Sharing Your Faith In Spite Of Opposition
Passing On The Faith
2 Timothy 2:1-13
You may have heard that Lance Armstrong
retired from competitive cycling
about a month ago.
His story is one of the great sports stories
of overcoming obstacles.
In October 1996 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer,
with a tumor that had already spread to his brain and lungs.
His cancer treatments included brain surgery and extensive chemo,
and it looked so bad, doctors told Armstrong
there was only a 40% chance of him surviving.
It was obvious to the doctors and everyone else
that he’d never race again.
But as you know, not only did he survive,
but then went on to win the world’s toughest bicycle race,
the Tour de France
every year from 1999 to 2005,
the only person ever to win seven times.
Lance Armstrong’s aerobic capacity is amazing.
He can pedal a bike 32 miles an hour for an hour straight.
Now as a comparison,
A very fit 21-year-old college student
can pedal a bicycle at 32 mph for about 45 seconds.
For about the first 10 seconds they feel great.
After 20 seconds they feel like they are going to die.
After 45 seconds they fall off their bike and throw up.
A professional hockey player tried to pedal that quickly.
Afterwards, he said,
“I lasted two minutes and then I had to quit.
I was totally exhausted. My whole body was aching.
Armstrong could go an hour at that pace.
Lance was asked,
What kept him going in spite of all the obstacles he faced,
in spite of so much opposition?
He said,
“After the cancer I just decided to live every day as fully as I possibly could.
That’s a great goal.
Are you living every day as fully as you possibly can?
What keeps you going when you face opposition?
There’s another great athlete named Eric Liddell,
an Olympic sprinter from Scotland,
whose story was told in the movie Chariots of Fire.
Liddell was the fastest sprinter in the world at the 100 meter distance,
but he refused to compete in the 100-meters
at the Paris Olympics of 1924.
when he found out the event was on Sunday.
He decided his faith in Christ
just wouldn’t let him violate the Lord’s Day.
People all across Great Britain criticized him.
they accused him of being unpatriotic and legalistic.
He received pressure from the British Royal Family.
They said, you need to race,
for the sake of your nation.”
But despite all the opposition,
Liddell stuck to his principles,
because he really believed
that God was telling him not to compete on Sunday.
He wrote later that he had to decide,
Will I honor God, if it means being laughed at?
Will I obey God even if it means personal financial loss,
or some kind of hardship?”
If you saw the movie you know that,
Eric Liddell dropped out of the 100 meter race,
but at the last minute
he signed up for the 400-meter race,
which wasn’t run on Sunday.
Most people didn’t think he had a chance at that distance.
During warm-ups,
one of the members of the American Olympic team
slipped him a note.
which had a quote from 1 Samuel 2:30
‘Those who honor God, God will honor.’
God did honor Eric Liddell’s obedience.
He ended up winning the gold medal in the 400,
and became one of the greatest
and most respected figures in British history,
because of his determination to honor God above all.
Just 2 years ago he was voted the greatest athlete in Scottish history.
A year after the Olympics
he left for China as a missionary.
and for 20 years poured his life out there,
then died in a Japanese prison camp
when Japan invaded Chine during WW2.
What kept Eric Liddell going despite great opposition?
And what keeps you going,
when you face opposition?
We’re continuing a series from Paul’s second letter to Timothy.
called, Passing on the faith,
today we’re talking about how to overcome opposition.
If you have your bible turn to 2 Tim chapter 2.
We’ve been talking about how
the Christian faith is passed along
from person to person,
from generation to generation,
like links in a chain?
Every conversion is one more link in a chain that stretches
across twenty centuries
and thousands of miles
and millions of people
who passed on their faith to someone else,
a chain that goes back all the way
to Christ and the apostles
and a chain that made it unbroken,
all the way to you and me.
And now, the question is,
if you are a follower of Christ,
Are you going to break the chain?
Now, when Paul wrote this letter to Timothy.
Timothy was facing a lot of opposition
from false teachers in Ephesus.
And Paul himself was in jail in Rome.
In fact, most people think
this was the last letter written by Paul,
before he was executed.
It was a very tough time for believers.
Paul says in 2 Timothy 1:15:
You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
So there’s massive defection from the faith.
There’s a lot of false teachers,
and opposition to the faith,
things are tough.
So Paul writes this letter,
to encourage Timothy to keep passing on the faith,
not give up, or give in to opposition,
but keep adding links to the chain.
With that situation in mind,
Let’s look at
Chapter 2 verse 1:
You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Paul is saying,
Hey Timothy, when you run into opposition,
when you have tough times,
be strong in God’s grace,
What on earth does that even mean?
All of us have heard of grace.
And maybe we’ve heard that grace means,
we don’t have to earn our way to heaven,
its not based on our performance,
but salvation is a gift we must accept from God,
based on faith.
So most of us understand grace,
as it applies to our salvation.
But what in the world does grace have to do with
enduring opposition,
or standing up to opposition,
or sharing your faith?
Here’s what I’ve found to be true with most people.
We understand grace for our salvation,
and that we don’t need to earn God’s approval,
but we still want to earn other people’s approval.
When we’re dealing with other people,
we forget all about God’s grace,
we live by people’s affirmation.
we really want approval.
That leads to the question,
Why is someone else’s opinion of your faith
so important to you?
Why do you feel like they have to approve of you
and approve of your faith?
Paul’s answer to this is very simple.
It is because you are not strong
in the grace that is yours in Christ.
You are not secure in God’s opinion of you,
so you’re ruled by other people’s opinions.
That’s why he tells Timothy here,
when you’re facing opposition,
be strong in grace.
How do you do that,
how do you apply that in real life?
If I have a strong need to feel accepted,
there’s only one source of unconditional acceptance,
and that is knowing that
God my Father accepts me, by grace.
God’s acceptance doesn’t ever change
based on whether I do good or bad,
or blow it or not.
If I’m a follower of Christ,
he accepts me unconditionally.
And if you understand that,
then you become strong in grace,
And if you’re strong in grace,
then it doesn’t matter if a coworker,
or a classmate
or a family member,
doesn’t agree with your faith,
or rejects you.
It doesn’t matter,
because God agrees with your faith,
He’s the one who gave it to you as a gift,
and he loves you,
and always accepts you.
To Overcome Opposition To Sharing My Faith,
first, I must be Strong in Grace.
Second, I Must Do Multiplication, Not Addition.
In verse 2, Paul says,
And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people, who will also be qualified to teach others.
Notice, Paul doesn’t say,
“My strategy for reaching this world
in the face of opposition
is that Timothy,
you need to go save a million people personally.
Paul doesn’t say,
My strategy for reaching this world
is to train up 100 Billy Graham’s.
No.
He simply tells Timothy
pass along the faith
to a few faithful people,
not amazingly gifted people,
not superstar evangelists,
but simply faithful people,
who will then pass the faith along to others also.
That’s the key:
Paul is saying, Timothy, you need to multiply yourself.
See, Paul’s strategy
is a strategy of multiplication.
If we want to spread the faith to the world,
we need to do multiplication, not addition.
Let me show you the difference.
Take Billy Graham
the most successful evangelist,
maybe in all of world history –
for over 60 years.
And let’s say that Billy Graham
led one million people to Christ
every year for the last 60 years.
The actual numbers are much lower.
But let’s say he led a million people to Christ each year
for the last 60 years.
That means through Billy Graham’s ministry
60 million people would have come to Christ
over the course of 60 years.
60 million is a lot,
but that’s less than 1% of the people born
in the last 60 years,
so by itself, that’s not going to win the whole world
for Christ.
Now, let’s say
instead of the superstar evangelist Billy Graham,
we had one faithful Christian who simply decided
that they were going to share their faith
with coworkers, family, and friends.
So they prayed to see people come to Christ
and they weren’t very gifted,
so in the next year only two people came to Christ.
But they made sure they invested time with those two,
and taught those two how to pass on their faith,
and so the next year,
both of those people led 2 people to Christ.
So in year 3 we now have four Christians.
And they did the same thing,
so in year 4 we have 8 people come to Christ,
so every year the number doubled.
Now, how many years will it take to reach
not the 60 million people like Billy Graham,
but all 8 billion people that live on planet earth?
(Answer: About 33 years)
You can reach 100x more people
than Billy Graham could ever reach
and do it in half the amount of time,
if followers of Christ were simply faithful
and led just two others to Christ
over the course of their lives.
Just two others.
The power of multiplication is amazing.
Let me illustrate it a different way.
If you took a sheet of paper
and you folded that sheet in half,
and then folded it in half again,
and were able to keep folding that sheet of paper in half 41 times,
how high do you think the stack of typing paper would be?
(It would reach from here to the moon.)
I was thinking about this, We wasted a lot of money on the Apollo space program. All we really needed was a really big piece of paper, and we could’ve put a man on the moon the easy way.
In fact, if you kept on folding,
just 50 folds and you get to the sun.
Now, even I know that you couldn’t actually get to the sun,
just by folding paper.
because, duhhh, the paper would catch on fire first.
The point is,
God’s strategy for reaching the world
is not superstar evangelists,
its simply faithful people
who are passing on their faith to others.
but we all have to do this,
we all have to share our faith,
or the multiplication won’t work.
To Overcome Opposition To Sharing My Faith,
Third, I Need To Be Prepared For Suffering.
If you haven’t already,
you’ll eventually discover
that every human,
goes through a very hard, difficult and painful season.
We call that season, life.
Life is unbelievably hard.
Now, before birth and after death,
it usually goes better.
It’s the middle when it gets complicated.
All of you should have learned this from the start,
because when you came out of the womb,
they grabbed you by your feet
buck naked in front of strangers
and whacked you until you cried,
and that’s pretty much been the pattern ever since.
You’re gonna see more of that
until you get to the end,
that’s my prediction.
There will be hardship.
There will be suffering.
There will be difficulty and strife.
So the question is really,
how are you gonna deal with that.
Now, some of you believe this myth.
Maybe you first heard it at summer camp
when you were in junior high and sort of naïve.
They told you, just accept Jesus
and life will be easy,
God will solve all your problems,
and you’ll be happy all the time.
And you said, All right, I’ll sign up for that.
Well, I’m sorry to tell you, but,
they lied.
They were trying so hard to get you to accept Jesus,
that they broke one of the commandments,
right there,
and lied to you.
The truth is that
if you love Jesus
your life might end up looking a lot
like Jesus’ life.
You go, well that sounds pretty cool.
Think about it.
Jesus was born to a teenage virgin mother
in a rural hick town,
sort of like Okeana.
people mocked his mother as a tramp
because they didn’t know who the father was.
and when he grew up,
he was basically a homeless guy
without a wife, or family or a home to lay his head.
Numerous times during the next years,
people hated him so much they try to kill him,
and eventually his friend betrays him for a few bucks,
and he gets murdered,
at the age of 33.
You see, you’re following a God
whose life was filled
with hardship and suffering,
and he’s our example.
So just because you become a Christian,
it doesn’t mean that your life
won’t be filled with hardship.
It could be that if you’re really following him closely,
you’ll have more suffering.
And maybe, horrible as it may seem,
we’re not all actually going to drive Cadillacs
and retire in luxury.
You see
The apostle Paul is very straightforward about this,
he knows better.
This letter to Timothy,
he wrote while he’s in prison in Rome,
and its the last letter he wrote,
before he got his head chopped off.
and he was faithful to the end of his life
he honored God the whole way,
but his life had more suffering
than any ten of us in this room put together.
Now, when you and I face hardship,
most of us have a problem-solving mentality.
We want to immediately fix the problem
and eliminate the source of the hardship.
And I’m not saying that’s wrong,
I’m not saying we shouldn’t deal with problems,
But what I am saying is this:
A lot of the time when hardship comes into
your life or my life,
God’s priority for us
is not to fix the problem
but to learn something from the situation.
Let me give you some examples.
If you're struggling in your marriage
you may think,
My spouse is causing me problems and hardship.
I need to fix my spouse.
Now, I don’t know if any of you have tried
fixing your spouse.
but it doesn’t work.
If you want proof you can ask my wife,
after 27 years I’m still broken.
So you’ve got a choice,
You can say,
“Well, I’m going to avoid hardship
by trying to fix my spouse,
or you can say,
I’m going to endure hardship by loving my spouse,
whether or not they ever get fixed
whether or not the hardship ever goes away,
Why would I do that?
Because I know that God wants me to learn something
and grow through this suffering,
so I’m asking God
how can I learn?
How can I grow?
How can I become more like Jesus,
rather than always asking
How can I fix that other person.
Another example.
Parents have kids.
but the kids are always the wrong kids.
Have you ever noticed that?
The right kids that I deserve,
would be well-behaved little angels.
But I somehow got the wrong kids,
because my kids do things like
swim in the toilet,
and paint the dog.
They do everything they’re not supposed to do,
There’s obviously something wrong with my kids.
They’re giving me hardship.
So I need to fix the kids.
They must need medication.
Well, not so fast:
maybe God is trying to have the parents
learn things like
love, endurance, patience, faithfulness, prayer.
If we’re always focused on fixing our problems,
and avoiding any hardship or suffering,
and fixing the people around us,
we’re going to miss a lot of what God wants us to learn.
Now when Paul talks about suffering here,
he uses 3 pictures
of people who endure hardship or suffering.
The first example is a soldier
in verses 3-4,
Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs; rather, they try to please their commanding officer.
Why a soldier?
Because soldiers sacrifice,
They give up their freedom for a time,
they aren’t free to come and go like others are,
they risk their lives,
they willingly suffer so that others don’t have to,
they’re examples of sacrifice.
What Paul is saying is this.
Think about life as a war.
You’re a soldier, and you have an enemy.
Now, some of you would say,
well I don’t have any enemies.
Actually, you do.
You have Satan as an enemy,
and you have demons.
You may also have a few people that don’t like you, right?
I have a few of those.
No matter how nice I try to be,
they still don’t like me.
Internally you also have an enemy.
The Bible calls it your flesh, or your sin nature.
You’re fighting that enemy every day.
So you do have enemies.
and you need to learn how to fight.
If you don’t,
you’ll give into sin and temptation and death.
Paul says you’re a soldier in a war.
and what do soldiers do?
They sacrifice some things,
and they limit their involvement in some things,
so they can please their commanding officer.
That means you and I, are going to have to sacrifice some things,
and limit our involvement in some things,
so we can please our commanding officer,
because we’re supposed to be like soldiers.
Next Paul uses the picture of an athlete in verse 5,
Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor's crown except by competing according to the rules.
If you’ve ever played a sport,
the first thing you need to learn
is the rules
so that you can compete according to the rules.
How many of you, when you’re playing something,
you hate cheaters?
How many of you are the cheater?
Okay. You guys shouldn’t play anything together 'cause one’ll die.
Paul is saying here,
if you don’t play by the rules,
there’s no victor’s crown for you in the end.
What does that mean?
He’s talking there about reward,
There’s a difference in the Christian life
between grace and reward.
You're saved by grace,
but you're rewarded for faithfulness.
You can’t lose your grace,
but you can lose your reward.
Here Paul is talking about a crown
Its like when you cross the finish line at the end of your life.
and Jesus says, “Well done, good and faithful servant,”
he gives you a crown.
That’s a reward,
not everybody who’s saved will get that.
A lot of people think,
well, I’m saved by grace.
I can just coast,
I don’t need to actually do anything to work for God.
Its true you are saved by grace,
and that doesn’t depend on your work,
but there is also a reward at the finish line.
And lots of people lose their rewards
due to unfaithfulness.
And Paul says an athlete can’t receive the victors crown,
unless he or she competes by the rules.
I used to coach T-ball years ago,
and one time I had a girl on the team,
who would hit the ball and run to third.
She’d just skip first and second.
She was probably thinking,
that’s a lot of running.
If I go to third and back, I could score more often.
Pretty good thought, really,
but see, you never get any points for that,
because you’re not competing by the rules.
And a lot of people are like that in life.
They want God to reward them and bless them
when they’re not playing by the rules
that God has established.
I’ll give you an example.
If a father has kids who’ve been disobedient,
and then they see an ice cream store,
and want to stop for ice cream,
but the dad says,
not today, because you haven’t been obeying the rules,
so of course they throw a temper tantrum,
because they want ice cream.
Now, does a good father respond
by stopping and getting ice cream? No.
Because if I reward sin and rebellion,
then I end up encouraging more sin and rebellion.
I’m training my kids to believe that
tantrums lead to rewards.
Some adults try to live their lives that way,
even some Christians,
they disobey God’s rules,
They say, God,
I don’t like your rules about sex outside of marriage,
I don’t like your rules about giving a tenth of my income,
I don’t like your rules about having a Sabbath day of rest and worship,
I don’t like your rules about gossip, or coveting,
surely God, you’re not serious about those rules anyway.
and then they ask God,
Oh by the way Dad,
can I have some ice cream?
would you bless this area of my life?
Can I have a reward?
Where’s my ice cream?”
God says,
Well, I gave some of the other kids ice cream,
but you ran away from home.
The last picture Paul uses,
is a hardworking farmer in verse 6,
“The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive his share of his crops.
Most of us here are not farmers.
There’s a reason we’re not farmers.
It’s hard work, isn’t it?
You could be a farmer,
but it’s a lot of work.
So instead we sit at desks in front of computers all day,
and we say,
oh no, I have carpal tunnel. What am I gonna do?
The farmer’s going,
“I wish I had carpal tunnel. I got carpal everything.”
Because farmers work hard.
My dad was the hardest worker I ever knew,
in fact he was a workaholic,
he worked too much
so I didn’t see him much.
When I was about 14, he and my mother were already divorced,
he decides he’s had it with business in the city,
so he sells his furniture factory in Chicago,
and decides he’s gonna be a farmer, and live in peace,
he buys a farm in Antigo Wisconsin, way up north,
and moves up there with his new wife.
And promptly went broke.
He was working 18 hours a day,
and couldn’t make ends meet.
I went up there to work for them a couple summers,
when I was about 16,
he paid me 50 bucks a week,
and I’d be out there picking rocks out of field all day,
or throwing hay bales,
and I never worked so hard in my life.
Now, my hobby at that time was running marathons.
so it wasn’t like I hated work,
or was out of shape.
In fact, one time I took a 2 day break from working on his farm,
so I could go run a marathon.
My dad was not happy,
he thought I was a wimp,
You’re goofing off from real work to go run a marathon?
I never worked so hard as on that farm.
Now, Christianity is not about being a workaholic,
but it is about people
who are strong and courageous like soldiers
who are self disciplined like athletes
and are hard workers like farmers.
Let me ask you, when it comes to your faith,
Are you a hard worker.
Some people wait until they feel inspired,
before they do anything for God.
You know, I would serve in the Children’s ministry,
but I don’t feel inspired,
I don’t feel called.
You know what?
A soldier doesn’t fight
just when he feels inspired.
You gotta fight whenever there’s need,
and you keep fighting until you win the battle
or die trying.
An marathon runner doesn’t wait
till he feels inspired
to start training for the marathon.
I tried that once.
I didn’t feel inspired to train until a few weeks before
the Virginia Beach marathon.
I ran a great 17 mile race.
Unfortunately, a marathon is 26 miles,
so it didn’t end well.
Some of us want to wait until we feel inspired,
to pick up the Bible.
I feel inspired.
All right, one verse out of Leviticus.
I’m good till next year. Woohoo
Athletes don’t do their life out of inspiration.
They do it out of discipline,
Farmers don’t wait till they feel inspired
to get to work.
If they did, they’d never have a crop.
Now, let’s be honest and admit
we 21st century Americans
wish we could have three very different pictures
for being followers of Christ.
we probably would not choose,
a soldier, athlete and farmer.
If we were writing this today,
we wish those verses read something like:
Timothy, Join with me
not in suffering, but in blessing,
like a woman at a luxurious day spa,
having therapeutic mud applied to her face.
Or like a man lying on an inflatable raft in the Caribbean
sipping a Pina Colada with a little umbrella stuck in it.
Or like a successful business owner seated in separately heated, buttery leather seats in your new Cadillac Escalade.
Those are the kind of pictures
for the Christian life
that we’d really like to see, wouldn’t we.
But Paul says, no, that’s not it.
Think about the
soldier,
athlete,
and farmer.
That’s how to approach
passing on your faith.
Then the very next thing Paul says is,
“Reflect on what I am saying for the Lord will give you insight on all of this.”
He’s saying,
take some time and reflect on this,
meditate,
contemplate it.
If you’re a tea drinker, let this steep for a while.
if you’re a barbeque type of person, let it marinate.
In other words,
Let it soak in,Let it get into you.
You see,
If you just hear this and go on,
without thinking deeply about it,
you’re going to miss a lot of it.
So you take some time and say,
God, I want to have the courage and willingness to sacrifice
of a soldier.
What does that mean for me today?
I want my spiritual life to be as disciplined as an athlete.
I want to have the work ethic of a farmer.
What does that mean?
What would that look like in my life today?
I mentioned that I used to run marathons.
Well about 12 years ago I had to quit running
because I developed arthritis in my hips.
So I took up bicycle riding instead,
I started riding with some other guys,
we’d do training rides of 30 or 40 miles a week.
Then about 5 years ago,
the arthritis in my right hip got so bad,
I couldn’t even bicycle,
and I took a year off from riding,
trying to give my hip time to heal,
basically wasn’t doing any exercise,
just getting out of shape,
but it didn’t work, my hip just got worse,
And so 4 years ago I had a hip replacement.
Well, after that I could start bike riding again,
and though that hip wasn’t as strong,
at least it didn’t hurt,
because there’s like, no nerves in there to hurt.
Then two years ago,
I decided to do something that at first sounded crazy.
Steve Oneill told me about this bike race in Springfield Ohio,
called Calvin’s Challenge.
It’s a 12 hour bike race,
whoever goes the farthest distance in 12 hours, wins.
And I thought, 12 hours,
that’s like four marathons in a row,
that sounds cool.
Now, I’d never been on my bike for 12 hours before,
or even close, but I decided to go for it.
And I looked at the prior years results, for this race,
and I noticed that the winners of this thing
were going about 260 miles,
I knew there was no chance of my doing that,
but I also saw that anybody who rode over 200 miles
got a medal,
so I immediately wanted a medal.
And I figured out, lets see, 200 miles in 12 hours,
All I have to do is average 17.5 mph
for 12 hours, non-stop,
if I want to get a medal.
Now to put this in perspective,
when riders like me go on training rides,
we generally go 17.5 mph for 30 miles.
I had to average that pace
for 200 miles without stopping.
But I figured, I can do this.
So it got to race day,
and the race started,
there’s several hundred riders,
and I decided my strategy would be to
take off with the lead pack,
and draft off them for as long as I could,
so I did that,
and it turned out to be a huge mistake.
Because this lead pack of about 25 guys,
takes off, and leaves everyone else behind,
and I’m trying to hang with them,
and then I realized they’re averaging 27mph.
And I knew that was way too fast,
But my adrenaline was going,
so I decided to stick it out for a while,
which I shouldn’t have.
and after about 25 miles I was exhausted,
I couldn’t keep it up any more,
and I dropped back,
and I was so tired I actually got off my bike and stood there,
on the side of the road.
I had nothing left.
And I was so tempted to quit right then.
I was thinking,
Ken, this was a really dumb idea.
You’re not in shape for this,
you’ve got an artificial hip,
you have no business doing this.
You should just quit right now.
And I was so tired,
that sounded like a really good idea.
But after standing there beside the road for about 5 minutes,
I saw the next pack of riders coming along,
about 25 more riders
who were smarter than me,
and had set out at a little more reasonable pace,
they were only averaging about 21.
And I decided right then,
I am not gonna quit,
I’m gonna jump in with these guys,
I can do this.
So I got back on my bike,
and tried to stay with that group,
and it was hard at first,
but then I started to recover, and it got easier,
and I stayed with them,
until the group broke up later on,
and I continued on
and rode 206 miles in 12 hours,
and got my medal. [hold up]
I’m not telling this story to boast.
I’m telling this story because I almost quit.
I was on the edge.
I was exhausted, wiped out,
I don’t know why I didn’t quit.
But if I had quit when I felt like it,
I would have missed out.
The reason I told that story,
is because of what Paul says,
near the end of his letter to Timothy.
These are some of the last words
of the last letter that Paul wrote.
Some people think he was executed only a few weeks
after writing this.
Paul says in 2 Timothy 4:7-8.
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day --- and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing."
Wow! What a great testimony!
More than anything else
I want to be able to say that about my life
when I die.
I want to be able to say, just like Paul,
I fought the good fight, I finished the race,
and I kept the faith.
As a result there is a crown laid up for me
there’s a reward,
Jesus is going to tell me,
Well done, good and faithful servant.
That’s what I want.
How about you?
