Examples…right or not….

 

Examples….right or not…

We don’t have to go very far to find both good and bad influences, examples of how to live our lives or not live our lives…we can turn on the TV, the computer, our phones, movies, etc..etc…even a walk through a store at times, gives examples…

Over the years, I have wished I could be “ more like——“, or “I would never be that way”…comments or thoughts running through my head in watching and knowing others…I have some amazing friends, family and acquaintances who are such great examples of Godly living… but the best examples are in the Word…people who lived through hardships, who led by word and example…who taught well, through the thick and thin of life….

In these last words from Paul to Timothy, Paul recounts again his examples…and again encourages Timothy…”continue “….”be prepared “…” keep your head”…”endure”…”encourage “…”patience “

Things we all need to do, to be…

Thank YOU…..

 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. 

Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 

In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. 

Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 

They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 

But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

2Tim.3:10-17, 2 Tim.4:1-5

Praise You in the storm… 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7UE_EuFLj4

All scripture…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isN15DPbX-U