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*Not Ashamed to Suffer*
*By Mike Fennema*
*Com Lab 1*
*Rev.
Larry Kirk*
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*FCF*:  Christians are often not willing to suffer because they are ashamed.
*Proposition*:  Because of God’s gifts, we are able to suffer without shame.
*Outline:*
A.    1.
God’s gifts do not leave us timid.
(1:6-7)
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The Spirit is a Gift.
2.     The Spirit is a Gift.
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God’s power does not lead to an easy life.
(1:8)
1.     Power enables us to testify.
2.     Power enables us to suffer.
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Our suffering does not cause shame.
(1:9-12)
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We are not ashamed because we know Jesus.
2.     We are not ashamed because we are convinced that he will preserve us.
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*Scripture Introduction*:
Second Timothy is the second of two letters that the Apostle Paul wrote to his dear friend and protégé, Timothy.
At the time of this letter, Timothy was pastoring the church in Ephesus.
Paul’s return address was most likely Rome, where he was in prison.
He wrote this letter near the end of his life, as he was walking toward that light at the end of the tunnel.
Because Paul knew that his time on earth was short, he wanted to encourage and charge Timothy in joining Paul in his work for the gospel and the Kingdom before he died.
Read 2 Timothy 1:1-12
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,
2 To Timothy, my dear son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.
4 Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.  5 I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.
6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
8 So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner.
But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God,  9 who has saved us and called us to a holy life-- not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace.
This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,  10 but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
11 And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher.
12 That is why I am suffering as I am.
Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day.
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Introduction:
 
Shame is a feeling that no one desires.
No one ever wants to feel ashamed.
Shame is similar to embarrassment, but goes so much deeper.
Embarrassment is easier to deal with than being ashamed.
When I was a freshman in high school, I tripped climbing the stairs during chapel.
I landed flat on my face in front of the entire school, including the faculty and staff.
Talk about embarrassment!
It took me awhile, but I am no longer embarrassed when someone from my high school brings up that story.
Even though my clumsy fall embarrassed me, I wasn’t ashamed because of what I did.
It was an accident.
There are other things in my life that make me feel ashamed.
Things that I have done that I don’t like to talk about, even with my wife.
We all have things in the past that we have done that we are ashamed of.
Not only can we be ashamed of things that we’ve done, we can also be ashamed of who we are.
Sometimes people feel ashamed over a relative who has given their family a bad name because of something they have done.
Sometimes people feel ashamed because they are different from other people physically or mentally.
We can be ashamed of the car that we drive, the clothes we wear, or the house we live in.
Sometimes we are even ashamed of what we believe because we don’t want people to think that we are crazy or different.
In our passage for today, Paul encourages Timothy not to be ashamed.
He tells Timothy not to be ashamed of Paul and his being in prison.
Instead, Paul exhorts Timothy to join Paul in suffering for the gospel.
Paul explains to Timothy that he can endure what he is suffering because of the God’s gift that Paul has.  Through this passage, Paul shows Timothy—and us as well-- that /because of God’s gifts, Christians are able to suffer without being ashamed./
As we dive into this text, one of the first things we notice is that:
 
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God’s gifts do not leave us timid.
Paul begins this letter to telling Timothy how grateful to God he is over Timothy’s sincere faith.
Paul saw first hand how faith in God was passed from generation to generation in Timothy’s family.
It first began with Timothy’s grandmother Lois who passed it on to his mother, Eunice.
And now faith lives in Timothy as well.
How excited Paul was and grateful to God for the passing on of faith from generation to generation!
Timothy had a special calling on top of the faith that he received from his grandmother and mother.
What is special about Timothy is that he received “the gift of God which is in [him] through the laying on of [Paul’s] hands.”
(1:6 NIV)  Paul himself laid hands on Timothy and imparted the “gift of God” to him.
Paul then charged Timothy to fan this gift into flame.
But what is this “gift of God?”
 
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The Spirit is a Gift.
This “gift of God” is the Spirit!
More specifically, this gift is spiritual gifts that each person receives when they receive the Spirit.
God’s Spirit is truly a gift.
Way back in the Old Testament, God prophesied through the prophet Joel that he would give the gift of the Spirit.
Joel 2:28 says, “And afterwards, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.”
(NIV)  The Apostle Peter, speaking under the influence of the Spirit on the great day of Pentecost declared to everyone in attendance “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.
And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
(Acts 2:38) Later on in the book of Acts, the Spirit is also described as a gift.
Peter and other circumcised believers who were with him in the home of Cornelius, the Gentile, were astonished when Gentiles began speaking in tongues and praising God.
Acts 10:38 says the circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles” after they heard Peter preach.
So the Spirit of God is truly a gift of God.
It is a gift of God that is given to those who have faith in Jesus, God’s Son.
 
/But the Spirit is not just a gift for us to play with like a 2-year old who gets a stuffed animal at Christmas.
The Spirit is a gift of God that enables us.
Receiving the gift of the Spirit is like a 16-year old receiving their license.
It enables us to do things that we could not do before./
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The Spirit enables us.
Paul tells us three things that are included with the gift of the spirit and one thing that is not.
First of all, the one thing that we do not receive is a spirit of “timidity.”
My wife mentors a 14-year girl by the name of Marlin.
This past weekend, my wife and I took Marlin and a friend to Wet & Wild.
One of the final rides of the day was called “The Storm.”
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