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Significant Lessons from Second Letters
Picking up the series from spring.
Second, we think second best, second priority, second place is first loser, not as important as the first.
In studies, often we study or read the first then move to a different book w/out studying the second.
In the spring, I started this series with 2 Thessalonians.
Today, I pick up the series and we start in 2 Tim.
After, I’ll teach thru 2 Peter which will get us to Thanksgiving and the holiday season.
Here’s where we’re starting today:
What Scares You?
Snakes?
I get a little weird around snakes.
I don’t know the difference between good ones and bad ones by just looking at them.
I know there are markers that will tell you.
I just don’t know what they are.
So, I avoid all of them.
Once, while trimming a hedge in our back yard in LR I discovered a little 3-foot snake stretched out, resting in the branches of the hedge.
There are lots of good snakes that eat rodents and you want them around your house in LR, but there are also copperheads that will hurt you, bad.
Odds were it was a harmless snake that was a good.
I didn’t stick around to find out.
I found something else to do around the house.
Came back later to the hedge and it was gone.
Spiders?
Barb was in cleaning this week and came into my office dusting talking about this very thing.
Lots of spider webs in corners and she was talking about not liking spiders and snakes.
I was agreeing w/ her.
She picked up my trash can in my office to empty it and she jumped higher than I’ve ever seen her jump before.
There was a spider up against the wall that was probably about 3 inches, leg to leg, hanging out in the shadows.
Again, there are only a couple of bad spiders.
Most are good and keep the bug population down around the church.
I’m not a fan.
She found a cup in my trash and I caught it and threw it outside.
God eat bugs outside.
Key word: outside.
Clowns?
Not Cliff.
But the clowns in movies that show up in storm drains.
And your night mares.
These are the things that cause nightmares.
Legitimately scary things.
But, what about those things that you’re really afraid of, that stress you out, and don’t let you get to sleep to even have a nightmare about a bug.
Things that might happen.
Things that have happened and you need to respond to.
Where doing something, doing the right thing has consequences and will cost you, maybe a lot.
Relationally, emotionally, financially.
Something really hard needs to be done and you’re afraid of what it will cost.
you.
Will it be worth it?
Not doing anything has a cost.
And it’s eating at you, slowly.
But doing something has an intense cost.
Even though it might bring resolution.
Some of the cost you may not recover.
Or, it might not bring resolution and still bring the intense cost.
A pastor I worked w/ years ago used to say your kids will keep you awake at night all their lives, just for different reasons.
We have 3. 2 are single.
They’re good kids, but like all 20-somethings not all their decisions are what we might like.
And, they might make lifestyle decisions that could change the course of their lives significantly.
1 of our kids is married.
They are expecting our 2nd grand child in October.
They want to deliver him at home.
In the bathtub.
Not a hospital.
Anything about that give anyone reason t/b a little afraid?
Afraid of going to the doctor?
It will cost you financially and may cost you even more depending on what the doctor says.
To a guy, if the doctor never tells me I’m sick then I’m never sick.
So, it I never go to the doctor, I’m never sick.
But, you’re afraid of what the doctor might say and what that might mean.
We’re dealing w/ Sara’s aging parents and we are afraid about how things might play out.
And, the consequences of conversations that need to be had so we kids can be better prepared as the inevitable events do play out.
There is a cost w/ Sara’s dad to having conversations like this.
And a cost w/ Sara’s mom when in-home care decisions need t/b made that she’s not on board w/.
Ever have to quit a job b/c there was some shady bsns going on?
Or, ever been tempted to take a high-paying job where you suspected there were shady things going on?
There’s a cost to doing the right thing, even if the right thing is to do nothing and let things play out until the right things is to do something that will cost you more.
So, what are you afraid of?
What situation scares you?
What about control?
Are you losing control of a situation that you want to go a different way.
Doing the right thing may cost you, a lot.
But, you don’t need to live in fear.
That’s b/c God promised that what you’ll get from Him will make you forget about what it cost you to do for Him.
Can you do the right thing?
Yes.
Will you?
If you have faith in Jesus to save you, He’s given you a gift to use while you’re here until He does.
It includes courage, strength, self-control, endurance, and the ability to do what’s best for you and everybody else even when it costs you.
If you have faith, you have these things now.
It’s just a matter of putting them to use.
If you brought your bible, open up to 2 Tim.
2 Timothy 1
First Things First
Paul wrote this letter to Timothy
This is the last letter Paul wrote.
He’s in a Roman prison, a short time until his execution.
Everything in your NT that he wrote, it was written earlier than this.
He has the most experience to draw on as he wrote this.
All the things that have happened to him, things he saw, and everything he has learned in his lifetime are resources for this letter.
He was a leader among leaders in the Jewish movement.
He executed Christians, believing he was doing the right thing by defending his God from this upstart sect.
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