Chapter 4 – Preach the Word

As we near the end of the world, the message is clear: Preach the Word. Whatever it takes! Whatever it costs! Whatever you suffer! Let people know before it’s forever too late.

1. What does it mean in verse one where Paul says, “I charge you.”

2. Why is the charge urgent? 4:1

3. What is the charge? How does it apply to you? 4:2

4. What does it mean to be ready “in season” and “out of season”?

5. What do these different words mean and what was he trying to convey by using all of them?

 - convince

 -rebuke

 -exhort

 -with longsuffering

 -with teaching

6. How should you expect some people to respond? 4:3

7. What does it mean to have “itching ears”? 

8. Why would anyone turn away from truth to fables? What is a fable?

9. In spite of what other people do, what are YOU to do? 4:5

10. What is the work of an evangelist? 4:5

11. What is Paul talking about in 4:6?

12. In light of the situation, what does Paul mean in verse 7? 

13. How does verse 7 help encourage you? Discourage you?

14. When you read verse 8, what is the criteria for having a crown laid up for you? How can Paul have such confidence?

15. Read verse 9. Why?

16. Why did Demas forsake Paul? 4:10

17. What do you think kept Luke from leaving Paul? 4:11

18. Why did Paul need Mark? 4:11

19. Even in his last days, what is the focus of Paul’s mind and what was he doing? 4:11,12

20. How did Paul feel about Alexander and what he did? Was he justified in feeling this way? 4:14

21. What is Paul’s warning to Timothy about Alexander? 4:15

22. How did Paul feel about everyone forsaking him? How did he deal with it? 4:16-18

23. Paul asked for a cloak and then urged Timothy to come before winter. 4:20 - - - do you think he needed the cloak to stay warm?

24. His final words – 4:22. What do these words mean to you?