Vital Connections: Family For the Lonely
2 Timothy 4:9-17
July 2, 2023
loneliness
It is not good for the man to be alone.
Genesis 2:18
2 Timothy 4:9-12
Do your best to come to me quickly, for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry. I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.
UTILIZE THE OPPORTUNITY
When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments.
2 Timothy 4:13
MINIMIZE THE HURT
Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done. You too should be on your guard against him, because he strongly opposed our message.
At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me.
May it not be held against them.
2 Timothy 4:14-16
RECOGNIZE THE LORD’S PRESENCE
But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength...
2 Timothy 4:17
RECOGNIZE THE LORD’S PRESENCE
Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.
Psalm 27:10
RECOGNIZE THE LORD’S PRESENCE
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.”
John 14:18
RECOGNIZE THE LORD’S PRESENCE
“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Hebrews 13:5
RECOGNIZE THE LORD’S PRESENCE
“And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20
RECOGNIZE THE LORD’S PRESENCE
Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
Luke 5:16
RECOGNIZE THE LORD’S PRESENCE
But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength...
2 Timothy 4:17
EMPATHIZE WITH LONELY PEOPLE
But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength,
so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it.
2 Timothy 4:17
EMPATHIZE WITH LONELY PEOPLE
But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength,
so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it.
2 Timothy 4:17
Psalm 68:5-6
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.