The Young Yield Part 3: 2 Timothy 2:22

Introduction:

Attention:

Like cleaning?

Janitor: cleaned for a living

Throw up

Not physical, spiritual

Prepared for use

Need:

God wants to use you (need preparation)

Prepared amidst the craziness of adolescence

Morida: · “If we neglect the priority of being a [prepared] vessel, we will forfeit the privilege of being used by God.”

Don’t take for granted

Body:

The Big Idea: Be a Prepared Teen

The Question: How Can I Be a Prepared Teen?

1. Flee youthful sin

2 Timothy 2:22 (NLT)

Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.

Explanation:

Run = “Run away”

Negative = “Stop doing” (subtraction)

youthful = Timothy himself,

youthful lusts

2 Timothy 2:23–25 NLT

Again I say, don’t get involved in foolish, ignorant arguments that only start fights. A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone, be able to teach, and be patient with difficult people. Gently instruct those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people’s hearts, and they will learn the truth.

2 Timothy 2:23–25 (NLT)

Again I say, don’t get involved in foolish, ignorant arguments that only start fights. A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone, be able to teach, and be patient with difficult people. Gently instruct those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people’s hearts, and they will learn the truth.

Argumentative

Stubborn

Older now > you know better

Ex. Brandon

Unkind

Impatient

Life is slow-moving

I want to be an adult NOW

Being harsh

Reckless

Speeding

Illustration:. Tyler going to Juvi

Flee = fuego (fugitive)

“Run like Harrison Ford away from youthful passions!"

Don’t jog; do a matathon!

Illustration:

Prop: running shoes

Jogging *what would you run away from?*

Bees

Run away from youthful sin with great intensity (there is something behind you)

Application:

Running? Jogging? Standing still?

How much effort?

Whatever it takes (social media, phone, relationship)

Self-awareness

Run away from sin to be prepared

The Question: How Can I Be a Clean Teen?

1. Flee youthful sin

2. Pursue youthful godliness

2 Timothy 2:22 (NLT)

Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.

No to sin, yes to God

“Christianity does not consist merely of prohibitions, but of positive and powerful actions.”

Postive

Flee AND pursue

Pursue = to follow zealously

Four words = Essence of the Gospel

Righteousness: Doing good

Don’t feel like it

Others aren’t doing it

Revolutionary

Faith: Trusting God’s character

Hard to trust

Others have wronged us

Faith in nothing

God sympathizes; reaches where at

Love: Self-Sacrifice

Selfish

iPhone

Teen = Beautiful Gospel picture

Peace: Harmony with God and others

Something in the way

Sin,

Anxiety

Prince of Peace

Away from and towards

Illustration:

Back to prop

Something to run after? *friend, squirrel*

Running after someone: Jesus (without looking back)

Application:

In-pursuit?

Take blinders off?

The Question: How Can I Be a Clean Teen?

1. Flee youthful sin

2. Pursue youthful godliness

3. Look right and left

2 Timothy 2:22 (NLT)

Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.

Explanation:

Guthrie: · “To live at peace along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart is an indispensable requisite of the Christian minister, as indeed of every Christian, although all too often ignored.”

AKA: Unity is important for teenage Christians

The challenge: join others (look beside you)

Hard in COVID world (things are different now); but possible through Christ

Pure hearts = prepared heart

Not self-application: group application

In this together

Illustration:

*look back at shoes*

Easier to run and pursue with someone else

Don’t miss the people who are beside you

Application:

Have you looked right or left?

Do you know who’s beside you?

Follow after God; see who else is

Join them in clean living.

Conclusion

Visualization:

Be a prepared to run the race well

Reiteration:

Persevere > make it to the finish line

PRAY