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Significant Lessons from Second Letters
Famous Last Words
Last words carry significances for different reasons.
Maybe it’s the person.
Maybe it’s the context.
Maybe the words themselves.
Ben Franklin was dying at 84.
His daughter told him to change position in bed so he could breathe more easily.
“A dying man can do nothing easy.”
Todd Beamer, passenger on flight 93 on 9/11.
He and other passengers knew what was happening at the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
They rushed the cockpit and brought the plane down in a field in Pennsylvania.
He was on the phone to his wife.
“Are you guys ready?
Let’s roll.”
Groucho Marx, ever the comedian.
“Die, my dear?
Why, that’s the last thing I’ll do.”
Pistol Pete Maravich.
Retired basketball player, before a pick up game at his alma mater, LSU.
“I feel great!”
He had a heart attack while he played and died on the court.
George Orwell, author who wrote “1984”
“At 50 everyone has the face he deserves.”
He died when he was 46.
Nostradamus, famous prophet and prognosticator.
“Tomorrow, at sunrise, I shall no longer be here.”
Marie Antoinette, on her way to the guillotine she stepped on her executioner’s foot.
“Pardon me, monsieur.
I did not to that on purpose.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“I have offended God and mankind b/c my work did not reach the quality it should have.”
Right.
Mona Lisa could have been prettier.
Buddy Rich, a famous drummer, in 1987 on his way into a surgery he would not survive was asked by a nurse; “Is there anything you can’t take?”
“Yeah, country music.”
Elvis, couldn’t sleep on night in 1977 and said to his fiance’,
“I’m going to the bathroom to read.”
She said, “Don’t fall asleep.”
His reply, “Don’t worry.
I won’t.”
And, we all know who said this:
“Hey bubba, watch this! Hold my beer.”
Some anonymous redneck who immediately after removed his genes from the gene pool.
Last words can teach lasting lessons b/c they are based on a lifetime of education and experience.
John was the youngest of the 12 disciples.
He was a teenager when Jesus invited him to follow.
And, he lived the longest of all the disciples and wrote the latest.
He wrote his gospel, 3 short epistles, and Revelation.
He had the benefit of more life experience to base his message on.
Think about what he saw.
Not just Jesus’ death and resurrection.
But, he witnessed every other disciple and early church leader die in painful ways.
He saw the church explode in growth throughout the middle east, Asia and Europe.
Of all the things he could have written about, the bulk of what he wrote was about the relationships we have with God and each other.
The bulk of what he wrote was about the relationships we have with God and each other.
They are the highest priorities we should have. .
2 Timothy is the last letter Paul wrote that we have.
Chapter 4 is the last chapter of the last letter.
There are 5 significant lessons we can draw from this chapter that were based on his lifetime of education and experience.
Things that would have been so important to him as a young adult no longer carried the weight he had given them.
When you are in your 20s or 30s and you feel strongly that there are things you would die for, just know time and experience will temper those strong feelings.
We have the benefit of everything Paul wrote that was preserved by God for our bible.
Consider carefully the content and the context of the communication contained in these final words of Paul to his young protege Timothy, the church in Ephesus, and to us.
5 Important lessons from the last chapter of the last letter Paul wrote.
Judge
This is intended to be motivational.
Not necessarily as a threat, be afraid of the judge and judgment coming.
But, more positive, look forward to what Jesus has for you when he evaluates your work on earth.
For teachers, there is additional responsibility for our students to be rewarded to their full potential.
And, for students, be encouraged to learn and apply this to gain the full potential of what Jesus offers.
As proof, Jesus appeared once.
He will again at the judgment seat where we will all stand one day.
Future promises based on past events that the HS was in the process of fulfilling at the present.
Lean into God’s future for you.
Present actions will have an impact on future rewards.
Take care of business now.
No one will circumvent God’s process.
Those who pass before Jesus’ return as well as those still alive to see it will all stand before the judge.
Those who have believed in and received life from Jesus as well as those who haven’t we stand there.
All will be judged by what we do in this life on earth.
Did you ever forget to reward or punish your kids?
Or, did your parents ever forget you?
If I didn’t get my allowance I was quick to remind them.
But, I would plead w/ God for them to forget what I had done wrong so they’d never get around to the punishment.
It never seemed to work.
A lifetime goes by and we wonder if God will ever really get around to rewarding us as He promised.
He will.
Understand, faith alone will save you.
Just believe in and receive Jesus as your Savior and be assured of your eternal salvation.
That said, behavior is based on belief.
IOW, how we act is determined by what we believe t/b true.
We may or may not be kidding ourselves in the way we live our lives.
But, there’s no snowing God.
If I don’t believe that chair will hold me up then I’m not sitting in it.
If I do, it’s b/c I’m sure it will.
I’m sure Jesus will hold me up forever so I will always rest in Him and work for Him.
A good teacher would never test his students on material he never made available to them.
God is as good as there is.
That’s what’s behind the second lesson and is in Paul’s charge to Timothy.
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