From: "Phil Rembleski" <PHIl@rescuechurchofchrist.org>

To: "1111RESCUEMEMBERS"

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Sent: Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 4:50 AM

Subject: 8-29-24 THOUGHTS

8-29-24   THOUGHTS  

By our very nature, we are born to die.  We call ourselves mortals, meaning “subject to death”. In the latter part of verse 10 below we read that our Savior Christ Jesus, “abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.”   No wonder we call it GOOD NEWS!  This is not information to be TIMID about!  In verse 12, Paul says “I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have  believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.”   The power of all this is NOW REVEALED by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ.   Read this passage area and think deeply about it!  It has changed our eternity, we must let it change our lives!  

2Tim 1:7-14   For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.  8  Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God, 9  who has saved us and called us with a holy calling,  not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, 10  but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11  for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher.  12  For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have  believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.  13  Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. 14  Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.

My Prayer:
Father God, You have given us  eternal living hope, help us to pursue it with all of our hearts.  May our existing be about  overcoming.  May our concerns be more about love to our neighbors and less about self love.  Teach us to love one another with pure hearts fervently.  May we train ourselves in discipline, so that we may experience “the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”  Thank you for Jesus who has given our lives eternal hope with joy.      In Jesus’ name,   Amen.