Living for God's Approval: Legacy and Impact
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"2 Timothy 2:15, do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a Workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of Truth. This of course is a verse that has been known to me. It was given to me when I was 15 years of age and moved from Scotland down to live in England." [00:00:53]
"Our Lives we might describe as being like an artist's canvas, and on that canvas we paint every day we live our lives. We're painting something, we are adding something to the picture, and eventually we will leave behind as it were a picture which others will reflect upon and review." [00:03:48]
"All of us are leaving legacies. Some of them will be helpful, others of them will be harmful. Now for your homework, what I'd like you to do is this: go through II Timothy and think in terms of the legacies that people have left and mark the names of those who have left a harmful Legacy and the names of those who have left a helpful Legacy." [00:05:05]
"Lois and Eunice, what a wonderful Legacy they left. I long to see you. I've been reminded of your sincere Faith, a faith which lived first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice. In other words, here are people who had invested their lives in their children and in their grandchildren." [00:08:06]
"Kindness is long remembered. I can guarantee you that very few of you will remember where you actually fitted in the academic pecking order. Most of you will actually want to forget, but very few of you will remember those things about your friends. Let me tell you the things that will be remembered: it will be things like kindness, gentleness, honesty, integrity, love." [00:10:47]
"Determine to live so as to be missed for the best things. Paul says to Timothy 4:7, I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I've kept the faith. What a wonderful Legacy. I met a gentleman for breakfast this morning. We're probably the same age and we looked at one another as we parted and we said and what should we pray for one another?" [00:11:59]
"Do not underestimate the impact of a solitary life lived to God's glory. The devil is essentially two bullets and is gone: one to give you a fat head and when you have a fat head and you're an egotist you will be useless to God and a genuine nuisance to everyone around you." [00:14:40]
"If you're going to be remembered as one of the crowd, make sure it's the right crowd. And the distinction there is between verse 16 and verse 19 of chapter 4 where he says that my first offense no one came to my support, everyone deserted me. That's not the crowd you want to be in." [00:16:24]
"Determined that with God's help you will seize the day because we never know when we've just made our final deposit in the Legacy we're leaving. Let me finish with these couple of thoughts, in fact perhaps these three statements from people who have impacted my life and continue to." [00:16:58]
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Never did he realize when he wrote that somewhere around here that he would pay the ultimate price, but because he had determined that what he was studying for was God's approval, he was ready when the time came." [00:17:35]
"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice that I could ever make for him could ever be too great. There is an inherent logic in that statement. And then finally, to the Scotsman who dies in China as a school teacher, to Eric little, invited by the Edinburgh evening standard to explain why it was that he had been so successful." [00:18:21]
"I ran the first 200 as fast as I could, and then with God's help, I ran the second 200 even faster. Do you know what one of the great Temptations is in Christian Living? It's to reach your cruising altitude. You know when he says ladies and gentlemen we'll move now I'm cruising and everybody sort of goes hey you know peanuts time." [00:19:34]
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"Our Lives we might describe as being like an artist's canvas, and on that canvas we paint every day we live our lives. We're painting something, we are adding something to the picture, and eventually we will leave behind as it were a picture which others will reflect upon and review." [00:03:48]
"All of us are leaving legacies. Some of them will be helpful, others of them will be harmful. Now for your homework, what I'd like you to do is this: go through II Timothy and think in terms of the legacies that people have left and mark the names of those who have left a harmful Legacy and the names of those who have left a helpful Legacy." [00:05:05]
"Lois and Eunice, what a wonderful Legacy they left. I long to see you. I've been reminded of your sincere Faith, a faith which lived first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice. In other words, here are people who had invested their lives in their children and in their grandchildren." [00:08:06]
"Kindness is long remembered. I can guarantee you that very few of you will remember where you actually fitted in the academic pecking order. Most of you will actually want to forget, but very few of you will remember those things about your friends. Let me tell you the things that will be remembered: it will be things like kindness, gentleness, honesty, integrity, love." [00:10:47]
"Determine to live so as to be missed for the best things. Paul says to Timothy 4:7, I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I've kept the faith. What a wonderful Legacy. I met a gentleman for breakfast this morning. We're probably the same age and we looked at one another as we parted and we said and what should we pray for one another?" [00:11:59]
"Do not underestimate the impact of a solitary life lived to God's glory. The devil is essentially two bullets and is gone: one to give you a fat head and when you have a fat head and you're an egotist you will be useless to God and a genuine nuisance to everyone around you." [00:14:40]
"If you're going to be remembered as one of the crowd, make sure it's the right crowd. And the distinction there is between verse 16 and verse 19 of chapter 4 where he says that my first offense no one came to my support, everyone deserted me. That's not the crowd you want to be in." [00:16:24]
"Determined that with God's help you will seize the day because we never know when we've just made our final deposit in the Legacy we're leaving. Let me finish with these couple of thoughts, in fact perhaps these three statements from people who have impacted my life and continue to." [00:16:58]
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Never did he realize when he wrote that somewhere around here that he would pay the ultimate price, but because he had determined that what he was studying for was God's approval, he was ready when the time came." [00:17:35]
"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice that I could ever make for him could ever be too great. There is an inherent logic in that statement. And then finally, to the Scotsman who dies in China as a school teacher, to Eric little, invited by the Edinburgh evening standard to explain why it was that he had been so successful." [00:18:21]
"I ran the first 200 as fast as I could, and then with God's help, I ran the second 200 even faster. Do you know what one of the great Temptations is in Christian Living? It's to reach your cruising altitude. You know when he says ladies and gentlemen we'll move now I'm cruising and everybody sort of goes hey you know peanuts time." [00:19:34]
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