Keeping

Today we start worship with:

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Timothy was given something precious. 

2 Timothy 1:5

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

Timothy was given a two jobs.

1 Timothy 6:20

O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”

2 Timothy 2:2

and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men,[a]who will be able to teach others also.

He did it. He kept (tēreō) the faith.