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Living Above The Fray: What Are You

The document discusses Paul's message to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:1-7. [1] It encourages Timothy to be strong in his faith, pass on what he has learned, and endure hardship like a good soldier or athlete competing according to the rules. [2] Paul uses the examples of a soldier, athlete, and farmer to illustrate commitment, submission, and working with a future orientation. [3] The passage challenges believers to be committed to spiritual reproduction.

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Living Above The Fray: What Are You

The document discusses Paul's message to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:1-7. [1] It encourages Timothy to be strong in his faith, pass on what he has learned, and endure hardship like a good soldier or athlete competing according to the rules. [2] Paul uses the examples of a soldier, athlete, and farmer to illustrate commitment, submission, and working with a future orientation. [3] The passage challenges believers to be committed to spiritual reproduction.

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Living Above the Fray

What Are You


2 Timothy 2:1-7
2 Timothy 2:1-7

1 You then, my son, be strong in the grace


that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things you have
heard me say in the presence of many
witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also
be qualified to teach others. 3 Endure hardship
with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No
one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian
affairs—he wants to please his commanding
officer. 5 Similarly, if anyone competes as an
athlete, he does not receive the victor’s crown
2 Timothy 2:1-7

unless he competes according to the rules. 6


The hardworking farmer should be the first to
receive a share of the crops. 7 Reflect on what I
am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into
all this.
The challenge

2 Andthe things you have heard me say in the


presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable
men who will also be qualified to teach others.

Be committed to spiritual reproduction


Three Models

• Soldier
Single-minded devotion
• Athlete
Committed to submission
• Farmer
Working with a future orientation
The commission
Meditation

Meditation is the activity of calling to mind,


and thinking over, and dwelling on, and
applying to oneself, the various things that
one knows about the works and ways and
purposes and promises of God.
It is an activity of holy thought, consciously
performed in the presence of God, under the
eye of God, by the help of God, as a means
of communication with God.
It is an activity of holy thought, consciously
performed in the presence of God, under the
eye of God, by the help of God, as a means
of communication with God. Its purpose is to
clear one’s mental and spiritual vision of God,
and to let His truth make its full and proper
impact on one’s mind and heart. It is a matter
of talking to oneself about God and oneself; it
is indeed, often a matter of arguing with
oneself, reasoning with oneself, reasoning
oneself out of moods of doubt and unbelief into
a clear apprehension of God’s power and
grace.
a clear apprehension of God’s power and
grace. Its effect is ever to humble us, as we
contemplate God’s greatness and glory, and
our littleness and sinfulness, and to encourage
and reassure us – ‘comfort’ us, in the loud
strong, Bible sense of the word – as we
contemplate the unsearchable riches of divine
mercy displayed in the Lord Jesus Christ . . .
And it is as we enter more and more deeply
into this experience of being humbled and
exalted that our knowledge of God increases,
and with it our peace, our strength, and our joy.
God help us, then, to put our knowledge about
God to this use, that we all may in truth “know
God.”
To Go . . .

• Which image best describes your


Christian life?
• How does Paul's view of the Christian
life differ from the perspectives that we
hold today?
• How would understanding your life in
these terms change the way that you
live your life?

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