What stirs
us???
What does
it take to create in us the motivation, passion, excitement, desire, or
fervor to be engaged, or act?
·
Sporting
events?
·
Cancer
diagnosis? Live like you’re going to die!
·
Taxes?
Government overreach?
·
Job loss?
·
Death of a
friend – to the soldier, loss of a friend in combat.
·
Reward?
Peter does
not ask this question, but simply states that as long as he was in the
flesh, he was going to stir
Christians up!
2 Peter 1:12-15
–
3:1
Hope and Knowledge!
·
Both
letters given to this purpose!
·
Speak to
the purpose of a reminder –
3:17-18.
·
Who among
us does not know that we have a - Like precious faith! Precious
promises! Calling! Entrance to the Everlasting kingdom!
Wow!
·
If that
doesn’t stir you up; what is wrong?
Vs.
9 – shortsighted,
even to blindness, and forgetful!
·
Peter says
that we always need this reminder –
Vs.
15! How? Importance of the Enduring Word! Read:
Vs.
16-21
2 Timothy 1:3-7
– What
is our heritage?
·
Paul
thought of Timothy as a son!
1
Corinthians 4:17 – My beloved
and faithful son in the Lord;
Philippians 2:19-22 – I have
no one like-minded, that as a son with his father he has served with me;
1
Thessalonians 3:2 – Our
brother and fellow minister of God, and a fellow laborer in the Gospel;
1
Timothy 1:2 – my true son in the faith.
·
Are we not
family??? Are we reminding each other of our unfeigned faith, the gifts of
God in us??? What does it take to stir us up???
Philippians 1:27-30
– Reminder;
2:5;
12-16
·
Conduct
– Greek ‘Politeuo’, is almost the
exact same word that is translated “Citizenship” in
Chap. 3:20 (Greek. ‘Politeuma’).
Both words are from the root ‘Polites’
and is used in the Middle Voice, signifying conduct characteristic of
heavenly citizenship. Thus, Paul is saying let our manner of life be worthy
of the Gospel of Christ.
·
Only
– This
is an adjective
(Any of a class of words used to modify a noun), “Your only citizenship
must be lived out so that it becomes the Gospel!”
·
Motivated
– This is the reminder of Him who went before us to show us the way! Every
week! Greatest enemy of the stirred up Christian – time!
·
Work out
– How often does it take to be effective –
1
Timothy 4:8.