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Introduction**
The last words of a notable person are often significant.
At least that’s the sense that we get.
A great person’s last words are significant.
They are a window that helps us to look into his heart, or a measure that helps us evaluate his life.
We just naturally sense that there is some great importance to them or some good insight in them.
Because they are “last words” we believe through those words that we get a look into that persons heart.
We might think that because they are a persons last words, that if that person is in their right minds we might find some comfort in them and some helpful instruction … something we can hold onto.
Of course, it doesn’t always pan out that way.
Sometimes it might be something foolish like:
“Pull the pin and count to what?”
“O.K. I’ll go ahead and make your day.”
“I saw this on T.V.”
Or they might by cryptic or hard to understand like Steve Job’s last words, “Oh, Wow.”
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The Bible records the last words of many people.
Samson in said, “O Lord God, remember me, I pray!
Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes!”
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And verse 30 records his very last words ... “Let me die with the Philistines.”
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And then there is Saul whose last words were, “Take your sword and kill me before these pagan Philistines come to run me through and taunt and torture me.”
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1 Samuel 31:4
In regards to king David, there are 2 instances where last words are recorded.
One is his last words to his son, Solomon in 1 Kings.
Along with various instructions to Solomon about how to deal with Joab and a few others, David said:
1 Kings 2:2
David wrote at least 73 of the Psalms in the Book of Psalms, but one isn’t in Psalms.
It’s the last recorded Psalm that David ever wrote and is found in and contains this wonderful insight:
2 Samuel 23:2
David is confessing that his rule has not been perfect, but God has shown him grace and through his house the perfect Ruler … the Messiah will come.
Those are some great last words from David.
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Israel’s great enemy Goliath had some pretty embarrassing last words considering the outcome of his encounter with David:
David in that fight was a picture of Christ overcoming our great enemy, Satan.
Like Satan, Goliath was prideful.
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The last words of Herod Agrippa, like those of Goliath, were the lead-up to a great fall.
Well, we don’t have his last words, but we have this:
Acts 12:
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The final words of Eli the High Priest in the time of Samuel’s childhood were, “What happened?”
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In the New Testament, Sapphira’s last words were a lie, “Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”
Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”
Acts
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Stephen’s last words were, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.”
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The final words of the thief on the cross next to Jesus were the most important anyone could say, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
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And most importantly, the final words of Jesus … “It is finished.”
Of all the last words, none is more important or more poignant than, “It is finished.”
It’s a Greek word ... tetelestai, an accounting term that means “paid in full.”
Jesus was declaring that the debt owed to God the Father was completely wiped away … forever.
But whose debt?
Not Jesus’.
He was without sin.
Jesus died to pay the price for OUR sins.
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It was this good news of salvation through Jesus Christ that Paul committed his own life to proclaiming.
But to do this, Paul wasn’t going to compromise the integrity of God’s Word.
That is because it is important that faith is supported by proper doctrine.
In other words, Sound doctrine is important because our faith is based on a specific message.
The primary message is spelled out for us in
1 Corinthians
This message is of utmost importance and to change any of it … or to lesson any part of it or overemphasize a part is to change the message.
That’s because to change that message is to change the basis of faith.
Focusing too much on judgment or even focusing too much on grace shifts the basis of faith from Christ to something else.
The Gospel is what we would call a sacred trust … a message that is to be delivered and not altered.
Instead, Paul says we are to contend for the faith.
That means we are to fight for it with everything we’ve got.
God’s Word is truth in a world of falsehood.
The best way to distinguish the truth from falsehood is to know what the truth is.
In his first letter to Timothy, Paul had told him:
1 Timothy 4:
The result of sound doctrine is life.
But the result of false doctrine is destruction.
And many today are being led toward destruction by those who tell lies and half truths to make a profit.
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This is a concept that we must apply to sound doctrine to preserve it intact.
The word of wisdom is “Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set” (, NKJV).
If we can apply this to sound doctrine, the lesson is that we must preserve it intact.
May we never stray from “the simplicity that is in Christ” ().
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We know how important it is because we have been studying Paul’s letters for the past 3 years.
And he concentrates on explaining sound doctrine a whole lot.
But what is striking to me is that here in his final letter before he is put to death by Rome he uses his final words to talk about preserving sound doctrine.
For 30 years or more, he had laboured in the work of the gospel.
And now his life is to be poured out as a final offering to his Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
BUT his concern is with Timothy and with the church.
That we, as he had written to Titus, “Hold fast the faithful word as has been taught, that we may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.”
Williams, P. (2007).
Opening up 2 Timothy (p.
89).
Leominster: Day One Publications.
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Of all the things Paul could have written to Timothy in his final letter, the fact that he chose to speak so much about preserving doctrine tells us how important it is.
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This tells us just how important sound doctrine is.
And now we get to the final chapter of Paul’s final letter.
And now we get to the final chapter of Paul’s final letter.
What he has to say in the final paragraphs of his final letter … regardless of closing letter pleasantries … must be very very important.
What we find in this chapter is an intense personal appeal for Timothy’s faithfulness to the Lord and to his beloved mentor, Paul.
find in this chapter an intense personal appeal for Timothy’s faithfulness to the Lord and to his beloved Paul.
He does this with 3 admonitions.
He tells Timothy in verse 2 to preach the word.
He tells Timothy in verse 5 to fulfill his ministry.
And he tells Timothy in the closing paragraphs to be diligent and faithful.
Because hostility to sound doctrine will increase, the time will often seem not to be good for preaching the Word.
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