Preach the Word

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2 Timothy 4:1–8 ESV

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Sermon

Preamble:

All scripture is breathed out by God

2 Timothy 3:16–17 ESV

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Commanded by God

2 Timothy 4:1 ESV

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

Charge you

in the presence of God & Christ Jesus

who is judge of the living & the dead

by his appearing and his kingdom

Preach the Word

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV

preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

Preach the Word:

In Season & Out of Season

not a moral or religious discourse

rather a heralding/acclamation - official & public matter of great significance

Noah

Jonah

John the Baptist

12 Apostles (e.g. Phillip the evangelist, Peter at Cesarea)

Apostle Paul

To carry out:

Reprove / Convict (The Sinner must be conscious of their sin that they may repent)

Rebuke (Process of convicting the sinner, their sin must not be tonned down)

Exhort / Admonish (fatherly guidance)

With:

Complete Patience (gentle/loving to all)

Complete Teaching (painstaking teaching)

People will reject sound teaching and wander off into myths

2 Timothy 4:3–4 ESV

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

In season

Out of season

Jeremiah 5:31 ESV

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

itching ear will accumularte for themselves teachers to suit their passions

sensational

like israelites bored with manner

cannot stomach the necessary inner change

will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths

always false teachers willing to tell them what they want to hear

Fulfill your ministry

2 Timothy 4:5 ESV

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

be calm and well-balanced in all matters

endure suffering

do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Faith the leads to a Crown of Righteousness

2 Timothy 4:6–8 ESV

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Preach the Word

because of the return fo Christ

because I am departing for eternity

Verse 6 - His Faith - Appraisal of the Present

When the Lamb was sacrified, the “drink-offering” was poured out beside the alter

Paul pictures his life as sacrific to God, and his imprisonment is the final stage of the pouring of the drink-offering

Departure to be with his Lord & Saviour

Verse 7 - His Faith - Summary fo the Past

fought the good fight

for the souls of sinners (jews & pagans)

for the purity of the Gospel message

for the purity of believers before God

finished the race

kept the faith

to prevent the law of sin and death operating within his own heart

Verse 8 - His Faith - Exultation regarding the Future

laid up for me the crown of righteousness

awarded by the Lord, the righteous Judge

On that day

not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing

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