E2 – But As For You
Part of Seek the Kingdom
September 8, 2024

2 Timothy 4:3-5

Seek the kingdom by exercising in everything.

Acts 14:8-15

Seek the kingdom by enduring .

Acts 14:19-22

2 Timothy 3:10-12

isn’t how you get into the kingdom, but it’s often how the gets into you.

“Our worth and spiritual progress do not rest on warm feelings and God-given comforts but rather on patiently enduring great calamities and trials.” —Thomas A Kempis

Seek the kingdom by doing the work of an .

Acts 14:15-17

In Acts 13:38-39 – Jesus is the who saves you from your .

In Acts 14:15-17 – Jesus is the who saves you from your .

DA Carson’s 6 dimensions of sharing the gospel:

  1. Sometimes the appeal is to come to God out of of judgment and death.
  2. Sometimes the appeal is to come to God out of a desire for release from the
    burdens of and .
  3. Sometimes the appeal is to come to God out of appreciation for the
    “attractiveness of .”
  4. Sometimes the appeal is to come to God to satisfy unfulfilled existential .
  5. Sometimes the appeal is to come to God for help with a .
  6. Sometimes the appeal is to come to God simply out of a desire to be .

Respond:

  1. Will you surrender to this good King and reject Satan and all his empty
    promises?

  2. Will you seek His kingdom with us by exercising self-control, enduring hardship,
    and doing the work of an evangelist?