Remembering Jesus Christ

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A Guide for Worship Leaders:
Remembering Jesus Christ


2 Timothy 2:8-15 (The Message)

 ^8-13Fix this picture firmly in your mind: Jesus, descended from the line of David, raised from the dead. It's what you've heard from me all along. It's what I'm sitting in jail for right now—but God's Word isn't in jail! That's why I stick it out here—so that everyone God calls will get in on the salvation of Christ in all its glory. This is a sure thing:

   If we die with him, we'll live with him;
   If we stick it out with him, we'll rule with him;
   If we turn our backs on him, he'll turn his back on us;
   If we give up on him, he does not give up—
      for there's no way he can be false to himself.
 ^14-18Repeat these basic essentials over and over to God's people. Warn them before God against pious nitpicking, which chips away at the faith. It just wears everyone out. Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won't be ashamed of, laying out the truth plain and simple. Stay clear of pious talk that is only talk. Words are not mere words, you know. If they're not backed by a godly life, they accumulate as poison in the soul. Hymenaeus and Philetus are examples, throwing believers off stride and missing the truth by a mile by saying the resurrection is over and done with.

For Reflection
Since the Christ event the world has not been the same.  Before that time truth was elusive, unknowable.  Plato suggested that the truth existed but like in a cloud.  Even when we could jump to see over the cloud only a glimpse of the truth could be known.  In the Christ event the truth to the singularly most important question was made known.  God in flesh dwelt among human kind so that we, once and for all, would know the truth not only of who we are, but also our relationship to God and his expectations for our lives. 

Pray
that you will do your best for God.  Pray that you not only keep faith but you also walk the walk.  Pray that you and Jesus will walk side by side to fufill the promise of God's Kingdom here and now.