The flesh with its passions and desires gets crucified. Be blessed this week as you love and serve the Lord! A sound mind, as existing in nature, only regards natural things, and can rise no higher than its own level. STIR UP THE GIFT! He will manifest the soundness of his mind by preferring the substance to the form, and by endeavouring to possess the spirit of religion rather than the mere shadow of it. Not quite being able to live up to maybe lofty ideals you set for yourself? Genuine Christianity is in the highest degree rational, and peculiarly suited to the exigencies and circumstances of mankind. It is one of the rarest things in existence — A sound mind. You see if we belong to Jesus Christ…. The Spirit in us illuminates the word (the bible) and gives us revelation, The Spirit as we will see produces Fruit in our lives – changing your character, The Spirit gives us gifts for service in the church and mission – make you useful, Finally, the Spirit pours the love of God in our hearts, Not a Spirit of timidity or fear or cowardice…. How many in the Church at this day receive the doctrines of Christianity, not on account of the evidence by which they are supported, nor because they are plainly delivered in Scripture, but because this or that particular man has held them! When God Show’s Up 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control A "POWERFUL" GROANER By Bruce Ball One day in the middle of the woods, a hawk, a lion, and a skunk were arguing about which one was the most powerful. A Study of Paul’s Letters to Timothy Sermon #4 “The Priority of Prayer In Worship!” 1 Timothy 2:1- 7 It seems to me that we live in a society that is growing more and more anti-Christian by the day. That such a force as this exists, it is as idle to deny as to deny the force of sea or wind. (1) This fear tends to unworthy compliances. That they are false can never be positively proved. But it also includes this wonderful promise of the gift, God has given to Timothy… and to you and to me…. And it is an exhortation to faithfulness and to stand firm in the truth in the face of opposition. Soundness of mind is opposed to SCEPTICISM or INFIDELITY. It says that His noblest gift to men is His own Spirit of Power. Then reflect how it burst forth, how it poured itself out first upon Jews, who scorned them; next upon Gentiles, whom it had been part of their religion to scorn; to see what it could endure. ... 2 Timothy 1.7. And I also take all the student leaders through some training. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. The physician, the healer, is welcomed in all lands by different titles, but always for this reason, that he can in some way act on the life of men, can oppose the powers that are threatening life. Posted by Pastor Greg Allen on January 1, 2012 under 2012 | Preached January 1, 2012 from 2 Timothy 1:6-7. We have read in records of the past — we have known on a larger or smaller scale among cur contemporaries — such instances of strange panic and cowardice, of counsel and heart failing just when the need for them was the greatest, that we have been ready to exclaim, "Surely there is something Divine in this! Whit-Sunday says it is this, that the highest power, the all-ruling Will, was manifested in One who took upon Him the form of a Servant. So Bart grabs it, gets a massive electric shock. And listen, Immerse yourself in the Christian community and practices… know the Word of God. Change ), 9:30am (primary kids church, preschool and creche running). (2) Trust in God is a preservation from fear (Psalm 27:1). 10 Sep 2017. Now Paul had brought Timothy to the faith and commissioned him to do the work of an evangelist and church leader. Introduction Chapter 1 has taught us very specifically what the Gospel is and how … Acts 7 – Stephen’s Sermon; Don’t miss Jesus! The Spirit of God, which is his presence, active and alive in the world today, does all kinds of things in God’s church and his people. Prudence, which is that act of reason whereby we observe the fittest opportunities for the effecting of all things. al.) 2. III. You know what you want to do, or you should be doing… but you keep messing up. Each has, perhaps, known something of that cowardice which springs from self-distrust, from the apprehension of lions in his path, from doubtfulness, which of several paths he should choose, from the foretaste of coming evils. Mentioned both in 2 Timothy 1:7 and here in the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5? 3. The energy of habitual holy action is a spiritual endowment. Let me say it again, God tells you that you do not have to be afraid. When Paul came back to Lystra, Timot… And it will come through supernatural empowerment. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. We live in a society which declares right wrong and wrong right. It is the power given to the mind by some sublime conceptions which have broken in upon it. 7 For (A)God has not given us a spirit of fear, (B)but of power and of love and of a sound mind. In being a disciple at all courage was demanded. Here, then, is folly and unsoundness of mind in the highest degree, that men will not search the Scriptures and be guided by the Word of God. 4. I. ( Log Out /  GOD HAS GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF LOVE II Timothy 1:7 … We live in a nation In it, Lisa plays a joke on Bart where she puts out a donut on a plate attached to an electrical current. This wonderful insensibility with respect to things of the most fatal consequence, and that, too, in a heart so nicely sensible of the meanest trifles, is an astonishing prodigy, an unintelligible enchantment, a supernatural blindness and infatuation." January 17, 2021 - 11:32 AM Sermon Series 2 Timothy In 1960, James Rodgers was executed by firing squad for the murder of a local coal miner. We cannot attribute such a loss of nerve and energy to the pressure of outward circumstances; these often evoke the greatest courage when they are most appalling. 2. - T.C. 1. Now a word or two about the attraction in the "SPIRIT OF LOVE." Every student who graduates has to do a leadership weekend with me where I get to teach on servant leadership and the example of Jesus. Zzzz… tries again… zzzz…, And to me it was this insight into human nature… we have these things in front of us that we desire that end up hurting us…. I. 1. This spirit is not natural to man. I would have every person who is moved with the idea that God sends him to preach, "tarry at Jerusalem, until he has been endued with power from on high.". It is being ruled by our sinful nature. 1. Timothy’s father was a Greek. Yet you see the same persons quite other men in all other respects. So then the life of the Spirit is contrasted and the fruit it produces in our lives…. As we learn to co-operate with God, his promptings, get immersed in his word. 2. This will make them earnest in their care for souls, indefatigable in labours, fearless in the midst of trying exigencies, and self-sacrificing in love. 1. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. So for Paul there were two states of life or two ways of living…. The Bible informs us of our danger, and must be our only guide how to escape it. A sound mind — what is it There is not a child of Adam that possesses it until he gets it from above; it must be inspired. II Timothy 1:1-7 “A Spirit of Power, Love, and Discipline” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Turn with me to II Timothy, chapter one. "God hath given us the spirit of power." 2. by Dennis Rokser. I grant that there are many men who have sound minds in temporal things; sound minds to judge rightly and consistently of worldly matters, so as seldom to make a mistake in matters of business; a sound mind to rule their house properly, to manage things with keenness and propriety, and with success; but, mark, I make a distinction between a sound mind, as the gift of God in a spiritual point of view, and a sound mind as existing in nature. We find this particularly in Galatians 5… but indeed all through Paul’s letters. But their affection had been tried, and had broken down. So Galatians 5:16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. (2 Timothy 1:4-5; 2 Timothy 1:9 bis, 13, 14), in 1 Corinthians 2:4; cf. And maybe that is true for you? The spirit of love. The gospel is powerful to the salvation of all that believe. And I don’t think it is just the students at ICMS or this upcoming generation… I think this is typical of human nature. The capacity and consequent appetite for knowledge are spiritual endowments. "But of power, and of love, and of self-control.". They know that that thought is there, close behind them. 2 Timothy 1:7 (HCSB) So Paul wrote to Timothy who was then in leadership in the church in Ephesus. A man, therefore, of a sound mind, while he attributes to forms and ceremonies their true value, will not substitute them for more substantial good. This passage contains 4 imperatives, with the last one in vs. 7 (“Consider”) being reflective of everything that has been said to that point. August 19th, 2013 | by Brian Anderson | Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:1-7 As we embark on an expository sermon series on 2 Timothy, we see Paul exhorting Timothy, his young friend and apprentice, to kindle afresh God’s gift to him, and serve the Lord with all his might, … I didn’t make any this year… I think I was still in shock about being back in lockdown…. THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IS ENDOWED WITH THE SPIRIT OF SOUNDNESS OF MIND OR OF HEALTH. The power of Christian legislation is a spiritual gift. 2 Timothy 1:7 NIV 2 Timothy 1:7 NLT 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV 2 Timothy 1:7 NASB 2 Timothy 1:7 KJV 2 Timothy 1:7 BibleApps.com 2 Timothy 1:7 Biblia Paralela 2 Timothy 1:7 Chinese Bible 2 Timothy 1:7 French Bible 2 Timothy 1:7 Clyx Quotations NT Letters: 2 Timothy 1:7 For God didn't give us a spirit (2 Tim. 4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; 5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also. Cowardice is unworthy of those who have received the gospel in trust. Pauls says, “For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.”. Verses 8-15 deal with the place of women in the church. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do… 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. 2 Timothy 1:1-7 "The Promise of Life" was taught by Pastor David Rosales on January 14th, 2018. He and his immediate connections have a peculiar dispensation: they are the particular favourites of God, and all things are to minister to their exclusive good. The tools of his trade are stocks and bonds, buyouts and leverages. 3. II. How? Tweet Later chapters . Ask the Lord Jesus to teach you through His Word. I am well aware that infidels arrogate to themselves the distinction of being the only sound reasoners, and charge believers with credulity and superficial views. 2. Now this has a Supernatural presupposition… this isn’t going to come from just trying harder…. II. Hence it is the grand principle insisted on all through the New Testament. 2 Timothy 1:1–7 Deron J. Biles | September 5, 2018 Paul’s circumstances changed between the writing of 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy. To co-operate with the gift of God’s renewing presence… his Spirit alive and at work within us. Yet, O strange absurdity I we see everything reversed: persons not at all interested about these fleeting moments, on account of their relation to eternity, but very anxious about them in themselves! The Greek is Kata Sarx… (living according to the flesh) and Kata Pnuema (living according to the Spirit). An enthusiast entertains lofty notions of himself, and degrading conceptions of the Deity; he conceives that the course of nature is to be regulated with a view to his interest. In verse 1:18, Paul tells Timothy that he is committing this instruction to enable Timothy to “wage the good warfare.” Paul begins his instruction with our text, verses 1-7, which contain instructions about prayer. And yet I know not whether there was not something even more wonderful in the selection of these men to show that all Love is of God; that His Spirit is the author of whatever love men are able to exhibit in acts or to feel within. Such is the situation of a superstitious man with respect to all objects of a spiritual or religious kind — he sees nothing in its proper form and proportion. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. 3. Series: Family Fellowship Devotion. First, the author requests prayer for those in leadership positions. So don’t just put these things on a tea towel… actively pursue these virtues in your life. We know what we want to do… but struggle to do it! There is none more familiar or more wonderful than that of the orator. These are eschatological realities… these are the essential realities as Gordon Fee states of the two ages… before and after Christ! This charge is the central theme of 2 Timothy because Timothy was somehow failing to fulfill his … What is the original falsehood of all who speak of their love to God and man? Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. So Paul says one of the characteristics of the Spirit of God, given to us is self control or self discipline…. 1. 5. We praise this in many things — we praise it in the artist; and one once said, when fault was found with him for having employed so much of his time, "Art is a jealous thing, and requires the whole man." In the first letter, Paul was anticipating coming to … III. And also Paul wouldn’t have to remind Timothy of what he had received if it wasn’t an issue. Close. Genuine Christianity is benevolent and kind. Soundness of mind is opposed to ENTHUSIASM. What is enthusiasm? Self control. That allows us to not be captive to our fleshy desires and egos and pride. Did you catch that or did it fly right past you? 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