LIVING LIFE WITH NO REGERTS REGRETS (6 OF 6)
Scripture: 2 Timothy 4
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Living Life with No Regerts Regrets (6 of 6)
Series: 2 Timothy
Robert Dawson
2 Timothy 4
How do you want to die? I know that is not exactly the question you wanted to hear or expected to hear at a midweek service. It is not a pleasant thought. Maybe you consider it a rather crude question to ask and unwanted subject interjected into your thinking but death is a reality for all of us. Most of us would say that we would like to die peaceably in our sleep. I don't think anyone delights or desires in the prospect of a violent or traumatic death.
The question I am really asking goes beyond the manner of death, or how death might come, but how we approach that moment when it does come and however it comes. If I were to answer that question tonight, especially in light of this passage that we are about to read, I would have to say that I want to die with no regret. I don't want to look back on my life and say I wish I had given more, loved more, served more and given more of my life to God's pursuits rather than my own.
I would love to be able to say like one old puritan preacher as he approached death with family gathered round, ''I wish I had more to give you and leave you but I gave it all to Jesus years ago.''
Paul, as we begin the last chapter of this letter, is writing down his last words. Paul is about to die. Knowing that death is near he writes this letter and as he nears the end of this letter he writes these words in closing, words that tell Timothy how, as a man of God and servant of God, to live and die without regret…
2 Timothy 4.1-8 - I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teac ...
Series: 2 Timothy
Robert Dawson
2 Timothy 4
How do you want to die? I know that is not exactly the question you wanted to hear or expected to hear at a midweek service. It is not a pleasant thought. Maybe you consider it a rather crude question to ask and unwanted subject interjected into your thinking but death is a reality for all of us. Most of us would say that we would like to die peaceably in our sleep. I don't think anyone delights or desires in the prospect of a violent or traumatic death.
The question I am really asking goes beyond the manner of death, or how death might come, but how we approach that moment when it does come and however it comes. If I were to answer that question tonight, especially in light of this passage that we are about to read, I would have to say that I want to die with no regret. I don't want to look back on my life and say I wish I had given more, loved more, served more and given more of my life to God's pursuits rather than my own.
I would love to be able to say like one old puritan preacher as he approached death with family gathered round, ''I wish I had more to give you and leave you but I gave it all to Jesus years ago.''
Paul, as we begin the last chapter of this letter, is writing down his last words. Paul is about to die. Knowing that death is near he writes this letter and as he nears the end of this letter he writes these words in closing, words that tell Timothy how, as a man of God and servant of God, to live and die without regret…
2 Timothy 4.1-8 - I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teac ...
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