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Opening Prayer
O Lord, when all that’s within us feels dry, when we are in weakness or trial or pain, when we are in desert, we will bring praise.
We will rejoice.
We will declare that God is our victory and God is here.
We will praise and lift your name on high.
Because all of life, in every season, you are still God.
Because of you, we have a reason to sing.
We have a reason to worship.
So we are gathered here to worship you, the holy and righteous God.
Let us experience your mercy and grace in this worship.
We love you Lord.
In Jesus’ name we pray.
Amen.
Offering Prayer
Lord, we thank for Your faithfulness.
Thank you that we can always trust in You.
You are an abundant God.
you have always given us so much.
We give you this offering today with joyful heart.
With it we worship You and give our whole selves to You.
Please now take it and use it for Your kingdom and Your glory.
Extend and multiple its reach and influence.
May it be a great blessing to many.
We ask all this in the powerful name of Jesus.
Amen.
Introduction
In a book By Their Blood, James and Marti Hefley write:
In the 19th century Protestant evangelical missionaries brought the gospel to the Armenians with stirring freshness.
This precipitated an evangelical renewal movement within the staid old Armenian church.
At that time much of Armenia was under a Turkish Muslim government and conversion of a Muslim to Christianity was punishable by instant death.
This law was suddenly lifted in 1856 and complete religious liberty declared.
Scores of Muslims became Christians.
The opportunity proved to be short lived.
In 1864 the Turkish government began rounding up and sentencing to prison Muslim converts to Christianity.
From 1895 to 1896 government soldiers killed up to 100,000 Armenian civilians.
In the spring an attempt was made to kill every Armenian Christian within Turkish borders.
Lawyers, doctors, clergymen, and other intellectuals were rounded up and charged with subversion.
Many had their heads placed in vises and squeezed until they collapsed.
April 24 was the day set to kill the rest of the Armenians.
As many as 600,000 may have died on that fatal April 24.
One of those who escaped was a young girl of 18 who stumbled into an American camp.
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"Are you in pain?" a nurse asked when she arrived.
"No," she replied, "but I have learned the meaning of the cross."
The nurse thought she was mentally disoriented and questioned her further.
Pulling down the one garment she wore, the young girl exposed a bare shoulder.
There, burned deeply into her flesh, was the figure of a cross.
"I was caught with others in my village.
The Turks stood me up and asked, 'Muhammed or Christ?'
I said, 'Christ, always Christ.'
For seven days they asked me this same question and each day when I said 'Christ' a part of this cross was burned into my shoulder.
On the seventh day they said, 'Tomorrow if you say "Muhammed" you live.
If not, you die.' Then we heard that Americans were near and some of us escaped.
That is how I learned the meaning of the cross."
If somebody makes you stand up and asks, “Muhammed or Christ?” what would be your answer?
If your life depends on your answer, is your answer the same as usual?
Nowadays, we don’t be asked like this question in our lives.
No one persecutes you because you believe in Jesus.
No one blame you, mock you because of reading the Bible, praying and worshipping God, sharing the Gospel.
Instead, because of not reading the Bible, not praying, not worshipping, not sharing the Gospel, we are ashamed by ourselves as Christians.
How do you keep your faith in Christ?
In today’s text, Paul was in a Roman prison awaiting execution for his faith in Christ.
There he wrote his final recorded words to Timothy.
Young Timothy experienced personal conflict at Ephesus and will face difficult times and many hardships as he serves the Lord and ministers to the church.
In today’s passage, we can find a great model: the Apostle Paul.
Paul was in a Roman prison awaiting execution for his faith in Christ.
In today’s passage, we can find a great model: the Apostle Paul.
Paul was in a Roman prison awaiting execution for his faith in Christ.
There he wrote his final recorded words to Timothy.
Young Timothy experienced personal conflict at Ephesus and will face difficult times and many hardships as he serves the Lord and ministers to the church.
eEven when facing persecution, he was faithful to God.
At that time, there he wrote his final recorded words to Timothy.
In today’s text, Paul was in a Roman prison awaiting execution for his faith in Christ.
There he wrote his final recorded words to Timothy.
Young Timothy experienced personal conflict at Ephesus and will face difficult times and many hardships as he serves the Lord and ministers to the church.
Young Timothy experienced personal conflict at Ephesus and will face difficult times and many hardships as he serves the Lord and ministers to the church.
So Paul wanted Timothy to know that every follower of Christ would face some form of persecution and that hostility against the gospel would continue.
False teachers would rise up, and their deceptive belief and behavior would continue to get worse.
Paul is exhorting and encouraging Timothy to faithfulness in life and ministry.
So Paul instructs Timothy to continue in the truth, preaching and teaching it just as he himself had been taught from childhood (vv.
14-15).
Yes, Paul really wants Timothy to overcome this difficulties with grace and strength.
So he is providing the spiritual resources to endure.
What is this resource?
The Word of God.
Today’s message is not only for Timothy, but also for us who need grace, strength, and wisdom from the Word of God to endure our difficult situation.
Today’s message is not only for Timothy, but also for us who need grace, strength, and wisdom to endure our difficult situation.
The Word of God.
So I pray that, through this message, you remain faithful to God’s truth even when facing persecution and your difficulties.
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1. PERSECUTION COMING ()
12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Persecution didn’t surprise Paul, and he didn’t want it to surprise Timothy.
He warned that all believers who live a godly life in Christ Jesus will face persecution.
For us, we are free to come to church.
We are free to read the Bible.
We are free to pray.
But, followers of Christ in many nations around the world experience life-threatening persecution.
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