2 Timothy 2:1-5

Yes, you knew that, but yet, there was something in the back of your mind that said, “Well, why not? If I belong to God, why can’t the Lord make ALL things new like He promised, as in Revelation 21:5? Why do I have to fight for faith?”

Answer: We fight for faith because fighting for Him strengthens us for fit Christian service.
1st Timothy 1:18 and 19 sums it up very well: “This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightiest war a good warfare;
Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:”
The thing to consider here is a urgent caution from Scripture: Use it or lose it! I’m encouraging you, my Depews Chapel faithful, to focus on dedicated service for Jesus Christ, being single-minded to truly be in service as a soldier of Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 2:1-5 King James Version, challenges us:
“Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.”

Actively serving Jesus Christ means that we share in Christ’s life. We shoulder our voluntary sacrifices daily, even sometimes hourly, and follow Him wherever He leads, “And he said them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” Luke 9:23.

The Apostle Paul declared in 2nd Timothy 4:7 a very famous and very well-known verse of scripture: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.” Another way to affirm this fact of faith is through something I believe you’ve heard me say in a funeral sermon from time to time . . . “It doesn’t matter where you began, and it’s not about where you are, but it has everything to do with how you finish.”

Depews Chapel Family, we’ve come a long way through this national health emergency. It’s been a battle, and thus far we are winning. But the fight’s not over. Let’s keep on the whole armor of God (Ephesians 6:11-18) that we might keep fighting the good fight of faith to the very end; to its very beginning again. That’s what our Christian faith is: Both of beginning and ending in the beginning forever….. beginning now!