✝ Daily Encouragement (11/15/24) "Our Job Description"
Published: Fri, 11/15/24
Updated: Fri, 11/15/24
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" Our Job Description" Message summary: Today's list is an excellent description of the work God has called each one of us to do. Listen to our message on your audio player.
"Preach
the word; be
ready in
season and out
of season;
reprove,
rebuke, and
exhort, with
complete
patience and
teaching.
Always be
sober-minded,
endure
suffering, do
the work of an
evangelist,
fulfill your
ministry" (2
Timothy
4:2,5).
In 2 Timothy 4 Paul begins by making a solemn charge to Timothy which we discussed in yesterday's message. Following this charge is essentially a job description for Timothy and also for the pastor or ministry leader specifically. In my teaching this coming Sunday I call this "Paul's charge to Timothy". However it is also an excellent description of the work God has called each one of us to do. Let us consider an application to each of these points for all faithful Christ-followers and disciple-makers: 1) "Preach the word". In our lives may God's Word be a foundational consideration as we minister to others in various ways in which we do so. 2) "Be ready in season and out of season". Peter makes a very similar command, "Always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear" (1 Peter 3:15). 3) "Reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching". These qualities are needed for any type of ministry. Especially consider reproving and rebuking (correction) which we all need on occasion. We must also be used of God to prayerfully bring correction to another when prompted by the Spirit. 4) "Always be sober-minded". The Greek word literally means to abstain from intoxicants but, used metaphorically, it means to be free from every form of mental and spiritual ‘drunkenness’. Peter writes, "Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled" (1 Peter 4:7).
5)
"Endure
suffering".
Like Timothy,
we too need to
be "strong
in the grace
that is in
Christ Jesus"
(2 Timothy
2:1) so that
we are
prepared and
willing to
endure
whatever
rejection,
hostility or
persecution
that may
result from
our allegiance
to Christ. 6) "Do the work of an evangelist". A reminder to continue to obey the Great Commission (Matthew 28). 7) "Fulfill your ministry". Timothy was to carry out his ministry to its end, completing all its demands and requirements. A few verses after this Paul provided a model for this, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith" (2 Timothy 4:7). Examine your life in light of these seven descriptors and make or renew your commitment to live by them!
Be encouraged today, Hebrews 3:13 Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
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