Preacher: Jeremy Herbert
Text: 1 Timothy 2:1-7
Theme: Praying for the Lost
Notes:
Effective evangelism begins with praying for the lost.
How to Pray
- “supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings” (v.1)
- Pray with awareness of the need –supplications
- Pray as worship to God –prayers
- Pray with compassion for people –intercessions
- God-honoring prayer is not detached and aloof
- Matthew 9:35, Christ moved with compassion for the lost
- Pray with a grateful heart –thanksgivings
- When you are truly grateful for a good gift, it is hard not to tell about the one who gave it
- Pray with holy hands (v.8)
- Sin undermines your confidence in God–and your prayers suffer as a result
- Pray while proclaiming the gospel
- We are not to either pray or go–we are to pray and go
- Who should we pray for?
- All men (in general)
- Those in authority (in specific)
- Paul exhorted this–knowing full well that Nero was the emperor at the time
- Pray that our leaders would come to Christ, pray for their well-being
- Romans 2, “The goodness of God leads us to repentance.”
- It’s hard to draw people to Christ if you don’t love them
- Result: that we may live quiet and peaceable lives (v.2)
- Why Pray?
- God says it is good (v.3)
- God wants to rescue people (v.4)
- It pleases God joy (v.3)
- Salvation uniquely glorifies the godhead (v.5-6)
- Christ became a ransom not for masses, but for particular persons
- It reflects the heart of our Savior (John 7)
- Scriptural Examples
- Samuel
- Jeremiah
- Daniel
- Stephen
- Paul (Romans 9)
- Historical Examples
- Knox
- Whitefield
- Martin
- Spurgeon
Live It Out
- Pray for our community to come to Christ
- Pray for local, state, national leaders to come to Christ
- Pray that our church would be a lighthouse of hope
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