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2016 AMF Day4 - Finishing Well
Paul reflects on finishing his life well and keeping the faith as he faces death. He recalls how at his first defense, no one supported him but God strengthened him to spread the gospel to all nations. Paul is confident that God will protect him from evil and bring him safely into God's kingdom. He encourages living with awe and care for others, as everyday people may one day be divine beings or corrupt horrors.
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- 1. FINISHING WELL For Iam already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future 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 to all who have loved His appearing. At my first defence no one supported me, but all deserted me; may it not be counted against them. But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me, in order that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the lion’s mouth.The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him be glory forever and ever. Amen. 2 Timothy 4:6-8; 16-18
- 2. TWO TENSIONS Tension #1:God and Me Tension #2: Now and Eternity
- 3. A FINAL WORD “Itis a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people.You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.” C. S. Lewis,“The Weight of Glory*, a sermon preached on 8 June 1941 at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford University., in C. S. Lewis, TheWeight of Glory and Other Addresses (NewYork: HarperCollins, 2001)