Dr. Pothana's Teaching

28. How to shine brightly?
• By not grumbling or disputing (vs 14)
• By being “blameless” and pure (vs 15)

29. How to shine brightly?
• By not grumbling or disputing (vs 14)
Philippians 2:14
Do all things without grumbling or disputing

30. How to shine brightly?
• By being “blameless” and pure (vs 15)
Philippians 2:15
that you may be blameless and innocent, children of
God without blemish

31. Why are we to shine brightly?
Philippians 2:16
16 holding fast to the word of life, so that
in the day of Christ I may be proud that I
did not run in vain or labor in vain.

32. Why are we to shine brightly?
• We Shine brightly living in the light of
“the Day of Christ”
• We Shine brightly “holding fast to the
word of life”

33. Philippians 2:19-24

34. Honoring God:
The Example of
Timothy

35. Philippians 2:19-24:
“I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so
that I too may be cheered by news of you. 20 For I have no
one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your
welfare. 21 For they all seek their own interests, not those of
Jesus Christ. 22 But you know Timothy's proven worth, how
as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.
23 I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it
will go with me, 24 and I trust in the Lord that shortly I
myself will come also.”

36. I. Timothy’s Becoming Biography (vs. 19)
“I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy
to you soon, so that I too may be cheered
by news of you.”
1:20: “It is my eager expectation and hope
that I will not be at all ashamed, but that
with full courage now as always Christ will
be honored in my body, whether by life or
by death.”

37. - Timothy was the first of the first
generation of pastor/elders
- Pastor/elders are called to preach the
written Word, by the authority of the
Apostles.
- Apostles: given authority to write
Scripture.
- When the Bible was finished, and the
Apostles died, the position died with
them.

38. - Timothy was from Lystra a province of
Galatia
2nd Timothy 1:5: “ I am reminded of your
sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your
grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice
and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.”
2 Timothy 3:15: “from childhood you have
known the Holy Scriptures, which are able
to make you wise for salvation through
faith which is in Christ Jesus.”

39. - Eunice, Timothy’s mother, was Jewish by
ethnicity, while his father was a Greek and
a pagan.
- Timothy was not circumcised as a child
according to Acts 16:3
- Shows that his father had him educated
and raised in the Greek culture.
- This made Timothy uniquely qualified to
minister with Paul to the Gentiles.

40. 1 Corinthians 4:17:
“That is why I sent
you Timothy, my
beloved and faithful
child in the Lord”

41. 1 Timothy 1:2:
“To Timothy, my
true child in the
faith”

42. - 2 Timothy 1:2:“To Timothy, my beloved child”
- 1 Corinthians 4:17: “my beloved and faithful
child in the Lord”
- Romans 16:21; 1 Thessalonians 3:2: “my fellow
worker”
- 2nd Corinthians 1:1: “our brother”
- Philippians 1:1: “fellows bond servant of Jesus
Christ”

43. II. Timothy’s Special Sincerity (vs. 20-21)
“For I have no one like
him, who will be genuinely
concerned for your
welfare. For they all seek
their own interests, not
those of Jesus Christ.”

44. - 2:4: “Let each of you look not only to your
own interests, but also to the interests of
others.”
- 1:15: “Some indeed preach Christ from envy
and rivalry”
- 2:21: “seek(ing) their own interests, not those
of Jesus Christ.”

45. John Calvin: “These
persons…were so warm in the
pursuit of their own interests,
that they were unbecomingly
cold in the work of the Lord. It
may seem at first view as if it
were no great fault to seek one’s
own profit; but how insufferable
it is in the servants of Christ,
appears from this, that it renders
those that give way to it utterly
useless. For it is impossible that
the man who is devoted to self,
should apply himself to the
interests of the Church.”

46. 1:14: “And most of the
brothers, having become
confident in the Lord by
my imprisonment, are
much more bold to speak
the word without fear.”

47. 2:3:
“count others more
significant than
yourselves”

48. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “We must be ready to
allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God
will be constantly crossing our paths and
canceling our plans by sending us people with
claims and petitions. We may pass them by,
preoccupied with our more important tasks,
as the priest passed by the man who has fallen
amongst thieves, perhaps reading the Bible.
When we do that, we pass by the visible sign
of the Cross raised [in] our path to show us
that, not our way, but God’s way must be
done. It is a strange fact that Christians
frequently consider their work so important
and urgent that they will allow nothing to
disturb them. They think they are doing God a
service in this, but actually they are distaining
God’s ‘crooked yet straight path’. They do not
want a life that is crossed and balked. But it is
part of the discipline of humility that we must
not spare our hand where it can perform a
service and that we do not assume that our
schedule is our own to manage but allow it to
be arranged by God.”

49. III. Timothy’s Gospel Greatness
(vs. 22-24)
“But you know Timothy's proven
worth, how as a son with a father he
has served with me in the gospel. I
hope therefore to send him just as
soon as I see how it will go with me,
and I trust in the Lord that shortly I
myself will come also.”

50. Applications:
1.) Seek to be
Sincere

51. Applications:
2.) Find Your
“Worth” in the
Gospel