Titles of Christians (#12)

2 Timothy 2:6

Sermon by Pastor Sylvia Chan

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Today we are going to study another title of Christians.

 ^NASB 2 Timothy 2:6 The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops. (2Ti 2:6 NASB)

Here Apostle Paul compares Christians to the hard-working farmer. Farmers usually have to work very hard. Even though nowadays there are all kinds of modern agricultural machinery to help farmers, they still have to work harder than people in other professions. Here Christians are compared to hard-working farmers, we have to prepare to work hard.

We are compared to farmers, what are we supposed to do?

1. We ask Yahweh God to change the hearts of people

^NIV Matthew 13:3—4 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. ⁴ As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.” (Mat 13:3—4 NIV)

Here the Lord Jesus is teaching a parable about a farmer; he expects his disciples to be spiritual farmers (Please read Pastor Eric Chang’s sermon on this parable at http://www.christiandc.org, I will not repeat all the explanations here).

The farmer went out to sow seed; some seed fell along the path and the birds came and ate it up. What does the seed stand for?

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