When Everyone Deserts You

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

When others abandon you, strengthen your heart with God’s inexorable oath: “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

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0:00.0	March 28, when everyone deserts you. At my first defense, no one came to stand by me,
0:11.0	but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them. But the lords stood by me and strengthened me
0:20.3	so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles might hear it.
0:27.2	So I was rescued from the lion's mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring
0:34.3	me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
0:43.1	2 Timothy 4, 16-18. This morning I was lingering over these magnificent and heart-breaking words.
0:56.4	Paul is in custody in Rome, so far as we know, he was never released. His last letter comes to an end
1:04.6	like this, consider and be astounded. He is deserted. No one stood by me. He is an old man,
1:15.0	a loyal servant in a foreign city far from home surrounded by enemies in danger of death.
1:23.0	Why answer? So he could write this precious sentence for our discourage or fearful or lonely souls.
1:34.0	But the lords stood by me. Oh, how I love those words. When you are deserted by close friends,
1:44.0	do you cry out against God? Are the people in your life then really your God?
1:54.3	Or do you take courage in this magnificent truth? I am with you always to the end of the age,
2:02.9	Matthew 28-20, no matter who deserts you. Do you strengthen your heart with this inexorable oath?
2:11.1	I will never leave you or forsake you, Hebrews 13.5. Then let us say,
2:19.5	the lords stood by me. Question. What was threatened in 2 Timothy 4, 18? Answer.
2:31.2	That Paul might not attain the lords heavenly kingdom, but over against the threat, Paul cries,
2:38.3	the lords will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. Question. How was Paul's attaining the
2:46.5	heavenly kingdom threatened? Answer. Evil deeds. The lords will rescue me from every evil deed and
2:57.9	bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. Question. How could an evil deed threaten Paul's attaining
3:07.1	the heavenly kingdom? Answer. By tempting him to forsake his allegiance to Christ through disobedience.
3:17.3	Question. Was this temptation the lion's mouth from which he was rescued? Answer. Yes.
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