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Gold Medal Faith: What Does Gold Medal Faith Require?
August 6, 2024 · 31 min
Pastor John Mark introduces the sermon series "Gold Medal Faith," drawing inspiration from the Olympics and the book of 2 Timothy. He focuses on passing the baton of faith to the next generation.
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0:00 Already new series is entitled Gold Medal Faith. How many of you know, we're in the middle of the Olympics? How many of you at least know, how many of you have watched a lot of the Olympics? How many of you have watchedGold Medal Faith: Striving for Spiritual Excellence 0:11 very little? How many of you have watched none? Alright, well hopefully you will tag in to this whole series as we think about what it really looks like to0:22 have a gold medal faith. And we can strive for spiritual excellence. You know, I was doing some research this week, and it's amazing. The0:34 smallest percentage possible you can imagine are those who compete in a particular sport who actually get a gold medal. It is like 1 tenth of0:46 1 tenth of 1 tenth of 1 percent of someone who is in gymnastics or they run or they throw the shot. It's amazing the small percentage. Here's the beautiful thing about0:58 God's faith. Is that every 1 of us, regardless of your past, regardless of where you are currently, every 1 of us can finish with a gold medal faith. And as we look1:10 at the passage we're going to look at today, we're going to start looking at the sixteenth book in the New Testament, 27 books in the New Testament. We're going to look at second Timothy. This is kind of Paul's1:22 last will and testament to his young protege, his spiritual son in the ministry. And Paul writes these words to encourage Timothy to1:34 stay strong, to run well, to finish his course, to fight well in everything that he does. If you know the Olympic motto, it's siteus, altius,1:45 fortius. That simply means that we want to be swifter, higher, stronger, and faster. A couple of years ago, the Olympic Committee came together, they added a fourth Latin word,1:58 communitor. And that fourth word means together. So yes, they want to be higher, they want to be stronger, they want to be faster, but they want to do it together. And I thought, you know what,2:10 that is a lot like the church. That man, as we continue to work together and serve together, we encourage 1 another, we study God's word together, man we are all going to get stronger2:22 in our faith and be able to overcome the obstacles in life. We're all going to move to a different level of, in our prayer life and in our service to God, to a higher plane in our worship. Man, we're all gonna become2:34 faster to say yes to God instead of saying maybe or no. We're all gonna be better. But we're always better when we do it together. If they were to ask me, and by the2:46 way they won't, I think there ought to be a fifth word for the faith. It's the Latin word, fidelis. It means faithful. That as God's children, man, we2:57 want to go to a higher plane. We want to move faster to say yes to God. We wanna get stronger. We wanna do it together, but we wanna stay faithful. As a matter of fact, that's exactly what Paul says all through3:09 second Timothy. Paul is in prison. He knows he's not gonna get out of prison this time. He knows he's gonna die. He's not gonna make it out of the courtroom. And so he writes this letter to Timothy,3:22 to encourage Timothy, because Timothy has now been the pastor of the church in Ephesus for about 4 or 5 years. And word has gotten back to Paul that young Timothy is a little discouraged.3:33 He he's going through some fighting, there's going through some battling, some false teaching has settled in and so Paul just writes a word to encourage him to stay faithful.3:47 So my encouragement to you is the same as Paul to Timothy. Now whatever's going on in your life, I want to encourage you to stay faithful. Over the next couple of weeks, we're just going to be going chapter by3:58 chapter, verse by verse through this book. So if you want to read it this Monday through Friday, you can read the whole book in just a matter of minutes. But there's so much powerful thought in this book that we need to4:10 pay close attention to it. Probably the verses out of this book that you've heard the most, come from second Timothy chapter 3 verse 16. We're gonna get there in a couple of weeks. Let me just read them to you. It says4:21 all scripture is God breathed. And so remember, Paul is encouraging Timothy to stay faithful in light of the opposition that comes his way. And so he4:33 says Timothy, don't ever forget, all Scripture. Everybody say all Scripture. Not most of it, not not some of it, not the parts that aren't culturally offensive to certain people. He says all4:45 scripture is God breathed. It is useful for what? For teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness. Notice, so that the servant of God,4:57 everybody say that's us. Okay. Let's everybody say that's us. Alright? There you go. That's better. See, it doesn't matter who you are. You don't have to be the5:09 best at your sport or the best at your gift or have grown up in church to make the Olympic team in God's kingdom. He says listen, just begin to study God's word and hear God's word5:21 and let it teach you, let it rebuke you, let it correct you, let it train you so that the servant of God, any and every 1 of us, may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. In other5:32 words, that you could have a gold medal faith. Have you been watching what Simone Biles has been doing? How many of you have seen that? Good grief, you know she's from my area. I've been working with5:44 her for a while and she's really coming along. Not interested in and as I've worked with her, I don't know, did you see this image? She's clearly the best. Did you see this image? That she has a goat necklace. How many5:56 of you know what goat means? It means greatest of all time. If you probably go in ladies gymnastics, she is probably the goat, right? And I don't know what sports6:08 you like. I don't know if you're a basketball person. It is the GOAT Jordan or is it Lebron? If it's baseball, is it Hank Aaron? Is it Babe Ruth or is it Nolan6:20 Ryan? We all have this idea of who the GOAT is. How many of you like hockey? Aren't that's AW? It's it's Gretzky. Just so you'll know, it's Gretzky, right? What about in the pool? Swimming. Man, we've seen over6:32 the last couple of Phelps. Everybody says Phelps, but are are you watching what Ledecky's doing right now? I mean every time you turn around, they're throwing a gold medal on her neck again. So as we journey through this6:43 life, there are all of these goats that we say this person or that person. Is it football? Is it is it Tom Brady or is it Joe Montana? Is it Roger Staub? We always wondered golf. Is it Jack or Tiger?6:57 It all depends on your generation a lot of times. A lot of times it's who did I grow up with? But see, the beautiful thing about the kingdom of God, when we think about a goat, we can look back in God's7:08 word. If they were a goat then, they're a goat now. Now we can probably go in the Old Testament and we could probably throw a number of potential goats on the table. That you're looking7:20 at maybe maybe it was Moses or maybe it was Deborah or maybe it was Abraham or perhaps it was Ruth. We could all dominate some people in the old testament and say boy that's a good answer, that's a good7:32 When it comes to the new testament, man we had a lot of disciples, a lot of the apostles. Obviously Jesus is the ultimate goat. But when it comes to a goat, boy it was Paul. I mean think7:44 about the resume of Paul. He he started out murdering Christians, became a Christian, planted more churches, wrote more books in the New Testament, wrote more words in the New Testament, in and out of prison all the time7:55 because of his faith and he's ready to die and all he can think about is passing the baton to Timothy. That's a goat. See a lot of times a goat cares more about8:07 themselves than they do about the next generation. But what we're gonna see with Paul all the way through this book is his greatest desire is that he would pass the baton to Timothy. And he says, and Timothy, I8:19 want you to be Fidelis, faithful. Because there's gonna come a day, Timothy, when you need to pass the baton to the next person and the next person and the next person. You know part of8:31 what it truly takes to have a gold medal faith as an individual, as a church, is that we have the same heart that Paul had. Which is when I come to the end of the day, I always8:43 realize it's more about the next generation than it is about my generation. That's why we have make room going on right now, to build a student building, to make sure that we have enough children's space. Why,8:55 because if we're going to be a gold medal church, it is always about creating space for us to pass the baton of our faith to the next generation. So let's just kind of start reading, let's go to verse9:07 1. Second Timothy chapter 1 verse 1, pick it up. Hopefully you have your app open or you have your Bible open or your iPhone smart device. Here's what it says, Paul, I think he's the goat in the New Testament besides9:18 Jesus, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God. In keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus. Now notice what he says to Timothy,9:30 my dear son, the 1 I'm passing the baton to. Timothy, I'm not long for this earth, so I want to pass the baton to you. To my dear son Timothy, grace, that means God's9:42 forgiveness. Mercy, that's God's kindness. And peace, that is what gets Paul and every 1 of us through the chaos in life. So think about this, Paul is about to die.9:54 This is the last book he ever writes. And he's more concerned about Timothy than he is of himself. And he says Timothy, don't ever forget the grace of God in your life. The mercy of God in your life. And10:06 the peace of God in those seasons of chaos. And so as he says grace, mercy, and peace, notice as you just continue to read on, he says from God the Father and Christ Jesus our lord. So10:18 Paul is in prison. He knows he's going to die. This is his last will and testament. And all he wants to do is pass the baton well. I love what Matthew10:29 Arnold, that great commentator said. He says truth is found on the lips of a dying man. He said man, when you come to a place and a space where someone is about to die, a man or woman, typically10:41 you will find truth on their lips. How many of us have heard over the years about deathbed confessions or deathbed conversions? Those are that's why, because when we come to the end10:53 of our life, man what we want is we want to die truthfully. We want to die peacefully. And so what Paul is saying here is saying listen, do not forget what I tell11:05 you. Stay faithful. Stay in the race. Stay passionate. And this goes way beyond just who we are. And Paul says, and don't forget that just as I11:17 pass the baton to you, you're going to pass it to the next generation. So you say what does it take, Paul? If you're speaking true to us, what does it take for me to have a gold11:29 medal fate? Number 1, is I want to constantly rekindle my spiritual passion. I want to constantly rekindle my spiritual passion. I just want you to know, there's not a person in this room11:41 that from time to time you don't go through those ups and downs in your passion for God or in your walk or in your faith. We are all gonna have those ebbs and flows. I promise you a pastor does, and he has.11:53 The staff, they have those ebbs, they have those flows. Your deacons, you do. So if you're in 1 of those seasons in life that you're like man, you know, I can look back and there was a time I was more passionate. How can12:04 I get back to that? Paul's gonna tell us. You gotta rekindle your passion a little bit. Say, man, I am I am at the top of my game, pastor. I've never loved God's word more. I've never enjoyed worship more. Let me tell12:15 you what, keep fanning the flames because there's gonna come a day when you're gonna need to rekindle your passion. So notice what Paul says, pick it up in verse 5. He says for I am reminded, this is Paul talking to12:27 Timothy. I'm reminded of your sincere faith which first lived in your grandmother Lois and also in your mother Eunice. Now stop right there. Shout out to godly grandmas12:39 and moms. How many of you know that? How many of you are Yeah give them a hand. Alright. See it's interesting, it's not just for him, it's for us. How many of you are sitting here today12:51 and you are influenced by a godly grandmother or godly mom? Raise your hand. Man, weren't we all? So shout out to moms and shout out to grandmas who were willing to do what? Exactly what Paul is13:02 calling, encouraging Timothy to do. To pass the baton of your faith very very well. So he says for I'm reminded of your sincere faith, in other words you're a real Christian, which first lived in your grandmother13:14 Lois and in your mother Eunice and I am persuaded now lives in you also, man. He says this is you. Now notice verse 6. He says for this reason, I remind13:26 you to fan into the flame the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. So notice what he says. He says listen, you need to fan the flame. Remember13:38 what I told you? Timothy has been the pastor in Ephesus probably 4 or 5 years. Word had gotten back to Paul that Timothy's a little discouraged. And13:50 so Paul says, listen, here's how you reignite your faith. You fan the flames. What does it mean when you fan the flames? That means you're bringing the flame that has left more oxygen or more resources. You14:02 say, alright, what are the resources for my spiritual flame? Let me just put it to you this way, if you're thinking about a fire. When you and I are saved by faith, that's when God gives us all the wood we14:13 need. At the same time, not only are we saved by faith, God gives us all the wood we need that will burn for the rest of our life. Then he sends the Holy Spirit as the spark, okay? The Holy Spirit then seals us14:25 until the day of redemption. And then notice what Paul says, fan the flames. That means get oxygen to the flame. The air that you and I are breathing right now is made up of about 21 percent14:37 oxygen. For a fire to continue to burn, it needs at least 16 percent oxygen. And so what'll happen sometimes if you aren't careful, your fire will begin to close in on14:49 itself and it won't have enough oxygen. So that's why you fan the flames. I don't know about you, Jean and I love sitting by the fire. We do. Even even in Texas in July and August. Now when I15:01 we don't always sit right by the fire, right? We have to sit away from the fire. But I can make a good fire. Sometimes it's a little too good and I think I probably need to throw a little water on that. Somebody's gonna15:13 call the cops on me or something like that. But here's what I know, regardless of how good my fire is, if I leave it unattended, if I don't do anything for it or to it, it's eventually15:25 gonna die out. So I'm consistently going over there, moving the logs around, making sure there's enough air that can come in under the underside of my fire pit. I just want to what? Make sure that my15:37 fire has enough oxygen to survive. So in your life and in my life, here's what we know. That when I get saved by faith, not by works, God gives me all the15:49 wood I'll ever need to burn the rest of my life. God sends the Holy Spirit that will indwell me and that's a spark for the fire, not just until my next sin, but until the day of redemption.16:01 My job is to keep fanning my spiritual flame. That's what brings oxygen to me. You say alright pastor, what does it mean to fan the flame? What brings oxygen to my16:13 faith? Well 1, if you look in God's word, you're doing it right now. Being with God's people, faithfully in worship together. Guess what? That brings oxygen to16:25 your faith. That fans your flame. You look in God's word. Studying God's word together with God's people is oxygen to your fire, your spiritual passion, your spiritual16:37 flame. Being in church together. You look at it, God's word, Acts chapter 2, man, they were all in church together. They were praying. They were celebrating. Man, they were enjoying God's favor and other people were16:49 attracted. Being with God's people, serving. When we use our spiritual gifts, we are fanning the flame. So here's what you and I need to know. When we get in a group, whatever it is, if17:00 your flame is beginning to dwindle, bringing oxygen. When you wake up on a Sunday morning, you say, I don't feel like going to worship today.17:12 Guess what that means? Your flame needs you to go worship today. When you work up and say, I just don't really feel like reading God's word, that's Satan trying to do everything he can to rob your spiritual17:24 fire of the oxygen it needs. Say I'm reading my I'm reading God's word. I'm gonna serve, why? Because those are what fan the flames. See listen, God has given you and I all the resources we're gonna need.17:36 We're gonna talk about this over the next couple of weeks. My 1 job, I don't work for my salvation, I don't earn my salvation. But notice what Paul told a discouraged17:48 Timothy. Don't become passive in your faith. Don't let the fire flame out, but instead do everything you can to fan the flame. You17:59 say, pastor, so you mean when I'm saved I get all the resources. Let me show it to you. Ephesians chapter 2 verse 9, 2 verse 8 and 9. Here it is. Notice what Paul said in Paul's writing to18:11 the Ephesian believers. That's the church that Timothy is pastoring. Here's what he says. How do we get the wood? How do we get the flame? He says for it is by grace you have been saved through18:23 faith. And this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works so that no 1 should boast. So listen, when God's grace shows up and is combined18:35 with your faith, God brings all of his resources and all of the wood that you will ever need for your flame to burn the rest of your life. Now notice what else. Look at verse 10. Here's our job.18:47 God brings the wood. God sends the spirit, the flame. For we are God's workmanship, his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.19:00 That's the oxygen. That I want to be active in my faith. I want I want I want to train for my faith. I want to be prepared for my faith. Listen, I may never get on the medal stand. I certainly may19:11 never in this world get a gold medal or a silver medal or a bronze medal. But in God's kingdom, if we are willing to do what God has called us to do and work, he will bless us in powerful19:23 and real ways as long as we fan the flame. So there it is right there in those 3 verses. I get all the wood I ever need for my spiritual journey, spiritual walk, spiritual fire and salvation. God then gives me the19:35 Holy Spirit as the flame to what? To keep the fire burning, and my job is just to fan the flame. Don't become passive. Why? Just like in your backyard or my backyard19:47 or out on, you know, somewhere, you can build the best fire in the world. But if you don't tend it, what's gonna happen? It's gonna go out.19:59 God couldn't have done the could have done the best thing you've ever had going on in your life and saved you, and none of us deserve it. But if we don't tend our faith and tend our20:11 walk with God, it is going to burn out. So we want to fan the flame. Man, we all have spiritual gifts. Here's to all number 2. Really, if I'm going to have a gold medal faith, starts20:23 with constantly tending and rekindling my passion. Number 2, recognize the resources that God has given you. You said where do you see this? Look at the very next verse, verse 7. Here's what Paul said to Timothy.20:35 He says for the spirit, alright we hear a lot about right a lot about a lot right now about the Olympic spirit or or something going on. He says for the spirit God gave us20:47 does not make us timid, hold on to that word for a second, but gives us power, love, and discipline. So what does God's spirit give us? It says it doesn't make us20:58 timid. I'm gonna tell you what that means here in a second. But it does give us power, love, and self discipline. Those last 3 are everything that we need to be successful in21:10 life and faith. We need God's power, we need God's love, and we need God's discipline. Now notice that word timid, alright? A lot of translations call it21:22 fear. But it's really not fear, it's something different. The most common word for fear in the New Testament is a word you've heard of, a phobia, a phobos. How21:34 many of you have heard of a phobia, right? 47 times in the New Testament, the word phobia is mentioned. Now here's the interesting thing about a phobia. It can either be positive or negative. The Greek word21:45 used here is only negative. And I will tell you what it means here in a second. But phobia can be positive or negative. How many of you know that if you and I were to go up on the roof,21:58 we need to have a proper fear of falling off. How many of you know that? See that's legit fear, right? If you have no fear of that, don't go up on the roof because that's a bad deal, right? See phobias can22:10 be positive or negative. Sometimes you get in the car, you put the seatbelt on. Why, not because you're afraid of driving, you're afraid of crashing. That's a legit phobia. I looked this up this week, the22:22 top 10 diagnosed, most diagnosed phobias are, guess what? We got a list of them. Number 1, spiders. How many of you are scared of spiders? You don't like spiders. Alright, that22:33 doesn't bother me that much. That's why they make Raid. Snakes, How many of you are afraid of snakes? Alright. I don't like snakes. It's a garden thing going all the way back to22:45 Genesis. I don't like snakes. I know some of y'all will say well that's a good snake, that's a bad snake. Let me tell you, the only good snake in my book is a dead snake. Right? I heard some of y'all amen, don't do that.22:56 There are snake lovers in here. And I will tell you, after I made this same idea and I talked about this, you should have seen the line of people in my church out in the atrium showing me a picture of their pet python.23:08 Alright? So I don't know if that's a warning not to talk about snakes or what, but I was like man, I I don't, I'm not a big fan of snakes. Heights, how many of you are afraid of heights? Alright. Flying, how many of you23:19 are afraid of flying? So a couple of, I don't like to fly. Because I don't think they can fly. I think planes get lucky every once in a while to get up and all, but I just don't think they23:31 fly. So I didn't know this. I was surprised that 1 of the top 10 phobias people have a dreadful fear of dogs. Anybody have a fear of dogs? Okay different people I23:43 guess. Wolves, yes coyotes, I don't know about the beagle. Alright some some people are deathly fearful of storms, thunder, and23:54 lightning. How many of you are that? Yeah. I was shocked when I was reading about a lot of people are really deathly fearful of thunder and lightning. You know what I'd do? I'm grateful for those alarms in Frisco and24:06 McKinney and Allen. That when those alarms go off, those tell Gina to go get in our safe space, give me an opportunity to go outside and watch a nice storm. How many of you do the same thing? My my house24:18 faces west, so if I hear the Allen alarm go off, I walk out my backyard. If I hear the Frisco alarm, I go out of my front yard. I'm just wanting to see something cool happens. Gina has created24:30 this, this secret space right under our, right under our stairs. She's got food in there, so if all of a sudden we didn't decide to stay in there for a couple of days, then we would go in there, right? So those24:42 alarms go off. I go out, I start looking towards Frisco or back towards Allen McKinney, wherever it is. I come back in and she's in that room with the door shut. Alright, I've got to have this24:53 secret knock to get in. But she's she's deathly afraid of thunder and lightning. Alright, another phobia, people. There are people that just are25:05 truly afraid of social interaction. Just having to meet somebody new. Some people are fearful of crowds, I'm assuming there's no 1 in here that are fearful of crowds or you're in the wrong place. So25:17 people are definitely fearful of germs. A germaphobe, those are kind of the top ones, but here's the key. What we need to understand is those are legitimate phobias and that25:29 word phobia, that Greek word phobia is used 47 times in the new testament. This word here timid is the Greek word dahlia. It is25:41 only used here in the entire Greek new testament. And if you look outside of the Greek New Testament, it is never positive. A phobia can be positive or negative,25:53 because sometimes our fears are what keep us safe. You say what does this word timid mean? It means the absence of courage. It is26:05 always a deficit. And Paul says Timothy, you're facing some opposition today. You're facing some false teachers today. You're facing some people that don't like26:17 you today. And when you find yourself in a season where you don't have courage, you can rest assured that's not God's spirit. Because God's26:28 spirit brings you power and love and discipline. Now let me take it another step further. Go back to the very first verse we read. All26:40 scripture is God breathed and inspired. Can I tell you this? If we as a church are gonna hang on to Christian conviction and biblical teaching, we are going to need26:52 some spiritual courage. How many of you understand that? As we journey through in our daily life and as culture begins to turn more and more against us, if you're gonna hold your biblical conviction, you better have some27:03 courage. Now, if you're gonna punt the Bible, if you're going to walk away from Christian conviction, you don't need courage. And there are a lot of people, there are a lot of Christians and even mainline denominations27:15 that are doing that. They don't want to deal with culture in a courageous way, so they just get rid of conviction. Well if you just get rid of Christian conviction, then you don't need courage. But child of God,27:27 if we're gonna be the kind of church we ought to be and we're gonna stand on God's word and we're gonna preach and teach and pray and believe that all Scripture is God breathed, then we need what Paul is27:39 encouraging Timothy to have, which is Christian courage and not fear. And so as we journey forward as a church, we want to make sure that we are27:50 always doing exactly what Paul says. He says first of all, fan the flame, rekindle your passion. Number 2, recognize the resource. God's spirit, he's not gonna28:02 give you timidity. He's gonna give you power and love and self discipline. Those are resources God gives you. And here's number 3. You ready? As you walk walk forward, we always have28:14 to set our course. We have to set our course. You have to know what the course is. It's always interesting to me and it actually happened again this week at the Olympics. There are time times that people28:26 would be running or they're riding a bike on 1 of these road courses that sometimes sometimes it's the first person who goes the wrong way. I don't know if you saw just last week there was somebody that went the wrong28:37 way and the person in second place knew that they had just gone the right way. Actually let them back in and said this is your race. See as children of God, we need to set our course. What's our course? I'm28:48 gonna worship God, I'm gonna serve God, I'm gonna pray to God, I'm gonna study his word, I'm gonna serve others in my church, and I'm not gonna compromise what God's word says about me. Look at it in verse 8. So Paul29:00 says, listen Timothy, so do not be ashamed of the testimony of our lord Jesus Christ or of me his prisoner. Rather join me in suffering for what? For the gospel29:13 by the power of God. So Paul's basically saying Timothy, I know you're discouraged. Matter of fact, when you're discouraged, you're you're gonna want29:25 to release your Christian conviction. You're you're going to want to just back away from your faith. And child of God, maybe there's someone in here that you're going through some stuff in your29:36 life that that you're like, man I I just don't know if they'll want to continue to fight this battle or hang on to faith or here's what I know, if I begin to tell my friends or talk about my faith at work, man it's not29:47 going to go well for me. Can I just give you the same words that Paul gave young Timothy? Whatever you do, don't walk away from the faith.29:59 But instead set your course to join with me, to join with Timothy, to join with Paul, to join with all the other people who went before30:10 him, who held firm in the seasons of difficulties, because that's where the blessing truly is. God gives30:22 us the power to press on the love that allows others to come into our lives in a powerful and real way, and the discipline to keep tending the30:34 flame so you and I someday can come across that finish line whenever it is and God says, well done, good and faithful servant.30:46 Now that is a gold medal faith. Let's pray. God, thank you so much for this day. God, thank you for the opportunity to worship you and to celebrate you. God, thank you for the challenge that30:58 Paul gave Timothy. Of all people, you would think Timothy would never get discouraged, but he did. And so Paul reached out to him and said, Timothy, I'm about to pass the baton and I want to do it well. So Timothy,31:09 whatever you do, fan the flame. Let us be a church, God, that is always wanting to pass the baton of our faith to the next generation and the next generation. And let us passionately31:22 serve you. In Jesus' name we pray. 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