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Tabernacle Tidbit - 2 Timothy 4:17 · 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. We hope this helps you to know
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  Christ, groan His Word, and show His love to others.
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  Let's get started. Welcome back to Tabernacle
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  Tidbits. Today we are in Second Timothy
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  chapter 4 and verse #17 the apostle Paul is writing his last
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  letter that he'll write that we have inspired in Scripture
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  before his death. And he's writing to his son in
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  the faith, Timothy. And we started verse #16
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  yesterday, and it'll carry over into what we'll read today in
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  verse 17. So Paul was imprisoned in Rome
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  for being a Christian and for preaching the gospel.
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  And so he gave a defense of of why he was imprisoned and how he
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  was not guilty of any crimes against Rome.
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  And so he'd given this first offense, but no one was there.
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  And that's what we read in verse #16 at my first offense, no one
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  stood by me, but everyone deserted me.
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  May it not be counted against them, he says.
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  But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me so that I might
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  fully preach the Word, and all the Gentiles might hear it.
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  So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
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  Hear what a wonderful truth that first part of verse 17, the Lord
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  stood with me and strengthened me when in verse 16, no one
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  stood by me. Verse 17 but the Lord stood with
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  me and what a comfort that in times when we are alone, I'll
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  I'll tell you guys as a pastor, as a person, that's all of you
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  know, my closest friends in the world are a couple 1000 miles
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  away. I have been so thankful for the
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  Lord's presence and for the Lord's comfort and his grace in
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  times when, you know, if there's difficulties at church as the
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  pastor, I can't tell you know, if you will other people in the
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  church, all the things that other people in the church are
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  doing. You know that that'd be some
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  gossip that wouldn't be Christ like.
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  And so in those moments where I just have to hold, hold some
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  things that are heavy, I am so grateful that the Lord is right
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  there that I can say God, you know, you, you see what's
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  happening, you see the hurt, you see the fighting, you see the
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  struggle. And God is there to as he was
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  here with Paul, he didn't just stand by Paul, but he also
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  strengthened him. He enabled him to say what
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  needed to be said. He enabled him to go forward in
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  faith that he wasn't paralyzed by fear.
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  He wasn't overcome by by doubt. He did not reject Jesus, but
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  instead, as he says in the last half of the verse, so that I
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  might fully preach the word and all the Gentiles might hear it.
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  He says God was there with me so that I could tell them the
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  gospel and so that I would tell it to everyone that God has for
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  me to tell it to. And can I tell you that that
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  same thing is true for you and me today?
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  God stands with us. God never abandons us or
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  forsakes us. So that we would share who Jesus
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  is and what Jesus has done for us, so that we would share that
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  with other people. And so that the people that God
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  has for us to tell, we would be able to tell all of them.
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  God did not just save and indwell and strengthen you and
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  give you His grace so that you could just exist.
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  That's not why He did it. He did it for a purpose.
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  I actually, I'm preparing for a sermon right now and this was
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  one of the thoughts. If my wife hands me at home a
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  broom or a vacuum, she's not just giving me something to
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  hold. She wants me to sweep or she
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  wants me to vacuum. God giving you His grace and God
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  giving you His Holy Spirit means that He has a purpose for you.
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  You have a job, and your job is not just to not beat people up
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  or not say swear words. Your job is to share Jesus with
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  those around you. Now you might say, hey, I don't
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  know a lot, I don't know everything.
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  That's OK, just say what you know, God's not calling you to
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  give something that he has not already given you.
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  So whatever you know about Jesus, whatever Jesus is doing
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  in your life, whatever, you know, Bible verse or you know,
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  Bible podcast thing that God is using to bless you, use that to
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  bless others. And as we do that we can see
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  God's mission accomplished in our life that we are doing what
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  he has created us for. And then in the last part of
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  verse 17, he says, so I was rescued from the lion's mouth
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  here. This first defense that Paul
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  would have given. He was not immediately, you
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  know, sentenced to death or something as he actually would
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  be later. He says I was rescued the the
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  lion was one of the ways that Nero was described.
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  They're in 1st century Rome. And Paul says because of the
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  Lord, because of the Lorde strength, because of the Lorde
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  presence, I was not killed by Nero at this point.
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  And so I'm thankful that the Lord rescued me.
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  And can I tell you, out of every difficulty you've ever been in,
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  any struggle, any trial, the Lord is the one that rescued you
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  through it all. He was the one that provided, He
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  was the one that gave. He was the one that rectified
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  the situation. So be thankful to Him.