continue in the gospel

Stream from mobile phone: [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://hillcc.org/sermons/SWS041314.MP3″] Stream from PC: [audio:http://hillcc.org/sermons/SWS041314.MP3] Sermon Outline Text: 2 Tim 3:1-16 Palm Sunday – palm branches – Misunderstood Sunday Passion Week – passion means suffering Two weeks ago: Paul gives Timothy the charge to guard the gospel Last week: Paul gives Timothy the charge to suffer for the gospel Next week: Paul gives Timothy the charge to continue in the gospel Easter Sunday: We will join Timothy in receiving the charge to proclaim the gospel 2 Tim 3:1 Last Days will be marked by difficulty So in this chapter, Paul urges Timothy in v14 to continue in the gospel What is the gospel? 1 and 2 Timothy – filled warnings, what happens when we stop keeping Jesus as our focus? Everything falls apart These 2 letters filled with accounts of people falling away or departing from the faith Cause? Surface level reasons like money or doctrine, but deeper cause is Satan. Spiritual battle intensifies in the Last Days. 2 Tim 3:1-5 Define the Last Days – time before Jesus’ first coming and His second coming Last Days assumes there is an End Jesus will descend upon the earth on clouds of fire to rapture His church and establish the 1000 year reign of Christ before the complete re-creation of earth where heaven comes crashing down to earth – new heaven and new earth Garden of Eden 2.0… Read more