Whether we think about it or not, we are all going to be there for our deaths. So it is prudent to take that reality to heart. Scripture repeatedly calls us to consider the inevitability of our death. As we heard earlier in the prayer of Moses from Psalm 90. All the years of our lives “are soon gone and we fly away” (10). That is why Moses prays, “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom” (12).
Over the last several weeks we have been studying the Apostle Paul’s last letter that is found in the New Testament. He writes it to his young, colleague, Timothy, who is serving the church in Ephesus as their pastor. Paul is in a Roman prison—probably the notorious Mamartine Prison in the city of Rome itself.
Though he had been imprisoned many times before, he is confident that this time, he will not be released. He knows that before long, Nero will demand that he be executed. So he writes the letter we call 2 Timothy in order to give final instructions to his friend and companion in ministry. He wants to encourage him and prepare him to lead on in the work of spreading the gospel after Paul is gone. The whole book can be seen as Paul passing the baton of gospel leadership to Timothy.
This morning we come to our next-to-last study in this series and our text will be 2 Timothy 4:6-8. In this brief paragraph Paul tells us what he thinks about his life from not only the perspective of the present, but also with regard to the past and the future.
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Message 36 Life in the Household of God Grace Baptist Church
