Finding Peace and Purpose 2 Timothy 2:8-13

What’s the relationship between obedience and salvation?

the Gospel is... all about Jesus (v8) our source of salvation (v10) unstoppable (v9) worth suffering for (v9)

Motivation to Obey... V11-13 “died with Jesus”

Motivation to Obey... V11-13 “died with Jesus” = change of identity Colossians 3:3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Motivation to Obey... V11-13 “died with Jesus” = change of identity “will live with Jesus” = resurrection “endure” “deny Him” = unwilling to suffer for gospel “unfaithful” = unwilling to suffer for gospel = suffer for the gospel

1. Heaven/Hell View “died” and “endure” = believers who obey “deny” and ”unfaithful” = unbelievers First group gets heaven Second group gets hell

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Roman Catholic Solution “If any one saith… by this faith alone, absolution and justification are effected; let him be anathema.” Council of Trent, 16th Century

Roman Catholic Solution Good deeds are required along with faith to GAIN salvation

Arminian Solution The true believer may “make shipwreck of faith and a good conscience… may fall, not only foully, but finally, so as to perish forever.” John Wesley, founder of Methodism

Arminian Solution Good deeds are required to KEEP salvation

Calvinist Solution All believers are “more and more quickened and strengthened, in all saving graces, to the practice of true holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.” Westminster Confession of Faith

Calvinist Solution Good deeds are required to PROVE salvation

1. Heaven/Hell View If you don’t do the good deed of suffering for the gospel, you will go to hell

2. Reward/Loss View Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4

2. Reward/Loss View Line 1 – security of your salvation Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 – security of your salvation

Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2. Reward/Loss View Line 1 – security of your salvation Line 2 – requirement for ruling Line 3 – requirement for ruling Line 4 – security of your salvation

Genesis 1:27-28 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Revelation 2:26-27 “He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations; and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father”

2. Reward/Loss View Line 1 – security of your salvation Line 2 – requirement for ruling Line 3 – requirement for ruling Line 4 – security of your salvation

The Grace Solution Salvation is by faith alone Once saved, always saved Good deeds… are not required for salvation are required for reward

1 Corinthians 9:27 But I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

1 Corinthians 3:14-15 If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

Because of The Grace Solution… You can have PEACE Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ

Because of The Grace Solution… You can have PEACE 1 John 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Because of The Grace Solution… You can have PEACE You can have PURPOSE You were created to RULE!

Finding Peace and Purpose 2 Timothy 2:8-13