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Are you stirred up?
Important words, last words, instructive words, assuring words, encouraging words, that is what Paul is using here in 2Timothy as his final words.
Today we see some good words with good instructions.
A reminder first of what he has spoken already.
(opening thought) What stirs you up?
What fires you up?
Is it your kids, maybe grandkids visiting?
(add in personal illustration that fires me up)
Paul is writing to Timothy and here is what we have seen so far.
Instructions to Timothy Paul’s beloved Son (2Tim1:2)
I remember your great faith that was passed down to you (2Tim1:5)
Therefore stir-up, kindle afresh the gift of God in you (2Tim1:6)
(Transition) Timothy may have been timid before, Paul has some great instructions about not being ashamed, and suffering in our passage today.
Hope we can all learn and grow from it this morning.
First one more reminder verse that maybe we all need to remember
God has given us a spirit of power, love and discipline to be applied in our serving the Lord which may include some suffering.
So, here we go for this morning, at least this is the plan:
Be not ashamed of the Lord’s testimony (2Tim1:8-10)
Be not ashamed of the Lord’s prisoner (2Tim1:11-12)
Be spiritual loyal (2Tim1:13-18)
Be not ashamed of the Lord’s testimony
Ashamed, not one of those feel good words.
Ashamed (adj) embarrassed or guilty because of one's actions, characteristics, or associations.
This morning we see that word used several times with some proceeding words, “do not be.”
In our first section regarding the testimony of the Lord.
Timothy is reminded of three things in this passage and they are good reminders for us.
God gives power (v.8)
Be honest, who likes to suffer?
Jesus did not even enjoy suffering and knew the suffering he was going to have to endure (Lk22:42)
Then there was Paul who suffered a thorn in the flesh and asked for it to be removed 3x (ref: 2Cor12:7-8)
Peter mentions that some suffering finds favor with God.
That suffering is suffering for what is right, just as Peter mentions on (1Pt3:17) too.
As Christians we may suffer for doing what is right because we serve God.
That is what Paul is offering himself up as an example and an encouragement for endurance for Timothy.
When we suffer for doing right then, well check this out.
Well, have to be honest there is a place that Paul says that he rejoiced in his suffering, look at this passage.
(Illustration) I read a story about a captured Christian prisoner who was going to be burned at the stake for his faith.
In preparation for it because he had fear of the suffering of the pain.
He tried to experiment with pain with a candle flame and he had a hard time enduring the pain and felt he would be a disgrace to the Lord.
But when the hour came to died he praised God and gave a noble witness for Jesus Christ.
See, God have him the power when he needed it, and not before.
Other scriptures used or referenced in this section (Lk22:42; 2Cor12:7-8) 1Pt2:20, 3:17 and Col1:24)
God has called us by His grace (v.9)
God’s eternal place, His scheme of redemption was by faith through grace.
This was predestined before the world was created.
His plan, His purpose, His way always including suffering.
Jesus had to suffer in the will of God.
His plan including suffering so we could be called and saved by grace through faith
Not because of anything we have done in righteousness but by the Holy Spirit as noted in (Tit3:5)
(transition) All this grace in which we were called through is in Christ alone.
We could not earn it, we don’t deserve it, but out of His great love for us He gave it to us, from the Father through the Son as see in (1Jn3:1) now this leads us to the next point in this section.
Other scriptures used or referenced in this section (Act2:23; Eph2:8-9; Tit3:5; 1Jn3:1)
Christ has defeated death (v.10)
Again, no one likes to suffer, we can get timid when we consider suffering and especially when we consider death.
Hey, hold on, remember where Paul is now and what is before him.
He is in prison facing death as he dictates this letter.
Jesus took the sting out of death by the resurrection.
Jesus rendered death powerless
Jesus is the revealer of immortality (2Tim1:10).
Through His death, the defeat of death he shined a light a light of hope to the believers of eternal life.
One day we will replace our bodies with immortality and incorruptibility (1Cor15:49-58)
One more for this, our inheritance:
Our inheritance, imperishable, undefiled, ready to be revealed in the last time for us!
All through Christ overcoming death so the gospel of salvation by grace through faith could be.
Not by our power but by His and the suffering Jesus went through on our behalf.
So, we should be willing to share in the suffering Paul spoke of to the Philippians
Other scriptures used in this section (1Cor15:55, Heb2:14-15; 2Tim1:10; 1Cor15:49-58; Php3:10-11)
(Transition): Now to our next section this morning.
Having see do not be ashamed of the Lord’s testimony.
Do not be ashamed of the Lord’s prisoner
Prison was nothing new to Paul, this time though he did believe he would make it out in glory not alive in the flesh.
But he is not ashamed of it!
Paul was still a preacher, a proclaimer, a herald of the gospel even while in prison.
Even though many had abandon him
And it was a shame they they were even ashamed to be identified with the apostle who gave up so much for them.
Timothy’s life and ministry could have been easier had he swayed from the sound doctrine, gone with the flow.
But, Paul is reminding him and encouraging him in 4-ways now.
Paul was called by God by the will of God for the purpose of God (2Tim1:1; 11, Act9:4ff, 22:16)
He was called to be an apostle and a teacher.
Paul met the Lord on the road to Damascus.
Paul repented and was baptized when in Damascus (see Act22:16) and was trained by the Lord to fulfill the purpose of God.
Paul was a teacher of the Gentiles (Act22:21)
As a teacher to those in Asia it was by ministering to the Gentiles he was imprisoned the first time.
The Asians should have been grateful, but they disavowed him.
They were ashamed of him.
Paul was confident in Christ (2Tim1:12)
maybe better put the verse back up here in a different version for a minute
Paul knew, believe, trusted, was confident that Jesus was faithful and would keep him, protect him, guard him until “that day.”
Now, before get ing to “that day” I want to touch on one thing first
In looking at (v.12) we see that Paul is not ashamed, and we know why for he tells us “I know whom I believe.”
- We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior whom when we repent washes away our sins and gifts us with the gift of the Holy Spirit.
He is faithful to protect the gift within until “that day.”
So now let me touch on “that day.”
Paul mentions that day that we may find mercy (2Tim1:18) we will get to that verse in a minute, but we can also see “that day”
that day is day of award, reward, day for all who loved His appearing.
That means the ones who believed til the end.
We have to face many difficult days in this fallen world, days of shared suffering because of whom we believe.
We are not to be ashamed may we have the outlook Paul did, or maybe how Peter and John did.
Other scriptures used or referenced in this section (2Tim1:18; 2Tim4:8; Act5:41)
(Transition) God’s servants should not be ashamed of the Lord’s testimony.
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