2 TIMOTHY 2:8 – Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel.” The whole of the Christian life is summed up in the first three words of today’s scripture–Remember Jesus Christ. I know this sounds simple because it is, but it is also truly the whole of the Christian life. It is like the…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
2 Timothy
The greatest Christian ever to live who invested so much in the lives of other Christians with a sincere, sacrificial, and costly love is in prison. All the believers he influenced; all those he personally brought to Christ, where are they in his time of great need? Gone.
Consistency, faithfulness, steadfastness, stable, constant . . . these are words all Christians desire would describe their walks with the Lord.
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 – But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance…
2 TIMOTHY 4:7–I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” What we find in today’s scripture is the Apostle Paul’s last will and testimony. He knows his departure from this life is before him. The sunset of fighting his many spiritual foes looms on the horizon. The finish line of his exhausting race appears…
2 TIMOTHY 4:7-8 – I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing. THEME OF THE DAY.…