Jesus Followers Wait With Anticipation – 2 Timothy 4:1-8

Jesus Followers Wait With Anticipation – 2 Timothy 4:1-8

Series: Advent
Speaker: Troy Temple


Anticipation: Written in the Stars
2 Timothy 4:1-8

What we look forward to will prioritize everything we do.

2 Timothy 4:1-8 (ESV)
I 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, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. 6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

  • Anticipate God’s Reckoning and Return – v. 1
  • Anticipate Our Calling – v. 2
  • Anticipate Opposition to the Truth – v. 3
  • Anticipate Rejection without Wavering – v. 4
  • Anticipate God’s Work – v. 5
  • Stars in the Present – v. 6
  • Stars in the Past – v. 7
  • Stars in the Future – v. 8