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  BETWEEN THE STARTING PISTOL AND THE CHECKERED FLAG
  by Fred Tomlinson
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Summary: This sermon focuses on the importance of staying true to the
Gospel message amidst challenges and distractions, using the Apostle
Paul's life as an example. It emphasizes the need for personal surrender
to God, avoiding the secularization of the message, and maintaining a
genuine, Spirit-led ministry. The speaker shares personal insights on
humility, reliance on the Holy Spirit, and the call to preach only what
God makes real in one's life.

Topics: "Faithfulness to the Gospel", "Surrender to God's Will"
Scripture References: 2 Timothy 1:1, Acts 9:17, John 15:16, Galatians 1:15, Philippians 3:7, Romans 8:9, 1 Corinthians 6:12, 2 Timothy 4:6

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This sermon focuses on the importance of staying true to the Gospel
message amidst challenges and distractions, using the Apostle Paul's
life as an example. It emphasizes the need for personal surrender to
God, avoiding the secularization of the message, and maintaining a
genuine, Spirit-led ministry. The speaker shares personal insights on
humility, reliance on the Holy Spirit, and the call to preach only what
God makes real in one's life.

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Well, my name is Fred Tomlinson, and today I would like to ask you to
turn with me in scripture to the second book of Paul to Timothy, and in
Chapter 1. And I'm reading just the opening couple of verses today. Paul
writing says, he's an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God
according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus. To Timothy,
my dearly beloved son, grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and
Christ Jesus our Lord.

I thank God whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience,
that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and
day. Amen. I'll stop reading there, it might seem like an inappropriate
place to stop, but I want to move through some different things that the
Lord has been laying on my heart and drop down on perhaps one or two of
the scriptures in this epistle, and maybe elsewhere as well.

But I'm thinking of what the Lord put on my heart to share last week
when we were thinking about the great conversion of Saul of Tarsus, and
if you've not listened to that message I encourage you to listen to it,
I entitled it Grace Experienced. And Saul of Tarsus was the great
persecutor of the church as we know so well, and yet he became the
church's greatest promoter. Such is the redeeming grace of our Saviour.

And I remember him going to the home of Ananias, you remember that he
was commissioned to do that by Jesus himself, having met him on the road
to Damascus, and just a verse from Acts chapter 9, and I'm reading it
from a different translation than my usual one, but Ananias has now come
to the house where Saul of Tarsus is currently resident, he's just
arrived there. Ananias comes in having been commissioned by God so to
do, and I read in the 17th verse of chapter 9, Ananias departed and
entered the house and after laying his hands on him he said, Brother
Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you were
coming, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with
the Holy Spirit. Wonderful, and I try to imagine things as I'm reading
in scripture, if you like it's reading between the lines, I'm trying to
imagine how things are working out.

I can't help but say that when I think of Saul of Tarsus being now in
the presence of this Son of God, Ananias, in the light of all that has
been his past, we talked about that last week, and all he'd been doing
to the church and to Christian men and women, and Jesus said, inasmuch
as you did it to them you were doing it to me. How unthinkable all that
is, and then to find himself here where this Christian brother reaches
out to him and calls him Brother Saul, and I'm imagining that there was
an embrace that took place at that point in time. There's the prayer,
there's the response, and I can't help but imagine Saul of Tarsus as he
was still named then, and excuse me if you think I'm exaggerating
something, but in my mind I see him sobbing, I see him breaking his
heart as the truth and reality of what he's been doing has dawned upon
his heart, and that in the light of the living, resurrected, ascended
Lord Jesus Christ speaking to him personally and directly.

How amazing is all of that, as he surely remembers just his own
blindness. Now I'm not sure at all that he was in a kind of a mood, can
I say, to sing, but as I think along those lines, I think of, you know
you're hearing a lot about Charles Wesley here, and that's going to
continue, but I think of something Charles Wesley once wrote, and in my
mind I thought to myself, if it had been possible for Saul of Tarsus to
be familiar with these words, I can see him in my mind, in some corner,
breaking his heart before the Lord, in the light of such amazing grace
extended to him, and Charles Wesley once wrote, On this glad day the
glorious sun of righteousness arose, and my benighted soul he shone and
filled it with repose. Sudden expired the legal strife, t'was then I
ceased to grieve, my second real and living life I then began to live.

Then with my heart I first believed, believed with faith divine, power
with the Holy Ghost received to call the Saviour mine. I felt my Lord's
atoning blood close to my soul applied. Me, me he loved, the Son of God,
for me, for me he died.

I found and owned his promise true, ascertained for my part, my pardon
passed in heaven I knew when written on my heart. Over a thousand
tongues to sing my dear Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and
King, the triumphs of his grace, my gracious Master and my God, assist
me to proclaim, to spread through all the earth abroad the honours of
thy name. Amen.

How wonderful, how wonderful, I love those words there, my second real
and living life I then began to live. He was born again, he was a new
creation in Christ and his new real living life began to be. Hallelujah.

Wonderful. Now that was the beginning and beginnings are tremendously
important and frankly, although it would be a different subject to
what's on my heart, I sense and I believe that for very many professing
Christians it's at that very stage where they go wrong, where they don't
begin properly and as the result of that nothing really fits together,
nothing really works. But the kind of beginning that God, the Holy
Spirit is able to bring into the lives of men and women is indescribable
and there are no words that are adequate to speak of it.

But having established that beginning, that real commencement of the new
life, there's another challenge, a very real challenge indeed and that
is just how a person proceeds from that point. You know very well that
in a race, it's really all about what takes place in between the
explosion of the starting pistol and the chequered flag. The real race
is what happens between those two points and it's very true to say to
finish strong, you must run strong.

Now it would take many sessions here to try to include the many, many
things that the texts of Scripture bring to us concerning this man Saul
of Tarsus who is now the Apostle Paul. Many scriptures speak about his
strong running, the boldness of his faith in Jesus, the confidence
concerning the message he has to preach which I'll talk more about in a
moment. But Paul was a man who was running strong right from the start,
right from the beginning and there's no holding back at all from the
very moment of that transformational experience on the Damascus Road and
then with what accompanied that in that house when he's together with
Ananias.

Paul knew that he was a special man, he knew it had been stated by God,
he knew that he had been chosen by Almighty God for a purpose. Now let's
not get tied up with with Arminianism and Calvinism, we're not going
down that road, we just want to read what the Bible text says and allow
the Holy Spirit to speak to us through the words of Scripture. You know,
I don't know whether it's ever really dawned on your own heart as you
would say that well you have experienced this kind of supernatural
beginning by the grace and power of God but has it ever really dawned
upon you that God has chosen you and the text says it was Jesus himself
in John 15, he said you have not chosen me.

We don't choose to give our lives to Christ, according to Jesus. He said
I have chosen you and you know only to sit and think of this fact is
such a wonderful indescribable experience that God has chosen me and I
want you to sense the Holy Spirit speaking that freshly into your heart
today. He's chosen you and Paul knew that if you like within the context
of that choosing God had a purpose for his life.

I don't think it's put more clearly and wonderfully than in the epistle
of Galatians that he wrote where he just says but when it pleased God
who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace to
reveal his son in me and I might preach him among the heathen
immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood and neither did I go to
Jerusalem and so on as that reads in scripture but he knew beyond any
doubt that God had called him and God had a purpose for his life and
that was to exalt and glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and proclaim the
great truth or truths that are all gathered in the ultimate truth of the
redemptive work of Christ. Amen and Paul knew in his heart beyond any
doubt that this was true. It's actually Charles Wesley again I've got
the hymn book right in front of me but for those who've got the book
I've got which is called Hymns of Eternal Truth the very first hymn that
we used to always refer to as the birthday hymn because apparently he
wrote it either for his own birthday I'm sure Bob Jones will clarify
this for me it was either for his own birthday or his wife's birthday
I'm not able to remember which but in that hymn in the 10th verse he
says um um he's just speaking about his life he says I rejoice that I
ever was born that's a starting point in the context of sensing God's
call upon his life and the commissioning of God to him he rejoiced that
he ever was born he said and then he says oh the goodness of God
employing applaud his tribute of glory to raise his standard to bear and
with triumph declare the unsearchable riches of God oh the fathomless
love that is deigned to approve and prosper the work of my hands with my
pastoral crook I went over the brook and behold I am spread into bands
amen finally I'm reading the 11th verse in which he says in a rapture of
joy my life I employ the God of my life to proclaim tis worth living for
this to administer bliss and salvation in Jesus's name my remnant of
days I spend in his praise who died the whole world to redeem be they
many or few my days are his due and they all are devoted to him amen
amen I think that was those words would fit very nicely into the mouth
of the great apostle as well because they're sharing they're you know so
different so separated in time so separated in distance but the same
great passion and sense of God's amazing grace for them amen and so Paul
knew right from the beginning then that God had commissioned him and
that he Paul was carrying a body of truth a body of truth which was
entrusted to him he would write again to the Galatians and say
concerning this truth that he didn't learn it it was not something he
learned if I put it into a modern context it would be to say well he
didn't hear someone sharing these things on YouTube or anything like
that he didn't hear someone else saying it and he didn't make it he said
I received it it came by revelation God sovereignly and divinely
imparted to the understanding of this chosen vessel a whole body of
truth for him to teach and minister to the the churches that were there
around him at that time or coming into existence through his ministry
what we know of course today is that that body of truth has continued to
be available to men and women through the centuries through the
millennia and here we are talking about it and thinking about it as
we're together just now but he he received this body of truth which he
himself referred to as the gospel of God it's wonderful he used
different phrases to speak of the gospel that was from Romans chapter 1
where he speaks about the gospel of God elsewhere he speaks about the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ on yet another occasion he speaks about
it as his own gospel he said according to my gospel and he knew where it
came from he knew who the gospel belonged to who'd conceived it and was
making it available to men and women but it had become so much a part of
him his inner man had so embraced it and with the revelation God
illuminated to him it was what he preached it was his gospel amen and he
he spent his life from that Damascus road experience preaching that
message of the gospel he preached it and he taught it and we find him
defending it but supremely he lived it and that of course is that that's
the foundation of everything he was living what he preached there was
nothing hypocritical he wasn't over here talking about something over
there it was in him Christ lives in me he said the truth was in him
revealed by the Holy Spirit who was the great teacher within him he
lived it to the praise and the glory of God to him the gospel was it was
just priceless beyond compare and it was not merely what he knew about
God but the gospel was of God and it would be to others the means by
which they could experience and know God themselves in their own hearts
to him the gospel was a it was a portal into the majesty of God and into
the glory of God and the wonder of God in the in the tenth verse of this
second book of Timothy I'll just read the the verse he says but this I'm
sorry I'll have to read verse nine verse who has saved us and called us
with a holy calling not according to our works but according to his own
purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the world
began but now is made manifest by the appearing of our savior Jesus
Christ who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel amen and another translation uses the word that good
thing the gospel to Paul was that good thing that God had revealed to
him another translation calls it sound words another translation I
remember reading decades ago it it turned the gospel here healing words
Paul was conscious and confident about that which he was carrying and
ministering he knew that it was a message of a supernatural that work of
God we saw that in that ninth verse I've just read to you it was it was
a work of God of sovereign work of God it was he wasn't talking about
encouraging people to to try to create some self-imposed change to
themselves this was this was a work of God wrought within the inner
parts of a man or a woman and it had according to his teaching
consequences consequences in respect to sin notice how Paul in Romans
distinguishes between sin and sins we can't say any more about that just
now but he knew that the gospel dealt with sin the core issue within the
unregenerate man and he knew that this gospel had the potential and
power to break the power of what Wesley calls cancelled sin he cancelled
it at Calvary the Holy Spirit in our contemporary personal lives applies
his his dynamic and breaks the power the slavery to sin and ultimately
as the result of this gospel we will find that it even deals with sin's
presence as he takes us into his presence ultimately amen he knew that
this gospel that he was carrying imparted into the indents of men and
women who had faith and were responding and received the Spirit of God
and imparted the power to live the holy life it's actually the Apostle
Peter who once wrote he said that God has given unto us all things that
pertain to life and godliness or all that we need to live godly in an
ungodly world amen without the gospel there would be no justification
without the gospel there would be no conviction without the gospel there
would be no saving faith without the gospel there would be no power from
on high without the gospel there'd be no sanctification without the
gospel there'd be no glorification without the gospel no one would be
His, Romans 8 and 9. Allow Wesley once more, speaking of this, he said,
Long my imprisoned spirit lay, Fast bound in sin and nature's night,
Thine eye diffused a quickening grey.

I woke, the dungeon flamed with light, My chains fell off, my heart was
free. I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. Glory, this is the gospel
of God.

This is the body of truth, or at least I'm referring to this body of
truth that was revealed to this apostle, this man that God had chosen
and called and equipped for this great ministry. When I turn to the
second epistle to Timothy, I meet the apostle again. But I meet him, if
I'm thinking of him running strong in the race that God had set out
before him, I find him here in this epistle and he's rounding the final
curve and he sees before him the chequered flag.

He sees it from his position outwardly, which was on death row in a
Roman dungeon. According to a Roman historian, that place where he was
being held was the Mamatine prison and that historian describes it using
words like neglect and stench and hideous and some other words also. And
this great apostle, with this great message that he's been preaching and
seeing it effecting the transformation that he'd known in the lives of
other people and he's now in this position.

And the wonderful thing is, you know, as I read through this epistle,
and we can't do very much about it in this session today, but I sense a
tremendous composure in this great and mighty man of God. He's in a
context where, humanly speaking, he's subjected to unthinkable
psychological pressure. He's awaiting Nero's executioner to come to him.

It's inevitable, he knows that. This is the second time he's been
incarcerated in Rome, but the first time was very different. He was in
his own hired house and eventually he was exonerated.

This is totally different, he knows it's different, he knows what's
ahead of him. In his own words, later in the fourth chapter he says, he
knows that the time of his departure is at hand. But notwithstanding
that, he's still running strong.

Glory to God. Or to change the analogy, the fire in his heart is still
ablaze. Hallelujah.

And his mind is still razor sharp. He declares this, let me read a
little bit more in that fourth chapter, as he's coming to the end of
this important lesson. He says in the sixth verse, he says, I am now
ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the
faith.

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the
Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day. And not to me
only, but to them also that love is appearing. Yes, this man was still
on fire in his heart.

He's still confident in his God. He's still running. His running shoes
are still on, as it were, and he still remains stripped for the race,
and he's running flat out, even at this late moment as he's approaching
that chequered flag.

But look again at what's going on here. There are so many who are so
quickly distracted in this race, and that is another part of the problem
I alluded to right at the beginning. But for Paul, he faced so many
disappointments, and so much was being done to his body, stoned and
beaten and incarcerated, and so on, so many stories that we have.

There was enough to just break his heart. And I have to bring this into
this context, as I see this great man with this great conversion, with
this great commission, with this great message that he's been preaching
through his public ministerial life. He's now in this prison.

He knows what's going to happen to him, but he's got his mind working. I
said it's raised as sharp. He's not forgotten anything.

And he will say in writing this epistle, all they that were with me have
turned away, have turned away from me. As he speaks to Timothy, he says,
This thou knowest, you know this, Timothy, that all they which are of
Asia have turned away from me, of whom is Phagellus and Hermogenes and
Onesiorus. These are names, these three names I've just mentioned there
from the 15th verse.

They're names etched into infamy of deserters, men who had been with the
apostle. There's a temptation in my heart to think that one or more of
them may have been involved in the eldership in the Ephesian church.
Perhaps that's why the apostle speaks to Timothy in this letter and
says, You know, Timothy, because Timothy, of course, was involved in
ministry in Ephesus and so on.

But the fact of the matter was that the cost of staying on course, of
following through, of continuing to run, to be refusing and rejecting
all of the distractions and the appeals of the world and the flesh and
the devil, that cost was too high for the integrity of so many that had
been following him. Paul would remember that. But the fact of the matter
is Paul himself, and let me just go back on this one phrase I've quoted
already.

I can't even get my head around the phrase which says, All they of Asia
have turned away from me. I've pondered that long and hard over the
years. What did that really mean? Because that's where most of his
ministry took place.

But I want to focus, I need to bring in these powerful negative issues,
but at the same time I want to focus in on the heart and spirit of this
man of God. He refused, clearly, he refused to be distracted. He made
many statements that are recorded, scattered around in his epistles.

Statements that I love to read. When he says, for example, to the
Corinthians, he said, All things are lawful unto me. Then he goes on to
say, But I will not be brought under the power of any.

Don't you love that? This conviction, this integrity, this confidence,
but ultimately this love for Jesus. He says, yeah, I can do a lot of
things that wouldn't be breaking the law. But he said, I'm not doing
those things.

I won't allow them to dominate my life and control my decision making or
my value system or the course upon which God has established me. I won't
do it. There's got to be that kind of attitude within our hearts.

Paul's going to be the first one to say that he can't do it of his own
power. But there's got to be that response in the human heart that
allows the power of God to enable us to know that victory. But there's
nothing wishy-washy about the Apostle Paul.

I will not. He's writing to the Galatians and he says, and I think I
read this, That I might preach him. That's what he was all about.

Perhaps there's no better scripture I could refer to than Philippians
chapter 3 where Paul is speaking here and he says, Concerning zeal, if
you know about my zeal, He said, I was persecuting the church. And then
he goes on to say some other things. Then he goes on to say, but what
things were gain to me? He said, those I counted loss for Christ.

Yea, doubtless, I count all things but loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of
all things and do count them as done that I may win Christ and be found
in him not having my own righteousness which is of the Lord but that
which through the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of God by
faith that I might know him, the power of his resurrection and the
fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death if by
any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead and then he
goes on to say, I count not myself to have apprehended but this one
thing I do, this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind
and reaching forth for those things which are before I press toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Amen.
This man was committed to Christ.

He was sold out, he was all in. What does that mean to you beloved? What
does it mean to you? Where are you in all of this? Yes, Paul is a
tremendous example and thank God for him and all that he's left behind
for us but now it's my turn. I'm running the race, you're running the
race.

For the apostle Paul, there was an ache in his heart this comes through
plainly in this same epistle and the ache of his heart was that at all
costs this gospel must not become corrupted or else all would be lost.
The apostle Paul was spurred from witnessing the calamity that
Constantine would bring upon the churches but sitting there in the
squalor of that Roman cell he writes to Timothy and I'm going to just
paraphrase what I believe the apostle was saying to Timothy it's as
though he said, Timothy, my precious son these may well be my final
words that I will speak to you listen carefully, I have some very
important things to say to you. You know the second epistle to Timothy
it's not an analytical treatise as was the epistle to the Romans this is
a pastoral communication the central issue was the preservation of the
true gospel which he had received from God.

He knew full well that there was a vulnerability about the situation and
it would never be greater than it would be when he left he would know
that because it's not conceit I'm not suggesting there was conceit in
the mind of Paul but he knew that he'd occupied this very particular and
special role and in his absence it would create a certain vulnerability
within the churches and they didn't have New Testaments the New
Testament was being written if you will but they didn't have New
Testament scriptures to turn to and so there needed to be some man and
men who will continue this work and I can't take that theme up on this
occasion what Paul said to Timothy, we'll have to save that for another
time but Paul had already seen the message being fiercely opposed and
he'd referred to those when he was in Ephesus talking to the elders he
said there are grievous wolves even among you he said to the elders who
were before him rising up, corrupting the message and so on he saw that,
he saw that that was happening and this would be the ache of his heart
and this letter to Timothy was not merely a friendly note that he was
leaving for Timothy but it was a commissioning to him trusting that God
would use what he would say to further equip and prepare Timothy for
what lay ahead for him so where are we? where do we stand today? I know,
you know, in so many cases the attractive Christianised institution has
secularised the message and is secularising it they're making
merchandise out of worship they're deifying numbers and deifying
programmes and what we have in so many cases is virtually unrecognisable
from the early church and the added tragedy to that is that so many in
the rank and file are blithely ignorant of what has been lost and what
they are missing I wasn't sure whether to do this but I think I will
just want to say to you that many of you just getting to know me and
reading bits and pieces about me or hearing me say different things but
as a young man I was hugely blessed and privileged I never went to Bible
college or Bible seminary but let me tell you what I did do I had the
privilege of sitting under the ministry of some godly men whose lives
impacted me greatly they never sought to draw me to themselves but
taught me to listen to the inward teacher in my own ministry which I've
had entirely by God's grace over 50 years now the Holy Spirit has taught
me many things too many to talk about now but he's shown me very clearly
that the message that I preach must primarily be the message of the
Christian Gospel and I believe he's shown me I must not be just a voice
rather I must be a voice but not an echo of someone else and that I must
preach only what he makes real to me so clearly I'm not to be just some
academic who studies information and gathers information and then cuts
and pastes or whatever you do and perhaps with some natural gifting
which I don't claim to have any stand up and teach others in that way
but God was showing me no that's not the way as I'm sharing this with
you I'm thinking of that man during the period of the Welsh Revival who
when he preached he would preach with his head in a box can you believe
it? in front of a congregation with his head in a box how far away we've
moved even from that kind of humility and brokenness and selflessness in
ministry but he made it clear I must only preach what he makes real to
me in my life and I must never try to present an appealing an appealing
presentation must never be part of my ministry I believe the Holy Spirit
spoke to me showed me very clearly that he himself the Holy Spirit is
the one and the only one that can bring conviction to men and women he's
the only one that can impart that living seed of life I knew that I must
never try to be in some way cool it sounds ridiculous for a man of my
age to say that but I haven't always been this age not to try and adapt
myself to appeal to certain categories of people and so on I must
certainly never polish myself as though I'm some kind of CEO of an
organization but that I must remember continually that I am but a
cracked pot with the glory of the Spirit of God within my heart by his
grace he showed us also my wife and myself that we must always look to
him to supply our needs and that I must follow the Apostle's position
Apostle Paul when he said he would rather die than put a price to the
Gospel I mention these things because so many of these things are are so
different and applied in such a different way in the churches in these
days and I think they're indicators that we've lost something so
valuable and missing the point and caught up and influenced by the
spirit of consumerism and salesmanship and so on and so on Amen but we,
I was saying the Lord showed us we must look to him to supply our
material needs and that he would do it through through gifts of love
from those who were in some sense appreciative of what God was able to
minister to us and to keep it simple Amen Beloved, I don't know so many
of you that are going to be listening to me but maybe the Spirit of God
is saying something very important to you today he may be overturning
some tables some of your tables he may be leading you to break some of
your traditions to reset your values and unsubscribe from certain
channels actual or otherwise but to turn your heart again toward him in
an abandon and for many perhaps it's an abandon that you can remember
experiencing just after the starter's pistol went off way back whenever
that was but somehow you've allowed your heart to be discouraged and
distracted and you've lost that cutting edge in your life and in your
ministry and God is speaking perhaps to you today to return and yield
and surrender yourself fully and completely to him let me just pray
Father only you know only you know what you have said and you know who
you've said it to and I pray Father that by your Holy Spirit you will
have great success in accomplishing your purpose even in these things
that we've found from your scriptures and discovered along the journey
of our own lives and the course of our running in this great race so
Lord speak and work your works in Jesus' name Amen Amen just before I
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