Transformative Truth: 

3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth.... 1 Timothy 6:3-5

O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge," for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. 1 Timothy 6:20-21a

The Dangers of False Teaching 2 Timothy 2:16b-19

1. It leads to ungodliness.

2. It spreads like gangrene. 

3. It upsets the faith of some.

For the church to be healthy, we must handle God's Word rightly.

Transforming Truth: 

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel: The whole imperial guard and everyone else knows that I am in prison for the sake of Christ, and most of the brothers and sisters, having confidence in the Lord because of my imprisonment, now more than ever dare to speak the word fearlessly. - Paul the Apostle (Philippians 1:12-14)

[God the Father] chose us in [Christ] before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless before him. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. Ephesians 1:4-5

If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful--

"Everyone who acknowledges me publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven. " - Jesus Christ Matthew 10:32-33

Transforming Truth: 

“There is no limit to the supply of grace which God has placed at his people’s disposal in Christ.”

Power up: “to begin to make good use of or take full advantage of.”

Through personal relationship, prayer, teaching, modeling, and practical instruction, we want to see people grow in: conviction character competency

By God’s grace, keep the chain of gospel teaching strong.

a. the dedicated soldier

b. the disciplined athlete

Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.

c. the diligent farmer

By God’s grace, keep the chain of gospel teaching strong.

Speaker: Jamie Fischer, LeTourneau Director

I.   Abraham’s Journey of Faith in God

Transforming Truth: 

"Adversity separates the chaff of surface friendship from the substance of real friendship."

2. Loyal Christian friends are remembered.

He often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains, but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me earnestly and found me -  ... and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.

Here is love, vast as the ocean, lovingkindness as the flood: when the Prince of Life, our Ransom, shed for us His precious blood.

3. Loyal Christian friends will be rewarded. 

Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God's throne. Hebrews 12:2 NLT

Transforming Truth: 

Paul: "Don't be ashamed!"Timothy: "I won't be!" Paul: "I know you won't!"

God's sovereign, saving grace makes the gospel worth suffering for.

Explanation 2 Timothy 1:9-10

"Life" = regeneration (new life) "Immortality" = resurrection (never-ending life)

God's sovereign, saving grace makes the gospel worth suffering for.

Experience 2 Timothy 1:11-12

God's sovereign, saving grace makes the gospel worth suffering for.

Transforming Truth: Fortify one another’s faith through godly remembrances and reminders.

Paul’s Greeting

Transformative Truth:  It is God in His Word we must believe to have true faith 

2.  What it was that was believed.

3.  How what Jesus said was responded to.

Transformative Truth: Baptism portrays death to sin and new life in Christ.

"Run, John, run!" the Law commands But gives neither feet nor hands. Better news the gospel brings: It bids me fly and gives me wings!

Baptism portrays death to sin and new life in Christ.

1. What happened to us?

2. Why is this significant?

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

3. What do we do now?

11 So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus. 12 Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires. 13 Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an nstrument to do what is right for the glory of God. Romans 6:11-13 NLT

Transformative Truth: Jesus suffered in silence to save us.

Jesus suffered in silence to save us. 

1. The Silence of the Lamb

2. The Substitution of the Lamb

3. The Suffering of the Lamb

a. He was scourged. Mark 15:15

b. He was scorned. Mark 15:16-20

Jesus suffered in silence to save us.

I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.

If you suffer for doing good and endure it patiently, God is pleased with you. For God called you to do good, even if it means suffering, just as Christ suffered for you. He is your example, and you must follow in his steps. 1 Peter 2:20-21