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Illustration- A Failure.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
The bigger you are the harder you fall.
Joshua Harris
“The information that was left out of our announcement is that I have undergone a massive shift in regard to my faith in Jesus.
The popular phrase for this is “deconstruction,” the biblical phrase is “falling away.”
By all the measurements that I have for defining a Christian, I am not a Christian.
Many people tell me that there is a different way to practice faith and I want to remain open to this, but I’m not there now.”
Hesitant to use this as an illustration because of how heart breaking this is, but it really captures what Paul is warning against here in these verses.
Paul mentions here a command that he has given Timothy.
That really draws us back to what Paul has previously told Timothy.
In the previous 17 verses Paul has laid out what should be timothy’s greatest goal and work in Ephesus.
And what is evident in the first 17 verses and really the rest of the book is Paul’s love.
Three things Paul loves supremely.
Paul loves Christ and He has a reason to.
This is not a poetic rambling where he is just trying to fill space in a letter.
Every Word that Paul is writing here is inspired by God and I believe is a reflection of Paul’s thankful.
Paul loves Jesus, because Jesus has loved Him.
The application point here being, true believers love Jesus because Jesus has loved them.
They have a desire for Jesus.
To be like Jesus.
To walk with Jesus.
Do you?
Do you love Jesus?
Can you honestly say you love Christ?
Are you loving him well?
Secondly,
Paul loves Timothy.
He calls him his child in the opening of this letter and here again in verse 18 he calls him his child again.
Paul loves Timothy.
He has invested His life into Timothy.
He has made a disciple, and now he is sending him out, but he isn’t doing this without keeping some kind of contact with him.
Paul is writing a letter to someone he loves to encourage him in the faith.
Keep that context in mind throughout the letter.
Paul loves Timothy too much to leave him un-encouraged.
And I’ve mentioned this before but its worth mentioning again.
Who is your Timothy?
Nominating Committee strategy this time.
In whose life are you investing?
And we have many excuses for why we can’t do this, but none of them are good enough.
Well you know I’m not around that many people.
Paul is writing from a distance in an period of time where communication is not exactly what we have today, but he knows that Timothy needs help.
He is writing a letter.
From a distance.
Paul’s desire is that ministry goes on and the church thrive regardless of whether he is there or not.
He desires that Timothy succeed.
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Older members, Let me ask you a pointed question: Do you desire that the younger people in this church succeed in leadership?
Do you desire that this church thrive long after you are gone?
I pray that your answer is yes there, and if it is, then the follow up question is: What are you doing in their lives to ensure that?
We use our phone all the time for all kinds of different things and the majority of times its self serving, but do we use it for the advancement of the kingdom.
We have to think in these ways if we are believers.
Paul loved Timothy.
Who are you loving?
Thirdly, Paul loved the church.
He is writing to Timothy, because he loved the church in which Timothy was serving.
Paul didn’t just love one church, he loved the Church.
Every genuine body of believers, Paul loved them.
Did some of these churches have problem?
Yes the majority of them did.
That’s what he wrote his letters about.
He wrote to address their problems, but he did not dismiss them as irrelevant to him because thats not where he went to the church.
(Heart breaking last night hearing of a church in our area struggling).
It doesn’t matter if that church isn’t where I’m a member.
It matter because that is a local body of believers for whom Christ died.
We should love the church.
Do you love the church like Paul did? Do you desire to see every church around us flourish in faithfulness for the kingdom of God?
Paul loved the church.
And his love for Christ, His love for Timothy, and His love for the church, provokes what he is about to write next.
The command here he is referencing is fighting against the false doctrines.
But now he calls Timothy when things get difficult and the assumption is that they will, Timothy must remember his calling.
Later in the letter he will reference this again
We are not told when or given an account in Scripture when exactly Timothy’s calling and commissioning happened, but suffice it to say, Timothy’s calling was supernatural.
It involved prophecy.
It involved a group of elders laying their hands on him and confirming him in the ministry.
Paul pleads with Timothy, “Remember your calling.
Use them as your motivation and driving force in this fight.”
And then
Fight.
Fight the good fight.
When we think of the word fight, it may be helpful to consider definitions here.
We normally thing of this definition: to take part in a violent struggle involving the exchange of physical blows or the use of weapons.
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Another definition- to engage in battle or war.
Timothy is walking into a place where spiritually, he is will have to make war.
He will have to battle daily.
Timothy is not walking into a place where it will be easy for him.
It won’t be a vacation for Timothy
He will have to fight hard for the truth.
He will have to fight hard against people who seek to dissuade and distract from the truth.
Paul for the love of Christ, for the love of Timothy, and for the love of the church, Paul says “Fight!!” Timothy When you feel like giving up, consider your calling consider who called you.
Church, Satan’s attacks on the church and pastor and church members are real.
It’s a fight.
And its not just pastors and church leaders who engage in the fight,
Yes, Paul tell Timothy to fight, but he isn’t the only one in Ephesus who is called to fight.
Paul tell the whole church of Ephesus.. Every SAINT-
Are we fighting?
Do you struggle in faith?
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