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Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:10-17 I. When it’s not easy you carry on by remembering. A. Paul begins the second half of 2 Timothy 3 by writing, “You, however.” He is making a contrast between Timothy and the false teachers at the church in Ephesus. “Timothy, you should not live like the false teachers. You should live like me,” Paul…
Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:1-9 I. Christians have difficulty in the last days because of moral decay. A. Paul describes the moral decay of the last days with 19 negative characteristics of people in the last days. The last days began with the death and resurrection of Jesus and the sending of the Holy Spirit on the church. Paul…
Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:14-26 I. You are a worker in the church. A. Verse 15: “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.” Workers are working on teaching the Bible to themselves and to others. We are all to make…
Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:1-13 I. You remain faithful by passing on the Gospel to others. A. Paul tells Timothy in 2 Tim. 2:1 to be strengthened for his ministry in the Gospel. Be a man. Where would this strength come from for Timothy? Paul says in vs. 1 to be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus.…
Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:1-8 I. You carry on Christ’s mission by using God’s gifts. A. The first urgent command Paul has for Timothy is in vs. 6: “Fan into flame the gift of God.” What gift had God given to Timothy? 1 Timothy 4:13, 14: “Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. Do…
Scripture: John 11:1-53 I. Jesus takes our pleas for help and demonstrates his love by delay. A. In vs. 5 John writes that Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So, what do you expect vs. 6 to say? We read in vs. 6, “So, when (Jesus) heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer…
Scripture: John 10:1-21 I. Jesus is a shepherd who knows his own people. A. The shepherd’s voice and call are distinctive. But Jesus the shepherd goes even further than just having his own call. “He calls his own sheep by name” (vs. 3). In his teaching Jesus is making a clear contrast between him as the good shepherd…
Scripture: John 6:25-59 I. Jesus brings God’s life to us because He himself is God’s manna. A. The crowd says to Jesus in vs. 30, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave…
Scripture: John 3:1-21 I. Jesus is a gift who makes you born again. A. God had promised His people that they could be born again. You can be new. What did Jesus mean by born again? He explains what he means when he says in vs. 5, “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot…
Scripture: John 2:13-25 I. Since Jesus is the temple, He will make us clean to meet God. A. In John 2:13 we see that Jesus went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. But Jesus discovered that the people were distracted from their worship of God by the business going on at the temple (vs. 14-16). The temple had become a…
