What does it look like when you’re a faithful servant of God? As a staff team, we just finished reading and discussing the book, Honour, by Adam Ramsey. He wrote, “The humbling truth for every one of us is that the truest indicator of our maturity in Christ is not how much Scripture we have read or how many services we have attended or how much responsibility we carry, but how we respond when we don’t get our way.” Faithfulness as a Christian has everything to do with our responses to what God does rather than it being about what we do. Checkmark Christianity fails the test. The way of the faithful believer is to respond in devotion to the King of the ages, the immortal, invisible, and only God, and giving him the honour and glory forever and ever (see 1 Timothy 1:17). And that’s what we’ll be looking into on Sunday as our series, The Good Fight, in 1 Timothy continues. Read 1 Timothy 1:12-17 and get your heart and mind ready to hear his Word preached. Pray that the Holy Spirit would work deeply in all of us.

Series: The Good Fight (1 Timothy)

Todd Dugard

Message: 3 – He judged me faithful

Harvest Bible Chapel

Text: 1 Timothy 1:12-17

March 16, 2025

God does not choose a person who is worthy, but by the act of choosing he makes each one worthy.

Augustine

As a faithful servant of Christ Jesus, I am…

…grateful for his power in my life (v. 12)

James 2:10

Churches open and close. Preachers live and die. Conferences come and go. Ministries rise and fall. Christ remains the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Dustin Benge

…despite my sinful condition. (v. 13, 15)

Romans 7:18

Leave the irreparable past in his hands, and step out into the irresistible future with him.

Oswald Chambers

…overflowing with his grace (v. 14)

To help prevent spiritual pride, let us remember, that we did not choose Christ, but were chosen by him. We have nothing but what has been given to us. The free grace of God has alone made the difference between us and others.

George Whitefield

Ephesians 2:8

1 John 4:16

1 John 4:19

Psalm 46:10a (NASB)

…due to his patience. (v. 16a)

Grace is receiving what I do not deserve. Mercy is not receiving what I do deserve.

Christ’s unlimited patience is an attitude of moral restraint that holds out under provocation. This longsuffering held back overdue judgment and offered pardon and forgiveness instead of separation and lostness.

Thomas D. Lea

…included in his plan to reach others (v. 16b)

…resulting in his glory. (v. 17)