Finishing the Course Well 2 Timothy 4 6

Finishing the Course Well 2 Timothy 4: 6 -8 (Part 2)

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy 4: 1 -5 6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; 8 in the future 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.

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy The Big Idea for 2 Timothy 4: 6 -8 If we are to finish our course well; we must consider our present, our past, and our future.

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Preaching God’s Word! I. If we are to finish the course well, we must consider our present (4: 6) A. We are to be engaged in discipleship B. We are to be engaged in sacrifice C. We are to expect an end

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Titus 2: 11 -13 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12 instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, 13 looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus…

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Preaching God’s Word! II. If we are to finish the course well, we must consider our past (4: 7) I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Philippians 3: 13 -14 13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Preaching God’s Word! II. If we are to finish the course well, we must consider our past (4: 7) A. “I have fought the good fight…”

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Spurgeon “I think there is scarcely a Christian man or woman that has been able to go all the way to heaven and yet quietly hide himself and run from bush to bush, skulking into glory. Christianity and cowardice? What a contradiction in terms!”

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Preaching God’s Word! II. If we are to finish the course well, we must consider our past (4: 7) A. “I have fought the good fight…” B. “I have finished the course…”

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Spurgeon “It is yours and mine to do the right though the heavens fall, and follow the command of Christ whatever the consequence may be. “That is strong meat, ” do you say? Be strong men, then, and feed thereon. ”

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Preaching God’s Word! II. If we are to finish the course well, we must consider our past (4: 7) A. “I have fought the good fight…” B. “I have finished the course…” C. “I have kept the faith…”

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy 1 Timothy 6: 20 -21 20 O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called "knowledge" — 21 which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith. Grace be with you.

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy 1: 12 -14 12 For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day. 13 Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. 14 Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Colossians 2: 6 -8 6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. 8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Psalm 1: 2 -3 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers.

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Colossians 2: 7 -8 7 having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. 8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Ephesians 4: 11 -14 11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. 14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming…

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Isaac Watts Am I a soldier of the cross, A follow’r of the Lamb? And shall I fear to own His cause, Or blush to speak His name? Must I be carried to the skies On flow’ry beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas?

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Isaac Watts Are there no foes for me to face? Must I not stem the flood? Is this vile world a friend to grace, To help me on to God? Sure I must fight if I would reign; Increase my courage, Lord; I’ll bear the toil, endure the pain, Supported by Thy Word.

Faithfully Living with Courage and Commitment – 2 Timothy Isaac Watts Thy saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer, though they die; They see the triumph from afar, By faith’s discerning eye. When that illustrious day shall rise, And all Thy armies shine In robes of vict’ry through the skies, The glory shall be Thine.

Finishing the Course Well 2 Timothy 4: 6 -8 (Part 2)