Lamoille Valley Grace Brethren Church
February 4, 2024

      • Psalm 96:9NASB95

  • Create In Me A Clean Heart
  • So Send I You By Grace

      • Philippians 2:5–18NASB95

  • I. A Pastor’s Charge

    A. Preach Because Our Judge Is Listening

    2 Timothy 4:1 NASB95
    1 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom:

    1. In the presence of the Judge

    2. In View of His Kingdom

    with an eternal perspective.
    Paul could not have stated this charge in more solemn terms.

    B. Preach the Word

    2 Timothy 4:2 NASB95
    2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.
    What is an elder to preach? philosophy, motivational stories, latest scientific theory, religion, politics, social justice, pop-psychology, feelings, visions, or secret messages from God?
    No! Preach the Word! that is the Bible folks.
    Explain the text. The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible.

    1. No Matter the Season

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    2. Reprove, Rebuke, Exhort

    with great patience
    with great instruction
    Since I as a pastor have such a lofty charge to preach, how lofty of a charge do you have to listen?
    Ezekiel 3:17–21 NASB95
    17 “Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me. 18 “When I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 “Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself. 20 “Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. 21 “However, if you have warned the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself.”
    If I dropped dead tomorrow. You need to find a man who will keep this charge. I don’t care what he looks like. I don’t care how annoying his voice it, I don’t care how many degrees he has behind his name. The top thing that you should look for is, does he patiently, preach God’s impeccable Word with the goal of love with a pure heart.

    II. A Pastor’s Opposition

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    2 Timothy 4:3–4 NASB95
    3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
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    A. Because of the Time

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    Preach anyway!

    B. Because of Their Weakness

    Preach anyway!

    C. Because of Their Ears

    Preach anyway!

    D. Because of Their Lust

    Preach anyway!
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    III. A Pastor’s Diligence

    2 Timothy 4:5 NASB95
    5 But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

    A. Keep Being Sober

    B. Keep Enduring

    C. Keep Evangelizing

    D. Don’t Stop

      • 2 Timothy 4:1NASB95

      • 2 Timothy 4:2NASB95

      • Ezekiel 3:17–21NASB95

      • 2 Timothy 4:3–4NASB95

      • 2 Timothy 4:5NASB95

  • Forever
Lamoille Valley Grace Brethren Church
pastorethan@lvgbc.net
8028883339
http://www.lvgbc.net
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