2 Timothy 4:18

‘ The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will save me unto his heavenly kingdom, to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.’

Paul was quite confident in the delivering power of the Lord. He had delivered him, and He would deliver him again (compare 2 Corinthians 1:10). Whatever men might do to him, God would deliver him from all the evil that they planned and ‘save him (keep him safe) unto His heavenly Kingly Rule’. He would ‘keep what he had committed to Him against that Day’ (2 Timothy 1:12). He had no doubt about his eternal destiny. He was not here speaking about earthly deliverance, but about final deliverance, as ‘keep me safe unto His heavenly Kingly Rule’ makes clear. The certainty of it moved his soul, and he added, ‘to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.’