Fight the Good Fight

Fight the Good Fight

Fight the Good Fight

Acts 20:17-21 / 2 Timothy 4:7 / 2 Timothy 2:1-7
  1. Intro
    1. Kingdom of Heaven, the Baron gives his son a Knights Oath on his deathbed

“..Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright, that God may love thee. Speak the truth, always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless, and do not wrong. That is your Oath..”

Gives him his ring and then Backhands him and says, “That’s so you remember it.”

    1. Death bed, what do you say to those most important to you? 
      1. What “benediction” do you give?
        1. Did your life exemplify what you wanted to pass on? 

Please turn to Acts 20:17, page 929 in the pew bibles (gift to you) 

READ, PRAY

    1. Finishing our series in Acts 
      1. Pauls Address to Christian Leaders (ELDERS)
        1. Jailed most of his life, house arrest, a small season of freedom and then death. Last recordable time where Paul is free in Acts. 
        2. 2 Timothy, last book to his close companion and fellow Pastor

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7

  1. Pauls life- (Vs. 18)  Matched his Oath for others to proclaim with him! 
    1. Lived among you
    2. Serving the Lord
    3. Humility
    4. Tears and trials 
    5. DID NOT SHRINK
      1. Never surrendered
  2. Paul fought the good fight! He lived what he asked others to do. 
    1. Fought
      1. GOOD. It’s a moral statement. 
        1. GOSPEL- BELIEVE, 
    2. Listen to the advice he gives Timothy 
      1. The Christians Oath. 

You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. 

  • Grace 
  • Disciples making disciples

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. 

  • It’s going to be hard (Address non-Christians) 
  • Single focused

An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 2 Timothy 2:1–10

  1. REPENTANCE, Vs. 21
    1. Personal & corporate

And I said, “O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, 

confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you.vvEven I and my father’s house have sinned. We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.  

Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples, but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’  Nehemiah 1:5–9

Lead into Communion

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