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I remember a time when I was a kid and my sister decided to bake a cake for a surprise for mom and dad.
She put all the ingredients together and baked it.
And it came out like a hockey puck.
We couldn't figure out what we did wrong.
Mom helped us out when she got home.
The recipe had called for self-rising flour and we had used all-purpose flour.
The cake never rose, so it was almost like a giant cookie.
It's amazing how one little ingredient change can impact a recipe.
I remember a time when I was a kid and my sister decided to bake a cake for a surprise for mom and dad.
She put all the ingredients together and baked it.
And it came out like a hockey puck.
We couldn't figure out what we did wrong.
Mom helped us out when she got home.
The recipe had called for self-rising flour and we had used all-purpose flour.
The cake never rose, so it was almost like a giant cookie.
It's amazing how one little ingredient change can impact a recipe.
I also remember assembling models when I was a kid.
I would carefully cut the pieces out of their mold skeletons and then glue them together.
There was a car model I built that had a hood that opened.
So, you had to put together the engine first, and it came in 3 pairs of pieces.
First you put the engine block, the headers and the carburetor together.
You needed to let those three dry, then you put them together to make the engine.
Then you put the engine in the car.
It was quite involved and not good for an impatient kid like me.
I hastily put it together and stuck it in the car and it all fell apart.
I had to let the individual pieces dry properly first in order for it to work right.
It's amazing how skipping one step (letting the glue dry) can impact a model.
Now let's talk about church.
This letter that Paul wrote to Timothy is a picture of what makes a church.
It is list of ingredients in the recipe of church.
If you leave one out, the church will never be quite right.
It is an instruction sheet for building the church.
If you skip one step, it just won't fit together right.
So Paul is telling Timothy what the pieces are and how they work to make a church.
He started in Chapter 1 with talking about who makes up the church and how we should always remember the greatness of our salvation.
He called us to live according to the example of Jesus.
Namely, we need to be generous like Jesus in showing mercy as He has given us mercy.
We need to be generous like Jesus in giving grace as He has given us grace.
And we need to be generous like Jesus in offering patience as He has been patient with us.
Today, we’re going to look at generous living as a prayer warrior.
Now I have already set most of the context for this passage in setting up the passage.
But just as a way of reminder.
Paul wrote the letter to Timothy.
Do you remember when he wrote it?
(62 A.D.) And why did Paul write it?
(to describe church).
And remember the way letters from Paul were treated in the ancient world.
They were read by the church leader to the church.
So, in this case, Timothy read Paul's letter to the church at Ephesus.
And, as I seek to accurately present the power of Paul's message to both Timothy and the church, it is my prayer that we will get the same benefit today that they got back in the 1st Century.
As I said, the first chapter of the letter is really about the hearers, both Timothy and the church.
And last week we looked at 3 ways we can encourage believers to finish the race strong.
The first way we can encourage believers to finish the race strong is to remind them, the second is to restoke them, and the third is to release them.
Now let's look at 2 parts of prayer in church.
The Who of Prayer
The Why of Prayer
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The first part of prayer in church is the who of prayer.
1.2.
Coming from the end of chapter one where Paul encourages Timothy to fight the good fight, he says of first priority is prayer.
Not first in order, but first in priority.
It is like he is saying, “Timothy, fight the good fight and the most important weapon you have for that fight is prayer.”
And Paul approaches prayer from 4 different directions.
All 4 are different Greek words.
Let me explain
1.2.
Coming from the end of chapter one where Paul encourages Timothy to fight the good fight, he says of first priority is prayer.
Not first in order, but first in priority.
It is like he is saying, “Timothy, fight the good fight and the most important weapon you have for that fight is prayer.”
And Paul approaches prayer from 4 different directions.
All 4 are different Greek words.
Let me explain
a) Supplications – making requests for specific needs
b) prayers – bringing those in view before God
c) intercessions – appealing boldly on their behalf
d) thanksgivings – thankful for the answer already counted on
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So we are to pray hard for whom?
On behalf of all men.
The temptation to only think of our own little corner of the world in prayer is too great.
That is why we pray in church.
It broadens our vision.
It makes us think outside of just our spheres of influence.
We have to think, even if just for a moment, about other places and other people.
And that is how we pray on behalf of all men.
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And just in case you try to wiggle out of praying for all men by saying there are some that are too bad to pray for, Paul gives us verse 2. We are to pray for kings and all who are in authority.
That may not sound like such a big deal until I tell you who the Emperor of Rome was when Paul penned this letter.
It was none other than Nero.
Nero went quite literally insane while he was emperor.
One of the things he is remembered for is his intense persecution of Christians.
There is one account of how he put up new street lights in Rome.
The lights were Christians impaled on poles and lit on fire.
Nero was perhaps the single greatest persecutor of Christians the world has ever known.
And Paul says to pray for him.
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Oh that would have stuck in the craw of a first century Christian.
Pray for Him? Don't you know who he is?
Don't you know what he does?
How can we pray for him?
Paul keeps on going, pray so that we can lead a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.
a) peaceful – the absence of conflict without
b) quiet – the absence of conflict within
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So our prayers are such that we may enjoy peace from our leaders such that external worries are diminished and such that our internal concerns are calmed.
That we may be in one moment completely at peace.
That is the way we are to pray.
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