"i Cant Christian Today"

I can’t Christian Today 2Timothy 2:4:6-8, 16-18

1. I can’t do the parenting thing today

• I need a break ,This week has been weary some

• I have had a terrible week and I can’t parent today

2. I can’t do the exercise thing today,

• I can’t Walk that hill today I am terribly tired, My legs are burning

• My body is drained no energy today

3. Some are maybe saying I can’t Christian today

• Because I am fed up with those folk who really could care less about the general rules

• “Do Good, Do No Harm, stay in love with God

• Many Christians are not doing good but doing bad

• Many Christians are doing harm and wounding each other

• Many Christians say, they are in love with God but their life represents they are in love with other things

• They are really saying I can’t Christian most days especially Sundays it’s so hard

4. Do you think Paul ever got up some morning and declared, “I can’t Christian today.

• The apostle Paul was distressed with the behavior of some who called themselves Christians.

• Remember the words that Paul wrote, “Keep an eye on those who cause dissensions and offenses, in opposition to the teaching that you have learned; avoid them.

• He goes on saying there are many Who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded” (Romans 16:17

• There are Christians Paul says, whether Gentile or Jew, must observe Jewish religious customs, including circumcision. They are not Christening

5. Paul Christened every day, every hour. Every minute, every second

• Paul not only said but more importantly lived Christian “speaking with all boldness, Christ will be exalted now as always in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain”

• Do you think Paul ever got up some morning and declared, “I can’t Christian today.”

• Paul, apparently sensing the end of his life drawing near, wrote, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”

• Paul got up every day I can serve my Lord this day I can Christian today!” Tomorrow, and every day

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6. How can we Christian every day

• Be a worker Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved by him, a worker who has no need to be ashamed” (2:15).

• Be a Follower no matter what others do. “What is that to you, “follow me” Jesus said during a breakfast conversation with Peter on the shores of Galilee.

7. Finally, Paul tells Timothy about those who can’t Christian certain days, circumstances

• I give you this charge this is your responsibility, duty, and obligation: 2Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season. “It doesn’t matter if you have issues with something

• There will be certain societal ideologies about preaching 3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine.

• When you feel you can’t Christian keep your head endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and

• When you believe its better not to Christian “Fight the good fight, finish well, keep the faith,

• When you Timothy face the time “I shouldn’t Christian today Remember, When no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. 17But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength,