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Tabernacle Tidbit - 2 Timothy 4:13 · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  This is a Tabernacle tidbit, a bite sized Tabernacle talk of 5
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  minutes or less to help you get through your day when you only
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  have a little bit of time. You.
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  Hope this helps you know Christ your own His word and show His
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  love to others. Let's get started.
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  Hello, and welcome back to Tabernacle Tidbits.
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  Today we are in Second Timothy chapter 4 and verse #13 we are
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  in the last letter that the apostle Paul wrote before his
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  death, and he's writing to his son in the faith, Timothy, and
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  he's giving some instructions. He wants Timothy to leave where
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  he's at right now in Ephesus, and he wants him to make his way
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  as as quickly as he can to Paul, where Paul is imprisoned in the
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  capital city of Rome. And he writes in verse #13 when
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  you come, bring the cloak. I left Intro as with Carpus, as
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  well as the scrolls, especially the parchments.
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  I'm going to read that verse one more time.
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  When you come, bring the cloak. I left Intro as with Carpus, as
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  well as the scrolls, especially the parchments.
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  Now you might say, OK. Brian, what in the world are we
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  doing? How are?
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  We going to get something from this today.
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  We'll see a couple practical things that we have for this.
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  He says, when you come, bring the cloak here.
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  There is a physical need that the apostle Paul has, something
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  that he does not possess, that he's in need of right now.
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  He's cold. And as we'll read in verse #21
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  it'll be several days from now that we'll be in it in
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  Tabernacle tidbits. But he tells Timothy, hey, try
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  your best. Make every effort to come before
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  winter, 'cause I'm really cold right now.
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  Can I tell you? One of the problems that we
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  often have as people of God, especially in America, is we
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  tend to shy away from being open with other people about our
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  physical needs. There is something about it in
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  our culture that we feel as though it is shameful in some
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  way to ever be lacking in anything physically.
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  So if we're struggling financially, or if we're
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  struggling with food, or if we're struggling with clothing,
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  we don't want anyone else to know we we don't want people to
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  think perhaps that maybe we're lazy.
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  We don't want people to think that we're unable to do what's
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  needed to be self-sufficient. But what I love here in this
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  verse is Paul's just laying it out on the line there.
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  There are some other things that he says throughout this chapter
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  that are helpful that we would realize, OK, these are necessary
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  things for being human. But even as I've mentioned
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  before in the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus says that
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  when we're praying to God, we're asking, give us today Our Daily
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  Bread, or if you will give us what we need today, that we can
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  go to our heavenly Father. But one of the ways that God
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  might answer our request for our needs is through other people.
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  And so we can have an openness and an honesty, especially with
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  other brothers and sisters in the Lord, especially in the
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  context of the local church, that we can have an openness
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  that we can say, hey, I'm struggling with this right now.
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  Would you pray with me for this? And it might give someone else
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  the opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus, to provide
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  for you and to love you, that you would experience God's
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  provision in a real, tangible way through other people
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  reaching out and loving you and caring for you.
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  And I want to encourage you when you hear about needs that other
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  people have. We just went through not too
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  long ago, First John 3, where in first John, I think it's 316 or
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  317, the apostle would write to that church.
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  If someone says that they love their Christian brother or
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  sister and they hear that they have a need, but they shut up
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  their heart that they will not be compassionate or care for
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  their Christian brother or sister.
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  He says, how in the world can they say that the love of God
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  has made a home in their life? Give people the opportunity to
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  love others and if you are a person that hears of an
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  opportunity to love and to care for your brothers and sisters,
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  especially in your local church, you ought to take advantage of
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  that. Now that might be like a
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  physical need. Someone might need a meal, they
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  might need some help with finances, they might need some
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  clothing or something. But it also might be that they
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  need encouragement. They need some love, that the
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  world is just beating them down. Their family members, if you
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  will, you know, could talk, be talking smack about them and
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  they just need someone to encourage them.
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  Will you be that person? Will you love them in that real,
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  tangible, practical way? All right, so I'm going to take
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  the very end of this episode and then look at the last thing that
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  Paul says. So he says, when you come, bring
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  the cloak I left in trials with Karpis, he says, as well as the
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  scrolls, especially the parchments. 2 things I want to
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  look at here. These parchments would most
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  likely have been portions of scripture, whether that was, you
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  know, things written now in the New Testament, maybe by Luke or
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  by Paul, could be Old Testament scriptures.
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  But here Paul places an importance on reading even while
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  he's in prison. I've heard it said many times
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  before, leaders are readers and readers are leaders.
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  And here Paul exemplifies this. He says, I want to read.
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  I want to have the scrolls, he says, but especially the
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  parchments. May we place importance on what
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  we read. And 1st and primarily the word
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  of God. Thanks for tuning in.
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  See you next time.