Guard the Sound Teaching by the Help of the Holy Spirit

March 28, 2013 - 2 Timothy 1:14

1:14

從 前 所 交 託 你 的 善 道 、 你 要 靠 著 那 住 在 我 們 裡 面 的 聖 靈 、 牢 牢 的 守 著 。

  ¹³ What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

Paul exhorts Timothy to guard the sound teaching by the help of the Holy Spirit, which was entrusted to him and received by him with faith and love. Believers receive the most wonderful gifts from God - His words and His Spirit. God's words are different from merely moral codes or legal requirements. Paul exhorts Timothy to guard the words with faith - trusting the words of God; with love - desiring and meditating the words of God; and by the help of the Holy Spirit - relying on the guidance of the Holy Spirit to know and experience God's words. 

My Lord, this is a world without Your words. Let me experience how your words are still so true to me in the contemporary as the time when Jesus and the Early Church witnesses Your Power. This is a world enslaved by various spirits - spirit of secularism, spirit of indulgence, demonic spirits, etc. Let me absolutely rely on the Spirit of God to witness and demonstrate the power of You and Your words in transforming and healing people's lives.