2 Timothy 4:1-8 ~ will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved His appearing

2 Timothy 4:1-8

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 ^[healthy] 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.

In the rather depressing film, "City of Angels", Seth and Nathaniel Messenger (both angels who have given up their immortal status to roll the dice as mortal humans) agree over and over to this statement about human faith and human doubt: "Some things are true whether you believe them or not."

Unfortunately, that's the extent of the correct theology there! 



Speak the Truth, for God is always present.

Preach the Truth, sometimes use words.

Reprove, rebuke and exhort ~ this is the deal, usually this is Encouragement.

Patience and teaching with Love.

Avoid new myths, not of Scripture. Check your Bible.  biblegateway.com has excellent key word search.

Be level headed.

Fulfill! The ministry given to your talents, given to you by GOD. Do the good works God predestined you to do. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.



Do not hold back. Even in just the small parts of building up the body of Christ.

The good fight. The adventure Paul spoke of, and Jesus, in "give us this day." Paul says he is constantly "seeing how that will go with me." Expectation of God.

Kept the faith. Paul uses the phrase also in prayer saying realistically "when I am remembering you in prayer." Paul had a lot to pray about.

The Crown of Righteousness - Paul has been to the 3rd level of Heaven. As he spoke of in his letter to the Corinthians.

Ephesians 3, families in Heaven. Paul does not anticipate Heaven as being uniquely his. Imagine Paul sits in a very key position in Heaven and he longs for those he loves to be with him. Ephesians 3 is the promise Families live together in Heaven.

Ephesians 3:14-21
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.


Mark 12:26-27a
6 Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living

Psalm 133:1
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity





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