:7bJames 1:17aHe leads; I follow (v. 17c)He promises; I benefit (v. 19)2 Corinthians 1:20He delivers; I am secure (v. 20)1 Corinthians 15:26Revelation 21:4aHe 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)