2 Timothy 4:6-8 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.… I. THE IMPORTANCE OF PREPARATION FOR OUR DEPARTURE. 1. This is the last and closing scene of human life. 2. How serious a thing it is to die. 3. Because disease and the period introductory to our dissolution are special seasons given to us in which to glorify God and bring credit to religion. 4. This is the last opportunity we have of doing anything for God, for the Church, for our families, and for the world. II. THE MANNER IN WHICH A CHRISTIAN SHOULD DIE. 1. Amidst the darkness, languor, and pain of a sick bed, a Christian man ought to engage in com mending the ways of God and religion to those about him. The words of dying saints have been called "living oracles"; and so they should be. 2. We should then attend to the duty of exhorting others who are walking in the ways of the Lord. 3. We ought to commend ourselves and others to God in the devout exercise of prayer. 4. In the exercise of strong faith. (A. Waugh, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.WEB: For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. |
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