REMEMBERING TO REMEMBER (2 OF 6)
Scripture: 2 Peter 1:12-21
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Title: Remembering to Remember (2 of 6)
Series: 2 Peter
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: 2 Peter 1:12-21
Final words are important. The last thing said is often the one thing that is remembered. Last words often communicate things of first importance. (PTW)
- When a child is walking out the door, or a teen is going out with friends or on a date, the parent usually has a couple of things to say as they leave. Reminders. Instructions. (Be Careful. Curfew. Call if plans change).
- Before parents leave on a date night, they give last minute instructions to the babysitter. Feeding. Bedtime. Allergies. Screen time.
- Then you have true last words, the dying words of a husband to a wife, or his son or daughter.
Last words are meaningful. They are important. They are often urgent. Scripture is filled with instances of people communicating last words to those they love.
- We recently preached on Jacob's last words and Joseph's last words.
- In the Gospels we know Jesus gathered His disciples for last words before both His crucifixion and ascension back to heaven.
- Paul, the great Apostle, writes to Timothy, his son in the faith, and gives him final words. "I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous Judge, will award me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing (2 Timothy 4.6-8)." In full disclosure, when the end of my journey comes and the time for last words is at hand, it is my prayer that I will be able to say just part of what Paul did, that I have kept the faith.
Last words. Well, 2 Peter appears to be just that...last words. Much of the structure of the first part of this letter is characteristic of how one would have introduced a last will and testament. As we will read and hear in this ...
Series: 2 Peter
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: 2 Peter 1:12-21
Final words are important. The last thing said is often the one thing that is remembered. Last words often communicate things of first importance. (PTW)
- When a child is walking out the door, or a teen is going out with friends or on a date, the parent usually has a couple of things to say as they leave. Reminders. Instructions. (Be Careful. Curfew. Call if plans change).
- Before parents leave on a date night, they give last minute instructions to the babysitter. Feeding. Bedtime. Allergies. Screen time.
- Then you have true last words, the dying words of a husband to a wife, or his son or daughter.
Last words are meaningful. They are important. They are often urgent. Scripture is filled with instances of people communicating last words to those they love.
- We recently preached on Jacob's last words and Joseph's last words.
- In the Gospels we know Jesus gathered His disciples for last words before both His crucifixion and ascension back to heaven.
- Paul, the great Apostle, writes to Timothy, his son in the faith, and gives him final words. "I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous Judge, will award me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing (2 Timothy 4.6-8)." In full disclosure, when the end of my journey comes and the time for last words is at hand, it is my prayer that I will be able to say just part of what Paul did, that I have kept the faith.
Last words. Well, 2 Peter appears to be just that...last words. Much of the structure of the first part of this letter is characteristic of how one would have introduced a last will and testament. As we will read and hear in this ...
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