My Beloved Child

2 Timothy 1:1–2 ESV

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus, To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Final Words

What will those behind you remember you for

What are your relationships built on

Hobbies?

Interests?

Jobs?

Fathers

What do you want your children to know

What makes your toil and labor worth it?

To Timothy by beloved child

Paul is writing to Timothy

with the world on fire

And a timid young man who he is entrusting with a task

the urgency has only heightened

Imprisonment and execution

Was Paul released and is not close to his execution?

Did he never get to come again?

Nonetheless he knows his time is near.

2 Timothy 4:6 ESV

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.

2 Timothy 4:9 “Do your best to come to me soon.”

2 Timothy 4:21 “Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers.”

He is alone

2 Timothy 4:10 “For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.”

2 Timothy 4:11 “Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry.”

Come see me

send this person and that person

sound familiar?

Paul values the relationships he made in the Lord

His leg of the race is almost over

now he’s passing the baton

My Beloved Child

What was Timothy missing in his life?

The influence of a Christian father

2 Timothy 1:3–5 “I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.”

Paul takes the role of father to him

1 Timothy 1:2 “To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.”

2 Timothy 2:1 “You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,”

This is his will for him

That he remembers God the Father, His son Jesus Christ, His Spirit that is put in him.

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Gift of God, thy type of spirit

God is flowing with blessings

This epistles is abundant with uses of God and what he has provided

See vs. 2 Timothy 1:2 Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.”

What is Paul giving Timothy

the blessings that God gave him in his life

passing on blessings in the lLord

Grace is gift

Did Paul have grace towards Stephen?

no but it was shown to him

now he can pass it on because he has GRACE from God

2 Timothy 2:1 “You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,”

Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

2 Corinthians 12:8–9 “Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

He’s giving a blessing from God that is lasting

not some self-help tool from life

Mercy

it’s by the mercy of God he recieved this ministry

the very burden Timothy carries in Ephesus is by the mercy of God

Mercy there was great, and grace was free; Pardon there was multiplied to me; There my burdened soul found liberty,     At Calvary.

Peace

Ephesians 2:14 “For he himself is our peace,

In this challenge God the father has given gifts of Grace Mercy and Peace

Calling which God gave us in Christ Jesus 9

The Holy Spirit who dwells with us 14

That he be reminded

of his faith

of his gift

of the apostle

More than a friendship relationship

authority

Paul by the will of God is an apostle

1 Corinthians 15:3–10 “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.”

It was God’s will to make Paul an apostle and give him this authority

That authority will still be over him

It’s over you and I

Acts 22:14–15 “And he said, ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth; for you will be a witness for him to everyone of what you have seen and heard.”

Being an apostle is not a repeatable

obeying the apostle is

following his teaching

There is a uniqueness to each one’s calling

however their is a similarity

called to the apostolic message

That he thanks God for him

Fathers thank God for your kids

they are blessings

they are arrows in the quiver

Philippians 2:19–24 “I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you. For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. But you know Timothy’s proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel. I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with me, and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also.”

in a day of abandonment and absent fathers

this church does not need programs to show they love their children

we can drop our kids off at tons of places

we need fathers who will be a Paul to a Timothy

To thank the Lord for them and encourage them along the way

To Timothy my beloved child

Promise of life

This is the motivation here

promised life

there is contentment in God’s promise

they are good and satisfying

Paul the apostle knows

it is by God’s will he is an apostle

that he lives

that he will have life even after his death