The Apostle Paul said, "This is a faithful and trustworthy saying: if we died with Him, we will also live with Him; if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us; if we are faithless, He remains faithful [true to His word and His righteous character], for He cannot deny Himself." 2 Timothy 2:10-15 amp
I exhort you to live with consistency of godly character ..God being our Helper. I encourage you to pray in the Spirit, to intercede unselfishly without ceasing, to pray for the will of God to be done in your life and in other's lives, to pray that His Kingdom come!
Contrary to popular belief, there is zero spiritual growth apart from the Word of God. Please be faithful to the Word.. all the way home for God's glory. You know, like Paul did. Pray the Word, focus on Him.. muse on the written word, live the Word, and preach the Word in season and out. Please stop striving for, stop pushing for, stop carnally manipulating and conniving for.. what's really not according to His will or Word.
If God were to break His promise to Christian believers, that would be a denial of Himself and His perfect righteous character. Won't happen ever! To those who fear that God is standing over them just waiting to cast them out of His family if they deny Him, or if they fail to have enough belief inside, or if they are unfaithful to some degree in their ministries, the Apostle Paul says that God always remains faithful. Faithful and loving is part of who He is. His faithfulness is a matter of His own character—God can never deny Himself (2 Timothy 2:13).
Scripture doesn’t ever manipulate us to action based on the potential loss of our position in Christ. Instead, we are exhorted to act because God is faithful and the promises He makes are certain.
Scripture doesn’t ever manipulate us to action based on the potential loss of our position in Christ. Instead, we are exhorted to act because God is faithful and the promises He makes are certain.
1.) The term “trustworthy” (above) highlights what follows as a very important and reliable principle to keep in mind.2.) Because of the fact that we believers have died together with Christ (as we see in Colossians 2:20 and 3:3), we then will live together with Him. And what an adventurous life it is and will be! We will enjoy real life-everlasting with Jesus. Paul states this as solid fact (using the first class condition in the Greek)—this is not merely an “if” but a “since.” It is a fact that we have died together (Paul uses the aorist tense, denoting the action is a done-deal, finished completed). It's a certainty that in the future we will live together with Christ. Closer than close, in union and harmony.3.) Since we are enduring (also assumed as a solid fact by Paul, using the first class conditional), then we will reign together with Him and with each other (2 Timothy 2:12a). Therefore we can be greatly encouraged. As John explained it in Revelation, believers overcome through Christ who has Himself overcome it all (see Revelation 2:7, 11; 3:5; 21:7, etc., with Revelation 5:5). This is an exhortation for believers like you and me to persevere the whole nine yards so to speak (to go the distance to the end with their first-love)—and, assuming their endurance, reminding that there is a future of reward and meaningful activity in store (planned out).4.) Now remain faithful, loyal, consistent, dependable by His power, believer. Check out the third couplet (in 2 Timothy 2:12b). It changes the tense of the (protasis) action from present (as was used on the first two couplets) to future tense, rendering the first part of the couplet, “if we deny in the future.” If there is such a denial, then He will also deny us. Jesus used similar terminology when He explained that, if people denied Him before men, He would deny them before the Father (Matthew 10:33). It is important to note that Jesus was talking to His twelve disciples (Matthew 10:5; 11:1). He explains that the Spirit would be speaking through them (Matthew 10:20), and He warns them of the need to be faithful in confessing Him before men and not denying Him—He is challenging them to be faithful messengers for Him. There was reward for confessing Him before men (Matthew 10:32) and consequences for denying Him before men (Matthew 10:33).5.) The Apostle Paul challenged Timothy to endure all the way to the end, and to fulfill his ministry, which included doing the evangelistic work (even though he wasn't an evangelist) of spreading the Good-News (2 Timothy 4:5). All of us born again Christians are to be and to give verbal witness for Jesus with the Holy Spirit empowering. Paul challenges Timothy with the importance of boldly confessing and not denying Jesus. (Thanks to DTS for these 5 ideas).
